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Index: PhD, MS (thesis), MS (non-thesis) graduates

As detailed below, recent graduates have obtained positions in Industry, Government-labs, and Academic Institutions, both locally and worldwide.

Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Students

(latest first)

2007	Eric Maddy	"Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Atmospheric CO₂ from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) " Advisors: Dr. McMillian Eric is a research scientist at QSS Division of Perot Systems in Lanham, Maryland.
2007	Raymond Rogers	"Raman LIDAR Measurements of Hygroscopic Effects on Aerosol Extinctions " Advisors: Dr. Hoff Ray has taken a research scientist position with working with NASA Langley on LIDAR research.
2007	Felicita Russo	"An Investigation of Raman LIDAR Aerosol Measurements and Their Application to the Study of the Aerosol Indirect Effect " Advisors: Dr. Hoff Felicita has returned to Italy to take a research position in Napoli.
2007	Jianming Wen	*"Transverse Correlation in Entangled Photons and Light-Matter Interactions "* Advisors: Dr. Rubin Jianming has taken a post-doc research position in the Quantum Optics Group with Dr. Rubin.
2006	Michelle Comer	*"Retrieving Carbon Monoxide Abundance From Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)"* Advisors: Dr. McMillian Michelle has taken a post-doc position at UMBC, working on K-12 science education.
2006	Eric Moore	*"Plastic Strain and Grain Size Effects in Surface Roughness of a Model Aluminum Alloy"* Advisors: Dr. Reno Eric is now in a post-doc teaching position at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland.
2006	Sulakshana Thanvantri	*"Quantum Coherence Effects in Light-Matter Interactions"* Advisors: Prof Rubin Sue left UMBC to take up a post-doctoral fellowship at the Department of Physics at LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
2006	Rundong Wan	*"Determination of the Structure and Composition of the Low Miller Index Surfaces of NiP and AgAu Binary Alloys Using Low-Energy Electron Diffraction"* Advisors: Prof Rous Rundong has accepted a post-doctoral position in the Physics Department at Penn State University in State College, Pennsylvania.
2006	Hai Zhang	*"A Global ETA Model on Quasi-Uniform Grids"* Advisors: Dr. McMillian Hai Zhang has accepted a research position in the NASA/UMBC GEST center.
2006	Giuliano Scarcelli	*"Two-Photon Correlation Phenomena"* Advisors: Prof Shih Giuliano left UMBC to accept a post-doctoral position at the Harvard University Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
2006	Megan Leahy-Hoppa	*"Terahertz Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling of Nonlinear Polymers"* Advisors: Prof Hayden Megan has taken a post-doctoral position at the Applied Physics Laboratories of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, Maryland.
2005	Dylan Powell	*"Snow on Sea Ice: Microwave Remote Sensing and Its Impact on Antarctic Sea Ice"* Advisors: Dr. Sparling Dylan has accepted a position as a research scientist at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Fairfax, Virginia.
2005	Alexander Sinyukov	*"Electro-Optic Polymers for Terahertz Applications"* Advisors: Prof Hayden Alex has accepted a post-doctoral position in the Physics Department at NJIT in Newark, New Jersy.
2005	Alejandra Valencia	*"High-Accuracy Timing and Positioning using Entanged Photon Pairs"* Advisors: Prof Shih Alejandra accepted a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Photonics Science in Barcelona, Spain.
2004	Milena D'Angelo	*"Quantum Imaging"* Advisors: Profs Shih & Rubin Milena left UMBC to take up a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at LENS (the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spetroscropy) in Sesto Fiorentino (near Florence), Italy.
2004	Daniel Hudson	*"Galaxy Cluster Merger Dynamics: Relating Merger Shocks to Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Cluster Substructure"* Advisor: Dr Henriksen Danny left UMBC to join the Emmy Noether Research Group at the Institute for Astrophysics, Bonn University, Germany.
2004	Paul Poli	*"Assimilation of Global Positioning System Radio Occultation Measurements into Numerical Weather Forecast Systems"* Advisor: Prof Hoff After graduation Paul returned to Meteo France as a 'Checheur Scientifique'.
2004	Feng Liu	*"Design and Fabrication of Dual-Side Waveguide-Based Optical Demultiplexers"* Advisor: Dr Worchesky After graduation Feng Liu took a Post-doc position doing Biophysics at Columbia University, New York, NY.
2004	Kurt Lightner	*"Tropospheric Ozone Retrievals Using An Uplooking Infrared Interferometer"* Advisor: Dr McMillan
2003	Bryan Jacobs	*"Linear Optics Approach to Quantum Information Processing"* Advisor: Prof Rubin Brian is now a Staff Scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labs in Laurel, Maryland.
2002	Jason Cheng	"Theoretical and Experiemental Studies of Surface Physics: Theory of Surface Electromigration Wind Force Felt by Na adatom on Na (110) Slipped Surface; Magnetic Order-disorder Phase Transition of Antiferomagnetic Nb Thin Films on Ag (COL)" Advisor: Dr Watson
2001	Yoon-Ho Kim	*"Two-Photon Quantum Entanglement"* Advisor: Prof Shih Yoon-Ho went to Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Knoville, Tennessee as a research scientist to start a new group in quantum optics.
2000	David N. Whiteman	*"Investigaiton of Cloud Properties using a Raman Lidar"* Advisor: Prof Melfi. David left UMBC to join the Laser Remote Sensing Branch (Raman Lidar Group) of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
2000	David G. Simpson	*"Analysis of Low-Energy Electron Diffraction I-V Spectra using Artificail Neural Networks"* Advisor: Prof Rous David left UMBC to become Flight Software Senior Designer at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.
1999	Timothy E. Keller	*"Multi-Photon Entanglement from Pulsed Pump Spontaneous Down-Conversion."* Advisor: Prof Rubin
1999	Shane Strutz	*"Dopent Mobility and the Performance of Nonlinear Optical Polymers"* Advisor: Prof Hayden Shane left UMBC for a position of Physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC.
1997	Dimitry Strekalov	*"Biphoton Optics"* Advisor: Prof Shih Dimitry left UMBC for a Postdoctoral position at New York University.
1996	Darren N. Bly	*"A Theoretical Study of the Electromigration Wind Force at Metal Surfaces"*, Advisor: Prof Rous Darren left UMBC to become a Teacher at Winchester High School.
1996	Michael J. Panunto	*"The Effect of Electric Fields on the Formation and Anealings of Stable Radiation Induced Defects in InP Semiconductor Junctions"*, Advisor: Prof Summers Darren left UMBC to become a Visiting Assistant Professor at Western Maryland College.
1996	Shane C. Brower	*"Activation Volumes Associated with Chromophore Reorientation in Corona Poled Polymers: Their Physical Significance and Relationship to Stability"* , Advisor: Prof Hayden Shane is now the Chair of the Phsyics Department at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania.
1996	Todd Pittman	*"Two-photon Quantum Entanglement from Type II Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion"* , Advisor: Prof Shih Todd left UMBC for a Postdoctoral position at the Applied Physics Laboratory of Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD.
1996	David Tobin	*"Infared Spectral Lineshapes of Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide"* , Advisor: Prof Strow David left UMBC to become a Research Scientist at The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
1995	David M. Hartley	*"Theory of Negative Ion Resonance in Molecules on Surfaces"* , Advisor: Prof Rous David left UMBC to become a Research Scientist at Dynamics Techonology, Inc.
1995	Scott R. Messenger	*"Electron- & Gamma- Induced Displacement Damage Effects in InP Semiconductor Devices"* , Advisor: Prof Summers Scott left UMBC to work for SFA, Inc.
1994	Robert J. Walters	*"A Study of the Annealing of Radiation-Induced Defects in Indum Phosphide Solar Cells"* , Advisor: Prof Summers Robert left UMBC to become a Research Physicist at the the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC.

Master's of Science (M.S.) Students, Thesis Option

(latest first)

2006 and 2005	Soon to be updated,
2004	Chris Brummage	*"Magnetic Nanocomposites of Fe and MgO Produced Through Mechanical Alloying and Partial Reduction Reactions"* , Advisor: Prof Takacs
2003	Joe Comer	*"UMBC Elastic Lidar Facility: Subvisible Cirrus Cloud and Aerosol Measurements During ABOVE 2002"* , Advisor: Prof Hoff
2002	Jeff Warner	*"A Study of High Energy Proton Irradiation Effects in Gallium Arsenide Devices"* , Advisor: Prof Summers Jeff left UMBC to join the the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC.
2002	Rhianna Riebau	*"Photoluminescence Spectroscopy of Strained InGaAs/GaAs Structures"* , Advisor: Dr Worchesky
2001	Guoyun Ru	, Advisor:
2001	Christa Shockey	*"Characterizing Composition, Crystal Orientation, and Topography of Materials using a Scanning Electron Microscope"*, Advisor: Prof Reno
2000	Hao Li	*"Experimental Study of Bacteriorhodopsin Doped PVA Films for Applications in Optical Memory"*, Advisor: Dr Wu. Hao Li left UMBC to take up a position as a Graduate Research Assistant at the Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, American University, Washington, DC.
2000	Matthew J. Brown	*"X-Ray Sattering of Fe/Pd Tri-layer"* , Advisor: Dr Watson. Matthew left UMBC to become a scientist/contractor for the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD.
2000	Brian P. Hinz	*"Structure of Thin Films during Dynamic Growth"* , Advisor: Dr Watson. Brian left UMBC to become a Design Engineer for National Semiconductor Corporation.
2000	Albert D. Wooten	*"An Improved Raman Lidar System Utilizing a Large Core, Multi-Mode Fiber Optic."* , Advisor: Prof Hoff.
1995	Mark A. Susol	*"Ball Milling of a Zn-Sn-S System"* , Advisor: Dr Takacs Mark left UMBC to become a Process Engineer at Essroc Material.
1995	Stephen M. Evanko	*"A Theoretical Investigation of Two Beam Coupling in a Photorefractive Polymer Waveguide Using a Transverse Pump"* , Advisor: Prof Hayden Stephen left UMBC to become a Senior Engineer at Essex Corporation, Columbia, MD.
1993	Shane Brower	*"A Technique for measuring the Pressure Dependence of the Second Order Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities in Poled Polymers"* , Advisor: Prof Hayden Shane then went on to obtain his PhD from UMBC (see above)
1992	Matt Hershfeld	*"A New Method to Measure the Electro-Optic Coefficients of Nonlinear Optical Polymer Waveguides"* , Advisor: Prof Hayden Matt left UMBC to work for the Iris Corporation, Baltimore, MD.
1990	Scott R. Messenger	*"Electric Field Effects in Heavily-Doped 1 MeV Electron Irradiated Indium Phosphide np Junctions"* , Advisor: Prof Summers Scott then went on to obtain his PhD from UMBC (see above)
1990	Robert J. Walters	*"Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy Study of Electron Irradiation Induced Defects in MOCVD grown np Indium Phosphide Junctions"* , Advisor: Prof Summers Robert then went on to obtain his PhD from UMBC (see above)

Master's of Science (M.S.) Students, Nonthesis Option

2006 and 2005	Soon to be updated,
2004	Jacob Cohen, Antonia Gambacorta, Justin Hackley, Glynn Hulley, Colin McLaughlin, Raymond Rogers, William Sansome, Guliano Scarcelli, Menges Weldegaber
2003	Guanglei Du,
2002	Milena D'Angelo, Jon M. Erikson, Megan Leahy, Michele McCourt, Kemal Oflus, Felicita Russo Alejandra Valencia, Jianning Zeng,
1999	Rong Yu
1996	Diane P. Rodriguez
1993	Sam Gompers
1992	Konst. Bitsikokos
1990	Jay Chen, Aruna Kaveenshwar, Sung Kim, Ken Littrel

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