2026 Nathan Sugarman Awards for Excellence in Undergraduate and Graduate Research
Undergraduate Student
Eric You
“For his contributions to the development of intelligent pixel detectors for future high-energy physics experiments, in particular his testing of prototype readout electronics with on-chip neural networks and his design of machine learning algorithms for radiation-hard, on-detector data reduction.”
– Karri DiPetrillo
Graduate Students
Kyra Fichman
“For her contributions to the SPT-3G experiment, for which she is leading the analysis of a measurement of the cosmic microwave background temperature and polarization power spectra from a 10,000 square degree survey, and for her contributions to the development of microwave kinetic inductance detectors for the SPT-SLIM experiment.”
– John Carlstrom & Brad Benson
Sravan Munagavalasa
“For his fundamental contributions to the DAMIC-M experiment, including the development of the firmware and data acquisition, the improvement of the detector’s sensitivity by minimizing its dark current, and the first sensitive search of hidden-sector dark matter particles.”
– Paolo Privitera
