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Abdelrahman Haridy, Ph.D. 2025 \u2013> Project Engineer, Advanced Technology Center, S&C Electric Company, Chicago<\/em>
\nBenjamin Kamerin, Ph.D. 2023 \u2013> Senior Scientist, ASML, San Diego<\/em>
\nJohn Niman, Ph.D. 2023 \u2013> Senior Quantitative Analytics Specialist, Wells Fargo, Charlotte, North Carolina<\/em>
\nPatrick Edwards, Ph.D. 2021 \u2013> Project Leader, The Aerospace Corporation, Chantilly, Virginia<\/em>
\nMalak Khojasteh, Ph.D. 2019 \u2013> Process Engineer, Lam Research, Tualatin, Oregon<\/em>
\nDaniel Merthe, Ph.D. 2017 \u2013> now Senior R&D Engineer, Helion Energy, Everett, Washington<\/em>
\nChuanfu Huang, Ph.D. 2016 \u2013> Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Physics, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou<\/em>
\nAvik Halder, Ph.D. 2015\u00a0(recipient of the 2015 USC Ph.D. Achievement Award)\u00a0\u2013> now Yield Analysis Engineer, Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon<\/em>
\nNicholas Guggemos, Ph.D. 2014 \u2013> Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Apple, Cupertino, California<\/em>
\nChunlei Xia, Ph.D. 2009 \u2013> now Director of Research, Cloudwall, New York<\/em>
\nRoman Rabinovich, Ph.D. 2008 \u2013> Managing Director, FTI Consulting, Los Angeles<\/em>
\nYanfei Ren, Ph.D. 2007 \u2013> Director of Research, JCL Worldwide Investment&Trading Co., Shanghai<\/em>
\nSascha Vongehr, Ph.D. 2005 \u2013> Faculty research fellow, National Laboratory of Solid-State Microstructures, Nanjing University<\/em>
\nKin Wong, Ph.D. 2002 \u2013> now Lead Microfabrication Process Engineer, UC San Diego <\/em>
\nGeorge Tikhonov, Ph.D. 2001 \u2013> now at LECO Corp., St. Joseph, Michigan<\/em>
\nVitaly Kasperovich, Ph.D. 2001 \u2013> Senior Engineer, Intel, Hillsboro, Oregon<\/em><\/p>\n

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Bruno Bellina, postdoc (2013) \u2013> now Lead Scientist, Medicines Discovery Catapult, UK<\/em>
\nAnthony Liang, postdoc (2010-2012)
\nChunrong Yin, postdoc (2007-2010) \u2013> now Senior Process Engineer, Applied Materials<\/em>
\nRamiro Moro, postdoc (2004-2006) \u2013> now Professor, Cameron University, Lawton, OK\u00a0<\/em>
\nPeter Brockhaus, postdoc (1997-1998) \u2013>\u00a0now Integration Expert, Bosch, Dresden, Germany<\/em><\/p>\n

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Angel Isaac Pena Dominguez, undergraduate student (2022-2024) \u2013>\u00a0AI STEM Training, Mercor<\/em>
\nDerrick Korponay, undergraduate student (2021-2023) \u2013> Dept. of Physics, UCLA<\/em>
\nElizabeth Zhou, undergraduate student (2018-2021) \u2013> Dept. of Applied Physics, Caltech<\/em>
\nJiahao (Will) Liang, undergraduate student (2017-2021) \u2013> Dept.of Physics, Johns Hopkins University<\/em>
\nDiego Hernandez, undergraduate student (2017-2019) \u2013> MS\u00a0 from Johns Hopkins University, then Chief, Optical Subsystem Branch, National Reconnaissance Office, now at Department of Applied Physics, University of South Florida<\/em>
\nAkash Shah, undergraduate student (2014-2017) \u2013> PhD from University of Michigan, now at Zap Energy, Seattle<\/em>
\nKayla Mendel (Robinson), undergraduate student (2013-2014) \u2013> PhD in Medical Physics from University of Chicago, now Data Scientist at American Family Insurance<\/em>
\nMatt Orr, undegraduate student (2013-2014) \u2013> PhD from Caltech, now Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute<\/em>
\nAbhinav Prem, undergraduate student (2010-2013) \u2013> PhD from CU Boulder, then Research Scholar at Princeton and the Institute for Advanced Study, now Professor at Bard College<\/em>
\nDaniel Ben-Zion, undergraduate student (2011-2013) \u2013> PhD from UC San Diego, now Data Science\u00a0 Fellow at Insight Data Science<\/em>
\nBenjamin Beamer, undergraduate student (2012-2013) \u2013> Dept. of Physics, University of Arizona<\/em>
\nPaul David, undergraduate student (2010-2011) \u2013> PhD in Mathematics from Claremont Graduate University, now Data Scientist at Viking<\/em>
\nCasey Stark, undergraduate student (2008-2010) \u2013> PhD from UC Berkeley, now at Google<\/em>
\nJonathon Heinrich, undergraduate student (2006-2007) \u2013> PhD from University of Iowa, now Plasma Physicist, Verus Research (Albuquerque,NM)<\/em>
\nMichael Johnson, undergraduate student (2005-2007) \u2013> PhD from UC Santa Barbara, now Astrophysicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and Lecturer at Harvard University<\/em>
\nDavid Boettger, undergraduate student (2002-2004) \u2013> PhD ifrom UC San Diego, now Research & Development Engineer, UCSD Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences \/ Simons Observatory<\/em>
\nKyler Kuehn, undergraduate student (1996-1998) \u2013> PhD from UC Irvine, now Director of Technology at the Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, AZ)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-274","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nFormer Members - Nanocluster Physics Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kresin\/former-members\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Former Members - Nanocluster Physics Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kresin\/former-members\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nanocluster Physics Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-17T08:18:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kresin\/former-members\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/kresin\/former-members\/\",\"name\":\"Former Members - 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