Alex B. Kostinski

Professor Alex B. Kostinski is affiliated with the Department of Physics at Michigan Tech. His academic career spans decades of contributions to atmospheric and physical sciences.

Research Interests: Dr. Kostinski's work focuses on cloud, aerosol, and precipitation physics, radar meteorology, astrophysics, wave propagation in random media, turbulent fluids, adaptive optics, and polarization optics. His research is supported by the National Science Foundation, with applications in atmospheric observation and optical physics.

Students Advised:

• Justin Cassell (2024) - Energy transfer in curved shock collisions
• Dan Kestner (2023) - Random processes in polarimetry
• Amanda Shaw (2016) - Lidar-radar drop size validation
• Colin Gurganus (2014) - Heterogeneous nucleation imaging
• Ajaree Mongkolsittisilp (2013) - Electromagnetic scattering by aspherical particles
• Amalia Anderson (2010) - Time series analysis
• May Kim (2009) - Supercooled water thermodynamics
• M. L. Larsen (2006) - Atmospheric fluctuation studies
• Vithal Shet Tilvi (2006) - Micro-gamma ray bursts
• Weidong Yang (2004) - Astronomical optics
• Alan Koivunen (1999) - Radar signal processing
• John Kwiatkowski (1995) - Radar meteorology
• Manish Kulkarni (1994) - Random phasors in remote sensing
• Larry Coke (1994) - Fluid dynamics
• David Wittaveen (1992) - Volcanic plume sensing
• Sally Rogers (1991) - Statistical distributions