Recent Ph.D. Topics

 

Year Author Title
2023 Jianyu Zheng “Characteristics of dust aerosol properties using CALIOP and thermal infrared satellite observations”
Advisor: Dr. Zhibo Zhang
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in GESTAR II.
2023 Neranga Kaluappuwa Hannadige “Remote Sensing of Aerosols and Ocean Color with Multi-Angle Polarimeters and Spectro-Radiometers”
Advisor: Dr. Pengwang Zhai
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral Scientist at SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research.
2023 Aamil Shaik “Variability and spectral properties of large-scale extragalactic X-ray jets”
Advisor: Dr. Eileen Meyer
Position after UMBC:
2023 Agniva Roy Chowdhury “Investigating the Dynamics of Extragalactic Jets from Parsec to Kiloparsec Scales: Novel Constraints on Jet Acceleration and Emission”
Advisor: Dr. Eileen Meyer
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at the Space Telescope Science Institute.
2023 Cory Nunn “Quantum State Engineering with Zero-Photon Subtraction”
Advisor: Dr. Todd Pittman
Position after UMBC: NRC postdoc at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
2023 Akram Touil “From Black Holes to Quantum Computers: The Universality of Information Dynamics”
Advisor: Dr. Sebastian Deffner
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2022 Brent McBride “The Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter: Pre-Launch Calibration, Validation, and Advancements in Cloud Science”
Advisor: Dr. J. Vanderlei Martins
Position after UMBC: Senior Research Scientist at Science Systems and Applications, Inc.
2022 Saurabh Shringarpure “Quantum Optical State Preparation for Quantum Communication”
Advisor: Dr. James Franson
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position with Dr. Hyunseok Jeong’s Quantum Information Science group at the Seoul National University in South Korea.
2022 Kenneth Pryor “Examination of the Physical Process of Severe Convective Windstorms”
Advisor: Dr. Belay Demoz
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at NOAA.
2022 Qianqian Song “Observation-constrained Direct Radiative Effects of Dust Aerosols”
Advisor: Dr. Zhibo Zhang
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at Princeton.
2022 Charity-Grace Chaney “Simulating Li-ion Batteries and Beyond: Developing Electrode Materials for Next-Generation Batteries”
Advisor: Dr. Can Ataca
Position after UMBC: Computational Material Scientist at CEA Grenoble in France, focusing on solid state electrolytes.
2022 Karthik Reddy Solipuram “Morphological Clues to the X-ray Emission from Extragalactic Jets”
Advisors: Dr. Markos Georganopoulos and Dr. Eileen Meyer
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at Arizona State University.
2022 Nathan Myers “Quantum Engines at the Frontiers of Physics”
Advisor: Dr. Sebastian Deffner
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at Virginia Tech.
2022 Ralph Colmenar “Investigating the geometric gate robustness conjecture and generating robust entangling gates using methods of dynamical error suppression”
Advisor: Dr. Jason Kestner
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences in College Park, MD.
2022 Daniel Wines “Beyond DFT: Accurately Engineering the Properties of 2D Materials for Energy and Device Applications”
Advisor: Dr. Can Ataca
Position after UMBC: NRC postdoc at National Institute of Standards and Technology.
2021 Jon Gustafson “Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides via Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy”
Advisor: Dr. Michael Hayden
Position after UMBC: NRC postdoc at the US Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C.
2021 Anin Puthukkudy “Retrieval of aerosol properties using Polarized Imaging Nephelometer (PI-Neph) laboratory measurements and Hyper-Angular Rainbow Polarimeter (HARP) remote sensing observations”
Advisor: Dr. J. Vanderlei Martins
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at UMBC.
2021 Zhifeng Yang “Improving Air Quality Forecasts of Ozone and Particulate Matter: Modeling-Observation Integrated Study”
Advisor: Dr. Belay Demoz
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at Howard University Beltsville Research Center.
2021 Adam Leah Harvey “Dynamics and Energy Dissipation in Extragalactic Jets”
Advisors: Dr. Eileen Meyer and Dr. Markos Georganopoulos
Position after UMBC: Senior Professional Staff I at the JHU Applied Physics Laboratory.
2021 Thomas Smith “Advances in the Study of Two-photon Interferometry: From Turbulence-free Interferometers to X-ray Ghost Microscopes”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Scientist, Advanced Quantum Optic Sensors Laboratory, Naval Air Warfare Center.
2021 Brian Uthe “Unraveling the Complex Fluid Dynamics of Simple Liquids at Nanometer Length Scales and Gigahertz Frequencies”
Advisor: Dr. Pelton
Position after UMBC: Teaches physics at the Bard High School Early College Baltimore.
2020 Hari Lamsal “Ultralow-power nonlinear optics using optical nanofibers in metastable xenon”
Advisor: Dr. Pittman
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at the Quantum Institute at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2020 Ian Nodurft “Light-Matter Interactions and Heralding in Quantum Information”
Advisor: Dr. Franson
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at Howard University.
2020 Mary Keenan “Investigating the Role of Jet Power in Radio-Loud AGN”
Advisor: Dr. Meyer
Position after UMBC: Software Developer NASA/Goddard, in the heliophysics department of ADNET Systems, under the SESDA contract.
2020 Lipi Mukherjee “Radiative Properties of Oceanic Particles”
Advisor: Dr. Zhai
Position after UMBC: Post Doctoral Fellow at National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in the High Altitude Observatory.
2020 Chamara Rajapakshe “Interactions of Radiation with Aerosols and Clouds in a Three-Dimensional Atmosphere: Implications for Aerosol and Cloud Remote Sensing”
Advisor: Dr. Zhang
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
2020 Jaron Kropp “Investigations of Two-Dimensional Materials for Next-Generation Electronic Devices”
Advisor: Dr. Gougousi
Co-Advisor: Dr. Ataca
Position after UMBC: Cleanroom deposition engineer at ARL, Adelphi MD.
2020 Brian Carroll “Observations of Low-level Jet Physics and Impacts”
Advisor: Dr. Demoz
Position after UMBC: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellowship at NASA Langley Research Center in the Lidar Applications Group, focusing on scientific research but also instrument operation and development.
2019 Richard Brewster “Compensating for the Effects of Decoherence in Quantum States”
Advisor: Dr. Franson
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Maryland working on simulating polarization-encoded quantum networks with Dr. Yanne Chembo.
2018 Haixu Leng “Discrete Metal-Semiconductor Nanoparticle Assemblies for Controlled Plasmon-Exciton Coupling”
Advisor: Dr. Pelton
Position after UMBC: Seismic Imaging Analyst at CGG in Texas.
2018 Peter Breiding “Theoretical Modeling and Multiwavelength Observations of Powerful Quasar Jets”
Advisor: Dr. Meyer
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral Fellow, Active Galaxies and Multi-Messenger Astronomy at West Virginia University (2018-2021). Currently a postdoctoral fellow in the department of Physics & Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University.
2018 John Diehl “Residual Amplitude Modulation and Chromatic Dispersion Induced Distortion in Microwave Photonic Links”
Advisor: Dr. Worchesky
Position after UMBC: Sr. Research Scientist at NRL.
2018 Amanda Dotson “Determining the location of the GeV emission in powerful blazars”
Advisor: Dr. Georganopoulos
Position after UMBC: Lecturer at Morgan State University.
2017 Daniel Miller “Satellite Simulator Studies of the Impact of Cloud Heterogeneity on Passive Cloud Remote Sensing Retrievals”
Advisor: Dr. Zhang
Position after UMBC: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellowship at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in the Ocean Ecology Laboratory.
2017 W. Reed Espinosa “Comprehensive airborne in situ characterization of atmospheric aerosols: from angular light scattering to particle microphysics”
Advisor: Dr. Martins
Position after UMBC: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellowship working at Goddard Space Flight Center.
2017 Diana Cheatham “Shedding New Light on Accreting Pulsars”
Advisor: Dr. Pottschmidt
Position after UMBC:
2017 Paul Burkins “Femtosecond Z-Scan Measurements in Novel Materials with Emphasis on Managing Thermal Effects”
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Position after UMBC:
2017 Edward Strobach “The Impact of Coastal Terrain on Mid-Atlantic Offshore Wind and Implications for Offshore Wind Energy”
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Position after UMBC: Support Scientist at NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP).
2017 Erin Balsamo “Developing and Characterizing X-ray Concentrators for Space-Based Observations with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer”
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Software Engineer at DGS, Digital Global Systems, a start-up tech company for RF signal analysis.
2017 Garrett Hickman “Nonlinear Optics at Ultralow Power using Metastable Xenon in a High Finesse Cavity”
Advisor: Dr. Franson
Position after UMBC: Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2016 Jane Sprigg “The Physics of the “Ghost Camera”: Towards Practical “Ghost” Imaging”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at Tarsier Optics, Inc.
2016 Fernando Calderon Vargas “Dynamically correcting two-qubit gates against any systematic logical error”
Advisor: Dr. Kestner
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at Virginia Tech.
2016 Daniel Jones “Interaction of nanofiber-guided light with a warm atomic vapor”
Advisor: Dr. Pittman
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at ARL.
2016 Neetika Sharma “Physical Conditions in the X-ray Emission-Line gas in the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 1068”
Advisor: Dr. Turner
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
2016 F. Daniel Orozco “Aerosols, light, and water: Measurements of aerosol optical properties at different relative humidities”
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC:
2015 Alex Henegar “Surface Chemistry and Interface Evolution During the Atomic Layer Deposition of High-k Metal Oxides on InAs(100) and GaAs(100) Surfaces”
Advisor: Dr. Gougousi
Position after UMBC: Lead Software Engineer at Enovational.
2015 Anthony Davidson “Silicon Germanium Quantum Well Thermoelectrics”
Advisor: Dr. Worchesky
Position after UMBC: Teaching physics at a local high school.
2015 Joel Coley “Probing the Structure and Morphology of X-ray and Gamma-ray Binaries Using a Multi-wavelength, Multi-Mission Approach”
Advisor: Dr. Henriksen
Position after UMBC: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellow working at Goddard Space Flight Center.
2015 Adriana Rocha Lima “Optical, microphysical, and compositional properties of volcanic ash, dust, and other atmospheric aerosols”
Advisor: Dr. Martins
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
2015 Erika Nesvold “Modeling Collisions in Circumstellar Debris Disks”
Advisor: Dr. Georganopoulos
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institute in Washington D.C.
2015 Tao Peng “High-order Interference of Photons in Thermal State”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at Texas A&M University.
2015 John Sullivan “Improving the Current Understanding of the Evolution and Vertical Processes of Tropospheric Ozone Using a Ground Based Differential Absorption Lidar”
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC: NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellow working at Goddard Space Flight Center.
2015 Brian Kirby “Nonlocal Interferometry with Macroscopic Coherent States and its Application to Quantum Communications”
Advisor: Dr. Franson
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at ARL.
2014 Liwang Ye “Surface reactions during the atomic layer deposition of high-κ dielectrics on III-V semiconductor surfaces”
Advisor: Dr. Gougousi
Position after UMBC: Scientist with Amperex Technology Limited (ATL) in China.
2014 Hong Cai “Optical Measurement on Quantum Cascade Lasers Using Femtosecond Pulses”
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Position after UMBC: Chip-scale Photonics Measurement Scientist at Skorpios Technologies in Albuquerque, NM.
2014 Barry Baker “Physical Processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer with Implications for Air Quality”
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at NOAA in Tennessee.
2014 Gergely Dolgos “Polarized Imaging Nephelometer Development and Applications on Aircraft”
Advisor: Dr. Martins
Position after UMBC: System/Optical Engineer, Micos Engineering GmbH, Duebendorf, Switzerland.
2014 Paul Corbitt “Mathematical Modeling the Etiology of Schizophrenia and White Matter Lesions”
Advisor: Dr. Kramer
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at NIH.
2014 Hui Chen “The High-Order Quantum Coherence of Thermal Light”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Faculty position at Jiaotong University in China.
2014 Felipe Vallejo Monsalve “Modeling and design of lossy waveguide structures for generation of broadband terahertz pulses through difference frequency mixing”
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Assistant Professor Universidad San Buenaventura, Bogota.
2013 Malachi Tatum “Examining the Role of the Compton-thick, X-ray reprocessor in Type 1 Active Galactic Nuclei”
Advisor: Dr. Turner
Position after UMBC: Post-doctoral researcher at NASA Goddard.
2013 Patricia Sawamura “Retrieval of optical and microphysical properties of aerosols from a hybrid lidar dataset”
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Langley Research Center.
2013 Meimei Lai “Experiments Using Sub-Wavelength Diameter Tapered Optical Fibers in Rubidium Vapor”
Advisor: Dr. Pittman
Position after UMBC: Instructor at Morgan State University.
2013 Li Zhu “Determination of the single scattering albedo and direct radiative forcing of biomass burning aerosol with data from the MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) satellite instrument”
Advisor: Dr. Martins
Position after UMBC:
2012 Junlin Liang “An Experimental Study of Nonclassical Effects in Two-photon Interferometry”
Advisor: Dr. Todd Pittman
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University.
2012 Sanjit Karmakar “Ghost Imaging with Sunlight”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at UMBC.
2011 R. Chris Wilson “Multivariate Retrieval of Carbon Monoxide”
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at the Jet Propulsion Lab.
2011 Debra Wicks Kollonige “The Impact of Upper Tropospheric Dynamics on Surface Air Quality over the United States”
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Position after UMBC:  Postdoctoral scholar at Penn State University.
2011 Aboubakar Traore “Measurement of the nonlinear refractive index of TeO2 fiber by using IGA technique”
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Position after UMBC: Working at Sigmaspace Corporation.
2011 Sheng Liu “Investigation of Carrier Dynamics and Nonlinear Effects in Quantum Cascade Lasers using Femtosecond Mid-Infrared Pulses”
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Position after UMBC:  Postdoctoral scholar at Sandia National Labs.
2011 Samuel Trahan “Multi-Scale Analysis of Observations of Tropical Cyclones with Applications to High-Resolution Hurrican Modeling”
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Position after UMBC: Researcher at NOAA.
2010 Yu Zhou “Multiphoton Coherence of Thermal Light”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Associate Professor at Jiao Tong University.
2010 Hao You “Theoretical Study of Quantum Computation with Non Linear Optics”
Advisor: Dr. Franson
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Georgia.
2010 Vincenzo Tamma “Theoretical and Experimental Study of a New Algorithm for Factoring Numbers”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral fellow at Ulm University in Germany.
2010 Paul Cunningham “Optical Pump Terahertz Probe Studies of Semiconducting Polymers”
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: NRC postdoc at the US Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC.
2010 Colin McLaughlin “Electro-Optic Polymers for Terahertz Applications”
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Researcher at the US Naval Research Laboratories in Washington, DC.
2010 Raymond Edziah “Nonlinear Optical Properties of Novel Forms of Enriched Carbon Disulfide”
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher in Electrical Engineering at UMBC.
2009 Robinson Kuis “Theoretical and Experimental Study of the Nonlinear Optical and Dispersive Properties of Conventional and Photonic Crystal Fibers”
Advisor: Dr. Johnson
Position after UMBC: R & D Program Manager at IRFlex in Danville, VA.
2009 Nathan Kurtz “Application of satellite laser altimetry data to studies of sea ice properties and processes”
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Position after UMBC: PostDoc at NASA Goddard working in the Cryospheric Processes Branch.
2009 Mengsteab Weldegaber “Investigation of Stable and Unstable Boundary Layer Phenomena Using Observations and a Numerical Weather Prediction Model”
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Position after UMBC: PostDoc Research Associate in the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Davis.
2009 Jianning Zeng “Extended Emission Surrounding Nearby Seyfert Galaxies”
Advisor: Dr. George
Position after UMBC: Software testing engineer for the National Weather Service.
2009 Timothy Bole “A Study of the Effects of Electromigration on Structures at the Nanoscale”
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Position after UMBC:
2008 Antonia Gambacorta “Temperature Change And Water Vapor Feedback In The Atmosphere. A Comprehensive Assessment Using The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder Instrument On NASA Aqua Satellite”
Advisor: Dr. Strow
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at NOAA Center for Satellite Applications and Research in Camp Springs, MD.
2008 Jeffrey Warner “Displacement Damage-Induced Electrical and Structural Effects in Gallium Arsenide Solar Cells Following Ion Irradiation”
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at the Naval Research Lab in Washington, DC.
2008 Andrew Bunch “Step Dynamics and the Morphological Evolution of Nanostructures”
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Position after UMBC:
2008 Justin Hackley “Initial HfO2 Growth on Si(100) and GaAs(100) Substrates using TEMAH+H2O and TDMAH+H2O ALD Processes”
Advisor: Dr. Gougousi
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences in College Park, MD.
2008 Mark Stephen “Fiber-Based Laser Transmitter and Laser Spectroscopy of the Oxygen A-Band for Remote Detection of Atmospheric Pressure”
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at NASA Goddard in the Lasers and Electro-Optics Branch.
2007 Eric Maddy “Investigation of Spatial and Temporal Resolution of Atmospheric CO2 from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)” 
Advisor: Dr. McMillian
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at QSS Division of Perot Systems in Lanham, MD.
2007 Raymond Rogers “Raman LIDAR Measurements of Hygroscopic Effects on Aerosol Extinctions “
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist position with NASA Langley on LIDAR research.
2007 Glynn Collis Hulley “Improved Refraction Corrections for Satellite Laser Ranging (SLR) by Ray Tracing through Meteorological Data”
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC:
2007 Felicita Russo “An Investigation of Raman LIDAR Aerosol Measurements and Their Application to the Study of the Aerosol Indirect Effect ” 
Advisor: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC: Research position in Napoli, Italy.
2007 Jianming Wen “Transverse Correlation in Entangled Photons and Light-Matter Interactions ” 
Advisor: Dr. Rubin
Position after UMBC: Research Associate in the Physics Department at the Univ. of Virginia.
2006 Michelle Comer “Retrieving Carbon Monoxide Abundance From Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS)” 
Advisor: Dr. McMillian
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral 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” 
Advisor: Dr. Reno
Position after UMBC: Assistant Professor in Physics at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, MD.
2006 Sulakshana Thanvanthri “Quantum Coherence Effects in Light-Matter Interactions” 
Advisor: Dr. Rubin
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral 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” 
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position in the Physics Department at Penn State University in State College, PA.
2006 Hai Zhang “A Global ETA Model on Quasi-Uniform Grids” 
Advisor: Dr. McMillian
Position after UMBC: Research position in the NASA/UMBC GEST center.
2006 Giuliano Scarcelli “Two-Photon Correlation Phenomena” 
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at the Harvard University Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.
2006 Megan Leahy-Hoppa “Terahertz Spectroscopy and Molecular Modeling of Nonlinear Polymers” 
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position at the Applied Physics Laboratories of Johns Hopkins University in Laurel, MD.
2005 Dylan Powell “Snow on Sea Ice: Microwave Remote Sensing and Its Impact on Antarctic Sea Ice” 
Advisor: Dr. Sparling
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Fairfax, VA.
2005 Alexander Sinyukov “Electro-Optic Polymers for Terahertz Applications” 
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral position in the Physics Department at NJIT in Newark, NJ.
2005 Alejandra Valencia “High-Accuracy Timing and Positioning using Entangled Photon Pairs” 
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute for Photonics Science in Barcelona, Spain.
2004 Milena D’Angelo “Quantum Imaging” 
Advisors: Dr. Shih & Dr. Rubin
Position after UMBC: Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship at LENS (the European Laboratory of Nonlinear Spectroscopy) 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
Position after UMBC: Joined 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: Dr. Hoff
Position after UMBC: Returned to Meteo France as a ‘Checheur Scientifique’.
2004 Feng Liu “Design and Fabrication of Dual-Side Waveguide-Based Optical Demultiplexers” 
Advisor: Dr. Worchesky
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at Columbia University, New York, NY.
2004 Kurt Lightner “Tropospheric Ozone Retrievals Using An Uplooking Infrared Interferometer” 
Advisor: Dr. McMillan
Position after UMBC:
2003 Bryan Jacobs “Linear Optics Approach to Quantum Information Processing” 
Advisor: Dr. Rubin
Position after UMBC: Staff Scientist at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Labs in Laurel, MD.
2002 Jason Cheng “Theoretical and Experimental 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
Position after UMBC:
2001 Yoon-Ho Kim “Two-Photon Quantum Entanglement”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Leader in the Department of Physics Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea.
2000 David N. Whiteman “Investigation of Cloud Properties using a Raman Lidar”
Advisor: Dr. Melfi
Position after UMBC: NASA Scientist working in Mesoscale Atmospheric Processes Research.
2000 David G. Simpson “Analysis of Low-Energy Electron Diffraction I-V Spectra using Artificial Neural Networks”
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Position after UMBC: 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: Dr. Rubin
Position after UMBC:
1999 Shane Strutz “Dopant Mobility and the Performance of Nonlinear Optical Polymers”
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Physicist at the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC.
1997 Dimitry Strekalov “Biphoton Optics”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at JPL in Pasadena, CA .
1996 Darren N. Bly “A Theoretical Study of the Electromigration Wind Force at Metal Surfaces”
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Position after UMBC: Professor of Physics at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
1996 Michael J. Panunto “The Effect of Electric Fields on the Formation and Anealings of Stable Radiation Induced Defects in InP Semiconductor Junctions”
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Position after UMBC:
1996 Shane C. Brower “Activation Volumes Associated with Chromophore Reorientation in Corona Poled Polymers: Their Physical Significance and Relationship to Stability” 
Advisor: Dr. Hayden
Position after UMBC: Chair of the Physics Department at Grove City College in Grove City, PA.
1996 Todd Pittman “Two-photon Quantum Entanglement from Type II Spontaneous Parametric Down-conversion”
Advisor: Dr. Shih
Position after UMBC: post-doctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU-APL).
1996 David Tobin “Infrared Spectral Lineshapes of Water Vapor and Carbon Dioxide” 
Advisor: Dr. Strow
Position after UMBC: Research Scientist at The University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
1995 David M. Hartley “Theory of Negative Ion Resonance in Molecules on Surfaces” 
Advisor: Dr. Rous
Position after UMBC: Research Associate Professor in the department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Georgetown University Medical Center.
1995 Scott R. Messenger “Electron- & Gamma- Induced Displacement Damage Effects in InP Semiconductor Devices” 
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Position after UMBC: Work for SFA, Inc.
1994 Robert J. Walters “A Study of the Annealing of Radiation-Induced Defects in Indum Phosphide Solar Cells” 
Advisor: Dr. Summers
Position after UMBC: Research Physicist at the the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC