Group Alumni – Graduate Students
Dr. Anahita Afshin Navid
University of Southern California, 2011
“A comparative study of plasma conditions, microstructure and residual stress in sputtered thin films”
Now at Philips Lumileds, San Jose
Dr. V. Tim Nayar
University of Southern California, 2012
“Viscoelastic characterization of soft biological materials”
Now at Medtronic
Dr. I-Chung Cheng
University of Southern California, 2013
“Synthesis, characterization, and mechanical properties of nanoporous foams”
Now at National Taiwan University
Dr. Tim A. Furnish
University of Southern California, 2014
“Synthesis and mechanical behavior of highly nanotwinned metals”
Now at Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Yifu Zhao
University of Southern California, 2014
“The Role of Nanotwins and Grain Boundary Plane in the Thermal, Corrosion, and Sensitization Behavior of Nanometals”
Dr. Mikhail Polyakov
University of Southern California, 2015
“Structure and Behavior of Nano Metallic Multilayers under Thermal and Mechanical Loading”
Now at Edgewell Personal Care
Dr. Leonardo Velasco-Estrada
University of Southern California, 2016
“A Comprehensive Study of Twinning Phenomena in Low and High Stacking Fault Energy Metals”
Now at KIT Institute of Nanotechnology
Dr. Nathan Heckman
University of Southern California, 2017
“Mechanical Behavior and Deformation of Highly Nanotwinned Metallic Alloys”
Now at Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Theresa Juarez
University of Southern California, 2017
“Development and Mechanical Characterization of Hierarchical Cellular Structures”
Now at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Dr. Juan Sebastian Riano Zambrano
University of Southern California, 2019
“Exploring the Thermal Evolution of Nanomaterials: From Nanometallic Multilayers to Nanostructures”
Now at Verily
Dr. Chelsea Appleget
University of Southern California, 2020
“Development and Characterization of Transparent Metal/Ceramic and Ceramic/Ceramic Nanomultilayers”
Now at Aerospace Corporation
Dr. Joel Bahena
University of Southern California, 2020
“Understanding the Formation and Evolution of Boundaries and Interfaces in Nanostructured Metallic Alloys”
Now at Intel Corporation
Dr. Alina Garcia-Taormina
University of Southern California, 2021
“Expanding the Synthesis Space of 3D Nano- and Micro-Architected Lattice Materials”
Now at Northrop Grumman
Dr. Daniel Goodelman
University of Southern California, 2023
“Tailoring Compositional and Microstructural Complexity in Nanostructured Metallic Alloys”
Now at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Group Alumni – Visiting Scientists
Dr. Oliver Franke
Dr. Edgar O. Garcia Sanchez
Group Alumni – Postdocs
Dr. Koteswararao Rajulapati
Dr. Zhichao Duan
Dr. I-Chung Cheng
Dr. Jianfeng Yan
Dr. Angelica Saenz-Trevizo
Group Alumni – Undergraduate Students
Monique Warren
Carlos Portela
Reed Doucette
Mariela Betancur
Ilya Golosker
Derrick C. Ike
Motunrayo Onafalujo
Steven Lin
Tim Furnish
Cody Nelson
Georg Ristock
Jason Zide
Andrew Lindo
Felipe Hernandez
Hefang Gao
Marion Wood
Sheetal Madnani
Natalie Reck
Kwayera Burrows
Vania Jiao