Former Graduate Students


Li Sun
PhD 2008
Ultrasonic Nonlinearity for Fatigue Damage Monitoring
Intel
Yi Qiao
PhD 2006
Two-wave Mixing Demodulation of Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
Intel Corporation, Shanghai
Feifei Zhang
PhD 2006
Photothermoacoustic Characterization of Thin Films
Exponent, Shanghai
Younghoon Sohn
PhD 2005
Near-Field Scanning Photoacoustics
Samsung, Korea
Yi Zhou
PhD 2004
Photoacoustic Phased Array Imaging
Research Associate, Northwestern University
Carmen Hernandez
PhD 2003
Photoacoustic Microscopy
Assistant Professor, Univ. Ill. Chicago
Hansuk Lee
MS 1994, PhD 1998
Quasi-static Subinterfacial Crack Propagation
Founder and CEO, AppliedMicroOptics, Seattle, WA
Masoud Ghandehari
PhD 1998
Experimental Study of Fracture in Concrete Using Full-Field Optical Interferometry
Associate Professor, Brooklyn Poly University, NY
John F. Dorighi
MS 1994, PhD 1997
Fiber Optic Sensors for Ultrasound Detection
Lightwave Support Engineer, Agilent
Yasuaki Nagata
PhD 1995
Computed Tomography Using Laser Based Ultrasonics
Nippon Steel, Japan
Tom Chatters Hale
PhD 1994
Noise Reduction Techniques in Optical Nondestructive Evaluation
Senior Scientist, Los Alamos National Labs
Kuo-Tzen Chiao
MS 1993
Optical Mapping of Fracture Specimens Using CGS
 
Name Degree Thesis/Dissertation Current Affiliation

Post-Doctoral Research Fellows


Brad Regez
PhD Mechanical Engineering (2004)
Southern Illinois University
2007-Current Intelligent Structural Health Management  
Oluwaseyi Balogun
PhD Mechanical Engineering (2006)
Boston University
2007-Current Structural Health Monitoring  
Gouthan Kirikera
PhD Mechanical Engineering (2006)
University of Cincinnati
2006-Current Structural Health Monitoring  
Gabriela Petculescu
PhD Physics (2003)
Ohio University
2004-2006 Structural Health Monitoring of Composites Assistant Professor, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Salil Kulkarni
PhD Applied Mechanics (2003)
Cornell
2003-2006 Ultrasonic Nonlinearity and Fatigue Damage Growth  
Sang-woo Choi
PhD Mechanical Engineering (2002)
Pusan National University, S. Korea
2005-2006 Structural Health Monitoring of Composites  
Todd W. Murray
PhD Materials Science (1998)
Johns Hopkins
1998-2000 Thin Film Photoacoustics, Photorefractive Systems Assistant Professor, Boston University
Joon-soo Bae
PhD Mechanical Engineering (1998)
Korea University, Seoul
1998-2000 Sub-interfacial Crack Propagation Samsung Corp, Korea
Hemmo Tuovinen
PhD Physics (1997)
University of Joensuu, Finland
1998-1999 Adaptive Photorefractive Systems Senior Scientist, Univ. Joensuu, Finland
Liusheng Wang
PhD Mechanical Engineering (1994)
Nottingham-Trent University, UK
1994-1997 Speckle interferometry; Nondestructive Evaluation  
Bruno Pouet
PhD Applied Physics (1991)
Paris VI, France
1991-1997 Dynamic holography; Full-field speckle interferometry Co-Founder and Director, BossaNova Technologies, Los Angeles
Name & Alma Mater Years at NU Project Current Affiliation

Alumni, please feel free to send updated information to Brad Regez.