Current Students

 

Ph.D.

Ryan Chilton

Christopher Kung

Ruben Ortega
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Student Best Paper Awards

 

·         William Pinello, 2nd Place in AP-S Student Paper Contest, 1992

·         Jovan Jevtic, ESL Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, 1994

·         Jovan Jevtic, 2nd Place in URSI Student Paper Contest, 1995

·         John Nehrbass, Finalist in AP-S Student Paper Contest, 1996

·         Tamer Ibrahim, ESL Outstanding Masters Thesis Award, 1999

·         Tamer Ibrahim, Finalist in AP-S Student Paper Contest, 2000

·         Tamer Ibrahim, ESL Outstanding Journal Paper Award, 2000

·         Kwan Ho Lee, ESL Outstanding Technical Report Award, 2000

·         Tamer Ibrahim, Best Paper Award, The International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Hardware Meeting, 2001

·         Kwan Ho Lee, 1st Place in AMTA Student Paper Contest, 2002

·         Kwan Ho Lee, 1st Place in AMTA Student Paper Contest, 2003

·         Rodney Slone, ESL Outstanding Journal Paper Award, 2003

·         Kishore Rama Rao, ESL Outstanding Journal Paper Award, 2004

 

 

                                    Past Students

 

Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised:

 

1.      Abdulla Bataineh (Co-advised with Prof. Fusun Ozguner).

       Dissertation Title: “Parallel Logic and Interconnection Simulation Algorithms for High-Speed Digital Circuits”

Defense Date: January 1992

First Position after Graduation: Cray Research

Current Position: Cray Research

 

2.      Umit Pekel

       Dissertation Title: “A Three-Dimensional Finite Element Method Approach for the Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering”

       Defense Date: February 1993

       First Position after Graduation: Post-Doc, University of Illinois

       Current Position: Unknown

 

3.      Tse-Tong Chia

     Dissertation Title:  “Application of FDTD in Hybrid Methods for EM Scattering Analysis of Cavities with Complex Terminations”

     Defense Date: June 1994

     First Position after Graduation: Defense Service Organization, Singapore

     Current Position: Defense Service Organization, Singapore

 

4.      Lama Hamandi (Co-advised with Prof. Fusun Ozguner).

Dissertation Title: “Parallel Algorithms for the Finite Element Method on the Mesh Architecture”

Defense Date: May, 1995

First Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, Saudi Arabia

Current Position: Lecturer, American University of Beirut

 

5.      John Nehrbass

Dissertation Title: “Advances in Finite Difference Methods for Electromagnetic Modeling”

Defense Date: December 1996

First Position after Graduation: High Performance Modernization Program, Wright Patterson Air Force Base

Current Position: Computational Scientist, Ohio Supercomputer Center

 

6.      Jo-Yu Wu

Dissertation Title: “Modeling Electromagnetic Wave Problems Using Tangentially Continuous Vector Finite Element Method”

Defense Date: March 1997

First Position after Graduation: Motorola

Current Position: Unknown

 

7.      Elias Nassar (Co-advised with Prof. Joel Johnson).

Dissertation Title: “Numerical and Experimental Studies of Electromagnetic Scattering from Sea Ice”

Defense Date: December 1997

First Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, Notre Dame University,   Lebanon

Current Position: Dean, Notre Dame University, Lebanon

 

8.      Jovan Jevtic

Dissertation Title: “Development of New Vector Finite Element Methods for Electromagnetics”

      Defense Date: December 1999

First Position after Graduation: Tokyo Electronics

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Invivo Corporation

 

9.      Rodney Slone (Co-advised with Professor Jin-Fa Lee).

Dissertation Title: “Fast Frequency Sweep Model Order Reduction of Polynomial Matrix Equations Resulting from Finite Element Discretizations”

Defense Date: June 2002

First Position after Graduation: Sun Microsystems

Current Position: Sun Microsystems

 

10.  Tamer Ibrahim

Dissertation Title: “Design of Radio Frequency Coils for Magnetic Resonance Imaging Applications: A Computational Electromagnetics Approach”

Defense Date: December 2002

First Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

 

11.  Shumin Wang (Co-advised with Prof. Fernando Teixeira).

Dissertation Title: “Improved accuracy algorithms for time domain finite methods in electromagnetics”

Defense Date: September 2003

First Position after Graduation: General Electric Medical Systems

Current Position: Research Scientist, National Institute of Health

 

12.  Kwan Ho Lee

Dissertation Title: “Development of Four Novel UWB Antennas Assisted by FDTD Method”

Defense Date: December 2004

First Position after Graduation: AGC Automotive Americas R&D, Inc.

Current Position: Intel Corporation.

 

13.  Anca Stefan

Dissertation Title: “Modeling and Design of Resonators for Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Imaging and Ultra High Field Magnetic Resonance Imaging”

Defense Date: November 2005

First Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, Lawrence Technological University

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Lawrence Technological University

 

14.  Yudhapoom Srisukh

Dissertation Title: “Development of Hybrid Explicit/Implicit and Adaptive h and p Refinement for the Finite Element Time Domain Method”

Defense Date: December 2005

First Position after Graduation: Assistant Professor, Thailand Naval Academy

Current Position: Assistant Professor, Thailand Naval Academy

 

15. Richard Sharp (Co-advised with Prof. Raghu Machiraju)

      Dissertation Title: “Computational approaches for diffusive light transport: Finite elements, grid adaptation, and error estimation”

      Defense Date: August 2006

      First Position after Graduation: Instructor, The Ohio State University

      Current Position: Assistant Professor, St. Lawrence University

 

 

 

Masters Theses Supervised:

 

1.      Veera Chupongstimun

Thesis Title: “A Finite Element Partitioning Scheme for EM Scattering of an Electrically Large Cylinder”

 Defense Date: December 1992

First Position after Graduation: IBM, Thailand

Current Position: Managing Director, International Consulting and Development Co., Ltd., Bangkok, Thailand.

 

2.      Ty Barkdoll

Thesis Title: “Finite Element Analysis of Bodies of Revolution using MEI Boundary Conditions”

Defense Date: September 1993

First Position after Graduation: IBM

Current Position: Northrop Grumman

 

3.      Yung Shirley Choi-Grogan

Thesis Title: “A Sequential and Parallel Implementation of a Partitioning Finite Element Technique for Electromagnetic Problems”

Defense Date: December 1993

First Position after Graduation: Lucent Technologies

Current Position: AT&T Wireless (Cingular)

 

4.      Jovan Jevtic

Thesis Title: “An Analysis of the Measured Equation of Invariance”

Defense Title: May 1994

First Position after Graduation: Ph.D. Student, The Ohio State University

Current Position: Senior Scientist, Invivo Corporation

 

5.      Roger Prenger

Thesis Title: “A Parallel Automatic Grid Generator for the Finite Difference Time Domain Method”

      Defense Date: July 1995

First Position after Graduation: Motorola

      Current Position: Motorola

 

6.      Li Chen

Thesis Title: “Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Laplace's Equation”

Defense Date: July 1995

First Position after Graduation: Microwave Company in Colorado

Current Position: Deceased

 

7.      Zhong Chen

Thesis Title: “Investigation of Different Error Mechanisms in FEM for Electromagnetics”

Defense Date: September 1996

First Position after Graduation: EMC Test SystemsCurrent Position; Principal Design Engineer, ETS-Lindgren

 

8.      Kishore Rama Rao

Thesis Title: “Optimal Edge-Based Finite Difference Methods”

Defense Date: September 1998

First Position after Graduation: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University

Current Position: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University

 

9.      Tamer Ibrahim

Thesis Title: “Finite difference time domain simulations of ultra high-field magnetic resonance imaging in medicine”

      Defense Date: October 1998

First Position after Graduation: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

 

10.  Yu Zhu

Thesis Title: “Analysis of Periodic Structures for Scattering and Radiation Using Tangentially Continuous Vector Finite Element Method”

Defense Date: October 1998

First Position after Graduation: Ph.D. student at University of Illinois

Current Position: Cadence Systems

 

11.  N.V.  Venkataraylu

Thesis Title: “Modeling of Horn-Fed Bow Tie Antenna”

Defense Date: June 2002

First Position after Graduation: Research Scientist, Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore

Current Position: Research Scientist and Ph.D. student, Temasek Laboratory, National University of Singapore

 

12.  Ryan Chilton

Thesis Title: “An Analytical and Numerical Investigation of Unidirectional Magnetic Photonic Crystals''

Defense Date: June 2005

First Position after Graduation: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University

Current Position: Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University

 

Non-Thesis Masters Students:

 

1.      Juan Torres

Defense Date: May 2006

First Position after Graduation: Unknown

Current Position: Unknown

 

2.      Khaled Jazzar

Defense Date: June 2006

First Position after Graduation: Qualcomm

Current Position: Qualcomm

 

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Students:

 

1.      William Pinello

Thesis Title: “A finite element solution for electromagnetic scattering from a periodic dielectric grating”

Defense Date: May 1992

First Position after Graduation: Masters student at University of Arizona

Current Position: Intel Corp.

 

2.      Yung Shirley Choi-Grogan

Thesis Title: “A study of FEM discretization”

Defense Date: May 1992

First Position after Graduation: Masters student at The Ohio State University

Current Position: AT&T Wireless (Cingular)

 

3.      Tamer Ibrahim

Thesis Title: “FDTD model of a GPR antenna”

Defense Date: May 1996

First Position after Graduation: Masters student at The Ohio State University

Current Position: Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

 

4.      Jake Adams

Thesis Title: “Numerical design of resonator coils for high field magnetic resonance imaging”

Defense Date: May 2005

First Position after Graduation: Masters student at The Ohio State University

Current Position: Masters student at The Ohio State University