Former Students
My students are the most important part of my work. Former post-doctoral students, visiting scholars, and graduate students (and many of the undergraduates who have worked in my lab) are listed on this page. Clicking on the student’s name will take you to a photograph and a little more information. If you are an alumnus from my research group and want to update me as to your current position, please send me e-mail.
Post-Doctoral Research Associates, Visiting Scholars and Staff
- Mehendale, S., Post-Doctoral Associate, 1999
- Onbasioglu, S., Visiting Scholar [Turkey], 1999
- Onbasioglu, H., Visiting Scholar [Turkey], 1999
- Lambers, K., Visiting Scholar [Germany], 2002
- Oh, S-K., Visiting Scholar [Korea], 2002
- Gasche, J., Visiting Scholar [Brazil], 2002
- Ribatski, G., Visiting Scholar [Brazil], 2003
- ElSherbini, A., Post-Doctoral Associate, 2004
- Quintana, C., Visiting Scholar [Columbia], 2004
- Chen, G., Visiting Scholar [China], 2005
- Gu, Z., Visiting Scholar [China], 2005
- Mina, E., Post-Doctoral Associate, 2005
- Tang, X., Research Specialist, 2005
- Leon Liebenberg, Stoecker Family International Visitor, 2005
- M. Kaern, Exchange Scholar [Denmark], 2006.
- Xiaohong Han, Visiting Scholar [China], 2007.
- Wang Qin, Visiting Scholar [China], 2007
- Christophe, T’Joen, Visiting Scholar [Belgium], 2007
Doctoral Students
- Xiaolan (Jo) Hu, 1995 (R&D engineer United Technologies)
- Mark Gentry, 1998 (R&D engineer Exxon)
- Nicole DeJong, 1999 (Professor at San Jose State University, see here)
- Sean Kearney, 1999 (Staff researcher at Sandia National Lab)
- John Hoke, 2001 (Researcher at Wright-Patterson AFB)
- Hongming Ge, 2002 (R&D engineer for Invensys)
- Abdelrahman ElSherbini, 2003 (Researcher at the Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research)
- Yanping Xia, 2006 (R&D engineer at Delphi Thermal Systems)
- Gregory Michna, 2006 (Lecturer at Iowa State University, currently Post-Doctoral researcher at RPI)
- Arindom Joardar, 2007 (R&D engineer, Carrier Corporation)
- Young-Gil Park, 2007 (Currently Post-Doctoral Research Associate at UIUC)
- Andrew Sommers, 2007, (Assistant Professor at the University of Miami of Ohio)
Masters Students
- Xiaolan (Jo) Hu, 1992 (see above)
- Shu-xia Quan, 1992 (pursued doctorate)
- Dave Han, 1993 (Professor at the University of Maryland, see here)
- Bill Martz, 1995 (Visteon)
- Sean Kearney, 1995 (see above)
- Jeff Shelton, 1995
- Mark Gentry, 1995 (see above)
- Nicole DeJong, 1996 (see above)
- Mary Davis, 1996 (Delphi)
- Keith Felton, 1996 (pursued doctorate)
- Rodney Rasmussen, 1997 (AlliedSignal)
- Kevin Bellows, 1997 (Delphi)
- Chris Burton, 1997 (Exxon)
- Tim Rush, 1997 (Visteon)
- Brian Storey, 1997 (Brian is a professor at Olin College, see here)
- Chad Korte, 1997 (Ford)
- Matthew Lenger, 1998 (Michelin)
- David Beck, 1998
- Nolan Wartick, 1999
- Grace Kim, 1999
- Jeffrey Yin, 2000
- Joseph Pira, 2000
- James Kaiser, 2000 (Cummins)
- John Aldana, 2000
- Christopher Robinson, 2001 (Caterpillar)
- Alex Tang, 2001 (consulting)
- Young-Gil Park, 2001 (see above)
- Brad Bull, 2003 (Halliburton)
- Andrew Sommers, 2003 (see above)
- Jules Pienkos, 2004 (pursued doctorate)
- John Brutz, 2005 (Shell)
- Juan Pablo Gutierrez Rueda, 2005 (Siemens)
- Greysa Cerpa, 2006 (pursued doctorate
Yonghua Wei, PhD incomplete — in absentia since ca. 2000.
Heath Billingsley, MS incomplete — in absentia since ca. 1995.
BSME (Laboratory Assistants)
- Heath Billingsley, 1993 – Graduate Student, UIUC (Jacobi)
- Mike Kaneshige, 1993 – Graduate Student, NSF Fellow, Cal. Tech.
- Tesfay Leta, 1993 – Engineer
- Scott Lindstrom, 1993 – Graduate Student, Univ. Mich.
- Mark Blazis, 1994 – Engineer, Consulting firm in UC
- Christopher Burton, 1994 – Graduate Student, UIUC (Jacobi)
- Joe Gardner, 1994 –
- John Jablonski, 1994 –
- William Koelm, 1994 –
- Kaeko Leitch, 1994 – Graduate Student, UIUC
- Anthony Kowakowski, 1994 –
- Mike Lee, 1994 -Graduate Student, IIT
- Scott McIntyre, 1994 – General Electric
- Steve Montgomery, 1994 – Graduate Student, Purdue (Goldschmidt)
- Scott Overmann, 1994 – Graduate Student, Iowa State
- Eric Skowron, 1994 – Graduate Student, Purdue (Goldschmidt)
- Josh Elkins, 1995 – US Naval Officer
- Chad Korte, 1995 – Graduate Student, UIUC (Jacobi)
- Jennifer Pettinger, 1995 –
- Mary Beth Kauss, 1995 –
- Jennifer Steel, 1995 – Ingersol-Rand
- Mark Harwidge, 1996 – student UIUC
- John Choi, 1996 – student UIUC
- Mike Smid, 1996 –
- Mike Newmann, 1996 –
- Chris Bourdon, 1996 – PhD student UIUC
- Shawna Greiner, 1996 –
- Joe Pira, 1996 – My MS student
- Josh Willet, 1996 – student UIUC
- Bob Hauck, 1996 – student UIUC
- Sara Bange, 1996 – student UIUC
- Josh “Gutter” Dyer, 1996 – student UIUC
- Alex Tang, 1996 – my MS student.
- Prashantha Bhat, 1996 – Engineer, Boeing.
- Thomas Lo, 1996-1999 – student UIUC
- Jason Abon, 1999
- Brad Aubuchon, 1999
- Jameson Mayr, 1999, graduate work at the University of Michigan, now at Pratt and Witney
- Robert Peterson, 1999
- Allyson Suh, 1999, student UIUC
- Mike Zhang, 1999, student UIUC
- Jeremiah Dunmyer, 2000
- Tony Abayon, 2000
- Brian Uchtmann, 2000
- Reginald Lualhati, 2000-2001
- Jomy Methipare, 2000
- Kevin Hommema, 2000
- Boris Tse, 2000
- George Lymberopoulos, 2000
- Sam Schnur, 2001
- Roy Holcomb, 2002
- Tom Coats, 2003
- Jennifer Feickert, 2003
- Nasim Suterwala, 2003
- Mary Lenz, 2005
- Jennifer Feickert, 2006
- Matthew Feickert, 2007