Alumni - Where Are They Now?
B.S. Alumni
Kevork N. Abazajian
B.S. 1996
Professor of Physics & Astronomy at University of California, Irvine, & Director of the Center for Cosmology
Andrew Askew
B.S. 1999
Associate Professor of Physics at Florida State University
Mason Biamonte
B.S. 2013
Graduate Student in Math at MIT
Fre’Etta Brooks
B.S. 2017
Graduate Student in Medical Physics at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Timothy Burt
B.S. 2015
Graduate Student in Engineering at Oklahoma University
Joy Chavez
B.S. 2005
Science Operation Specialist at Gemini South Observatory
Israel Estrada
B.S. 2015
Design Engineer at OneSubSea, A Schlumberger Company
Rodney Helm
B.S. 2016
Graduate Student in Physics at University of Missouri
Brooklyn Herman
B.S. 2017
Flight Controller at Cimarron Software Services, Inc., NASA Johnson Space Center
Ashton Hunter
B.S. 2016
Master's Program in Physics at UH-Clear Lake
Wayne Klosterman
B.S. 1974
Retired from Oil and Gas Industry
Richard Kuchenbecker
B.S. 2016
Systems Analyst at Lynntech, Inc., College Station, TX
Cassandra Little
B.S. 2020
Graduate Student in Physics at University of Michigan
Gabriel Madrano
B.S. 2015
Graduate Student in Physics at University of North Texas
Debora Mroczek
B.S. 2020
Graduate Fellow at Illinois Center for Advanced Studies of the Universe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Khanh Nguyen
B.S. 2015
Graduate Student in Mathematics at University of Houston
Michelle Nowling
B.S. 2017
Satellite Systems Engineer at Leidos, NASA Johnson Space Center
Steven Oliver
B.S. 2018
Senior Mechanical Engineer at Axiom Space
Gulden Othman
B.S. 2014
Graduate Student in Physics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chase Rendall
B.S. 2015
Graduate Student in Materials Science and Nanoengineering at Rice University
Sara Rojas
B.S. 2019
Graduate Student in Geophysics at University of Houston
Brandon Sanchez
B.S. 2017
Senior Geophysicist at DownUnder Geosolutions
Samara Sharpe
B.S. 2021
Graduate Student in Biomedical Engineering at University of Houston
Levi Walker
B.S. 2016
Graduate Student in Molecular Biology at University of Texas at Austin
Josh Willis
B.S. 1996
Climate Scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
M.S. Alumni
Mark Glorioso
M.S. 1998
Executive Director, NASA Shared Services Center at NASA Stennis Space Center, Mississippi
Logan Lebanowski
M.S. 2011
Post-doctoral Researcher of Physics at University of Pennsylvania
Jerry Mapp
M.S. 1987
IT Project Portfolio Manager at Kamehameha Schools ITD
Keea Stancato
B.S. 2016, M.S. 2020
Retired
Ph.D. Alumni
Ivy Ahiabu
Ph.D. 2016
Senior Chemist at Gas Innovations, LaPorte, TX
Mohammad Waseem Ahmed
B.S. 1994, Ph.D. 1999
Dean, College of Health and Sciences, North Carolina Central University, & Associate Director, Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory
Thomas Becher
Ph.D. 1994
Technical Director at The MITRE Corporation, McLean, VA
Heather Cowardin
B.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2010
Orbital Debris Research & Science Operations Deputy Project Manager and Lead for Orbital Debris Research & Science Operations: Research & Development Task Group, NASA Johnson Space Center
Rebecca Forrest
Ph.D. 1998
Instructional Professor, University of Houston Department of Physics
Aris Fotkatzikis
M.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2007
Director, Data Science at Cepheid, Sunnyvale, CA
Narbe Kalantarians
B.S. 2002, M.S. 2005, Ph.D. 2008
Assistant Professor of Physics, Natural Sciences Dept., Virginia Union University
Jaewan Kim
Ph.D. 1993
Professor (Quantum Information Science) at School of Computational Sciences, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Seoul, Korea
Luke Mastalli-Kelly
Ph.D. 2019
Quantum Software Engineer at Quantum Circuits, Inc, New Haven, CT
Fabian Ng
B.S. 2013, Ph.D. 2018
IB Physics Guide, Headwaters School, Austin, TX, and Foreign Currency Exchange Trader
Antonios Samiotakis
Ph.D. 2011
Principal Scientist & Group Lead, Technology Integration & Bioinformatics, Zymeworks Inc.
Hugo Sanabria
M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2005
Assistant Professor at Department of Physics, Clemson University
Donna Washington Stokes
Ph.D. 1998
Professor of Physics and Associate Dean of Undergraduate Affairs and Student Success, University of Houston
Aida Torabi
Ph.D. 2016
Research Engineering/Scientist Associate, Department of Physics, University of Texas at Austin
Stephen Tsui
B.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2008
Associate Professor of Physics at California State University, San Marcos
Pengzhi Zhang
Ph.D. 2016
Research Associate, Houston Methodist
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Updated May 6, 2022