Present Graduate Students Supervised

Jason Graetz, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected: 2002

Alan Yue, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected: 2003

Jiao Lin, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected: 2004

Alexander Papandrew, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected: 2005

Tabitha Swan-Wood, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected: 2005

Olivier Delaire, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected: 2005

Ryan Monson, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected 2006

Karen Lam, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected 2007

Joanna Dodd, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected 2007

Max Kresch, Materials Science, Ph.D. expected 2007

Former Ph.D. Students Supervised

Douglas Harvey Pearson, "Measurements of White Lines in Transition Metals and Alloys Using Electron Energy Loss Spectrometry", Ph.D. in Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, September 30, 1991.

presently: Staff Research Physicist, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.

Hao Ouyang, "Grain Boundaries of Nanophase Materials", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, October 12, 1992.

presently: Associate Professor of Materials Science, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

James Kozo Okamoto, "Temperature-Dependent Extended Electron Energy Loss Fine Structure Measurements from K, L23, and M45 Edges in Metals, Intermetallic Alloys, and Nanocrystalline Materials", Ph.D. in Applied Physics, California Institute of Technology, May 6, 1993.

presently: law student, Stanford Univ.

Lawrence Anthony, "Kinetics of DisorderÆOrder Transformations in Highly Nonequilibrium Materials", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, May 24, 1993.

presently: Assistant Prof. of Physics, Toledo Univ.

Zheng-Qiang Gao, "The Kinetics of Ordering, Grain Growth, and Chemical Segregation in Nonequilibrium Fe3X Alloys (X = Al, Si, and Ge)", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, May 18, 1994.

presently: Assistant to President on Engineering, Intex Corp., Long Beach

Liubo Hong, "Structures and Stabilities of Nanocrystalline Materials Synthesized by Mechanical Alloying and Modeled as Driven Alloys", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Sept. 25, 1995.

presently: Applied Materials, PVD Technology, San Jose, CA

Tab Allen Stephens, "Chemical Environment Selectivity in Mossbauer Diffraction", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, May 14, 1996.

presently: Motorola Research, Austin, TX

Laura Jeanne Nagel, "Vibrational Entropy Differences in Materials", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, June 18, 1996.

presently: Assistant Professor of Engineering Technology, West Texas A&M Univ., Amarillo, TX

Heather Nicole Frase, "Vibrational and Magnetic Properties of Mechanically Attrited Ni3Fe Nanocrystals", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, April 9, 1998.

presently: member of technical staff, Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, VA

Charles K. Witham, "The Effects of Alloy Chemistry on the Electrochemical and Hydriding Properties of Ni-Substitutted LaNi5", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, June 4, 1999.

presently: postdoctoral fellow, JPL

Ushma Kriplani, "Kinematical Mossbauer Diffraction from Polycrystalline 57Fe", Ph.D. in Physics, California Institute of Technology, April 18, 2000.

presently: member of technical staff, Schlumberger Corp., Doll, CT

Adrian Hightower, "Lithium Electronic Environments in Rechargeable Battery Electrodes", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, July 14, 2000.

presently: member of technical staff, Nanostream, Inc., Pasadena, CA

Yun Ye, "Interaction of Hydrogen with Novel Carbon Materials", Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, August 8, 2000.

Michael E. Manley, "From Elementary Excitations to Microstructure: the thermodynamics of metals and alloys across length scales," Ph.D. in Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, April 25, 2001.

presently: Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory, NM

Nathan R. Good, "The Influence of Texture on the Magnetoelastic Properties of Cold Rolled Polycrystalline TbDy Alloys" Pd. D. in Applied Physics, May 24, 2001.

presently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena CA.

Peter D. Bogdanoff, "The Phonon Entropy of Metals and Alloys: The effects of thermal and chemical disorder" Ph.D. in Materials Science, Nov. 20, 2001.

presently: Director of Research at a startup company, Pasadena, CA.