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PhD student Vahe Gabuchian Office 104 Firestone LaB 3A/B Firestone / (626) 395-3664 Research Topic Laboratory Earthquakes

PhD Candidate Leslie Lamberson OfficE 220 Guggenheim LaB 3A/B Firestone / (626) 395-3664 Research Topic Hypervelocity Impact

PhD student Mike Mello Office 12 Firestone / (626) 395-3690 Lab SB-07 Firestone / (626) 395-4508 Research Topic Laboratory Earthquakes

PhD student Jonathan Mihaly Lab 3A/B Firestone / (626) 395-3664 Research Topic Hypervelocity Impact

Postdoctoral Scholar Harsha Bhat Office (626) 395-8498

Sr Research Technician, Lab Specialist Petros Arakelian OfficE 16 Firestone Lab / (626) 395-4512

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
• Veronica Eliasson (2009) Assistant Professor, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Southern California

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
• X. Lu (2008) Intel

Engineer's Degree Student

• K. Haberman (2000) Los Alamos National Laboratory

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

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