2020-2022 Applied Physics Alumni
2022
- Dr. Andrew Cadotte
- Dr. Michael Dominguez
- Dr. Hua-Wei Hsu - Rotation Engineer, Lam Research Corporation, Tualatin, OR
- Dr. Jiaqi Hu
- Dr. Mackenzie Meyer - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Akash Shah - Zap Energy, Seattle
- Dr. Robert Vandervort
2021
- Dr. Spencer Batalden
- Dr. Darwin Cordovilla - SRS (Stanford Research Systems), Ann Arbor
- Dr. Brandon Davis - Failure Analysis Engineer III, Wolfspeed
- Dr. David Geroski - Raytheon Technologies
- Dr. Rahul Gogna - Algorithm Engineer, KLA, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Heath LeFevre - Postdoc, University of Michigan
- Dr. David Mayers - Research Engineer, SRI International, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Julia Pakela - Postdoc/Medical Physics Resident, University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Alex Sarracino - Postdoctoral Associate, Sandia National Labs
- Dr. Kaito Yamada - HighRI Optics, Inc
2020
- Dr. Catherine Ayuso- Postdoc, Mississippi State University
- Dr. Sunan Cui - Medical Physics Resident, Stanford University
- Dr. Marcel Georgin - Research Associate, Naval Research Laboratory
- Dr. Joseph Iafrate - Researcher, Northrop Grumman
- Dr. Uriah Israel - Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Dr. Omar Leon - Research Investigator, University of Michigan
- Dr. Joseph Levesque - Postdoctoral Research Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr. Albert Liu - Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany
- Dr. Ramon Martinez - Product Marketing Manager, Spectra Physics
- Dr. James Mathis
- Dr. Marshall Scott- Postdoc, Argonne National Laboratory
- Dr. Danielle Sofferman - Research Scientist, Alight Sciences LLC, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Lise Wei - Medical Physics Resident, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan
2017- 2019 Applied Physics Alumni
2019
- Dr. Justin Easley- Physicist, John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
- Dr. Alexander Gvakharia - Senior Researcher, Systems and Technology Research
- Dr. Amina Hussein - Assistant Professor, University of Alberta
- Dr. Elizabeth Maret - Technology Development Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Dr. Andrew McAllister - Policy Analyst, New Jersey Assembly Democratic Office
- Dr. Alexander Rasmus – Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr. Bradley Smith - Research Scientist Sr., Lockheed Martin
- Dr. Jiaxing Wu - Software Engineer, Google
2018
- Dr. Jared Ferguson - Regulatory Analyst, California Public Utilities Commission
- Dr. Alexander Golden – Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University
- Dr. Eric Martin - Co-founder of MONSTR Sense Technologies
- Dr. Erin Teich - Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Danielle Basset’s Group at The University of Pennsylvania
- Dr. Brian Worthmann – Adjunct Professor, Las Positas College
- Dr. Xiaozhou “Amy” Che – Process Engineer at Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA
- Dr. Veronica Policht - Research Assistant, Politecnico di Milano
- Dr. Benjamin Isaacoff - Sr. AI and Machine Learning Scientist, General Motors
- Dr. Xinlin Song – Machine Learning Engineer, Square
- Dr. Meredith Henstridge - Postdoctoral Scientist, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany
- Dr. Xi Chen – Senior Product Engineer, ASML, San Jose
2017
- Dr. Kian Kamgar-Parsi - Consultant, Lifescience Dynamics
- Dr. Bryan Ramson - Research Associate, Fermi National Lab
- Dr. Alexander Moncion Baez - Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Michigan
- Dr. Cesar Palma - Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Dr. Christina Jones - DDS/PhD Pre-Candidate, University of Michigan School of Dentistry
- Dr. Anna Savage - Postdoctoral Fellow, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Dr. Rachel Young - Research Fellow, University of Michigan
- Dr. Nancy Senabulya - Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
- Dr. Kaitlin Moore - Research Physicist, SRI International
- Dr. Jessica Ames
- Dr. Abram Ledbetter - Brookhaven National Lab
2010-2016 Applied Physics Alumni
2016
- Dr. Long Chen - Data Scientist, Med Data Quest, Inc. San Diego, CA
- Dr. Anthony Raymond - Physicist, General Atomics
- Dr. Michael MacDonald - Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Dr. Michael James Purcell - Experimental Physicist, John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Dr. Brandon Lucas - Program Manager, Student Affairs, Office for Health, Equity & Inclusion, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Kimberly Trent - PostDoctoral Research Associate, Air Force Research Laboratory
- Dr. Alexander Fisher - Process Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Dr. Christopher Durot - Research Fellow, Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Sidney Ellington - Quantitative Associate, Wells Fargo
- Dr. You-Chia Chang - Assistant Professor, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
2015
- Dr. Jojo Amonoo - Group Leader, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
- Dr. Stephen DeWitt - Computational Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Dr. Steven Young - President of Xondas, Inc.
- Dr. Christopher Trowbridge - Staff Hardware Engineer, Argo AI
- Dr. Ibrahim Oraiqat - Research Scientist, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
- Dr. Pablo F. Damasceno - Machine Learning Specialist, University of California, San Francisco
- Dr. Liz Shtraham - Data Scientist, Catalog
- Dr. Leslie Upton - Physicist, Northrop Grumman Corporation
- Dr. David Anderson - CEO, Rydberg Technologies, Ann Arbor MI
- Dr. Kee Scholten - Senior Researcher, University of Southern California
- Dr. Chihyu Chen - PTD Module Integration Device Yield Engineer, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR
- Dr. Remy Elbez - CTO and co-founder, Uiba
- Dr. Justin Perket - PostDoctoral Fellow, Rutgers University
- Dr. Alex Toulouse - Research Scientist, Northrop Grumman, Los Angeles, CA
- Dr. Brennan Pursley - Staff Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific
2014
- Dr. Prashant Padmanabhan - Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr. Carlos Di Stefano - Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr. Michael Febbraro - Nuclear Astrophysics at Oak Ridge National Lab Physics Division
- Dr. Tracy Berman - Assistant Research Scientist, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Justin Foley - Physicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Dr. Nicholas Patterson - Principal Computational Physicist, Ball Aerospace
- Dr. Kyle Renshaw - Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
2013
- Dr. Eliseo Gamboa - Experimental Physicist, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- Dr. Meredith Brenner - Solutions Architect, Peraton
- Dr. Suzanne Nowicki - Nuclear Physicist, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr. Chuan-Chih (Jason) Chou - Software Engineer, AirBnB, Inc.
- Dr. Johnhenri Richardson - Chief Engineer, Northrop Grumman
- Dr. Christopher Kyle Renshaw - Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida
- Dr. Ilya Vugmeyster
- Dr. Christine Krauland - Staff Scientist, General Atomics
- Dr. Ryan Murphy - Program Manager, Lam Research Corporation
- Dr. Gregory McGraw - Sr. Research Scientist, Universal Display Corporation
2012
- Dr. Matthew Ross - Sr. Research Scientist, Corning, Inc., Corning, NY
- Dr. William Fisher - Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman
- Dr. Anthony Visco - Design Engineer, ATK Defense Electronic Systems, Woodland Hills, California
- Dr. Nicole Campbell - Physicist and Electrical Engineer, Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, AZ
- Dr. Michelle (Price) Chitambar - Technology Manager, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Dr. Yisa S. Rumala - Principal Engineer, Northrop-Grumman
- Dr. Channing Huntington - Technical Advisor, The Joint Staff
- Dr. Leon Webster - Undergrad Lab Coordinator, Hobart and Smith College
- Dr. Laura Spencer - R&D Engineering Manager, Federal-Mogul Holdings Corporation
- Dr. Franklin Dollar - Associate Dean of Graduate Studies for the School of Physical Sciences, University of California, Irvine
- Dr. Andrea Bianchini - Visiting Jesuit Scholar in the Physics Department, John Carroll University
- Dr. Naji Husseini - Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, North Carolina State University
- Dr. Michael McDonald - Research Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Dr. Aaron Rury - Assistant Professor, Wayne State University
- Dr. Robert Wilson - Assistant Professor, University of California - Irvine
2011
- Dr. Carolyn Phillips - Principal Engineer, Wayfair
- Dr. Mark Haynes - Researcher, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Dr. Robert Wilson - Assistant Professor, University of California - Irvine
- Dr. Katherine Smirl Truex - Assistant Professor, United States Naval Academy
- Dr. Bo Sun - Staff Research Scientist, HRL Laboratories, LLC
- Dr. Forrest Doss - Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Dr. Paivo K. Kinnunen - Associate Professor, University of Oulu
- Dr. Meng Zhang - Characterization Scientist, Philips Lighting, San Jose, CA
- Dr. Shanna Shaked - Senior Associate Director of STEM Education Center, UCLA
- Dr. Nefertiti Patrick Jackson - Biotechnology Professional, Howard University, Washington D.C.
2010
- Dr. Ozgun Suzer - Senior Manager, Western Digital Corporation
- Dr. Jeffrey Herbstman - Senior Data Scientist, OneMagnify
- Dr. Xiaojing (Jane) Wang - Postdoc, Northwestern, University Medical School, Department of Medical Social Sciences
- Dr. Vladimir A. Stoica - Postdoctoral Researcher, Pennsylvania State University
- Dr. Malavika Chandra - Laboratory Manager, Boston College
- Dr. Eric Harding - Staff Scientist, Sandia National Laboratory
- Dr. Guan Huang - Director of Emerging Technologies, BOE Technology Group Co., Ltd.
- Dr. Peter Muhoro - Chief Strategy, Technology and Innovation Officer, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative
- Dr. John Valenzuela - Principal Scientist, KBR
2000-2009 Applied Physics Alumni
2009
- Dr. Craig Michael Tenney - Research Scientist, Sandia National Lab., New Mexico
- Dr. Christopher Kelly - Associate Professor, Wayne State University
- Dr. Kevin Haworth - Associate Professor, University of Cincinnati
- Dr. Jasper Kok - Associate Professor, University of California - Los Angeles
- Dr. Carolyn Kuranz - Associate Professor, University of Michigan
- Dr. Peter Diehr
- Dr. Moussa Ngom - Assistant Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Dr. Mitaire Ojaruega - General Engineer, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office
- Dr. Arthur McClelland - Principal Scientist, Harvard University
- Dr. Abigail Mechtenberg - Assistant Teaching Professor, University of Notre Dame
- Dr. Divine Kumah - Associate Professor, North Carolina State University
- Dr. Erik D. Kim - Senior Sensor Characterization Engineer, Waymo
- Dr. Brenton Knuffman - Founder, zeroK NanoTech
- Dr. Justin Edmondson - Astrophysicist, University of Michigan
- Dr. Ganesh Narayanasamy - Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas
2008
- Dr. Mariano Trigo - Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
- Dr. Rodney Agayan - Senior Process Engineer, Twist Bioscience Corporation
- Dr. Andrew Stickrath - Scientist, Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Dr. Rahul Mhaskar - R&D Manager, Keysight Technologies
- Dr. J. Bianca Jackson - Advanced Optics Engineer, General Dynamics Mission Systems
- Dr. Shawn Grannell - Inventor, Ann Arbor
- Dr. Catherine Herne - Associate Professor, SUNY New Paltz
- Dr. Kevin Landmark - Technical Sales Manager, Northern Technologies International Corporation
- Dr. Stephen Reed - Chief Scientist, Modern Technology Solutions, Inc.
- Dr. Louise Hecker - Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University and Founder/CSO of Fibronox
2007
- Dr. Brandon McNaughton - President and CEO, Akadeum Life Sciences, Inc., Ann Arbor
- Dr. Tara Cubel-Liebisch - Strategy Officer, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Germany
- Dr. Joel McDonald - R&D Strategy Leader, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI
- Dr. Yi-Juinn Chien - Senior Research Engineer, AUO, Taiwan
- Dr. Elizabeth Carroll - Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology
2006
- Dr. Zetian Mi - Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
- Dr. Louis Deslauriers - Director of Science Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences & Senior Preceptor in Physics, Harvard University
- Dr. Don Ahmasi Harris - Senior Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute
- Dr. Benny Perez Rodriguez - Substrate Technology Development Engineer, Intel Corporation
- Dr. Cheng Zhong - Chief Technology Officer, BGI Research
- Dr. Alex Manasson - Senior Data Scientist, International Flavors and Fragrances
2005
- Dr. Abishai Daniel - Quality and Reliability Engineer, Intel Corp.
- Dr. Jared Wahlstrand - PHysicist, National Institute of Standards and Technology
- Dr. Titaina Potdevin - Regional Program Coordinator, Park Victoria, Australia
- Dr. Karthik Vishwanath - Associate Professor, Miami University of Ohio
- Dr. Juraj Topolancik - Research Scientist, Building Something Different
- Dr. Codrin Cionca - Engineer, Ford Motor Company
- Dr. Jeff Anker - Professor, Clemson University
- Dr. Jevne Micheau Cunningham - Micheau Intelligencia, LTD., Technical Venture Capital Consulting, Seattle, Wa
- Dr. Adrian Cavalieri - Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland
2004
- Dr. Adrienne Stiff-Roberts - Professor, Duke University
- Dr. Kim M. Lewis - Professor and Associate Dean of Research, Graduate Programs, and Natural Sciences, Howard University
- Dr. Jason Deibel - Chair, Department of Physics, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
- Dr. Mira Franke - Lecturer in Computer Science, Kean University
- Dr. Mon Myaing - Statistical Research Assistant II, Seattle Children's Research
- Dr. Jason Smerdon - Lamont Research Professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
- Dr. Alisa I. Walz-Flannigan - Medical Physicist, Marshfield Clinic
- Dr. Kyoungsik Kim - Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, South Korea
- Dr. Kathryn Clay - President, International Liquid Terminals Association
2003
- Dr. Jiming Bao - Professor, ECE, University of Houston
- Dr. Jochen Kruecker - Senior Scientist, Philips
- Dr. Paul Van Rompay - Software Engineering Manager, Atmospheric and Environmental Research
- Dr. Scott Peltier - Research Scientist, Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Research Scientist, Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
2002
- Dr. Oliver Kripfgans - Research Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, University of Michigan
- Dr. Christopher Search - Associate Professor, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Dr. Delia Cabrera DeBuc - Research Associate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, McKnight Vision Research Center, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
- Dr. Peter Cabauy - CEO, City Labs, Miami Florida
- Dr. Catalin Florea - Lead Optical Systems Engineer, Honeywell
- Dr. Takashi Buma - Associate Professor, Union College
2001
- Dr. Alranzo (Boh) Ruffin - Senior Research Manager, Corning, Inc.
- Dr. Maureen Mellody - Director, NRC Executive Office, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, Washington D.C.
- Dr. Sanjay Krishna - George R. Smith Chair in Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University
- Dr. Gregory Garrett - Research Scientist, Argonne National Labs, Argonne IL
2000
- Dr. Jayson Cohen - Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster LLP, NY
- Dr. Christopher Fischer - Director of Engineering Physics, University of Kansas
- Dr. Jeff Guest - Research Scientist, Argonne National Lab., Chicago IL
- Dr. Yi He - VP-Fellow, Cypress Semiconductor
- Dr. Erik Zeek - Senior Member Technical Staff, Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM
- Dr. Yifei Zhang - Principle Scientist Design, Broadcom, Minneapolis-St. Paul
- Dr. Brooke Stutzman - Professor of Physics, United States Coast Guard Academy
1991-1999 Applied Physics Alumni
1999
- Dr. Hongtao Jiang - Senior Principle Scientist, Broadcom Corp, Irvine CA
- Dr. Amos Kuditcher - Professor of Physics, University of Ghana
- Dr. Hai-Wen Wang - Senior Optical Engineer, Continuum Analytics
- Dr. Guy Williams - Systems Engineer, IRCM & EOIR Business Area, Northrop Grumman Corp., Chicago, IL
- Dr. Nicolas Bonadeo - Head of Applied Physics, Tenaris R&D, Argentina
- Dr. Eric Monson - Data Visualization Analyst, Duke University
- Dr. Dmitri Litinov - Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Houston, TX
1998
- Dr. Joanne Wellman - JPL, Pasadena CA
- Dr. Robert Wagner - Counsel, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
- Dr. Jian He
1997
- Dr. Tracy Abbott - Morse, Intel , Portland OR
- Dr. Rob Goodwin
- Dr. Chandra Raman - Professor of Physics, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Dr. Steven Rosenblum - Hardware Research Manager, Google
1996
- Dr. Beth Weinberg - Chief Scientist, L3Harris Technologies
- Dr. John E. Foster - Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan
- Dr. Qi-Ze Shu - Staff Development Engineer, Coherent
- Dr. Steve Smith - Department Head and Professor, Nanoscience and Nanoengineering Department, South Dakota Mines
- Dr. Vinod Subramaniam - President of the University of Twente, Netherlands
- Dr. Chuck Taylor - Scientist, K Space, Ann Arbor Michigan
- Dr. Kaiyan Zhang - Dir. Adv. Tech at K Lab Corporation, New York, New York
- Dr. Brandon Barnett - Director of Corporate Strategy, Intel, Portland OR
- Dr. Steven J. Kane - Reveo, Hawthorne NY
- Dr. Donnell Walton - Director at Corning Incorporated
1995
- Dr. Lei Zhao - Motorola; Albuquerque NM
- Dr. Eric A. Arons - Senior Research Scientist, SRI International, Corona CA
1994
- Dr. Xinbing Liu - Director, Panasonic, Boston, MA
- Dr. Steven W. Brown - NIST, Gaithersburg MD
- Dr. Mark Johnson - Senior R & D Manager, Synopsys
1993
- Dr. Mark S. Amman - Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
- Dr. Alan L. Lenef - Staff Scientist, Osram Sylvania
- Dr. Ping Xie - VP of Industrial Sensor Module, N. Asia Sales & Marketing and President of Movella China
1992
- Dr. Steven T. Cundiff - Professor of Physics and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- Dr. Weijian Sha - Director of Hardware Engineering, Arris/Commscope
- Dr. Chris W. Snyder
- Dr. Feng An - Founder & Executive Director, Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation, Los Angeles and Beijing
1991
- Dr. Lizhong Liu - Associate Professor, Radiation Oncology, SUNY Upstate Medical University
- Dr. Yi Chen - AT&T Bell Labs, NJ
- Dr. Hong Yan - Deputy Dean for Faculty and Research, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University