Where Have Our PhD Graduates Taken Jobs?

Year Student Advisor Area Position
2019 Zhong Li Mankey CM
Mitchell Hughes Piepke EPP
Desmond Villalba Okada HET Faculty, Drury University
Shuang Wu T. Mewes CM Postdoc, Virginia Tech
Andrew Buccilli Henderson EPP Data Science Fellow at Insight Data Science
2018 Digesh Raut Okada HET Postdoc, University of Delaware
Joshua Jones LeClair CM Lithography Process Engineer, Intel
Steven Ulrich Araujo CM Sr. Development Engineer, Bruker Nano Surfaces
Lucas Johnson Irwin Astro Faculty
Broxton Miles Townsley Astro Postdoc, North Carolina State University
2017 Krista McCord Bailin Astro Senior Engineer, Deep Space Systems, Colorado
James Pepper Williams A Part Senior Data Scientist, Lowe’s Companies Inc.
Jamileh Beik Mohammadi C. Mewes CM Assistant Professor at Loyola University, New Orleans
Postdoc, NYU
Andrea Chaney Stern HET Lecturer, University of California Los Angeles
2016 Soumalya Paul  T. Mewes CM Process Engineer, Intel
Shaoqi Hou  Harms HET Postdoc, Hubei, China
Behrouz Khodadadi T. Mewes CM Lithography Process Engineer at Intel Corporation
Research Associate, Virginia Tech
Lei Lu  Stern HET Lecturer at California Polytechnic State University
Sahar Keshavarz LeClair CM Process Engineer, Intel
Postdoc, Northeastern University College of Engineering
Arindam Das Okada HET Postdoc, Osaka University
Postdoc, Korea Institute for Advanced Study
Nathan Papapietro Okada HET Data Scientist – Space Age Solutions at Hypergiant
Software Engineer, Accruent
Sivakumar Chockalingam Butler CM Lead Data Scientist at Nissan Digital Hub
Narpinder Chahil Mankey CM Assistant Professor, University of Holy Cross
Ezhil Manoharan Mankey CM Lecturer, U Texas Rio Grande Valley
2015 Donglian Xu Williams A Part Junior Fellow Faculty at Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai
Postdoc, University of Wisconsin
Tim Lovorn Sarkar CM th Senior Software Engineer at Marginal Unit, Inc.
Postdoc, University of Texas
Jason Carson Okada HET Real Time Operations Specialist, NiSource
2014 Jian Yu Mankey CM
Neha Pachauri LeClair CM Intel
Amritpal Singh Myrasov CM Sr Data Scientist at UnitedHealth Group
2013 Yuanuan Su White/Irwin Astro Assistant Professor, Univ. of Kentucky
Postdoc, Harvard cfA
Aparajita Sengupta Keel Astro Lecturer, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Lecturer, Texas State University.
Yujing Sun Stancu Part ex Postdoc, University of Hawaii
Hunter Sims Butler CM th Assistant Professor, Francis Marion University
Postdoc, German Research School for Simulation Sciences
2012 Christopher Grant Piepke Part ex Assistant Professor, Boston University
Postdoc, University of California, Davis
Ranjan Dharmapalan Stancu Part ex Postdoc, Argonne National Lab
Igor Ostrovskiy Busenitz Part ex Assistant Professor, The University of Alabama
Postdoc, Stanford University
Tianyi Xu Butler CM Product Manager, Shanghai United Imaging Healthcare, China
Hwachol Lee Mankey CM Postdoc, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
2011 Manjit Pathak LeClair CM Western Digital Corp
Ru Zhu Visscher CM Software Engineer, Microsoft
Visiting Asst. Professor, Graceland University, Iowa
2010 Denis Perevalov Stancu Part ex Data Scientist at Optiver
Postdoc, Fermilab
Irina Perevalov Clavelli Part th Assistant Professor, Middle Tennessee State University
Michael Wofsey Tipping CM CNJV, Golden, Colorado
Principal Research Scientist at SEA Desalination, Corp
2009 Greg Keefer Piepke Part ex Science Staff, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Krishna Chetry Butler/Gupta CM Sr. Scientist at SLD Laser
Postdoc, University of Cincinnati
Chunsheng Liu Butler CM Postdoc, Southern Methodist University
Zhihong Lu Butler CM Professor, Wuhan University of Science & Technology, China
Sreenivasulu Vutukuri Schad CM Staff Engineer, Intel
Adriana Durbala Sulentic Astro Assoc. Professor, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Sebastian Zamfir Sulentic Astro Asst. Professor, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
2008 Shifan Shi Harrell CM Postdoc, University of South Carolina
Shuxia Wang Visscher CM Staff Research Scientist at Samsung Electronics, San Jose
Research Scientist, Hitachi Global Systems
Rebecca Grouchy Buta Astro Lecturer, Coastal Carolina University, South Carolina
Postdoc, University of Oulu, Finland
Sergio Fabi Harms Part th Teaching Faculty, The University of Alabama
2007 Hui Han Gupta CM Scientist at Illumina, San Diego
Research Scientist, Greatbatch, New York
Timothy Classen Busenitz Part ex Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Postdoc, University of California, Davis
Octavian Micu Harms Part th Scientific Researcher I at Institute for Space Sciences, Romania
Postdoc, University of Dortmund, Germany
Patrick Treuthardt Buta Astro Assistant Head, ​North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Postdoc, University of Oulu, Finland
Jian Dou Schad CM Integration Engineer, Headway Technologies
Postdoc, Miami University
2006 Jian Jia Harrell CM Postdoc, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
Enrique Gomez Hardee Astro Associate Professor, Western Carolina University
Instructor, Birmingham Southern College
Ofelia Traistaru Fujiwara CM Asst. Professor, Lynchburg College, Virginia
Prakash Mani Mankey CM Western Digital Corp
Shengyuan Wang Fujiwara CM Western Digital Corp
Ilir Zoto Mankey CM Dept. of Physics, Tirana, Albana
2005 Christopher Brown Harrell CM Postdoc, Colorado State University
Dmytro Apalkov Visscher CM Principal Engineer/Director at Samsung Semiconductor
Jin He Buta Astro Lecturer, Wuhan University of Technology
Writer, Wuhan FutureSpace Sci Corp Limited
2004 Zelimir Djurcic Piepke Part ex Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory
Postdoc, Columbia University
Volodymyr Voznyuk Schad CM Staff Engineer at Samsung Semiconductor Inc
Western Digital Corp
Hamid Alouach Mankey CM Postdoc, RPI
Christian Scheck Schad CM Postdoc, Columbia University
Xuebing Feng Visscher CM Staff engineer at Seagate Technology
2003 Aleksandr Pinzul Stern Part th Professor at Universidade de Brasília
Postdoc, Syracuse University
James Rantschler Alexander CM Instructional Assistant Professor,  Texas A&M Galveston
NRC Fellow, NIST
Yunfei Ding Alexander CM Sr. Manager at Western Digital
Postdoc, Minnesota
Dongming Mei Busenitz Part ex Professor, University of South Dakota
Postdoc, Los Alamos
Kevin McKinny Busenitz Part Senior Physicist at Baker Hughes, a GE Company
Shouto Wang Harrell CM Principal Engineer in Seagate
Drew Allen Schad CM Scientist at Raytheon
2002 Bin Xu Doyle CM Postdoc, UA; now at Seagate
Kunliang Zhang Fujiwara CM R&D, Headway Technologies
2001 Robert Mohr Byrd Astro Instructor, UAB
Donovan Domingue Sulentic Astro Professor, Georgia College & State University
Dirk Orgassa Fujiwara CM Staff Software Engineer at KLA-Tencor
Postdoc, CalTech
Congxiao Liu Mankey CM R&D Read-Rite
2000 Paige Ouzts Izatt Optics Faculty, Lander College
Wentao Wu Keel Astro Postdoc, LSU
Astronomer, Yunnan Observatory
Stefan Maat Mankey CM R&D, IBM
Steven Stinnett Doyle CM Millsaps College; now Asst. Professor at McNeese State
1999 Chouhong Hou Fujiwara CM R&D, Seagate
1998 Victor Anderson Keel Astro Faculty, Alabama School of Math & Science
Faculty, Community College of Aurora, Colorado
Susan Gessner Stewart Byrd Astro Astronomer, US Naval Observator
Renato Dupke White Astro Visiting Research Scientist, University of Michigan and
Research Scientist, National Observatory, Río de Janeiro, Brazil
Barna Fenyi Baksay Part ex Computer consulting firm, Hungary
Guy Purcell Buta Astro R&D, Cendant
Igor Terekhov Clavelli Part th Computing Division, Fermilab
Igor Yakushin Stern Part th R&D, BIOS Group, Los Alamos;
Computational Scientist at the University of Chicago
1997 Lajos Varga Doyle CM Postdoc, Fujitsu Res. Labs
Carlos Rabaca Sulentic Astro Faculty, National Observatory, Brazil
1996 Lin He Doyle CM R&D, Komag Media
John James Tipping At/Mol Instructional Technician, St. Louis University
1995 Yuwu Yu Harrell CM Research Scientist, Hydroscope Canada Ltd.
1993 Abdalla Darwish Izatt Optics Faculty, Dillard College
Mario Klaric Byrd Astro Faculty, Midlands Technical College
James Cates Alexander CM R&D, Storage Tek
1991 Fayequa Majid Miyagawa CM Part-time Faculty, Lane College
Sung Choi Peterson Optics Faculty, University of Seoul
1990 Magda Ali Tipping At/Mol Unknown
Randall Buff Desmet CM SSHCL Program Manager at US Army Space & Missile Defense Command
Qiancheng Ma Tipping At/Mol Research Scientist, Columbia University
1989 Ekramul Majid Alexander CM Faculty, Lane College
Mohammed Rob Izatt Optics Faculty, University of Houston, Clearwater
Mohamed Attia Tipping At/Mol Faculty, Ain Shang University
Zhong-heng Lin Jones Part th Univesrity of Minnesota PhD; now R&D, IBM
1988 William Logan Visscher CM th Civ. Scientist, US Navy
Wayne Keen Alexander CM Engineer, Coleman Research Corp
Mubinur Choudhury Harrell CM Faculty, Selma University (now deceased)