Former Members

Ph.D Students:

  • Timur Dykhne (Columbia June 2011, Samsung, formerly Boston Consulting Group)
  • Peng Tian (May 2010, Hutchin Hill Capital Hedge Fund)
  • Ahmad Masadeh (January 2008, faculty position, U. Jordan)
  • Hasan Yavas (October 2007, post-doc at Argonne National Lab)
  • HyunJeong Kim (September 2007, post-doc at LANL. Now permanent staff at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
  • Moneeb Shatnawi (August 2007, faculty position, Hashemite U., Jordan)
  • Mouath Shatnawi (May 2007, faculty position, U. Jordan)
  • He Lin (Dec 2006, post-doc, Chinese synchrotron)
  • Xiangyun Qiu (2004, post-doc Cornell U.  Now faculty at George Washington U.)
  • Emil Bozin, (May 2003, post-doc in the group.  Now Assistant Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • Peter Peterson (Dec. 2001, post-doc at Oak Ridge National Lab, now permanent at ORNL)
  • Il-Kyoung Jeong (March 2001, post doc at Los Alamos National Lab, now faculty at Pohang U, Korea)
  • Remo DiFrancesco (Dec. 1999, teaching faculty at Bloomburg College, PA)

Post Docs:

  • Kevin Knox (2015, JP Morgan)
  • Hefei Hu (03/13-09/14, Intel)
  • Mirian Garcia-Fernandez (06/11-03/14, permanent staff, Diamond Light Source, UK)
  • Milinda Abeykoon (10/09 – 13/05, permanent staff at BNL)
  • Yingrui Shang (9/09-09/11, faculty position, Tianjin University)
  • Chris Farrow (09/07- 06/11, permanent position at Enthought)
  • Jiwu Liu (10/09-10/10, permanent position at Amazon.com)
  • Emil Bozin (9/04-2/11, permanent position at Brookhaven National Laboratory)
  • Wenduo Zhou (9/06-06/09, permanent position at ORNL)
  • Asel Sartbaeva (2005-2007, Royal Society Research Fellow, Oxford University)
  • Gianluca Paglia (6/04-6/06, permanent position in an engineering company in Perth, Australia)
  • Marek Schmidt (2/02-12/04, unknown)
  • Jacques Bloch (9/04-3/05, Post Doc, U. Regensburg)
  • Mohamed Kemali (10/00-3/02, unknown)
  • Matthias Gutmann (1/99 – 1/01, permanent position, ISIS, UK)
  • Valeri Petkov (1999-8/02, faculty position, Central Michigan University)
  • Thomas Proffen, (5/98-1/01, permanent position LANL.  Now group leader and acting Division Director at ORNL)
  • Farida Mohiuddin-Jacobs (9/95-8/97, raising a family)

Undergrad and Masters Students:

  • Baruch Tabanpour (Masters, 2015, data scientist at OnDeck)
  • Karim Mukaddem (Undergrad, 2015, graduate student at Cambridge University)