Lehigh CPN Distinguished Past Alumni and Faculty

Distinguished Alumni

The accomplishments of alumni affiliated with Lehigh's proud heritage in physics, electronics, and materials are impressive and varied. Here are some notable examples:

Dr. Julie Shimer
Past president and CEO, Welch Allyn

From Lehigh's labs to executive leadership in telecom and manufacturing.
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Dr. Ajeet Rohatgi
Professor, Georgia Tech

A career in photovoltaics leadership
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Dr. Jamal Deen
Canada Research Chair, McMaster Univ.

Recognized authority in communications systems modeling
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Dr. Paul Corkum
NRC Canada/Univ. of Ottawa Chair, Attosecond Photonics

The cutting edge of laser exploration and discovery
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Dr. Grace Xing
Professor, Cornell

Developing novel electronic materials and devices
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Dr. Philip Wong
Professor, Stanford

Nanoscale materials, electronics, and fabrication
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Dr. Hongping Zhao
Assistant Professor, Case Western

A major scientific contributor from her earliest days as a grad student
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Dr. Umesh Misra
Professor, UC-Santa Barbara

National Academy of Engineering member and UCSB professor
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Dr. David Greve
Professor, Carnegie Mellon

Sensor technology research for the National Energy Technology Laboratory
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CPN-affiliated alumni categorized by faculty mentor:

Prof. Fil Bartoli >>

Ph.D:

-- Gan, Qiaoqiang (2010)
-- Gao, Yongkang (2014)
-- Kuijpers, Eric Anthony (2010)
-- Lin, Bo (2011) (co:advisor: Li)

Prof. Ivan Biaggio >>

Ph.D.:

-- Beels, Marten (2013)
-- Esembeson, Bweh (2008)
-- Fleischmann, Michelle S. (2010)
-- Irkin, Pavel (2012)
-- Jin, Zhian (2010) (co:advisor: White)
-- La Porta, Philip Robert (2011)
-- Lyu, ByungGook (2013)
-- May, Joshua (2006)
-- Regmi, Abhishesh (2012)

M.S.

-- Regmi, Abhishesh (2011)

Prof. Rick Blum >>

Ph.D.:

-- Chen, Xun (2011)
-- Chen, Yin (2007)
-- Xue, Zhiyun (2006)
-- Yang, Jinzhong (2007)
-- Yang, Yang (2009)

Prof. S. Butler >>

Ph.D.:

-- Cai, Bingchu (1984)
-- Rohatgi, Ajeet (1977)
-- Sheu, Yea-Dean (1985)

M.S.:

-- Lakis, Rollin (1990)
-- Lee, Robert (1980/81)
-- Minford, Eric (1988/89)

Prof. Slade Cargill >>

Ph.D.:

-- Campo, Eva Maria (2003)
-- Moyer, Laura E. (2005)
-- Nikiforov, Alexey Yuriyevich (2003)
-- Zhang, Hongqing (2009)

M.S.:

-- Xing, Huili (1998)

Prof. Helen Chan >>

Ph.D.:

-- Biser, Jeffrey M. (2013) (co:advisor: Vinci)
-- Dutta, Sreya (2009) (co:advisor: Vinci)

Prof. Walter Dahkle >>

Ph.D.:

-- Greve, David (1979/80)
-- Jain, Sanjay (1985)
-- Shimer, Julie (1982/83)

Prof. Richard Decker >>

Ph.D.:

-- Jin, Hyunjoon (1997)

M.S.:

-- Pattabiraman, Geetha (1995)

Prof. Gary DeLeo >>

Ph.D.:

-- Barnard, Matthew John (1995)
-- Besson, Morgan (1986)
-- Boucher, Derrick Ernest (1993)
-- Burnard, Matthew (1995)
-- Ignatova, Tetyana (2014)
-- Inbar, Iris (1993)
-- Tupa, Peter Robert (2011)

M.S.:

-- Barry, Geralyn (1985)
-- Kralik, John (1985)

Prof. Volkmar Dierolf >>

Ph.D.:

-- Fleischman, Zackery (2008)
-- Jha, Naveen (2008)
-- Poplawsky, Jonathan D. (2012)
-- Sandmann, Christian (2004)
-- Stone, Gregory A. (2010)
-- Tafon Penn, Samson (2007)
-- Woodward, Nathaniel T. (2011)
-- Zhou, Liangcheng (2010)

M.S.:

-- Dong, Zhaohui (2008)

Prof. Yujie Ding >>

Ph.D.:

-- Song, Renbo (2009)
-- Sun, Guan (2013)
-- Sun, Hongqian (2010)
-- Zhao, Pu (2012)

Prof. Frank J. Feigl >>

Ph.D.:

-- Chew, Hongzong (1985)
-- Dutt, David (1989)
-- Falcony, Ciro (1980)
-- Gale, Richard (1984)
-- Rathman, Dennis (1979)
-- Titcomb, Stephen (1983)
-- Trombetta, Leonard (1984)
-- Zvanut, Mary Ellen (1987 )

M.S.:

-- Fixl, Al (1987)
-- Lin, J (1980)
-- Xie, Danxian (1987)
-- Zhan, Xuedong (1987)

Prof. Beall Fowler >>

Ph.D.:

-- Calabrese, Eduardo (1971)
-- Chu, Andrew Xun (1991)
-- Edwards, Arthur (1981)
-- Lipari, Nunzio Ottavio (1970)
-- Ma, Qisheng (2000)
-- Mammel, Lewis (1979)
-- Martin, Kevin R. (1993)
-- Melnikov, Dmitriy V. (2001)
-- Pilzer, Scott (1998)
-- Rudra, Jayanta (1985/86)
-- Schneider, Philip (1976)
-- Walck, Scott Nelson (1995)

M.S.:

-- Cao, Ke (1997)
-- Chu, Andrew (1987)
-- Francos, William (1989)
-- Lun, Xesen (1995) (co:advisor: Licini)
-- Snyder, Kenneth (1989)
-- Xi, Hao-Wen (1992) (co:advisor: Gunton)
-- Xie, Liehua (1996)

Prof. Douglas Frey >>

Ph.D.:

-- Melvin, William Larkin Jr. (1994)

Prof. James Gilchrist >>

Ph.D.:

-- Kumnorkaew, Pisist (2010)

Prof. James Gunton >>

M.S.:

-- Xi, Hao-Wen (1992) (co:advisor: Fowler)

Prof. Miltos Hatalis >>

Ph.D.:

-- Afentakis, Themistokles (2005)
-- Choi, Nack-Bong (2012)
-- Chuang, Ta-Ko (2008)
-- Howell, Robert Samuel (2001)
-- Jamshidi-Roudbari, Abbas (2010)
-- Karnik, Sooraj Vijay (2003)
-- Khan, Shahrukh Akbar (2012)
-- Kung, Jerry Ji-Ho (1995)
-- Kuo, Po-Chin (2010)
-- Lin, Fuyu (1994)
-- Lin, Sue Heng (1995)
-- Mukherjee, Samrat (2007)
-- Nkansah, Franklin Daniel (2001)
-- Olasupo, Kolawole (1994)
-- Sarcona, Greg Thomas (1996)
-- Stewart, Mark J. (1999)
-- Troccoli, Matias (2006)
-- Voutsas, Apostolos T. (1994)

M.S.:

-- Arrackal, Jecko (1998)
-- Fleischer, David (1997)
-- Klamka, Robert (1995)
-- Ma, Xiaoxiao (2009)

Prof. Frank Hielscher >>

Ph.D.:

-- Rauch, Stewart (1981/82)

Prof. James Hwang >>

Ph.D.:

-- Bao, Jianwen (1998)
-- Chen, Cheng (2010)
-- Chen, Cheng (2010)
-- Cherepko, Sergey V. (2003)
-- Chung, Hai-Chan (1999)
-- Deng, Jie (2009)
-- Ding, Guanghai (2013)
-- Halder, Subrata (2006)
-- Jin, Renfeng (2011)
-- Lan, Yi Ellen (1994)
-- Leoni, Robert Edward III (1998)
-- Marbell, Marvin (2007)
-- Peng, Zhen (2010)
-- Shirokov, Mikhail Semenovich (2001)
-- Sugeng, Basuki (1994)
-- Tkachenko, Yevgeniy A. (1995)
-- Wang, Weike (2011)
-- Whitefield, David Scott (1993)
-- Yuan, Xiaobin (2006)

M.S.:

-- Alvarino, Konrad (1992)
-- Campbell, Kevin (1989)
-- Dunn, Roderick (1996)
-- Hung, H. C. (1996)
-- Seiler, Joseph (1989)
-- Tkachenko, Yevgeniy A. (1993)
-- Wetzel, Michael (1995)
-- Zhang, Zhengan (2004)

Prof. Ralph Jaccodine >>

Ph.D.:

-- Barkanic, John (2004)
-- Beck, Scott Edward (1990)
-- Correa, Carlos (1992) (co:advisor: Klein)
-- Dimitrios, Kouvatsos (1991)
-- Fan, Der-Tysr (1991)
-- Huang, C-K (1988)
-- Huang, Jenn-Gwo (1993)
-- Huang, Jenn-Hwa (1987)
-- Kim, U S. (1990)
-- Kook, Taeho (1985/86)
-- Kouvatsos, Dimitrios (1991)
-- Lin, Hai-An (2000)
-- Lin, Ming-Tzer (2003)
-- McCluskey, Frances Patrick III (1991)
-- Pearce, Charles (1988)
-- Vivekanand, Saikumar (1992)

M.S.:

-- Chi, Yi-Pen (1997)
-- Corboretto, Tony (1994)
-- Diehl, Daniel (1988)
-- Fan, Dennis Der-Tsyr (1988)
-- Gable, Michael (1991)
-- Hoontrakel, Patraporn (1992)
-- Kilpatrick, Stephen James (1994)
-- Lam, Amy (1991)
-- O'Grady, David (1986)
-- Raposo, Humberto (1995)
-- Richter, Kristine (1985)
-- Wolowodiuk, Christine (1985)

Prof. Himanshu Jain >>

Ph.D.:

-- Antoine, Keisha (2007)
-- Chen, Gang (2004)
-- Stone, Adam (2014)
-- Zhao, Donghui (2011)

Prof. Andrew Klein >>

Ph.D.:

-- Correa, Carlos (1992) (co:advisor: Jaccodine)

Prof. Tom Koch >>

Ph.D.:

-- Dailey, James M. (2009)
-- Kim, Kangbaek (2012)
-- Tummidi, Ravi Sekhar (2011)

Prof. Tiffany Jing Li >>

Ph.D.:

-- Lin, Bo (2011) (co:advisor: Bartoli)

Prof. Jerome Licini >>

Ph.D.:

-- Ontalus, Viorel (2001)
-- Slimmer, David Allen (1992)
-- Spector, Magaly (1994)
-- Stephens, Jeffrey Dale (2010)
-- Van Campen, Stephen Daryl (1994)

M.S.:

-- Badowski, Alfred (1997)
-- Liu, Daoyou (2005)
-- Lun, Xesen (1995) (co:advisor: Fowler)
-- Ontalus, Viorel Catalin (2001)
-- Slimmer, David (1992)

Prof. Boon Siew Ooi >>

Ph.D.:

-- Dimas, Clara E. (2009)
-- Ding, Yun-Hsiang (2010)
-- Hongpinyo, Vitchanetra (2010)
-- Tan, Chee Loon (2010)

Prof. Daniel Ou Yang >>

Ph.D.:

-- Dewalt, Luke (1998)
-- Gao, Zihao Michael (1993)
-- Hough, Lawrence – (2004)
-- Hu, Yi (2012)
-- Islam, Mohammad Ferdous (2000)
-- Junio, Joseph (2010)
-- Kara, Vural (2013)
-- Kucks, Michael (1994)
-- Latinovic, Olga S. (2005)
-- Wang, Chaohua (1995)
-- Wang, Jingyu (2012)

M.S.:

-- Junio, Joseph (2007)
-- Kahn, Fazeel (1997)
-- Parmley, Samatha (1998)
-- Richter, Betsy (2003)
-- Zaorski, Angela (2008)

Prof. Slava Rotkin >>

Ph.D.:

-- Snyder, Stacy E. (2008)
-- Tayo, Benjamin O. (2012)

Prof. Gary Simmons >>

Ph.D.:

-- Corkum, Paul (1972)
-- Hsueh, Fu-Lung (1981/82) (co:advisor: White)

M.S.:

-- Mishra, Umesh (1980/81)
-- Turner, Mark (1980/81)

Prof. Donald Smyth >>

Ph.D.:

-- Bennison, Stephen John (1987)
-- Hong, Dyllan Jye-Lun (1988)
-- Hu, Yung-Haw (1985/86)
-- Li, Yan (1994)
-- MacQueen, Richard C. (1992)
-- Mehta, Apurva (1990)
-- Palanduz, Ahmet Cengriz (1999)
-- Peng, Ping (1991)
-- Raymond, Mark Victor (1994)
-- Sharma, Rakesh (1988)
-- Zhang, GuoBin (1994)

M.S.:

-- Gorton, Andrew (1988)

Prof. Michael Stavola >>

Ph.D.:

-- Bekisli, Figen (2013)
-- Chen, E. Elinor (2003)
-- Cheng, Ying (1994)
-- Evans, Michael (1998)
-- Jiang, Fan (2004)
-- Kleekajai, Sue (2008)
-- Kozuch, David Michael (1992)
-- Peng, Chao (2010)
-- Shi, Gang (2006)
-- Uftring, Stephen J. (1998)
-- Weinstein, Marcie Gayle (2000)
-- Wen, Lanlin (2010)
-- Zhang, Haoxiang (2013)
-- Zheng, Jeff (Zygo Corp.)
-- Zheng, Jie-Fei (1996)
-- Zhou, Jing (2000)

M.S:

-- Gornstein, Marcie (1997)

Prof. Nelson Tansu >>

Ph.D.:

-- Arif, Ronald A. (2008)
-- EE, Yik Khoon (2010)
-- Liu, Guangyu (2013)
-- Tong, Hua (2010)
-- Zhang, Jing (2013)
-- Zhao, Hongping (2011)
-- Zhu, Peifen (2015)

M.S.:

-- Haas, Jason R. (2006)
-- Handara, Vincent Adhi (2010)
-- Jin, Zhian (2006)
-- Li, Xiao-Hang (2011)
-- Liu, Guangyu (2011)
-- Mulhern, Joseph B. (2010)
-- Sursattayawong, Tidapan (2010)
-- Toma, Takahiro (2011)
-- Tummidi, Ravi S. (2007)
-- Wu, Nan-Lung (2010)
-- Zhang, Shaofei (2010)

Prof. Svetlana Tatic-Lucic >>

Ph.D.:

-- Gnerlich, Markus Hans (2012)
-- Izhar, Umer (2010)
-- Jing, Gaoshan (2009)
-- Zhang, Wenyue (2008)

M.S.:

-- Navneet, Navneet (1994)

Prof. Jean Toulouse >>

Ph.D.:

-- Belwalkar, Amit Ajit (2011)
-- Blanks, Keith Anthony (1994)
-- DiAntonio, Philip (1994)
-- Guintrand, Cyril L. (2011)
-- Jackson, Daniel K. (2013)
-- Knauss, Lee Alan (1994)
-- La-Orauttapong, Duangmanee (2003)
-- Marjanovic, Sasha (2004)
-- McElhenny, John E. (2009)
-- McIntosh, Christopher Michael (2001)
-- Ndi, Francis C. (2006)
-- Oraut-ratong, D. (2003)
-- Sasham, Marjanovic (2004)
-- Svitelskiy, Oleksiy Vasyl (2003)
-- Texier, Sylvain (2005)
-- Wang, Rose (1991)
-- Wang, Xiao Qin (1992)
-- Wang, Xiaomei (1991)
-- Yan, Yan (2009)
-- Yeniay, Aydin (2000)

Ph.D.:

-- Akhtar, Ijaz (2001)
-- Cheng, Chun-Wei (2005)
-- Deepak, Iyer (2006)
-- Glass, Bill (1997)
-- Griglock, Tom (2005)
-- Kumar, Anil (2004)
-- Lafontaine, Corey (2010)
-- Langhanoja, Shivesh (2007)
-- Walck, Scott (1992)
-- Xia, Honsheng (2007)
-- Zhang, Aidong (2009)

Prof. Steven Van Sciver >>

Ph.D.:

-- Meyers, Peter (1974)

Prof. Richard Vinci >>

Ph.D.:

-- Biser, Jeffrey M. (2013) (co:advisor: Chan)
-- Cao, Wanjun (2013)
-- Dutta, Sreya (2009) (co:advisor: Chan)

Prof. George Watkins >>

Ph.D.:

-- Anderson, Frederick G. (1987)
-- Barry, William Anthony (1992)
-- Chatterjee, Arun (1982)
-- Gurer, Emir (1990)
-- Harris, Richard (1983)
-- Jeon, Duk Young (1988)
-- Lee, Keon (1982)
-- Mason, Phillip Wayne (1998)
-- Newton, James L. (1985)
-- Rong, Fang (1988)
-- Song, Liwei (1988)
-- Sun, Hongjiang (1993)
-- Trombetta, John (1989)
-- Troxell, John (1979)
-- Veloarisoa, Ioly Aubine (1992)
-- Williams, Phillip Michael (1994)
-- Zhan, Xuedong (1992)

M.S..:

-- Bozdog, Cornel (1998)

Prof. Marvin White >>

Ph.D.:

-- Agarwal, Anant (1985)
-- Booth, Richard (1989)
-- Bu, Jiankang (2001)
-- Chan, Cheong F. (1985)
-- Chao, Chen-Chung (1986)
-- Chen, Chun-Yu (1994)
-- Chen-Chung Chao (1986)
-- Flamouroupoulas, Theodore D. (1990)
-- French, Margaret Larson (1993)
-- Howard, Steven G. (1998)
-- Hsueh, Fu-Lung (1981/82) (co-advisor: Simmons)
-- Hu, Yin (1992)
-- Jin, Zhian (2010) (co-advisor: Biaggio)
-- Krutsick, Thomas (1988)
-- Libsch, Frank Robert (1989)
-- Ma, Zhigang (1994)
-- Martin, Matthew George (1999)
-- Pandey, Santosh K. (2006)
-- Paulsen, Ronald Eugene (1995)
-- Peruzzi, Robert O. (2004)
-- Roy, Anirban (1989)
-- Shang, Huiling (2001)
-- Sharma, Umesh (1989)
-- Siergiej, Richard Robert Anthony (1992)
-- Tran, Conn-Luan (1990)
-- Vathulya, Vickram Ravikumar (1999)
-- Wagner, William Edward III (1997)
-- Wang, Gan (2008)
-- Wang, Yu (2005)
-- Wong, Hon-Sum Philip (1988)
-- Wrazien, Stephen J. (2005)
-- Wu, Huxian (2006)
-- Yang Yang (1999)
-- Yoon, Sukyoon (1992)
-- Zeng, Yu (2004)
-- Zhang, Yanli (2008)
-- Zhao, Yijie (2006)

M.S.:

-- Banerjee, Amit (1993)
-- Barton, Daniel (1989)
-- Blasko, Joe (1999)
-- Bortei-Doku, Akwete (2007)
-- Bronico, James (1989)
-- Campbell, Edward Eugene (1991)
-- Cohen, Neil (1995)
-- Eichenlaub, Nate (2009)
-- Ferrari, Pamela (1985/86)
-- Fuerherm, James (2004)
-- Goldman, Philip (1985/86)
-- Gross, Michael (1999)
-- Lai, Thiet (1982)
-- Miller, Floyd (1985/86)
-- Nguyen, Andy (1987)
-- Opare, Lisa (2004)
-- Orphanos, Paul (1992)
-- Pham, Hai Q (1984)
-- Purwar, Ansha (1995)
-- Sathinathan, Harikaran (1993)
-- Schaefer, Eric (1989)
-- Sherfy, Jay W. (1987)
-- Silverthorne, Spencer (1986)
-- Strauss, Mark (1991)
-- Tam, Marvin (1989)
-- Tham, Khong-Meng (1990)
-- Tjondromhardjo, Bartholomeus (2002)
-- Velopolcak, James (1991)
-- Wang, Xiaonan (2006)
-- Wartonick, Stephanie (1988)
-- Winn, Kimberly (1988)
-- Winokur, Eric (2008)
-- Wynn, Kimberly (1989)
-- Zaneski, Gerald (1995)
-- Zhang, Xiaochen (2009)
-- Ziemer, Craig (1990)

Prof. Donald Young >>

Ph.D.:

-- Lin, Ta-Cheng (1994)
-- Sethi, Rakesh (1989)
-- Xie, Dunxian (1991)

M.S.:

-- Dziuba, Charles (1991)
-- Nkansah, Franklin (1993)
-- Olasupo, Kalowole (1990)