OSU Physics Alumni Database Alumni: If you haven't already, please Register to input your information If you would like to edit your information please Login SHOW ALL   A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Aaaaaaaa, An example 2002- 2007 Specialization: A Specialization Advisor: An Advisor Employed: An Employer (A Title)     (Located at) Employment Description: This is where someone describes their current employment. Advice to students: This is where someone provides advice to current students. Al-Saidi, Wissam     - 2003 Employed: College of William&Mary (Postdoc) Allen, Brent     - 2000 Employed: Qualia Computing (Staff) Allen, Leith     - 2001 Almaas, Eivind     - 2002 Employed: Notre Dame University (Postdoc) Ammirata, Aprile     - 1998 Anastassov, Anton     - 2001 Employed: Rutgers University (Postdoc) Baddar, Hanan     - 1995 Bak, Junyung     - 1996 Employed: Seoul National Univ. (Postdoc) Baliga, Shankar      shankarb@generalmonitors.com 1981- 1986 Specialization: Molecular Spectroscopy, Condense Advisor: Dr. K. Narahari Rao Employed: General Monitors Transnational (Manager R&D)     (California) Employment Description: Department research activities include optical, chemical, wireless, imaging and acoustic sensing technologies for industrial applications. Advice to students: You need technical skills + leadership skills in the real world. Ball, Christopher     - 1999 Employed: Batelle Instit. (Scientist) Barabash, Sergey     - 2003 Employed: National Renewable Energy (Postdoc) Barrett, Thomas     - 1997 Employed: Ohio State University (Lecturer) Bates, Kenneth     - 2004 Employed: Intel (Scientist) Beaky, Matthew     - 1997 Employed: Truman State Univ. (Faculty) Bekele, Selemon     - 2004 Employed: Univ. of Kansas (Postdoc) Bhagavatula, Ravi     - 1995 Blatchford, James     - 1996 Employed: Lucent Corp. (Engineer) Blazek, Tomas     - 1997 Employed: Southampton University (Postdoc) Bornfreund, Richard     - 1996 Boyce, Brent     - 2000 Employed: Lucent Corp. (Scientist) Brinckerhoff, William     - 1996 Employed: Applied Physics Lab, Johns Hopkins Univ. (Physicist) Brisudova, Martina     - 1997 Butler, Rebecca     - 2003 Employed: Jet Propulsion Lab (Scientist) Campbell, Shannon     - 1998 Chen, Jian     - 1997 Employed: Univ. of Florida (Postdoc) Chloupek, Frank     - 1998 Chung, Jongyoung     - 2004 Employed: Searching for job in Korea Chwieroth, Brian     - 2001 Ciobanu, Cristian     - 2001 Employed: Colorado School of Mines (Faculty) Ciobanu, Catalin     - 2003 Employed: Univ. of Illinois (Postdoc) Ciobanu, Luisa     - 2003 Cociorva, Daniel     - 2002 Cole, Arthur     - 2003 Employed: Michigan State Univ. (Postdoc) Colovas, Peter     - 1996 Cooper, Daniel     - 1997 Employed: MIT Lincoln Lab (Scientist) Coplin, Kimberly     - 1993 Employed: Dennison Univ. (Faculty) Culman, Todd     - 1998 Daniel, William     - 2002 Employed: Los Alamos National Lab. (Scientist) Dapore-Schwartz, Samuel     - 1995 Davatolhagh, Saeid     - 2001 Degen, Michael     - 1998 Delaix, Andrew     - 1996 Delucia, Steven     - 1994 Demaree, Dedra      demaree.2@osu.edu 1999- 2006 Specialization: Physics Education Research Advisor: Drs. Aubrecht and Bao Employed: College of the Holy Cross (Visiting Professor)     (Worcester, MA) Employment Description: I have 10 contact hours per week which break down into two lectures and two intro labs. I am responsible for filling the teaching duties of someone on sabbatical, and so research is not required. Advice to students: The preparing future faculty program at OSU was very helpful for me in preparing for my job applications and interviews. Additional teaching and outreach experiences also helped my applications. Dermisek, Radovan     - 2003 Ding, Yi     - 2004 Employed: Intel (Scientist) Du, Gang     - 1994 Employed: Ohio State University (Postdoc) Eckhart, Eric     - 2003 Employed: Colorado State Univ. (Postdoc) Egras, Brian      egras@wharton.upenn.edu 1989- 1994 Specialization: Superfluid Helium Flow Advisor: Dr. James Tough Employed: Finance (Director)     (Philadelphia) Employment Description: Treasury Advice to students: Your quantitative skills allow you to do more than pure science or mathematics. You should learn about your opportunities in finance. The work is intriguing and pays well. Go get your MBA! Egues, Jose-Carlos     - 1997 Employed: Instit. Fisica Sao Carlos (Scientist) Egues, Jose-Carlos      egues@if.sc.usp.br     - 1997 Specialization: Condensed Matter Theory Advisor: John W. Wilkins Employed: Univ. de Sao Paulo - Inst. de Fisica de Sao Carlos (Professor)     (Sao Carlos/SP/Brazil) Etzkorn, Stephen     - 2003 Employed: 3M Corp. (Scientist) Evans, Son     - 1998 Employed: Continuum Lasers, Inc. (Staff) Famiano, Michael     - 2001 Employed: RIKEN (Japan) (Postdoc) Famiano, Michael 1996- 2001 Specialization: Nuclear Astrophysics Advisor: Richard Boyd Employed: Western Michigan University (Assistant Professor)     (Kalamazoo, MI) Employment Description: Professor of Physics Advice to students: Do what you like! Avoid what you don't like. You could be doing it for a very long time! Fencl, Heidi     - 1993 Employed: Morehead State Univ. (Faculty) Ferguson, John     - 2003 Employed: Air Force Research Lab (Scientist) Filippov, Ogor     - 2003 Fisher, Kent     - 2000 Employed: Columbus State Comm. College (Faculty) Fulkerson, Matthew     - 2002 Fulton, Roger     - 1996 Gebler, Darren     - 1998 Employed: First USA (Vice President) Ghosh, Avik     - 2000 Employed: Purdue University (Scientist) Gillen, Glen     - 2003 Employed: Wright Patterson AFB (Scientist) Gilmore, Jason     - 2001 Employed: Ohio State University (Postdoc) Girtu, Mihai     - 1998 Employed: Ohio State University (Postdoc) Gorny, Krzysztof     - 2000 Gump, Jared     - 2003 Employed: Naval Research Lab (Scientist) Guray, Recep     - 2001 Employed: Celal Bayar Univ. (Faculty) Gwon, Chul     - 2003 Employed: Univ. of Maryland (Postdoc) Ham, Kyungmin     - 1995 Employed: Louisianna State Univ. (Scientist) Han, Jongeun     - 1998 Harbaugh, John     - 2000 Employed: MIT Lincoln Lab (Scientist) Hardtke, David     - 1998 Employed: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (Postdoc) Harper, Kathleen     - 2001 Employed: Ohio State University (Lecturer) Harris, Edward     - 1998 Hart, Terrence     - 2002 Employed: Univ. of Colorado (Postdoc) Hawkins, Bob 1971- 1981 Specialization: Atmospheric spectroscopy Advisor: John Shaw Employed: USAF Research Lab. (Physicist)     (Hanscom AFB, MA) Employment Description: Basic research in support of US Air Force reconnaissance and surveillance technology He, Jizhong     - 1998 Heller, Eric     - 2004 Employed: Intel (Scientist) Hencheck, Michael     - 1995 Herbert, Steven     - 1994 Hetzer, Michael 2002- 2009 Specialization: Condensed Matter Advisor: Len Brillson Employed: TBD     (TBD) Hjort, Hans     - 1999 (Postdoctoral Associate)     (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Howard, Meredith     - 2008 Specialization: Nuclear Astrophysics Advisor: Evan Sugarbaker, Dick Boyd Hui, Yau-Chee     - 1994 Hui, Pak Ming 1981- 1987 Specialization: Condensed Matter Theory Advisor: Prof. David Stroud Employed: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Professor)     (Hong Kong) Employment Description: Teaching and research Hwang, Ing-Jye     - 1998 Employed: IBM Storage Tech. (Scientist) Hyldgaard, Per     - 1996 Employed: Chalmers Univ. Tech. (Postdoc) Im, Hsung     - 2002 Employed: Silicon Storage Tech. (Physicist) Jauglin, Harald     - 1997 Jessen, scott     - 1996 Employed: Texas Instruments (Scientist) Jia, Yu     - 2003 Employed: Michigan State Univ. (Postdoc) Jones, Robert     - 1993 Jones, Billy     - 1998 Jones, Darrell     - 1998 Joo, Jinsoo     - 1994 Employed: Korea Univ. (Faculty) Jurgenson, Eric 2003- 2009 Specialization: Nuclear Theory Advisor: Richard Furnstahl Employed: Livermore National Lab (Postdoc)     (Livermore, CA) Employment Description: Continuing my work on ab initio nuclear calculations. Advice to students: Shop around early for research and find the thing that grabs and holds your attention. It may not be what you expected. Kaczer, Benjamin     - 1998 Kafkalidis, Julie     - 1995 Kahng, Jonghyun     - 1993 Kaplinghat, Manoj     - 2000 Employed: UC Davis (Postdoc) Kastiglione, James     - 1997 Kazaryan, Andrei     - 2001 Kernan, Peter     - 1994 Employed: Case Western Reserve Univ (Staff) Kim, Kwangjoon     - 1993 Employed: Elec. Telecom. Res. Instit. Korea (Scientist) Kim, Jin-Tae     - 1994 Employed: Korean Res. Instit. Stand. (Physicist) Kim, Tae-Suk     - 1996 Kim, Eunsik     - 1997 Kim, Jeongnim     - 1997 Employed: NCSA Beckman Inst. (Scientist) Kmety-Stevenson, Carmen     - 2001 Employed: Argonne National Lab (Postdoc) Kneller, James     - 2002 Employed: North Carolina State Univ. (Postdoc) Kohlman, Randolph     - 1996 Employed: Los Alamos National Lab. (Fellow) Koushiappas, Savvas     - 2004 Employed: ETH-Zurich (Postdoc) Koushiappas, Savvas      koushiappas@brown.edu 1998- 2004 Specialization: Astrophysics/Cosmology Advisor: Terry P. Walker Employed: Brown University (Assistant Professor of Physics)     (Providence, RI) Kuehn, Frederick      kuehn@mps.ohio-state.edu 2001- 2008 Specialization: Experimental Astrophysics Advisor: Brian Winer Employed: Fermilab (Research Associate)     (Batavia, IL) Employment Description: Postdoc on the Pierre Auger Cosmic Ray Observatory Kulkarni, Rahul     - 2000 Employed: UC Davis (Postdoc) Kuo, Jim 1982- 1984 Specialization: EE Advisor: G Hue Employed: Apple (Sr. Design Engineer)     (California) Kylin, roger     - 2001 Employed: Systems Engineering Group (Scientist) Lee, Juyoung     - 1994 Employed: LSI Logic, Inc. (Engineer) Lee, Jik     - 1997 Employed: Purdue University (Postdoc) Lee, Ho-Hsin     - 1998 Employed: Lucent Corp. (Scientist) Lee, David     - 2002 Employed: Wittenberg Univ. (Faculty) Lee, Seungwon     - 2003 Employed: Jet Propulsion Lab (Scientist) Lee, Seungwon 1998- 2002 Specialization: Condensed Matter Physics Advisor: John W. Wilkins Employed: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Researcher)     (Pasadena, CA) Employment Description: Conduct research on thermoelectric properties modeling, instrument data processing, nonlinear dynamics for spacecraft trajectory design, earth science data analysis for climate modeling, evolutionary Advice to students: Have a broad interest in science and technology. The broad interest and knowledge will improve your ability to successfully work on interdisciplinary projects which are getting more and more common in (Lecturer)     (OSU) Lee, David 1996- 2002 Specialization: Surfaces and Interfaces Advisor: Jon Pelz Employment Description: I teach MSE749, x-ray analysis of materials. Leonard, Richard     - 1996 Lepage, Jeffrey     - 1997 Employed: Active.com (Staff) Li, Canguo     - 1995 Employed: Lucent Corp. (Physicist) Linn, Angela     - 2004 Linn, Angela 1997- 2003 Specialization: Astrophysics Advisor: Robert Scherrer Employed: ACTA Inc (Scientist)     (Torrance, CA) Employment Description: Work in range safety, providing planning-stage and real-time safety analysis for rocket and missile launches. Liu, Xiaohua     - 1996 Employed: Lucent Corp. (Scientist) Liu, Tsunglin 2000- 2006 Specialization: Biophysics Advisor: Ralf Bundschuh Employed: UCSB (Postdoc)     (Santa Barbara, CA) Lo Curto, Gaspare     - 2000 Employed: Max-Planck Inst. Munich (Postdoc) Long, Stephen     - 1996 Employed: Ohio State University (Postdoc) Lopez Noriega, Mercedes 1999- 2004 Advisor: Michael A. Lisa Employed: CNRS     (Paris, France) Lorenc, Jana     - 2002 Employed: Stanford Linear Accel. Ctr. (Postdoc) Lucas, Vincent     - 1998 Lunin, Oleg     - 2001 Employed: Instit. Adv. Study, Princeton (Postdoc) Luther, Bryan     - 1994 Employed: Morehead State Univ. (Faculty) Mafi, Arash     - 2001 Employed: Univ. of Arizona (Postdoc) Mak, Chee-leung     - 1993 Employed: Hong Kong Polytechnic (Lecturer) Martisovits, Viktor     - 2000 May, David     - 2003 Employed: Ohio State University (Staff) Mo, Yizhang     - 1993 Mohler, Gregory     - 2001 Employed: Georgia Tech. Res. Inst. (Scientist) Mohr, Richard     - 2003 Employed: Ohio Supercomputing Ctr. (Postdoc) Morin, Brian     - 1994 Employed: Milliken Corp. Res. Lab. (Physicist) Murphy, Paul     - 1993 Nandor, Valerie     - 2000 Nandor, Mark     - 2000 Employed: Wellington School, OH (Teacher) Nelson, Daniel     - 2003 Neu, Christopher     - 2004 Employed: Univ. of Pennsylvania (Postdoc) nielsen, Jon-Fredrik     - 2002 Employed: Phasebridge Corp. (Physicist) Nylander, Paul     - 1999 Employed: Hi-Techniques, Inc. (Manager) Oliver, Keith     - 2004 Employed: Grand Valley State Univ (Faculty) Ozkan, Nalan     - 2002 Employed: Celal Bayar Univ. (Faculty) Paget, Kathleen     - 1998 Employed: SciTech, Inc (Scientist) Pang, Hanbin     - 1993 Park, Kibog     - 2006 Employed: Intel Patterson, Richard 2000- 2004 Specialization: AMO, ATI, Lasers Advisor: Linn Van Woerkom Employed: National Instruments (Product Support Engineer)     (Austin, TX) Employment Description: I am the Product Support Engineer for LabVIEW Real-Time. www.ni.com/realtime Advice to students: It's true, physics people can do anything. Go out and see High Street sometimes. See you on linkedin.com Patton, Steven     - 1998 Pejakovic, Dusan     - 2002 Employed: Stanford Research Labs (Scientist) Pekurovsky, Dmitry     - 2000 Employed: San Diego Supercomputer Center (Staff) Pesetski, Aaron     - 2001 Employed: Northrup-Grumman (Scientist) Peterman, Derrick     - 1996 Petkie, Douglas     - 1997 Employed: Wright State Univ. (Faculty) Pirkle, Wesley 1999- 2005 Advisor: Art Epstein Employed: Battelle (Research Scientist)     (Columbus) Piskun, Nikolay     - 2000 Piskun, Nadezhda     - 2001 Employed: Boston Laser (Engineer) Proestos, Yiannis 2001- 2007 Specialization: High Energy Theory Advisor: Stephen S. Pinsky Employed: Univ. of Cyprus & The Cyprus Institute (Postdoc)     (Lefkosia, CYPRUS) Employment Description: Theoretical and Computational calculations in Lattice QCD Protogeros, Zacharias     - 1998 Ray, Mark     - 1996 Raynolds, James     - 1995 Recchia, Charles     - 1997 Reichhold, Dennis     - 2001 Employed: Purdue University (Postdoc) Roddick, Eric     - 1996 Employed: IBM Almaden (Scientist) Rudin, Sven     - 1997 Employed: Los Alamos National Lab. (Scientist) Rusnak, John     - 1998 Sahin, Latife     - 2002 Employed: Oak Ridge National Lab. (Postdoc) Sakhel, Roger     - 2003 Employed: Coastal Carolina Univ. (Faculty) Sanchez, Carlos     - 2003 Employed: Univ. of Barcelona (Postdoc) Sasik, Roman     - 1996 Employed: UC San Diego (Scientist) Satyam, Amitabh      asatyam@gmail.com 1987- 1990 Specialization: Condensed Matter, Spectroscopy Advisor: K N Rao Employed: Siemens (Vice President)     (New Delhi) Employment Description: Head the telecom services Advice to students: Keep the bigger picture of science. Schirber, Michael     - 2004 Employed: Journalism School, NYU (student) Seeber, Derek     - 2001 Seidlein, Rupert     - 1994 Employed: Lucent Corp. (Physicist) Seiple, Jeffrey     - 1997 Shao, Honglin     - 1996 Shenoy, Vivek     - 1998 Employed: Brown Univ. (Faculty) Shields, Patrick     - 1994 Employed: Capital Univ. (Faculty) Skinta, John     - 2002 Employed: Intel (Scientist) Smallfield, Julie     - 2002 Employed: Milliken Corp. Res. Lab. (Scientist) Song, Yong     - 1994 Stantcheva, Tatiana     - 2004 Employed: N. Virginia Comm. College (Instructor) Stantcheva, Tatiana 1997- 2004 Specialization: Astrophysics Advisor: Eric Herbst Employed: Northern Virginia Community College (Assistant Professor)     (Alexandria, VA) Stenger, Victor     - 1996 Subramanian, Suresh     - 1996 Employed: Opto-Knowledge, Inc. (Scientist) Sumner, Michael     - 1993 Sun, Mingqiu     - 1994 Sun, Mingqiu     - 1994 Advisor: Charles Ebner Employed: Intel (Senior Staff Engineer)     (Oregon) Sung, Myungkee     - 1997 Employed: Louisianna State Univ. (Postdoc) Tate, Jennifer     - 2004 Employed: Ohio State University (Postdoc) Tennakoon, sarath     - 1996 Tirfessa, Negussie     - 2002 Employed: Manchester Comm. College (Instructor) Trawick, Matthew     - 1999 Trees, Bradley     - 1994 Employed: Ohio Weslyan Univ. (Faculty) Trinkle, Dallas     - 2004 Employed: Wright Patterson AFB (Scientist) Tripathi, Arun     - 1997 Turneaure, Stefan     - 2000 Employed: Penn. State Univ. (Postdoc) Turpin, George     - 1997 Ulm, Eric     - 1996 Employed: Univ. Central Florida (Faculty) Van de Sande, Brett     - 1995 Van Domelen, David     - 2001 Employed: Michigan State Univ. (Postdoc) Vandegriff, Jon     - 1998 Venkataraman, Lakshmi     - 1998 Wagner, Lukas     - 1996 Walker, Mark     - 2003 Employed: Wright Patterson AFB (Scientist) Wan, Yue-Min     - 1995 Wang, Yunzhang     - 1996 Employed: Milliken Corp. Res. Lab. (Physicist) Warnakulasooriya, Rasil     - 2004 Employed: MIT (Postdoc) Wells, Randall     - 2003 Employed: Defense Consulting, Calif. (Scientist) Whitmore, Juliana     - 1993 Willson, Robert     - 2002 Employed: National Security Agency (Scientist) Wilson, Peter     - 1993 Witchey, Nicholas     - 1996 Woodard, Nathan     - 1998 Xenikos, Dimitrios     - 1994 Employed: Greek Telephone Co. (Staff) Yu, Wenbin     - 1995 Employed: Alaris Medical Systems (Scientist) Yu, Shuang     - 2001 Zach, Jurgen     - 2003 Employed: Schlumberger (Postdoc) Zentner, Andrew     - 2003 Employed: Univ. of Chicago (Postdoc) Zhang, Zhen-Yong     - 1994 Zhang, Xifeng     - 1996 Employed: LCI International (Staff) Zhao, Shulai     - 1994 zhong, Hua     - 1993 Employed: Century Analysis, Inc. (Staff) Zou, Xueli     - 2001 Employed: Cal. State Univ. Chico (Faculty) Zou, Xiaoming     - 2003