The IACS Student Association is a club for Stony Brook University students, particularly graduate students, with research and/or interest in computational science. We organize events to enhance our associated graduate students’ social, academic, and professional life and promote conversations in a multi-disciplinary environment.
Our IACS Student Association Executives are:
Gaurav Verma (President) – gaurav.verma@stonybrook.edu
Gaurav is a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science working in the Exascallab under the advisory of Dr. Barbara Chapman. His current research interests include High-Performance Computing, Machine Learning, and DNN-Compilers. He received an M.S. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, NY, and a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from NIT, Karnataka, India.
Lauren Raguette (Vice-President)-lauren.raguette@stonybrook.edu
Lauren is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Chemistry Department. She works in the Laufer Center in Carlos Simmerling’s lab, where she works on force field development for phosphorylated amino acids. She received a BS and MS in Chemistry from Villanova University, where she used computational techniques to study lithium-ion batteries.
Yulun Wang (Treasurer) – yulun.wang@stonybrook.edu
Yulun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, studying Quantum Computing with Prof. Predrag Krstic. He graduated from the Southern University of Science and Technology with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering.
Smeet Chheda (Media & Communications Manager) – schheda@cs.stonybrook.edu
Smeet is a Ph.D. student in Computer Science working in the Exascale Programming Models Laboratory of Professor Barbara Chapman at Stony Brook University.
His current interests lay in machine learning, computer vision and DNN compilers.
Catherine Feldman (Secretary) – Catherine.Feldman@stonybrook.edu 
Catherine is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Astronomy and Physics working with Prof. Alan Calder. Catherine’s research focuses on analyzing simulations of Type Ia supernovae. Catherine is learning how to use the new experimental supercomputer “Ookami”.
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Yousef El-Laham (President) – yousef.ellaham@stonybrook.edu
Yousef is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Providence, Rhode Island. He works in the COSINE lab under Dr. Mónica Bugallo on problems pertaining to Bayesian inference. Yousef’s current research interests include Monte Carlo methods, adaptive importance sampling, particle filtering, and machine learning.
Jonathan Rawski (President) – Jonathan.Rawski@stonybrook.edu
Jon is a second-year Ph.D. student in the Linguistics Department, working with Jeffrey Heinz on computational phonology, grammatical inference, and neurolinguistics. He received a B.A. in Linguistics from the University of Minnesota and an M.S. in Cognitive Science from the Higher School of Economics.
Alena Aksenova (Vice President) – Alena.Aksenova@stonybrook.edu
Alëna is a third-year Ph.D. student at the Department of Linguistics, where she is working with Thomas Graf on computational phonology, morphology, and formal language theory. She received a specialist (~MA) degree in linguistics from Lomonosov Moscow State University, where she worked on syntax.
Aditi Ghai (Treasurer) – Aditi.Ghai@stonybrook.edu
Joel Anderson (Secretary) – joel.s.anderson@stonybrook.edu
Joel is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the Applied Math department, studying in Professor Robert Harrison’s group. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 2013 with a B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics. His current research is in implementing relativistic quantum chemistry in the framework of MADNESS, a library for adaptive numerical simulations.
Aniello De Santo (Communications) – aniello.desanto@stonybrook.edu
Aniello is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Linguistics Department, studying with Professor Thomas Graf. He received a B.A. in Computer Science and an M.S. in Computer Science and Automation Engineering from the University of Pavia (Italy). His research focuses on mathematical syntax and phonology, formal language theory, and psycho/neurolinguistics.