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Weaver Research Group 2005-06

Back Row: Shankar Sivaramakrishnan, Bob Butera, Jacob Palmer

Middle Row: Rehan Javed, Andrew Signor, Abhishek Agrawal, Raman Swaminathan

Front Row: Arshad Bhatti, John Weaver, Brent Trenhaile

 

 

 

Weaver Research Group 2004-05

From Left: Shankar Sivaramakrishnan, Andrew Signor, Raman Swaminathan, Linus Jang, Vassil Antonov, Aneeqa Bashir, Brent Trenhaile, Jacob Palmer, John Weaver, Abhishek Agrawal, Philip Waggoner, Brian Bertram, Bob Butera
(not pictured: Celso Aldao and Arshad Bhatti)

 

 

 

Weaver Research Group 2003-04

Back row: Philip Waggoner, Brent Trenhaile, Arshad Bhatti, Jacob Palmer, Vassil Antonov

Center row: Kandice Tanner, Andrew Signor, Guangjun (David) Xu, Abhishek Agrawal, Tomoko Sugano

Seated: Koji Nakayama, John Weaver, Celso Aldao

 

Graduate Students:

John Joyce PhD, MatSci 1987 Los Alamos National Laboratory
David O'Neill PhD, MatSci 1987 3M
Celso Aldao PhD, MatSci 1989 University of Mar del Plata
Ilija Vitomirov PhD, MatSci 1989 Silicon Systems
Don Hill PhD, MatSci 1989 Hewlett-Packard
Tom Wagener PhD, MatSci 1990 FSI International
Steve Anderson PhD, MatSci 1990 Motorola
Brian Trafas PhD, MatSci 1990 Tencor Instruments
Yongjun Hu PhD, MatSci 1991 University of Washington-Seattle
Gary Kroll MS, MatSci 1992 Micron Technology, Inc.
Mike Jost PhD, MatSci 1992 Rosemount
Paul Benning PhD, MatSci 1993 Hewlett-Packard
John Patrin PhD, MatSci 1993 FSI International
Bill Luo MS, Physics 1993 University of Minnesota, Electrical Engineering
Frank Stepniak PhD, MatSci 1994 Delco
Derrick Poirier PhD, MatSci 1994 Physical Electronics
Manish Chander PhD, MatSci 1994 Seagate
Bob Pechman MS, MatSci 1995 3M
Dale Owens PhD pending UM Gradient Technology
Christina Haley MS MatSE UIUC Ball Aerospace
David Xu PhD MatSE UIUC GE Advanced Materials
Vassil Antonov PhD Physics UIUC Micron Technologies
Brent Trenhaile PhD Physics UIUC Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Jacob Palmer PhD MatSE UIUC
Abhishek Agrawal PhD MatSE UIUC
Andrew Signor PhD MatSE UIUC
Parasuraman Swaminathan PhD MatSE UIUC
Robert Butera PhD MatSE UIUC

Undergraduate Students:

Stuart Anderson 1985-86 To Physics, Caltech
John Sullivan 1987-89 To MatSci, University of Pennsylvania
Ron Siefert 1988-90 To Environmental Engineering, Caltech
Now: Assistant Professor, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, UMCES
Matthias Schabel 1988-91 To Physics, Stanford
Philip Waggoner 2002-05 To Applied Physics, Cornell
Brian Bertram 2005 To Materials Science, Georgia Tech

Visiting Scientists:

Renzo Rosei 1980-81 ELETTRA Synchrotron Light Source, Trieste
Atsushi Fujimori 1984-85 University of Tokyo
Richard A. Butera 1985 University of Pittsburgh
Yoram Shapira 1986 Tel-Aviv University
Zhangda Lin 1986-88 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Toshiyuko Hirano 1989 National Research Institute for Metals
Yoshihiro Kimachi 1989-1990 Nippon Telephone and Telegraph
Si-Cheng Wu 1990 Peking University
Martin Knupfer 1993 IFW, Dresden
Kentaro Iwasaki 1996 Chiba University
Celso Aldao 1994, 1998, 2002, 2003 University Mar del Plata, Argentina
Arshad Bhatti 2002-03, 2004 COMSATS-IIT
Tomoko Sugano 2003-04 Japan Patent Office
Aneeqa Bashir 2005 University of Punjab
Masamitsu Toramaru 2005-06 Yokohama National University
Rehan Javed 2006 COMSATS IIT, Islamabad
Shaista Baber 2006 COMSATS IIT, Islamabad

Postdoctorals:

Douglas Peterman 1980-82 McDonnell-Douglas Research Labs
Alfonso Franciosi 1980-83 University of Minnesota
Ed Conrad 1981-82 Georgia Institute of Technology
Marco Grioni 1983-85 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne
Peter Zhou 1984 Max Planck Institut, Stuttgart
Mark Ruckman 1984-85 Brookhaven National Lab
Massimo del Giudice 1984-87 Pirelli
Hsiu-Wei Chen 1985-86 Taiwan
Scott A. Chambers 1985-86 Pacific Northwest Laboratory
Federico Boscherini 1985-87 University of Rome
Xu Fang 1985-88 University of Calabria
Yongli Gao 1986-88 University of Rochester
Bernhard Smandek 1986-87 Technische Universität, Berlin
Ljiljana Atanasoska 1986-88 EMPI
Harry M. Meyer III 1986-89 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Cristiano Capasso 1986-90 Motorola
G. Daniel Waddill 1987-91 University of Missouri, Rolla
Maarten Vos 1987-89 Australia National University
David Aastuen 1989-90 3M
Tadahiro Komeda 1989-91 Texas Instruments, Japan
Jae Seo 1989-91 Jeonbug National Univ., Korea
Tim Ohno 1989-92 Colorado School of Mines
Peter Li 1989-92 3M
Neal Yang 1989-92 Financial District, NYC
Yu Chen 1990-92 3M
Chris Gu 1991-92 Argonne National Laboratory
Tapani Laaksonen 1991-94 Texas Instruments
Yongbo Zhao 1992-93 Minnesota
Dennis Rioux 1993-94 University of Wisconsin-Osh Kosh
Xue-sen Wang 1993-95 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
Paul Benning 1994-96 Hewlett-Packard
Eric Snyder 1995-96 Surfaces/Interfaces
Chia-Yen Cha 1995-97 Siemens
Jeffrey Brake 1995-96 Cambridge University
Yong-ping Gong 1995-97 Seagate
Lin Huang 1996-98 Digital Instruments
Jay Chey 1996-98 IBM
Koji Nakayama 1996-99 Tohoku Univ., IMR, Japan
Boying Han 1995-99 Physical Electronics
Matt Evans 1998-99 Univ. Wisconsin Eau Claire, Dept. Physics
Elton Graugnard 2000-02 GA Tech
Koji S. Nakayama 2001-05 Tohoku University, IMR, Japan
   
   

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