Alumni

Graduate Students


  Student Degree/Year Present Location
  Joseph Fauty Ph.D./1975 Not Available
  Volker Wilms Ph.D./1978 Deceased
  Mitchell Dorfman M.S./1979 Sulzer Metco
  Saed Safai Ph.D./1979 Honeywell Engines
  Joseph Vargas M.S./1979 Not Available
  Kannan Krishnan M.S./1980 Not Available
  Eric Lieberman M.S./1983 Pratt & Whitney
  Hareesh Bhat Ph.D./1984 Not Available
  Narayanaswamy Shankar Ph.D./1984 Chromalloy
  K. R. Subramanian Ph.D./1984 Not Available
  Bijay Saha Ph.D./1985 Not Available
  Leonard Brown Ph.D./1985 Not Available
  John Nerz M.S./1987 GE Aviation
  Rangaswamy Subramaniam Ph.D./1987 Sulzer Metco
  Daren Gansert M.S./1988 HAI
  Xiai-xi Guo Ph.D./1988 Applied Materials
  Keith Kowalsky M.S./1988 Flame Spray Induction
  Chon Tuck M.S./1988 Not Available
  Richard Neiser Ph.D./1989 Sandia National Labs
  Sanjay Sampath Ph.D./1989 Stony Brook University
  Hougong Wang Ph.D./1989 Applied Materials
  Robert Borra M.S./1990 Not Available
  Kerry LaPierre M.S./1990 Sulzer Metco
  Lysa Russo M.S./1990 Stony Brook University
  Jerritt Gluck M.S./1991 Not Available
  Rajan Bamola Ph.D./1992 Surface Modification Systems
  Yvonne Horan M.S./1992 Not Available
  Rajesh Tiwari Ph.D./1992 Applied Materials
  Paul Treadway M.S./1992 Not Available
  Chris Perdikaris M.S./1993 Global Tungsten Products
  Jan Ilavsky Ph.D. 1994 Aragonne National Labs
  Srikanth Reddy M.S./1994 Ford Motors
  Raphael Benary M.S./1995 Consultant
  Zhonjian Chen Ph.D./1995 Chromalloy
  Robert Greenlaw M.S./1995 Mesoscribe Technologies
  Karlis Gross Ph.D./1995 Monash Univ.
  Chung-Kwei Lin Ph.D./1995 Not Available
  Jeffrey Brogan Ph.D./1996 Mesoscribe Technologies
  Klaus Dobler M.S./1996 St. Louis Metallurgy
  Robert Gansert Ph.D./1996 Advance Materials
  Sang-Ha Leigh Ph.D./1996 Caterpillar Inc
  Ravi Purandare M.S./1997 Not Available
  Saifi Usmani Ph.D./1997 Nanoslurry Inc
  Ahmed Ibrahim Ph.D./1998 Farmingdale State Univ
  Aron Newman Ph.D./1998 Physical Sciences
  William Smith M.S./1998 Mesoscribe Technologies
  Thomas Chraska Ph.D./1999 Inst. of Plasma Physics, Cz
  Jiri Matijicek Ph.D./1999 Inst. of Plasma Physics, Cz
  Jon Gutleber M.S./ 1999 Mesoscribe Technologies
  Dongil Shin M.S./ 1999 Tecnaplasma System
  Srinivasan Rangarajan Ph.D./2000 Not Available
  Shiang-Yu (Sandy) Tan Ph.D./2000 Not Available
  Xianyang Jiang Ph.D./2000 Caterpillar Inc.
  Steven DePalo M.S./2000 Self Employed
  Mathew Gold M.S./ 2001 GE
  Rogerio Lima Ph.D./2001 CNRC, Canada
  David Cook Ph.D./2001 Ford Motor Co.
  Ashish Patel M.S./2001 Sulzer Metco
  Anand Kulkarni Ph.D./ 2002 Siemens Energy
  Lubos Prchlik Ph.D./2002 Skoda Turbine Research, Cz
  Limin Sun Ph.D./2002 Not Available
  Xiaoyun Wang Ph.D./2002 Sensitron
  Yu Gu Ph.D./2003 Not Available
  Brian Keyes M.S./2003 MesoScribe Technologies
  David Otterson Ph.D./2003 Not Available
  Zhiquang Wang Ph.D./2003 GE Research
  Anirudha Vaidya Ph.D./2004 Siemens Energy
  Swarnima Deshpande Ph.D./2004 Not Available
  Jeffrey Swab Ph.D./2004 Army Research Lab
  Li Li Ph.D./2004 Praxair Inc.
  Quingu Yan Ph.D./2004 Not Available
  Melissa Butters M.S./2005 Pratt and Whitney
  Xiangzhong Guo Ph.D./2005 Boston Scientific
  Petr Michlik Ph.D./2005 Caterpillar
  Ondrej Racek Ph.D./2005 Caterpillar
  Atin Sharma Ph.D./2006 Sulzer Metco
  Joseph Japson M.S./2007 MesoScribe Technologies
  Srinivasan Vasudevan Ph.D./2007 Applied Materials
  Yajie Liu Ph.D./2007 Novellus
  Wei-Guang Chi Ph.D./2007 Siemens Energy, China
  Wanhuk Brian Choi Ph.D./2007 Postdoc at Stony Brook
  Antonio Caccavale M.S./2007 Con Edison
  Shanshan Liang Ph.D./2008 Stony Brook Univ.
  Wesley Francillon Ph.D./2008* Texas Instruments
  Alfredo Valarezo Ph.D./2008 Universidad San Francisco de Quito  
  Wei Zhang Ph.D./2008 CVD equipment Corp.
  Chris Dambra   Sulzer Metco
  Phil Scala   Sulzer Metco
  Matthew Gold   GE Energy
  Joshua Margolies   GE Energy
  Guangha Wei    
  Hongbin Xiong    
  Narasimhan Srinivasan   Veeco Instruments
  Travis Wentz M.S./2009 CTSR
  Jongkwon Chung M.S./2010 Doosan Infracore, South Korea
  Gopal Dwivedi M.S./2010 current Ph.D. student
  Chris Jensen M.S./2010 CTSR
  Jose Colmenares-Angulo Ph.D./2010 Sulzer Metco
  Ravi Dey M.S./2011 current Ph.D. Student
  Junghan Kim M.S./2011 LG Chem, South Korea
  Ari Sagiv M.S./2011 Stony Brook University
  Arash Ghabchi Ph.D./2011
     

Post-Doctoral Fellows


 
  Scholar Topic Present Location
  B. Gudmundsson High Tc Superconductivity Siemens
  T. Jewett Plasma sprayed FGMs Valenite
  G.X. Wang Modeling of Solidification Univ. of Akron
  R. Goswami Microstructure Development NRL
  Y. Wan Process Modeling Not Available
  A. Dent Process-Microstructure Relationship Materials Connexions
  P. Sujatha Devi Precursor based synthesis of oxides CGCRI-India
  U. Senturk Thermal Barrier Coatings Potters Industries, Inc.
  H. Sitepu Neutron stress and texture measurement ILL-Grenoble
  V. Luzin Neutron stress and texture measurement ANSTO-Australia
  M. Raja Characterization of magnetic ensors DMRL India
  S. Tankiewicz Sensor and electronics by thermal spray Sensors for medicine
  B.G. Ravi Precursor based synthesis of oxides Current with J.Parise
  D. Kharas Deposition of semiconductor devices Sarnoff Corporation
  A. Kulkarni Advanced coating characterization Siemens Energy
  T. Streibl Integrated process diagnostics BMW research- Munich
  M. Friis Process-structure relations SKF - Sweden
  A.N. Vaidya Process maps and process reproducibility Siemens Energy
  Y.H. Wu Microstructural Characterization of Coatings Composites company
  W.B. Choi Parent Metal Restoration ReliaCoat Technologies
  Y. Tan Thermal properties of coatings Current post-doc
  K. Shinoda Deposition Rate Effect on Plasma Spray AIST Japan
  A. Valarezo In-situ Coating Properties Universidad San Francisco de Quito
     
 
Undergraduate Students


 
  Scholar Degree/Year Present Location  
  Nicole Wagner      
  Niranjana Ruiz      
  Angela Yuan      
  Eli Rosofsky      
  Chris Del      
  Maike Johanson      
  Anita Ristorucci      
  Thomas Thersleff      
  Christine Mancine      
  Jason Trelewicz   Stony Brook University  
  Fabiola Bruschetti      
  Cassandra Holtzgartner      
  Jessica Jimenez      
  Charles Greenhut