Graduate Alumni

Liu, Jasmine

August 2024

Associate in Corporate Treasury at Goldman Sachs

Associate in Corporate Treasury at Goldman Sachs

Xu, Yingnan

May 2024

Parajuli, Santosh

August 2024

Postdoc at University of Illinois

Postdoc at University of Illinois

Guzman, Eric

May 2023

AI Engineer at Honeywell

Data Scientist at Travelers Insurance

Milke, Chris

August 2022

Test Engineer at Texas Instruments

Test Engineer at Texas Instruments

Jing, Xiaoxian

December 2021

Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Meta

Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Meta

Wang, Peilong

December 2020

Research Fellow in Medical Imaging at the Mayo Clinic

Research Fellow in Medical Imaging at the Mayo Clinic

Staten, Ryan

August 2020

Adjunct Research Professor at SMU

Adjunct Research Professor at SMU

McKay, Maddie

August 2020

Market Risk Analyst at Citi

Market Risk Analyst at Citi

Xie, Keping

August 2019

Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh

Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Pittsburgh

Jardin, Dan

August 2019

Post-doctoral Researcher at Northwestern University

Post-doctoral Researcher at Northwestern University

Feickert, Matthew

August 2019

Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dhungana, Govinda

May 2018

Data Scientist at AT&T

Data Scientist at SMU DataArts

Godat, Eric

May 2018

Data Science Application Developer at SMU

Research and Data Science Team Lead at SMU and Adjunct Professor of Data Science

Stein, Matt

May 2018

System Engineer at RT Logic

Lead Operations Research Analyst at MITRE

Wang, Biao

Dec 2017

University of Iowa (Post-Doc)

University of Iowa (Post-Doc)

Zhao, Xiandong

August 2017

Assistant Proton Physicist at Texas Center for Proton Therapy

Postdoc Research Associate at Washington University in St. Louis

Qiu, Hang

May 2017

Weizmann Institute of Science (Post-Doc)

Weizmann Institute of Science (Post-Doc)

Hetherly, Jeff

May 2017

Data Scientist at In-Q-Tel

Machine Learning (Senior Software) Engineer at Google Brain

Zhou, Li

May 2017

Quantitative Research Associateat JP Morgan Chase

Quantitative Research Associateat JP Morgan Chase

Clark, Ben

August 2016

Underwriting Consultant at Arthur J. Gallagher

Senior Financial Consultant at Hays Companies

Cao, Tingting

May 2016

Tel Aviv University (Post-doc)

Tel Aviv University (Post-doc)

Liu, Huanzhao

May 2015

Indiana University Bloomington (Post-Doc)

Indiana University Bloomington (Post-Doc)

Wang, Bowen

May 2015

Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Post-doc)

Zhejiang University (Post-doc)

Liang, Zhihua

Dec. 2012

University of Houston (Post-doc)

University of Houston (Post-doc)

Ilchenko, Yuriy

Dec. 2012

UT Austin (Post-doc)

Principal Associate at Capital One

Yagci, Kamile

May 2012

North American University (Asst. Professor)

Department Head, Physics and Engineering at Wharton County Junior College (WCJC)

Rios, Ryan

May 2012

Physicist/Senior Research Engineer (Employer: Leidos)

Global Business Intelligence and Analytics Manager at Facebook

Ishmukhatemov, Renat

May 2012

The Ohio State University (Post-doc)

Daya, Rozmin

Dec. 2011

Brandeis University

Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Facebook

Li, Yichen

Dec. 2010

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Research Staff at Brookhaven National Laboratory

Kasmi, Azeddine

Sept. 2009

Baylor University

Manager Data Science at EY

Chabysheva, Sophia

Aug. 2009

Univ. of Minnesota Duluth (Asst. Professor and Research Fellow)

Univ. of Idaho (Asst. Professor)

Zarzhitsky, Pavel

Aug. 2008

Southern Methodist University

Teaching Instructor at University of Alabama

Firan, Ana

Aug. 2008

Southern Methodist University

NASA Physicist (Employer: Leidos)

Lu, Liang

Dec. 2005

CTO, Bokee, China

Founder of 5miles

Vianello, Eliana

May 2003

Univ of Padua (Padova), Italy

Univ of Padua (Padova), Italy

Maravin, Yuri

May 2002

Fermi National Accelerator Lab

Kansas State Univ (Assoc. Professor)

Narsky, Ilya

Aug. 2001

California Institute of Technology

The Math Works

Fadeyev, Vitaliy

Aug. 2000

Univ of California, Berkeley

SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz

Korolkov, Ilia

May 1999

Barcelona, IFAE

Barcelona, IFAE (Professor)

Volobouev, Igor

Aug. 1997

Lawrence Berkeley Lab (UC Berkeley)

Texas Tech (Assoc. Professor)

Shelkov, Vasilii

Aug. 1997

Lawrence Berkeley Lab (UC Berkeley)

CEO, Rock Flow Dynamics

2023

(August 2023) Litke, Michael (Univ. of Hawaii, Physics Ph.D. Program)

2021

(May 2021) Kent, Jesse

2018

(Aug. 2018) Somily, Aish M.

2016

(Dec. 2016) Alothman, Nourah
(Dec. 2016) Albalawi, Ashwaq Nasser

2015

(May 2015) Ferrante, Farley (Lecturer at SMU)

2012

(Dec. 2012) Zhu, Lin (SMU Engineering Ph.D. Program)

2011

(Dec. 2011) Ferdousi, Banafsheh (Univ. of New Hampshire, Space Sciences Ph.D. Program)

2008

(Aug. 2008) Norton, Jack

2006

(Dec. 2006) Dougal, Triston (MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston)
(Dec. 2006) Faro Aguierre, Franz (SMU Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Program)
(May 2006) He, Yuping (Postdoc, UC Davis (Chemistry))
(May 2006) Vetter-Cole, Jon

2004

(May 2004) Knee, Matthew (International School, Lucerne, Switzerland)

2001

(May 2001) Daeschler, Jack E.

2000

(Dec. 2000) Xie, Shouxuan (University of California-Santa Barbara, Electrical Engineering Ph.D. Program)
(Aug. 2000) Wang, Jin (Assoc. Professor, Kansas State)
(Aug. 2000) Du, Fei

1997

(Aug. 1997) Harris, Michael
(May 1997) Yu, Wanjun

1996

(Aug. 1996) Bao, Guangyao

1995

(Aug. 1995) Wei, Guoheng (SMU Applied Mathematics Ph.D. Program)
(Aug. 1995) Li, Ge
(Aug. 1995) Chibisov, Boris

1994

(Dec. 1994) Zadorozhny, Pavel (Perrot Investments)
(May 1994) King, Beurett

1979

Browning, John

1974

Bradbury, David

1969

Adams, Murray

1963

Bryan, Edgar

1962

Chancellor, Jerome

1961

Connor, William

2021

(May 2021) Burleson, Jared (Masters in Global Affairs (Schwarzman Scholar) at Tsinghua University and Physics PhD Candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
(May 2021) Cruda, Elijah
(May 2021) Pearson, Noah (Physics PhD Candidate at Montana State University)
(May 2021) Perkins-Smith, Ian (Leadership Development Program with Techtronic Industries in Kansas City)
(May 2021) Slater, Jackson (Autonomous Farming Equipment Engineer)
(May 2021) Wallace, Alexander (Texas A&M Medical School M.D.-Ph.D. Program)
(May 2021) Wallace, Taylor (Weill Cornell Medicine/Rockefeller University/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Tri-Institutional M.D.-Ph.D. Program)

2019

(December 2019) Achu, Ifeanyi (Research Assistant in SMU Quantum Informatics Research Group)
(December 2019) Newey, Christopher
(August 2019) Doyle, Sean (Software Consultant -- Fast Enterprises)
(August 2019) Moore, Rebecca (Vanderbilt University -- PhD Program (2020))

2018

(August 2018) Gutierrez Duran, Felipe Manuel (Systems Engineer in Mexico)
(May 2018) Liu, Jasmine (SMU Department of Physics -- PhD Program)
(May 2018) McConville, Christina (SMU Department of Chemistry -- PhD Program)
(May 2018) Price, Payton
(May 2018) Schmidt, Robert (Stanford University -- M.S. Program in Statistics)

2017

(May 2017) Shaw, Jevon (Corporate Manager at Capital One)
(May 2017) Kim, Jasmine (User Experience Researcher at AT&T)
(May 2017) Posada, Andrew (Mechanical Engineer at ASC Process Systems)
(May 2017) Roig, Chris
(May 2017) Bedsole, Josh

2016

(Dec. 2016) Janmohammad, Moez (Junior Adversarial Engineer at Critical Start)
(May 2016) Gum, Daniel (Physicist for the U.S. Air Force)
(May 2016) Hartman, Nicole (Stanford University Physics -- PhD Program)
(May 2016) Miller, Ashleigh (Flight Controller at Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies (SGT))
(May 2016) Sierra, Raphael
(May 2016) Wise, Ben (University of Colorado Boulder -- PhD Program)
(May 2016) Zhang, Jiaxin

2015

Bruemmer, Matthew (Semiconductor Manufacturing Engineer at Texas Instruments)
Nakib, Mayisha (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (Physics PhD Program))

2014

Guerra, Isaac (Cyber Security Specialist at Palo Alto Networks)
Abramovitch, Joshua (Mechanical Engineer at Libby, Inc.)

2013

Banister, Landon (Mechanical Engineer at VAIROG EU)
Garrett Bockman (Holy Trinity Seminary)

2012

Adhikari, Santosh (University of Minnesota, Physics PhD Program)
Rollins, Cynthia (Electrical Engineer at JJA, Inc.)
Rispoli, Matthew (Harvard University, Physics PhD Program)
Stanley, Dennis (Assistant Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham)

2011

Davis, Don (Lockheed Martin)
Michael Danser (Product/Test Engineering Rotation at Texas Instruments)
Mariam Ishaque (M.D.-Ph.D. Program at UT Health Sciences Center San Antonio (PhD earned in 2016))

2010

Courtney Fagg (Quality Engineer at Triumph Group)
Amy Hand (Sr. Marketing Analyst at IM Solutions, LLC)
Pearson, Kelly (Univerisity of Hawaii, Ph.D. Candidate in Oceanography)

2009

Artemii S. Federov (Technical Support Engineer, Team Lead at Ericsson)
Ken Ueda (UT-Dallas Ph.D. Program in Mathematics)

2008

Tyler Gates (Supplier Quality Engineer at Lockheed Martin)
Kelvin Varghese (Associate in the Intellectual Property Practice Group in the Richardson office of Haynes and Boone, LLP)
Alex Weckiewicz (Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University)

2007

Paul Hartin (Senior Electrical Engineer at Raytheon)
Salvador Jiminez
Kristen Smith
Charles Taylor (UT Southwestern M.D.-Ph.D. Program)

2006

Andrew Avalos (Sr. Business Analyst at J-W Operating Company,Strategic Planning Analyst at Energy Future Holdings,Senior Petroleum Analyst at Netherland, Sewell & Associates)
Rozmin Daya (Ph.D. in Physics from SMU, Post-doctoral Researcher at Brandeis University)
Zachary Parvin (Sr. Mechanical Engineeer, L-3 Communications [To Be Confirmed])
Andrew Peppard (Manager, ETC Solutions and Sales Engineering at Kapsch TrafficCom North America)
Elisa Tomulet

2005

Christina Bowrey
Clayton Mauldin (Process Engineer at Intel Corporation)
Robert Nordsell (UC Berkeley, Master of Financial Engineering Program)
Anna Stelzenmuller (National Instruments Web Product Marketing Manager)

2004

Joseph Mahoney (Medical Physicist at Grove Consulting)
Chantel Morris (Project Manager at Emerson Process Management)
Michael Shearn (Caltech, Ph.D. Program in Applied Physics; Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Brandon Reimer (Program Manager at Raytheon)

2003

Eric Morgan (Network Data Comm Anlyst Sr at Lockheed Martin EBS [To Be Confirmed])
Graham Averitt (Senior Mechanical Engineer at DRS Technologies, Inc.)
Alonso Gutierrez (Chief of Medical Physics at Miami Cancer Institute)
Michael Bligh
Reed Johnson (Executive VP Goorin Bros. International)

2002

Eric Reiman (Professional Private Tutor at Creative Tutors, Creative Tutors 4 Kids, Inc.)
Chad Myers (University of Michigan Computational Biology and Functional Genomics Laboratory)
Christopher Oprzadek (Advanced Sourcing Lead at Stryker)
Clifford Yapp
Derek Kramer
April Andreas Kramer

2000

Shannon Thornton (Professor of Physics at Henderson State University)
Lori Walker
Martina Kolmeder (Web & Database Design via MartinasWeb.com)

1999

Melissa Smith
Samuel Williams (Staff Scientist in the Future Technologies Group (FTG) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL))
Kevin Yarritu (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Post-doctoral Fellow)
Elizabeth Rittenburg (Lockheed Martin)

1998

Paul Wentzler
John Parker Cravens (Physicist at US Naval Air Systems Command)

1997

Troy Cain
Graham Moore (Executive Director at Hays Caldwell Public Utility Agency)
Sean MacKay (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University)

1996

Stephen Ornes (Science writer in Nashville, TN. Learn more at stephenornes.com.)
Aaron Shows (Software Architect at eLead CRM)

1995

Chad Avants
Carl Elliston (Medical Physicist, Columbia University Medical Center)
Ethan Packard (Portfolio Manager at Bainbridge Partners LLP)
Roelse, Dustin

1994

Michael George (President, Blackland Group, LLC)
Lewis Hampton
Jonathan Pryor
Dustin Roelse (Director of Computer and Information Systems, Jokari/US Inc.)

1991

Myatt, Chris
Deblaquiere, Joseph
Lea, Patrick

1990

Hemann, Andrea
Jones, Barry
Perez, Hugo
Morehead, Mia
John Ray
Gary Baker

1987

Marchman, Herschel

1985

Spicer, James
McAdams, Mark

1983

Hernandez, Paul
Smith, Shane
Triece, Joseph

1982

Kuster, Mark
Oliver, Mark

1981

Casale, John

1980

Edwards, Patrick
House, Mark

1979

Ducharme, Danny
Steinberg, Gary

1978

Browning, John
Lim, Charles

1976

Hutchison, Danny
Gray, Charles

1974

Sharpless, Garland

1973

Stark, Robert

1971

Zombola, Randall
Kauffman, Robert

1970

Northrup, Malcolm

1969

Roy J. Holt (Senior Physicist, Argonne National Laboratory)
John Cromwell

1968

Hamilton, Frederick

1967

Speer, Royce
Smith, Stephen
Curry, Stephen

1965

Wiley, Katherine

1964

Sawyer, Carolyn
Duran, Joe
Reeves, Walter

1963

Williams, Myra
Williams, Robert
Waak, Benjamin

1961

Cervin, Bennett
Piott, Joe

1960

Jean Cass
Newcomb, Charles

1959

O'Hagan, Michael

1958

Ratliff, Charles
Jurevics, Juris
McDonald, F.
Kiser, John

1957

Moore, Edwin

1956

Donald Clayton (Professor of Astrophysics at Clemson University and recipient of the 1992 NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal)

1954

Fulda, Steven

1953

Lee Pondrom (Professor of Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison)

1951

James Cronin (Professor of Physics at University of Chicago, Nobel Laureate (1980))
Fox, Junius