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Alumni Spotlight – Ryan Godwin

Dr. Ryan Godwin graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD program in 2017. Now he is a Professor of Data Scientist at the University of Alabama Birmingham School of Medicine. In the following interview Professor Salsbury discusses with Professor Godwin his experiences at Wake Forest […]


Alumni Spotlight – Ryan Melvin

Dr. Ryan Melvin graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD program in 2018. Now he is an Assistant Professor and Principal Data Scientist at the University of Alabama, and the inaugural holder of the Endowed Faculty Scholar for Data Science, AI, and Machine Learning. In […]


Alumni Spotlight – Jiajie Xiao

Meet Dr. Jiajie Xiao, Wake Forest Physics PhD program class of 2018. Dr. Xiao now works as a machine learning scientist in the biomedical field. In the following interview with Professor Fred Salsbury, Dr. Xiao reflects upon his time at Wake Forest and how the […]


Alumni Spotlight – Andrew Zeidell

Dr. Andrew Zeidell graduated from the Wake Forest Physics PhD Program in 2020 and is now an AAAS Science and Technology Policy fellow with the National Science Foundation. In the following interview with Professor Fred Salsbury he shares the story of his career path and […]


Alumni Spotlight – Maxim Zalutskiy

Meet Dr. Maxim Zalutskiy, Wake Forest Physics PhD program class of 2016. Dr. Zalutskiy now works as a quantitative financial analyst. In this interview with Professor Fred Salsbury, Dr. Zalutskiy shares information about his career path and reflects upon his memories at Wake. Prof. Salsbury: […]


Alumni Spotlight – Louis Keiner

In the following interview we hear from Dr. Louis Keiner, Professor of Physics and Physical Oceanography at Coastal Carolina University, also serving as the interim Dean of the HTC Honors College there. Dr. Keiner was an undergraduate physics major here at WFU and reflects on […]


Alumni Spotlight – Chandran Sabanayagam

Dr. Chandran Sabanayagam was an undergraduate student as well as a Masters student in the WFU Physics program. Dr. Sabanayagam was advised by Professor George Holzwarth for his masters and went on to obtain his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Boston University. This […]


Alumni Spotlight – Victoria Gee

Dr. Victoria Gee graduated from Wake Forest in 2016 and is now a Medical Physicist working at Nuvance Health in Kingston, New York. In the following interview Professor Jed Macosko discusses with Dr. Gee her career path and Dr. Gee provides valuable advice regarding college, […]


Alumni Spotlight – Chad McKee

Meet Dr. Chad McKee, Wake Physics class of 1987. After graduating, he earned a PhD from Duke University and entered a career of scientific work in the military. In this interview with Professor George Holzwarth, Dr. McKee discusses his career path and how his experience […]


Alumni Spotlight – Rongzhong Li

Dr. Rongzhong Li earned his PhD from the Wake Forest Department of Physics in 2015 under the mentorship of Professor Sam Cho, and a Masters degree from the Wake Forest Department of Computer Science in 2016 under the mentorship of Professor Paul Pauca. Now he […]


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