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	Sulzer 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	Sulzer Metco
	Daren Gansert	M.S./1988	HAI
	Xiai-xi Guo	Ph.D./1988	Applied Materials
	Keith Kowalsky	M.S./1988	Flame Spray Induction
	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	Applied Materials
	Robert Borra	M.S./1990	Not Available
	Kerry LaPierre	M.S./1990	Sulzer Metco
	Lysa Russo	M.S./1990	Stony Brook University
	Jerritt Gluck	M.S./1991	Not Available
	Rajan Bamola	Ph.D./1992	Surface Modification Systems
	Yvonne Horan	M.S./1992	Not Available
	Rajesh Tiwari	Ph.D./1992	Applied Materials
	Paul Treadway	M.S./1992	Not Available
	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	Not Available
	Jeffrey Brogan	Ph.D./1996	Mesoscribe Technologies
	Klaus Dobler	M.S./1996	St. Louis Metallurgy
	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	Physical Sciences
	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	Mesoscribe Technologies
	Dongil Shin	M.S./ 1999	Tecnaplasma System
	Srinivasan Rangarajan	Ph.D./2000	Not Available
	Shiang-Yu (Sandy) Tan	Ph.D./2000	Not Available
	Xianyang Jiang	Ph.D./2000	Caterpillar Inc.
	Steven DePalo	M.S./2000	Self Employed
	Mathew Gold	M.S./ 2001	GE
	Rogerio Lima	Ph.D./2001	CNRC, Canada
	David Cook	Ph.D./2001	Ford Motor Co.
	Ashish Patel	M.S./2001	Sulzer Metco
	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	MesoScribe Technologies
	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	Praxair Inc.
	Quingu Yan	Ph.D./2004	Not Available
	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	Caterpillar
	Atin Sharma	Ph.D./2006	Sulzer Metco
	Joseph Japson	M.S./2007	MesoScribe Technologies
	Srinivasan Vasudevan	Ph.D./2007	Applied Materials
	Yajie Liu	Ph.D./2007	Novellus
	Wei-Guang Chi	Ph.D./2007	Siemens Energy, China
	Wanhuk Brian Choi	Ph.D./2007	Postdoc at Stony Brook
	Antonio Caccavale	M.S./2007	Con Edison
	Shanshan Liang	Ph.D./2008	Stony Brook Univ.
	Wesley Francillon	Ph.D./2008*	Texas Instruments
	Alfredo Valarezo	Ph.D./2008	Universidad San Francisco de Quito
	Wei Zhang	Ph.D./2008	CVD equipment Corp.
	Chris Dambra		Sulzer Metco
	Phil Scala		Sulzer Metco
	Matthew Gold		GE Energy
	Joshua Margolies		GE Energy
	Guangha Wei
	Hongbin Xiong
	Narasimhan Srinivasan		Veeco Instruments
	Travis Wentz	M.S./2009	CTSR
	Jongkwon Chung	M.S./2010	Doosan Infracore, South Korea
	Gopal Dwivedi	M.S./2010	current Ph.D. student
	Chris Jensen	M.S./2010	CTSR
	Jose Colmenares-Angulo	Ph.D./2010	Sulzer Metco
	Ravi Dey	M.S./2011	current Ph.D. Student
	Junghan Kim	M.S./2011	LG Chem, South Korea
	Ari Sagiv	M.S./2011
	Arash Ghabchi	Ph.D./2011

Post Doctoral Fellows

	Scholar	Topic	Present Location
	B. Gudmundsson	High Tc Superconductivity	Siemens
	T. Jewett	Plasma sprayed FGMs	Valenite
	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 easurement	ILL-Grenoble
	V. Luzin	Neutron stress and texture easurement	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	Current with J.Parise
	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	Composites company
	W.B. Choi	Parent Metal Restoration	ReliaCoat Technologies
	Y. Tan	Thermal properties of coatings	Current post-doc
	K. Shinoda	Deposition Rate Effect on Plasma Spray	AIST Japan
	A. Valarezo	In-situ Coating Properties	Universidad San Francisco de Quito

Undergraduate Students

	Nicole Wagner	Maike Johanson	Fabiola Bruschetti
	Niranjana ruiz	Anita Ristorucci	Cassandra Holtzgartner
	Angela Yuan	Thomas Thersleff	Jessica Jimenez
	Eli Rosofsky	Christine Mancine	Charles Greenhut
	Chris Del	Jason Trelewicz