Robert J. Brunner is a Professor of Astronomy with additional appointments in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Informatics, Physics, Statistics, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Beckman Institute, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
Robert received his Ph.D., entitled the Statistical Approach to Galaxy Evolution, from the Johns Hopkins University. He spent five years as a post-doctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology before accepting his faculty appointment at the University of Illinois.
Professor Brunner is now focused on the nascent field of data science and is leading new educational opportunities in data science as well as working as the Data Science Expert in Residence at the University of Illinois Research Park.
2003–2009 N. Strand Ph.D. Degree in Physics, July 2009
2004–2009 A. Ross Ph.D. Degree in Astronomy, July 2009
2004–2009 B. Lundgren Ph.D. Degree in Astronomy, August 2009
2006–2012 B. Hayes Ph.D. Degree in Astronomy, August 2012
2007–2014 Y. Wang Ph.D. Degree in Astronomy, August 2014
2008–2011 T. Hacker Ph.D. Degree in Astronomy, August 2011
2010–2014 M. Carrasco-Kind Ph.D. Degree in Astronomy, August 2014
2013–present J. Edward Kim (Physics)
2015–present William Biscarri (Statistics)
2015–2017 Samantha Thrush (Astronomy)
2015–2017 Xinyang Lu (Astronomy)
2016–present Kelechi Ikegwu (Informatics)
Served on Thesis Committee for two students in Physics: Charmaine Armitage (2009) and William Fendt (2009), and three in Astronomy: Ian O’Dwyer (2005), Amy Lien (2011), and Gary Foremen (2015).
2014 Zhangyang Wang Hyperspectral Image Processing in Astronomy
2014–2015 Zhaowen Wang Hyperspectral Image Processing in Astronomy
2014 Kai-Hsiang Lin Mining Strong Lenses in Astronomy Images
2014–2015 Honghui Shi Image-Based Source Classification in Astronomy
2014–2015 Xianming Liu Supervised Classification with Lossy Information
These students were all from the ECE department with Professor Tom Huang as their advisor.
2005–2006 W. Dukes M.S. Degree in Physics, Spring 2007
2007–2008 S. Alberts M.S. Degree in Astronomy, Spring 2008
2011–2012 A. Stewart M.S. Degree in Astronomy, Spring 2012
2005 Themis Athanassiadou (Physics)
2007 Josh Dolence (Astronomy)
2007 Scott Bai (ECE)
2009 Scott Kruger (Astronomy)
2012 Fei Sun (Physics)
2012–2013 Chun Yin Chue
2013 Yufei Liu (Statistics)
2013 Matt Ulm (Statistics)
2014–2015 Bryan Lunt (CS)
2015 Sanjana Chandrashekar (CS)
2015–2016 Divya Balakrishna (CS)
2015 Avinash Balakrishnan (Statistics)
2015–2016 Andrew Mehrmann (Statistics)
2016–present Kimi Zhang (CSC visiting scholar) (Statistics)
Developed rigorous undergraduate research program that has employed numerous undergraduate students from the Astronomy, Physics, ECE, and Computer Science departments, including five Wyatt award winners (top graduating undergraduate student in Astronomy).
2002–2004 Amy Bender Astronomy/Physics undergraduate student
2002–2004 Matt Dillman CS undergraduate student
2002–2004 Tom Spinka Astronomy/Physics undergraduate student 2005 Wyatt Award winner
2002–2003 Emily Beal Astronomy undergraduate student
2003–2004 Dan Sledz CS undergraduate student
2003–2005 Nicholas Waggoner CS undergraduate student
2003–2005 Nikita Prokopev CS undergraduate student
2003–2006 Andrey Gusev CS undergraduate student
2006–2007 Kate Grier Astronomy undergraduate student 2007 Wyatt Award winner
2006 Emily Sieracki Astronomy undergraduate student 2008 Ryan Award winner
2006–2007 Stacey Alberts Astronomy undergraduate student
2008 Jenny Ginter Astronomy undergraduate student 2009 Ryan Award winner McNair Scholar
2009–2011 Ben Montet Astronomy/Physics undergraduate student 2011 Wyatt Award winner
2010 Coralie Jackman Aerospace Engineering undergraduate student 2010 Ryan Award winner
2011 Jhoele Mora Astronomy undergraduate student
2011 Pengqing Zhang Physics undergraduate student
2011 Jason Dove Physics undergraduate student Lorella M. Jones Undergrad. Research Fellowship
2012–2013 Mallory Conlon Astronomy undergraduate student 2013 Wyatt Award winner
2012–2014 Robert Santucci Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2012–2014 Britton Jeter LAS Specialized Physics undergraduate student Lorella M. Jones Undergrad. Research Fellowship
2012 Danya Murali Mathematics undergraduate student (SROP) Meyerhoff Scholar NSA Scholar
2012–2015 Sean McLaughlin Engineering Physics undergraduate student Goldwater Scholar
2012–2014 Fanshi Liu LAS Specialized Physics undergraduate student
2013–2014 Michael Schubert Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2013 Dominik Notz Computer Science undergraduate student Exchange student from Germany
2013–2015 Ching Chang Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2013 Melanie Waidenz Astronomy undergraduate student
2013 Fabian Michler Computer Science graduate student
2013 Fabian Michler Computer Science graduate student
2013–2014 Shangjie Guo Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2013 Zenan Chen Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2013–2016 Anchal Agrawal Computer Engineering undergraduate student
2013–2016 Harshil Kamdar Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2013–2016 Harshil Kamdar Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2014 Garrett Ducharme Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2014 Doris Lee Physics and CS undergraduate student University of California, Berkeley 2014 Google Summer of Code
2014 Krishna Chavati Electrical Engineering undergraduate student Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 2014 Google Summer of Code
2014 Alankar Kotwal Electrical Engineering undergraduate student Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay2014 Google Summer of Code
2014 Abhisaar Sharma Computer Science undergraduate student Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar2014 Google Summer of Code
2014 Sanchit Aggarwal Computer Science graduate student Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad 2014 Google Summer of Code
2014–2015 Dingcheng Yue CS and Engineering Physics undergraduate student
2014–2015 Richard Lee Computer Science undergraduate student NCSA SPIN Fellow
2014–2015 Jonathan Pan-Doh ECE undergraduate student NCSA SPIN Fellow
2014–2015 Chengyuan Zeng CS+Statistics undergraduate student
2014–2016 Chris Chan ECE undergraduate student
2014–2016 Rishabh Jain CS undergraduate student
2014–2015 Evan Phibbs ECE undergraduate student
2014 Phil Harris ECE undergraduate student
2014 Tom Chen CS undergraduate student
2014–present Sushma Adari CS+Astro undergraduate student
2015 Jason Kras Physics undergraduate student
2015 Honshu Shi ECE undergraduate student
2015 Zongyuan Wang Physics undergraduate student
2015–2016 Brian Griffin CS+Stat undergraduate student
2015–2016 Neeraj Asthana CS and Stat undergraduate student
2016–present Mazin Bokhari ECE undergraduate student
2016–present Maghav Kumar CS undergraduate studentt
2016 Kefu Zhu CS+Stat undergraduate student
2016 Ivy Lei CS+Stat undergraduate student
2016 Preska Sharma CS+Stat undergraduate student
2016 S. Govindaprasad CS undergraduate student
2016–present Taeyoung Kim CS undergraduate student
2016–2016 Anshuman Saxena CS undergraduate student
2016–present Drake Eidukas CS undergraduate student
2016–present Joshua Chang CS undergraduate student
2016–present Quinn Jarrell CS undergraduate student
2016–present Ryan Wolfe CS undergraduate student
2016–present Bhuvan Venkatesh CS undergraduate student
2016–present Nishil Shah CS undergraduate student
2016–present Sameet Sapra CS undergraduate student
2016–present Benjamin Congdon CS undergraduate student
2016–present Cooper Lorsung Physics undergraduate student
2005 Fraser Kinnear III
2007 Brian Fisher
2007 Mita Shewakramani
2010 Katie Amber
2010 David Mainzinger
2010 Javier Soto
2010 Adam Theis
2010 Andrew Riddle
2012 Britt Jeteri
2013 Eric Eiler
2013 James Buckland
2014 Zachary Berman
2009 John Dust (CS)
2013 Britt Jeter (Physics)
2014 Sean McLaughlin (Physics)
2015 Weixiang Yu (Physics)
2015–2016 Chris Chan (ECE)
2015–2016 Neeraj Asthana (CS/Statistics)
2015–2016 Anchal Agrawal (CS)
2015–2016 Rishabh Jain (CS)
2015–2016 Vaishali Khandelwal (CS)
2015–2016 Harshil Kamdar (Physics)
2016–present Mike Hao (ECE)
2016–present Magev Kumar (ECE)
2016–present Mazin Bokhari (ECE)
2016–2016 S. Govindaprasad (CS)