PhD Alumni

Daniel Keefe
Title/Position
PhD, 2024
Current Position: Biomedical Device Engineering at Juggernaut Life Sciences, Inc.

Bingtao Gao
Title/Position
PhD, 2021
Current Position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Zhejiang University (Professor Hongsheng Chen's group)

Wenqi Duan
Title/Position
PhD, 2020
Current Position: New Product Information (NPI) Scientific Writer at Thorlabs Inc.

Amir Asgharzadeh Shishavan
Title/Position
PhD, 2019
Current Position: Photovoltaic Systems Engineer at NEXTracker
MS Alumni


Alexandar C. Walhof
Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2019
Current Position: Engineer, Firefly Photonics

Abby N. Venable
Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2018
Current Position: Electrical Engineer at Missile Defense Agency (Navy)

Lauren M. Davidson
Title/Position
MS with Thesis, 2017
Current Position: Systems Engineer, John Deere
BS Alumni
2024

2023


2022


Ryan Edwall
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2021 - Fall 2022
Best Undergraduate Research Poster Award, 2022 College of Engineering Research Open House; Outstanding Student Researcher Award, 2022 College of Engineering Student Excellence Awards

Jimmy Nguyen
Title/Position
Undergraduate Intern, Summer 2022
Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center Summer Research Program Intern

Alaeldin Saeed
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2022 - Fall 2022
UI Decarb Initiative Researcher

Jacob Sindt
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Fall 2020 - Spring 2022
One of three student researchers from the College of Engineering featured in the 2022 Dare to Discover Campaign by UI OVPR; College of Engineering Grand Challenges Scholar
2021



Armando Revelez
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2021;
Graduate Researcher, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022
2020

Eric Larson
Title/Position
Winter 2018 - Spring 2020
ICRU Fellow, NREL Renewable Energy School Attendee
2017





Logan M. Nichols
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, 2016 - 2017
NSF I-Corps Entrepreneurial Lead, ICRU Fellow

2018

Joshua Deutsch
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring 2018
Honors Research Practicum, Best Undergraduate Poster Award, 2018 College of Engineering Research Open House

Clarissa Dietz
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Spring - Summer 2018
Honors Research Practicum, ICRU Research Fellow

Nate Dvorak
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer - Fall 2018
NSF Graduate Research Fellow





Aaron Silva
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2017 - Spring 2018
Outstanding Student Researcher, DAAD Fellow, NSF Graduate Research Fellow
2016



Leland J. Nordin
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer 2015 - Spring 2016
Noyce/Intel Fund Award (Grinnell College), Mentored Advanced Project (MAP) Award (Grinnell College)




David Wu
Title/Position
Undergraduate Researcher, Summer - Fall 2016
Center for Asian and Pacific Studies Grant
K-12 Alumni
2023




2022



2021





2016
