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| 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 | Oerlikon 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 | Oerlikon Metco |
| Daren Gansert | M.S./1988 | HAI |
| Xiai-xi Guo | Ph.D./1988 | Applied Materials |
| Keith Kowalsky | M.S./1988 | Flame Spray Incorporation |
| 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 | Not Available |
| Robert Borra | M.S./1990 | Not Available |
| Kerry LaPierre | M.S./1990 | Oerlikon Metco |
| Lysa Russo | M.S./1990 | Kovar Consultants |
| Jerritt Gluck | M.S./1991 | Bonded Engineering |
| Rajan Bamola | Ph.D./1992 | Surface Modification Systems |
| Yvonne Horan | M.S./1992 | Not Available |
| Rajesh Tiwari | Ph.D./1992 | Not Available |
| Paul Treadway | M.S./1992 | Alstom |
| 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 | Taiwan |
| Jeffrey Brogan | Ph.D./1996 | Mesoscribe Technologies |
| Klaus Dobler | M.S./1996 | BF Goodrich |
| 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 | Booz Allen Hamilton |
| 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 | Oerlikon Metco |
| Dongil Shin | M.S./ 1999 | Deceased |
| Srinivasan Rangarajan | Ph.D./2000 | Not Available |
| Shiang-Yu (Sandy) Tan | Ph.D./2000 | Not Available |
| Xianyang Jiang | Ph.D./2000 | Not Available |
| Steven DePalo | M.S./2000 | Self Employed |
| Mathew Gold | M.S./ 2001 | Rolls Royce |
| Rogerio Lima | Ph.D./2001 | CNRC, Canada |
| David Cook | Ph.D./2001 | Flame Spray Incorporation |
| Ashish Patel | M.S./2001 | Not Available |
| 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 | Oerlikon Metco |
| 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 | Rolls Royce |
| Quingu Yan | Ph.D./2004 | NTU Singapore |
| 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 | Not Available |
| Atin Sharma | Ph.D./2006 | Siemens Energy |
| Joseph Japson | M.S./2007 | MesoScribe Technologies |
| Srinivasan Vasudevan | Ph.D./2007 | Apple |
| Yajie Liu | Ph.D./2007 | Novellus |
| Wei-Guang Chi | Ph.D./2007 | Siemens Energy, China |
| Wanhuk Brian Choi | Ph.D./2007 | ReliaCoat Technologies |
| Antonio Caccavale | M.S./2007 | Con Edison |
| Shanshan Liang | Ph.D./2008 | Not Available |
| Wesley Francillon | Ph.D./2008* | NYU |
| Alfredo Valarezo | Ph.D./2008 | Universidad San Francisco de Quito |
| Wei Zhang | Ph.D./2008 | CVD equipment Corp. |
| Chris Dambra | Oerlikon Metco | |
| Phil Scala | Oerlikon Metco | |
| Joshua Margolies | GE Vernova | |
| Guangha Wei | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | |
| Hongbin Xiong | ||
| Narasimhan Srinivasan | Veeco Instruments | |
| Travis Wentz | M.S./2009 | CTSR |
| Jongkwon Chung | M.S./2010 | Doosan Infracore, South Korea |
| Gopal Dwivedi | Ph.D./2014 | Oerlikon Metco |
| Chris Jensen | M.S./2010 | ReliaCoat Technologies |
| Jose Colmenares-Angulo | Ph.D./2010 | Oerlikon Metco |
| Ravi Dey | M.S./2011 | Not Available |
| Junghan Kim | M.S./2011 | LG Chem, South Korea |
| Ari Sagiv | M.S./2011 | ReliaCoat Technologies |
| Arash Ghabchi | Ph.D./2011 | Blue Origin |
| Mike Resnik | ||
| SuJung Han | ||
| Andrew Vackel | Ph.D./2015 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Vaishak Vishwanathan | Praxair | |
| Lorena Bejaranno | Ph.D./2016 | University of San Franciso de Quito, Ecuador |
| Gregory Smith | Ph.D./2018 | |
| Hwasoo Lee | Ph.D./2018 | Oerlikon Metco |
| Edward J. Gildersleeve | Ph.D./2021 | GE Aerospace |
| Shalaka Shinde | Ph.D./2022 | Oerlikon Metco |
| John Saputo | Ph.D./2023 | ReliaCoat Technologies |
| POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS | ||
| Scholar | Topic | Present Location |
| B. Gudmundsson | High Tc Superconductivity | Siemens |
| T. Jewett | Plasma sprayed FGMs | Global Technologies |
| 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 | GT Equipments |
| 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 | Not Available |
| W.B. Choi | Parent Metal Restoration | ReliaCoat Technologies |
| Y. Tan | Thermal properties of coatings | Not Available |
| K. Shinoda | Deposition Rate Effect on Plasma Spray | AIST Japan |
| A. Valarezo | In-situ Coating Properties | Universidad San Francisco de Quito |
| UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS | ||
| Student | 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 | ||