Alumni

I am always happy to hear updates from alumni of the group at sphil@mse.ufl.edu

Current Locations of Former Group Members

Click here for map of last known locations of alumni

Research Scientists

• Prof. Aleksandr Chernatynskiy (2008 – 2015) –  Assistant Professor of Physics, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla MO.
• Dr. Tao Liang (2006 – 2015) – Research Scientist, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Postdocs

• Prof. Alan McGaughey (2004- 2005) – Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
• Dr. Jianguo Yu  (2004 – 2007)– Staff Scientist, Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho National Lab)
• Dr. Boris Ni (2006 – 2008) – Instructor in Mathematics, Santa Fe College, Gainesville FL
• Dr. Dundar Yilmaz (2011- 2013) – Postdoc, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

PhD Students

• Dr. Taku Watanabe, Ph.D. 2008  – Samsung, Japan
• Prof. Dilpuneet Aidhy, Ph.D. 2009  – Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wyoming. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rjhKAicAAAAJ&hl=en
• Prof. Rakesh Behera, Ph.D. 2009 – Industry Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, New York University (http://engineering.nyu.edu/people/rakesh-kumar-behera and  http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2vReu_kAAAAJ&hl=en)
• Dr. Peter Barry, Ph.D. 2009 – Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, University of Kansas
• Prof. Haixuan ‘Stephen’ Xu (徐海譞), Ph.D. 2010 – Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee.
• Prof. Donghwa Lee (이동화),, Ph.D. 2010 – Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
• Dr. Priyank Shukla, Ph.D. 2010 – MBA student, University of New Mexico (http://lrnlab.org/?page_id=1113)
• Dr. Jasmine Crenshaw (nee Davenport), Ph.D.  2011 – Assistant Director for Diversity, College of Engineering. University of Virginia (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasminedavenportcrenshaw)
• Dr. Dong-Hyun Kim (김동현), Ph.D. 2011 – Samsung, Korea
• Dr. Mark J, Noordhoek, Ph.D. 2014 – Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of South Carolina (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/mark-noordhoek/92/1a/a11)
• Dr. Bowen Deng, Ph.D 2014 – HPC Application Scientist, Montana Technological University
• Dr. Tsu-Wu Chiang, Ph.D 2014 – Lam Research, San Jose CA  (https://www.linkedin.com/pub/tsu-wu-chiang/56/72/68a)
• Dr. Yangzhong Li, Ph.D. 2014 – Research Scientist, Sun Yat-Sen University, China
• Dr. Anuj Goyal, Ph.D 2015 – Postdoctoral Research Associate, Colorado School of Mines/NREL
• Dr. Zizhe Lu, Ph.D. 2015 – Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Tennessee
• Dr. Jackelyn Martinez, Ph.D. 2016 – Staff Scientist, Corvid Technologies; http://www.corvidtec.com

MS Students

• Michael Emokpae (2007)– Operations Analyst, RTI Surgical, Gainesville FL
• Brent Steele. M.S. (2008)
• Kun-Ta Tsai, M. S. (2010)  – Industry, Hsinchu, Taiwan
• Guojing Hou, M. S. (2011)

Undergraduates

• Jacob Piper, B. S. 2008
• Brian Babcox, B. S. 2010 – PhD student, Penn State U.
• Dr. Sydney Gladman, B. S. 2010 – PhD, Harvard 2016
• Dr. David Kolesky, B. S. 2010 – PhD, Harvard 2016
• Dr. Anesia Auguste (nee Burns), B. S. 2010 – PhD, U. Mass Amherst 2016: NRC Postdoctoral Fellow, AFRL
• Jon Liddy, B. S. 2011 (M. S. 2013) – Development Engineer at Pall Aeropower Corporation (Linkedin)
• Danielle Holton, B. S. 2011
• Charles Flint, B. S. 2011 – PhD student, Stanford
• Thomas Rudzik, B. S. 2012 – PhD student, Georgia Tech
• Ben DeGlee, B. S.  2012 – PhD student, Georgia Tech
• Darnel Allen, B. S. 2015

Visitors

• Prof. Man ‘Marina’ Yao (2005 – 2008) – Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China (http://cailiao.dlut.edu.cn/yaoman/manyao.html)
• Prof. Ying Chen (2010)– School of Science, Shandong Jianzhu University, Jinan, Shandong, China
• Prof.Lili Wu (2015-2016) –  College of Xingzhi, Zhejiang Normal University China; Key  Laboratory of Zhejiang Province for Condensed Physics

High School Students

• Lauren Mackiewicz (2008)
• John Phillpot (2008) – Site Reliability Engineer, Google, Kirkland WA