| Year | Author | Title |
| 2024 | Vijin Kizhake Veetil | “Integrating Color Centers in Silicon to Optical Microcavities: Towards Building a Novel Integrated Quantum Photonic Device” Advisor: Dr. Matthew Pelton Position after UMBC: |
| 2024 | Nimarta Chowdhary | “Investigating the Properties of Transition Metal-Based Thin Films” Advisor: Dr. Theodosia Gougousi Position after UMBC: |
| 2024 | Maxwell Aifer | “Linear Computing and Thermodynamics” Advisor: Dr. Sebastian Deffner Position after UMBC: A position at Normal Computing. |
| 2024 | Rachel Gelfand | “Spectroscopic Studies of Metals, Fluids, and Molecules on the Nanoscale Using Computational and Experimental Method” Advisor: Dr. Matthew Pelton Position after UMBC: |
| 2024 | David Kanaar | “Scalable Quantum Control of Solid-State Qubit Systems to Counteract Physical Errors” Advisor: Dr. Jason Kestner Position after UMBC: Postdoctoral Research Assistant at UCLA. |
| 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 |