Former group members

Postdocs

Ming Li

• Currently faculty at Hampton Uni
• Main projects at NCSU
  • “First saturation correction in high energy proton-nucleus collisions”, part 1, part 2, part 3
  • “Probing Gluon Bose Correlations in Deep Inelastic Scattering”, PRL, PRD

Graduate students

1. Haowu Duan, group member during 2018-2023
   • Currently postdoc at Wuhan
   • Graduated at NCSU in Summer 2023
   • PhD titled “Quantum Information Perspective on High Energy Hadron Wave Function: Entanglement and Correlations”
   • List of publications
2. Greg Johnson, group member during 2018-2023
   • Graduated at NCSU in Summer 2023
   • PhD titled “The Universal Location of The Yang Lee Edge Singularity for O(N) Universality Classes”
   • List of publications
3. Shaswat Tiwari, group member during 2021-2025
   • Graduated at NCSU in Summer 2025
   • Currently postdoc at BNL
   • PhD titled “A new TMD Factorization Relating Large-x and Small-x”
4. Zichen Zhao, group member during 2021-2025
   • Graduated at NCSU in Fall 2025
   • PhD titled “DGLAP Resummation and the Running Coupling in NLO JIMWLK”
5. Arzu Alkhanova, graduate student
   • Project “FRG for PDF”

Undergraduate students

1. Andrew Connelly, group member during 2019-2022
   • Currently at Northrop Grumman
   • Project “Location of Yang-Lee edge singularity”, PRL
   • Flagship scholarship (full ride) at Maryland, NSF GRFP scholarhip on Quantum computing and gauge theories
   • SULI’s at BNL and Oak Ridge
2. Jack Featherstone, group member during 2020-2022
   • Currently at Okinawa University
   • Project “High energy hadronic collisions, arbitrary number of colors”, GITHUB
3. Josh Ott
   • Project “Critical dynamics in Model B and Model H”, published in Phys. Rev. D
   • Currently graduate student at MIT
   • SULI at BNL’s lattice QCD group, 2023
   • Recipient of OUR Research Assistant Program, 2023-2024
   • Recipient of ASTRONAUT scholarship, 2024
   • Recipient of McCormick Award for undergraduate research (1st place), 2024
   • Nominee to Churchill scholarship, 2024
   • Participant in CERN Summer Student Programme, 2024
4. Cameron Stephens
   • Project “Color neutralization at small x”
   • Recipient of OUR Research Assistant Program, 2023
5. Miles Bryant
   • Project “Yang-Lee edge singularity from Fourier coefficients of baryon number”, published in Phys. Rev. D
6. Evan Budd
   • Project “JIMWLK on QC”
   • Recipient of the Goldwater Scholarship, 2026
   • SULI at BNL’s lattice QCD group, 2025