Mustapha Ishak(-Boushaki), Professor of Physics and Astrophysics

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My research group in summer 2018
Back row left to right, graduate students: Raul Solanki, Eske Pedersen, Matt Nelson, Leonel Medina, Weikang Lin, Anish Agash; Front row: Ishak-Boushaki, Logan Fox (graduate student), Emily Bailey (undergraduate student), Amelia Neild (undergraduate student)

Current and previous students:

Graduated Ph.D. Students:

1. James Richardson (graduated in May 2008). Working in the corporate sector
2. Jacob Moldenhaeur (graduated in May 2010). Assistant Professor and Acting Chair at Physics Department, University of Dallas, TX.
3. Anthony Nwankwo (graduated in May 2011). Working in the corporate sector.
4. Jason Dossett (graduated in May 2013). Research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington, DC
5. Michael Troxel (graduated in May 2014). Assistant Professor of Physics, Duke University.
6. Austin Peel (graduated in May 2015). Postdoctoral Research Position in Astrophysics at Laboratoire d'Astrophysique, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland.
7. Tharake Wijenayake (graduated in May 2016). Working as Senior Analyst in the corporate sector at Zack's Investment, Chicago, IL.
8. Ji Yao (graduated in May 2018). Working as postdoctoral research fellow at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
9. Weikang Lin (graduated in August 2018). Working as postdoctoral research fellow at North Carolina State University.
10. Eske Pedersen (graduated in 2021). Working as postdoctoral researc fellow at Harvard University.

Masters students supervised

1. Chris Allison
2. Jeffrey Scott
3. Brian Troup
4. Delilah Whittington
5. John Thompson
6. Lee Caps

Mustapha Ishak and former graduate students Jason Dossett, Austin Peel and
Michael Troxel at the 219th AAS Annual Meeting, Austin, TX (2012)

On the picture above: Mustapha Ishak with undergraduate students Jonathan Cohen, Corinne
Blangy, Parikshit Krishnia, Alex Riley, and Brian Baragas after a discussion about the
science of the Movie the Martian (nominated for 4 Oscars). Did they get the science right?

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	Mustapha Ishak-Boushaki Professor, Group Leader
Students (list to be completed):
	Austin Peel (Ph.D., Grad. 2015) Working on inhomogeneous cosmological models versus precision cosmology. Advisor: Dr Ishak Will start Associate Research position at CEA (Astrophysics Institute), Saclay, France		Tharake Wijenayake Ph.D. (Dec 2015) Working on the averaging problem in cosmology. Advisor: Dr Ishak
	Weikang Lin Ph.D. (TBD) Working on cosmic acceleration, dark energy and modified gravity. Advisor: Dr Ishak		Ji Yao Ph.D. (TBD) Advisor: Dr Ishak
	Jonathan Woodbury Ph.D. (TBD) Working on gravitational lensing. Advisor: Dr Ishak		Ph.D. (TBD)
Group Alumni:
	James Richardson (Ph.D., Grad. 2008) Worked on an inverse approach to Einstein's equations. Advisor: Dr Ishak Working in the corporate sector		Jacob Moldenhauer (Ph.D., Grad. 2010) Worked on higher-order gravity models. Advisor: Dr Ishak Assistant Professor University of Dallas.
	Anthony Nwankwo (Ph.D., Grad 2012) Worked on inhomogeneous cosmological models. Advisor: Dr Ishak Working in the corporate sector		Jason Dossett (Ph.D., Grad. 2013) Worked on cosmic acceleration and testing gravity at cosmological scales. Advisor: Dr Ishak Research Associate at INAF, Italy.
	Michael A. Troxel (Ph.D., Grad. 2014) Worked on gravitational lensing and cosmological probes. Advisor: Dr Ishak Research Associate at the University of Manchester.