I’ve had the pleasure of mentoring and collaborating with a lot of talented students and postdocs. At LANL, mentorship can be a bit different than in academia or the private sector (formal mentors exist in the system, but day-to-day technical mentorship is often shared across a team), so this list focuses on people I worked with substantially. People for whom I served as the official primary mentor are marked with an asterisk (*). If I’ve missed you or you’d like an update to your “Now” line, please send me a note. Now = “the best of my knowledge as of Jan. 2026.”
Current Group
Postdocs
| Mentee |
Years |
Focus |
Now |
| Shubhendu Singh* |
2024–present |
Deep reinforcement learning for reservoir operations |
LANL postdoc |
| Cansu Demir* |
2025–present |
Arctic E3SM Land Model (mainly hydrological) development |
LANL postdoc |
Students
| Mentee |
Years |
Focus |
Now |
| Mark Reedy* |
2025–present |
Causal AI for conflict modeling |
LANL GRA (UC Davis PhD student) |
| Maggie Farley |
2024–present |
Drone-based field observations and data synthesis for Arctic land processes |
LANL GRA |
Postdocs
| Mentee |
Years |
Focus |
Now |
| Tao Liu |
2023–2025 |
AI-enabled wildfire hydrology |
State of New Mexico |
| Rajiv Ranasinghe* |
2023–2025 |
LSTM hydrology model development |
LANL Scientist |
| Chuck Abolt |
2021–2023 |
AI and computer vision |
Freshwater Trust |
| Jemma Stachelek* |
2021–2023 |
Global hydrology and data integration (VotE) |
LANL Scientist |
| Rachel Glade |
2019–2021 |
Solifluction |
University of Rochester (Professor) |
| Feng Yu |
2018–2019 |
Hydrology-focused GIS |
Bayer (GIS Scientist) |
Students
| Mentee |
Years |
Focus |
Now |
| Shuyu Chang* |
2024 |
AI for river temperature prediction |
University of Connecticut (incoming professor) |
| Gokul Nair |
2022–2025 |
Mosquito dynamics under climate change |
Post-PhD travels |
| Sarah Maebius* |
2022–2024 |
AI for hydrologic prediction in arid regions |
Princeton (PhD student) |
| Elizabeth Prior* |
2022 |
VotE dams creator |
Virginia Tech (PhD student) |
| Sofia Avendaño* |
2022 |
Water quality in Chesapeake Bay |
Elementary school teacher |
| Jay Hariharan |
2021–2022 |
Flux partitioning in delta networks |
US Federal Government (Geospatial Data Scientist) |
| Rachel Ulrich |
2021 |
Arctic delta hydrology |
LANL staff |
| Bohan Chen* |
2021–2024 |
Graph learning for computer vision |
Caltech (postdoc) |
| Tal Zussman* |
2020 |
rabpro development |
Columbia University (PhD student) |
| Tabatha Clevenger |
2020 |
Geospatial mapping |
Vassar College (Academic Coach) |
| Ryan Herring |
2020 |
ML + SAR for delta channel networks |
Math and Science instructor |
| Gailin Pease* |
2019 |
CNNs for computer vision |
Singularity Energy (Data Scientist) |
| Mulu Fratkin |
2018–2020 |
Geomorphology and hydrology |
State of Minnesota |
| Robert Sare* |
2018 |
Software development |
X / Google |
Interested in working together?
If you’re a student or postdoc interested in opportunities in my group, feel free to reach out via the Contact page.