Mountziaris Research Group
Principal Investigator
Research Assistant Professor
Dr. Jun Wang
Ph.D. Candidates
Sreekumar Kuriyedath
Sumeet Pandey (co-advised with Prof. D. Maroudas)
Andre Muniz (co-advised with Prof. D. Maroudas)
Ryan Reeves (co-advised with Prof. S. Bhatia)
Ying Qi
Robert Coolman (co-advised with Prof. G. Huber)
Xu Han (co-advised with Prof. D. Maroudas)
Undergraduate Researchers (2010-11)
Julien Bama
Bahareh Barzegar
Siddharth Chanpuriya (Honors Thesis)
Anthony LaViola
Dany Mbakop
Geoff Purdum (Honors Independent Study)
Mountziaris Research Group Alumni
| Ph.D. Alumni | Last known employer |
| 1. Syed Anwar Safvi (1994) | Intel, Santa Clara, CA |
| 2. Nitin K. Ingle (1995) | Applied Materials, Santa Clara, CA |
| 3. Vijay Gupta (1997) | RTI International , Research Triangle Park, NC |
| 4. Constantinos Theodoropoulos (1999) | Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK |
| 5. John D. Peck (1999) | Praxair, Tonawanda, NY |
| 6. Vassilios I. Sikavitsas (2000) |
Associate Professor, University of Oklahoma (co-advised with Prof. J.M. Nitsche) |
| 7. Roger P. Pawlowski (2000) | Sandia National Laboratories |
| 8. Demetrius Sarigiannis (2001) | Praxair, Tonawanda, NY |
| 9. Maria Koutsona (2002) | ExxonMobil, Fairfax, VA |
| 10. Georgios Karanikolos (2005) |
National Research Center “Democritus”, Greece (co-advised with Prof. P. Alexandridis) |
| 11. Christos Sarigiannidis (2005) | HelioSphera, Tripolis, Greece |
| 12. Jun Wang (2006) | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
| 13. Borislava Kostova (2006) | ExxonMobil, Fairfax, VA |
| 14. Bing C. Mei (2008) | Avon, White Plains, NY |
| 15. Joungmo Cho (2009) | University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
| 16. Tracy Heckler-Panzarella (2010) | Saint-Gobain, Northboro, MA |
| 17. Tejinder Singh (2010) |
Intel, Portland, OR (co-advised with Prof. D. Maroudas) |
| M.S. Alumni | Last known employer |
| 1. Subramanian Kalyanasundaram (1991) | CSO at Strand Life Sciences, India |
| 2. Yijian (Michael) Jin (1994) | McKinsey & Company, NJ |
| 3. Tufail Ahmad (1994) | M.W. Kellogg & Co., Inc., Houston, TX |
| 4. Gregory F. Gorsuch (1995) | Seagate Technologies, Santa Clara, CA |
| 5. Constantinos Theodoropoulos (1996) | Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK |
| 6. William B. Andrews (1996) |
PerSeptive Biosystems, Framingham, MA (co-advised with Prof. M.E. Ryan) |
| 7. Xiaowei Lin (1996) | Lucent Technologies, Orlando, FL |
| 8. Cyndi Lynn Brodbeck (2000) | Advanced Refractory Technologies, NY |
| 9. Chiao Wen (Cheryl) Liu (2000) | Motorola, Austin, TX |
| 10. Nga-Leung (Vera) Law (2005) | NYS Dept. of Environmental Protection, NY |
| M.Eng. Alumni | Last known employer |
| 1. Charalabia Economou (1995) | EasyJet, Europe |
| 2. Sheldon Meyers (1996) | ASM Lithography, Inc., East Fishkill, NY |
| 3. Thomas E. Gebo (1998) | Xerox Research Center, Rochester, NY |
| 4. Vincent Ip (1996) | Applied Materials, Inc., Santa Clara, CA |
| 5. Sumanthini Jayaratnam (1997) | General Mills, Inc., Des Moines, Iowa |
| 6. Jun Wang (1998) | IBM Corporation, East Fishkill, NY |
| 7. Neeraj Mehta (1999) | Fisher-Price, Inc., East Aurora, NY |
| 8. Garkay Leung (2000) | MiCRUS, Inc., East Fishkill, NY |
| 9. Danijela Milosevic (2001) | SIFCO, Cleveland/Akron, OH |
| 10. Daniel Boek (2002) | Braskem, Huntington, WV |
| 11. Rebecca Stadler (2002) | Practicing Law in Buffalo, NY |
| 12. Dannis Prasadi (2002) | Oil & Energy, Indonesia |
| 13. Eveline Buchatskiy (2003) | Praxair, Inc., Rio de Janeiro, Brasil |
| 14. Tamara E. Brown (2003) | Praxair, Inc., Tonawanda, NY |
| 15. Gabriel Nahigian II (2003) | UOP, Inc., Tonawanda, NY |
| 16. Melanie Hand (2004) | USPTO, Atlanta, GA |
| 17. Travis Reese (2004) | GE Energy, Albany, NY |
| 18. Kim Helmer (2005) | ENrG, Inc., Buffalo, NY |
| 19. Jerry Hunt (2006) | Nalco Mobotec, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 20. Siew Shee Lim (2006) | Employed as an Engineer in Malaysia |
