Ph.D. Degree

Ceji Fu
Associate Professor at Peking University Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science


Keunhan Park
Associate Professor at the University of Utah


Bong Jae Lee
Associate Professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology


Xiaojia Wang
Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota

Liping Wang
Associate Professor at Arizona State University
Andrew NcNamara
Member of Technical Staff at AMD
Trevor J. Bright
Thermal Analyst at the Aerospace Corporation

Richard Z. Zhang
Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas
Jesse I. Watjen



Peiyan Yang
Hardware Sensing Engineer at Apple

A. Ravi Kumar
Graduated Dec. 1999
Thesis Title: Far-Infrared Radiative Properties of YBa2Cu3O7– Films on Si Substrates
Donghai Chen
Graduated May 2001
Thesis Title: Thermal Modeling and Analysis of 193 nm Pulsed Excimer Laser Calorimeters
Yihui Zhou
Graduated May 2002
Thesis Title: Radiative Modeling in Rapid Thermal Processing for Accurate Wafer Temperature Measurement
Yu-Jiun Shen
Graduated Dec. 2002
Thesis Title: Investigation of Bidirectional Reflectance and Transmittance of Rough Silicon Wafers
M.S. Degree
Brian C. Johnson
Graduated in December 1997
Thesis Title: Heat Transfer Analysis and Modeling of a Cryogenic Laser Radiometer
Dave Pearson
Graduated in August 1998
Thesis Title: Thermal Analysis and Modeling for Future Development of Cryogenic Radiometers
C. Alan Canfield
Graduated in May 1999
Thesis Title: Effects of Diesel–Water Emulsion Combustion on Diesel Engine NOx Emissions
Ferdinand Rosa
Graduated in May 1999
Thesis Title: Modeling the Radiation Environment in the Lower Chamber of Rapid Thermal Processing Furnaces
Yu-Jiun Shen
Graduated in May 1999
Thesis Title: Thermal Modeling and Analysis of Absolute Radiometers Designed for Solar Irradiance Measurements
Jorge L. Garcia
Graduated in May 2002
Thesis Title: Radiative Property Measurements for Rapid Thermal Processing
Linxia Gu
Graduated in August 2002
Thesis Title: Thermal and Stress Analysis During Rapid Thermal Processing
Vinh Khuu
Graduated in May 2004
Thesis Title: Spectral Radiative Properties of Thin Films with Rough Surfaces Studied with Fourier-Transform Spectrometry
Qinghe Li
Graduated in May 2008
Thesis Title: Light Scattering of Semitransparent Media
Trevor J. Bright
Graduated in August 2009
Thesis Title: Non-Fourier Equations in Solids Analyzed from Phonon Statistics
Continued for Ph.D. study at Georgia Tech
Ahmad Haider
Graduated in August 2011
Thesis Title: Application of Rigorous Coupled-Wave Theory for Studying Radiative Properties of Micro/Nanostructures and Silver Nanorods on Gratings
B.S. Degree
Kristopher Stryker
Highest Honors Thesis, Spring 1997
Phillip Behling
Independent Study, Spring 1998
Adam J. Suydam
Highest Honors Project, Spring 1999
James Miller
Higher Honors Thesis, Summer 2001
Sunny Sin
Highest Honors Thesis, Summer 2001 and Fall 2001
Amanda Bryson
Fall 2005-Fall 2006
Shawn Shields
Spring 2007
Orion Andrew King
Spring 2007
Justin Chow
Fall 2008
Chuyang Chen
Summer 2016
Matthew T. Mandel
Spring 2017
Priyank B. Acharya
Spring 2017
Yiyang Zhou
Fall 2017
Samuel R. Caballero
Spring 2019
Jesus Rodrigo Garcia Kawas
Spring 2019 – Spring 2020
Matthew Burg
Spring 2021
Kevin Pan
Spring 2022
Lauren Tapp
Spring 2022
Varisa Gumpangkum
Spring 2022
Visiting Scholars
Yue Liu
2008
Hong Ye
Professor at University of Science and Technology of China
Visited from 2011-2012
Yong Shuai
Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology
Atsushi Sakurai
2013-2014, Niigata University
Junming Zhao
Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology
Visited from 2013-2014
Qiang Cheng
Professor at Huazhong University of Science of Technology
Visited from 2014-2015
Visiting Ph.D. Students
Han Wang
2011-2012, Harbin Institute of Technology
Currently at Nanjing Tech University
Zhaolong Wang
2016-2017, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Currently at Hunan University
Xiaohu Wu
Associate researcher at Shandong Institute of Advanced Technology
2017-2018, Peking University
Shiquan Shan
2018-2019, Zhejiang University