Former Graduate Students in Experimental Medium Energy Nuclear/Particle Physics
Listed here are the former graduate students in the medium energy experimental physics group at CMU.
We also indicate where they moved after leaving Carnegie Mellon, where known.
This list may not be not fully accurate or up to date!
- Dr. Hao Li,
2017 to 2023
- Ph.D. Thesis: Baryon-Antibaryon Photoproduction off the Proton.
- Hao Li went on to a GlueX-related post-doctoral position at the College of William and Mary.
- Dr. Abel Sun,
2014 to 2022
- Ph.D. Thesis: Measurement of H(e, e') and D(e, e') Cross-Sections for Bloom-Gilman Quark-Hadron Duality Study.
- Abel Sun moved to a software development position.
- Dr. Larisa Thorne,
2014 to 2021
- Ph.D. Thesis: Neutrino Mass Analysis Systematics of the KATRIN Experiment, Using CMKAT.
- Larisa Thorne took a postdoctoral position at Mainz, Germany, working with the KATRIN experiment.
- Dr. Alexa Stefanko,
2013 to 2020
- Ph.D. Thesis: Deeply Virtual Compton Scattering on the Proton in Hall A at Jefferson Lab.
- Alexa Stefanko moved to a hardware/software dvelopment position at Rockwell Automation near Cleveland, OH.
- Dr. William McGinley,
2012 to 2019
- Ph.D. Thesis: Development of the Barrel Calorimeter Reconstruction and Measurement of the
Beam Asymmetry (Sigma) for Photoproduced pi0 and eta Mesons with the GlueX Experiment.
- Will McGinley took a position with Intel Corp. in semiconductor manufacturing.
- Dr. Michael Staib,
2012 to 2017
- Ph.D. Thesis: Calibrations of Charged Particle Tracking and Measurements of omega
Photoproduction with the GlueX Detector.
- Mike Staib took a position with Intel Corp. in semiconductor manufacturing.
- Dr. William Levine,
2009 to 2016
- Ph.D. Thesis: Measurement of Spin Density Matrix Elements in the
Reaction gamma p --> K+ Lambda(1520) Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab.
- Will Levine took a position in software engineering with Qeexo Corp., in Pittsburgh.
- Dr. Dao H. Ho,
2010 to 2015
- Ph.D. Thesis:
Measurements of the E Polarization Observable for gamma d --> pi- p(ps), gamma d --> K0 Lambda(ps),
and gamma d --> pi+ pi- d(0) using CLAS g14 data at Jefferson Lab.
- Dao Ho went into machine learning and data analytics, first in the financial in field Boston, MA, and with the Albertsons Companies in CA.
- Dr. Brian Vernarsky,
2005 to 2014
- Ph.D. Thesis: First Measurements of the Polarized Spin Density Matrix Elements along with a
Partial-Wave Analysis for gamma p --> p omega Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab.
- Brian Vernarsky moved to various software development positions, including BallerTV in San Francisco.
- Dr. Megan Friend,
2007 to 2012
- Ph.D. Thesis: A Precision Measurement of the Proton Strange-Quark Form Factors at Q2 = 0.624 GeV2.
- Megan Friend went to postdoctoral and professorial positions in HEP physics in Japan, at KEK and T2K at JPARC.
- Dr. Ryan Dickson,
2004 to 2011
- Ph.D. Thesis: Photoproduction of the f1(1285)/eta(1295) Mesons using CLAS at Jefferson Lab.
- Ryan Dickson worked in medical physics at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, then worked in natural language processing at Astrata Corp.
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- Dr. Diana (Seymour) Parno,
2004 to 2011
- Ph.D. Thesis: Measurements of the Double-Spin Asymmetry A1 on Helium-3:
Toward a Precise Measurement of the Neutron A1.
- Diana Parno took postdoctoral position at Univ. of Washington, then returned as a Professor at Carnegie Mellon Univ. doing neutrino physics.
- Dr. Biplab Dey,
2005 to 2011
- Ph.D. Thesis: Differential cross section and polarization extractions for
gamma p --> K+ Sigma0 and gamma p --> phi p using CLAS at Jefferson Lab, towards
a partial wave analysis in search of missing baryon resonances.
- Biplab Dey took a series of postdoc positions, including with LHCb at CERN, and with an Hungarian Physics Institute.
- Dr. Kei Moriya,
2005 to 2010
- Ph.D. Thesis: Measurement of the Lineshape, Differential Photoproduction Cross Section,
Spin and Parity of the Lambda(1405) Using CLAS at Jefferson Lab.
- Kei Moriya took postdoctoral positions at Indiana University and Arizona State Univ., then went into
data science with the International Monetary Fund near Washington DC.
- Dr. Mike McCracken,
2004 to 2008
- Ph. D. Thesis: Photoproduction of the K+ Lambda using CLAS at JLab.
- Mike McCracken is a professor of Physics at Washington and Jefferson College.
- Dr. Seamus Riordan,
2003 to 2008
- Ph. D. Thesis: A Measurement of Gen in Hall A at JLab.
- Seamus Riordan did postdoctoral research at the UMass Amherst, later moved to the sceintific staff of Argonne National Lab.
- Dr. Mike Williams,
2001 to 2007
- Ph. D. Thesis: Measurement of the differntial cross section and spin density
matrix elements along with a partial wave analysis for gamma p to omega p using CLAS
at Jefferson Lab.
- Mike Williams did postdoctoral research at University College London and then became a Physics professor at MIT.
- Dr. Zebulun Krahn,
2001 to 2007
- Ph. D. Thesis: Photoproduction of the eta and the eta-prime mesons
using CLAS at JLab.
- Zeb Krahn did postdoctoral research at the University of Minnisota working
on neutrino experiments, and later to a career as a systems engineer at Axient in Columbia MD.
- Dr. Joseph Parker,
2000 to 2005
- Ph. D. Thesis: The Weak Decay of the Lambda4He Hypernucleus.
- Joseph Parker became a staff scientist developing neutron imaging detectors at J-PARC via Kyoto Univ., Japan.
- Dr. Jeff Lachinet,
1999 to 2005
- Ph. D. Thesis: A high precision measurement of the neutron magnetic form factor using the
CLAS detector.
- Jeff Lachinet went to a postdoctoral research with Old Dominion University, Virginia.
- Dr. Robert Bradford,
1999 to 2005
- Ph. D. Thesis: Measurement of differential cross sections and Cx and Cz for
gamma p --> K+ Lambda and gamma p --> K+ Sigma0 using CLAS at Jefferson Lab.
- Robert Bradfrod did postdoctoral research with University of Rochester working
on the Fermilab Minerva experiment, then became a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
- Dr. Rob Feuerbach,
1995 to 2002
- Ph. D. Thesis: Measurement of the unpolarized K+Lambda and
K+Sigmao electroproduction cross sections and
interference terms from the proton with the CLAS detector.
- Rob Feuerbach did postdoctoral research at Jefferson Lab, then became a staff scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab.
- Dr. John McNabb,
1995 to 2002
- Ph. D. Thesis: Photoproduction of Lambda and Sigmao hyperons off protons in the nucleon
resonance region using CLAS at Jefferson Lab.
- John McNabb did postdoctoral work with the LIGO group at Penn State Univ., then took a
Researsh Assistant Professor position at Hampton Univ., VA analyzing satellite data.
- Dr. Kent Paschke,
1995 to 2001
- Ph. D. Thesis: Measurement of spin transfer coefficeints in
proton antiproton to lambda antilambda annihilation.
- Kent Paschke is a professor of Physics at the University of Virginia.
- Dr. Phil Koran,
1993 to 2000
- Ph. D. Thesis: H-dibaryon search via the cascade minus capture
on the deuteron.
- Phil Koran moved to Penn State University, Bloomsburg.
- Dr. Pavel Khaustov,
1995 to 1999
- Ph. D. Thesis: Doubly--Strange Hypernuclear Production in E885 at the AGS.
- Pavel Khaustov is a scientist at Avanti Corp., Freemont, CA
- Dr. Rodney McCrady,
1993 to 1998
- Ph. D. Thesis: A Partial wave analysis of antiproton proton annihilation into
omega pi+ pi- pi0.
- Rod McCrady is a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Dr. Frank E. Merrill,
1990 to 1995
- Ph. D. Thesis: H Dibaryon Search through Cascade Minus Capture on the Deuteron.
- Frank Merrill is a staff scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- Dr. Irianto Rouli Sukaton,
1989 to 1995
- Ph. D. Thesis: H particle search through direct production from
Carbon targets using (K-,K+) interactions.
- Rouli Sukaton went to work in industry in the San Francisco area.
- Dr. Michael J. Athanas,
1988 to 1992
- Ph.D. Thesis: The Weak Decay of Helium Hypernuclei.
- Mike Athanas did postdoctoral research at the CLEO experiment, Cornell Univ.
Later at VAST Sceintific consulting, San Jose, CA.
- Dr. Guy Diebold,
1984 to 1991
- Ph.D. Thesis: Strangeness Production in Relativistic Nucleus-Nucleus Collisions.
- Guy Diebold worked for several years as a postdoc at Yale. He moved to working in the field of medical physics in New Orleans.
- Dr. Jean Seydoux,
1982 to 1990
- Ph.D. Thesis: A search for the Xi(2230) Resonance in the
antiproton proton goes to K-short K-short Channel at LEAR.
- Jean Seydoux became a research scientist at Schlumberger.
- Prof. John Szymanski
1981 to 1987
- Ph.D. Thesis: The Weak Decay of Lambda Hypernuclei.
- John Szymanski was on the physics faculty at the University of Indiana and also worked with
a remote sensing group at Los Alamos National Lab.
- Dr. Chris Maher,
1979 to 1986
- Ph. D. Thesis: The antiproton proton goes to anti-Lambda Lambda Reaction Near Threshold.
- Chris Maher worked as a research scientist at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, then moved to IBM.
- Dr. Richard Grace, 1979 to 1986
- Ph.D. Thesis: Weak Decay of P Shell Lambda Hypernuclei.
- Richard Grace was a research scientist, including at the Mellon Institute, Pittsburgh.
- Dr. Ron Reider, 1978 to 1985
- Ph.D. Thesis: The (pi+, pp) and (pi+, pd) Reactions in the Lithium Isotopes.
- Ron Reider was employed at Visidyne, Inc., Burlington, MA.
- Dr. Daniel Marlow,
1976 to 1981
- Ph.D. Thesis: {Brookhaven National Lab experiment on kaon scattering}.
- Dan Marlow is a professor of Physics and was Department Head at Princeton Univ., N.J.,
- Dr. Mohan Doss,
~1975 to 1980
- Ph.D. Thesis: {Los Alamos National Lab experiment}.
- Mohan Doss became a member of the Canadian College of Physicists in Medicine in nuclear medicine.
- Dr. Steven Dytman,
~1973 to 1977
- Ph.D. Thesis: {Los Alamos National Lab experiment}.
- Steve Dytman retired after being a Professor of Physics at the University of Pittsburgh.
- Dr. James Miller,
1968 to 1975
- Ph.D. Thesis: {Brookhaven National Lab experiment}.
- Jim Miller is a professor of Physics at Boston University.
Last updated July, 2023.