Director, GALCIT Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories California Institute of Technology Theodore von Kármán Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering

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Past Doctoral Students in Academia * William F. Ballhaus Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Aeronautics † Ernest E. Sechler Memorial Award for Most Significant Teaching and Research Contribution to GALCIT R. Narasimhan (1986) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India A.T. Zehnder (1987) Associate Professor of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University S. Krishnaswamy † (1989) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern University X. Deng (1990) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Carolina J. Mason (1993) Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame J. Lambros *† (1994) Associate Professor of Aeronautics, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign H. Bruck (1995) Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland D. Conner (1998) Luxfer Aluminum P. Guduru † (2000) Research Fellow, Brown University D. Coker (2001) Research Fellow, Brown University L. R. Xu (2001) Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering and Materials Science, Vanderbilt University K. Xia (2005) Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Solid Mechanics and Structures, Brown University ^ Past Doctoral Students in National Labs and Industry * William F. Ballhaus Prize for an Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Aeronautics † Ernest E. Sechler Memorial Award for Most Significant Teaching and Research Contribution to GALCIT L. Lu (1991) Team Leader, EDS/Unigraphics C. Liu (1994) Senior Technical Staff Member, The Los Alamos National Laboratory K. Fey (1996) Biomedical Engineer, Alfred E. Mann Foundation for Scientific Research J. Hodowany *† (1997) Rosetta Inpharmetics B. Chow (2001) Research Scientist, Applied Materials, Inc. O. Samudrala (2001) Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology D. Anderson † (2002) Senior Technical Staff Member, General Electric Global Research Center ^ Engineer's Degree Student K. Haberman, (2000) Los Alamos National Laboratory ^ Current PhD Students Georgios Lykotrafitis, Graduate Student Michal Brown, Graduate Student Xiao Lu, Graduate Student ^ Post-Doctoral Scholars, Resarch Scientists and Visiting Associates Currently in Academia H. Tippur, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Auburn University F. Benitez, Professor of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Seville, Spain M. Zhou, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech R. Singh, Assistant Professor, Stony Brook State University of New York C. Rousseau, Assistant Professor, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI V. Chalivendra, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Caltech S. Hong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Caltech Currently in Industry Y.J. Lee, Senior Scientist, Dow Corning, Midland, MI D. Owen, Chief Technical Officer, Oraxion Diagnostics, Fremont, CA H. Lee, Light Photonics, Seattle, WA O. Samudrala, Senior Technical Staff Member, General Electric Global Research Center D. Anderson, Senior Technical Staff Member, General Electric Global Research Center T.-S. Park, Senior Research Scientist, Oraxion Diagnostics, Fremont, CA ^ Visiting Faculty/Associates S. Suzuki, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan D. Semenski, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia M. Oda, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan M. Adams, Senior Staff Member, Jet Propulsion Laboratory H. Georgiadis, Professor of Engineering Mechanics Division, National Technical University of  Athens S. Suresh, Professor and Chair, Materials Science MIT A. Molinari, Professeur Classe Exceptionelle Université de Metz, Laboratoire de Physique et Mécanique des Matériaux Metz, France Y.Y. Huang, Shao Lee Soo Professor Deptartment of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL R. Biegel, Assistant Research Professor University of Southern California