First Destinations of Program Graduates since 1990

Name Theory/ Exp. Year of Ph.D. Placement
Garg, Deepen TH 2023 TBD
Yerger, Evan TH 2023 University of New Hampshire
Mlodik, Mikhail TH 2022 Princeton University
Zhang, Xin EX 2022 Tokamak Energy
Emdee, Eric EX 2022 PPPL
Lezhnin, Kirill TH 2022 PPPL
Alt, Andrew EX 2022 Intercontinental Exchange
Skoutnev, Valentin TH 2022 Columbia University
Lopez, Nicolas TH 2022 University of Oxford
Rodriguez, Eduardo TH 2022 Max Planck Institute
Glasser, Alexander TH 2022 PPPL
Ochs, Ian TH 2022 Princeton University
Kolmes, Elijah TH 2022 Princeton University
Chien, Abraham EX 2021 TBD
Nelson, Andrew EX 2021 Columbia University
Kraus, Frances EX 2021 PPPL
Mandell, Noah TH 2021 MIT
Zhu, Hongxuan TH 2020 PPPL
Schwartz, Jacob EX 2020 Princeton University, MAE Dept.
Munirov, Vadim TH 2020 UC Berkeley
Gunderson, Lee TH 2020 UCL, Gatsby Unit
Lestz, Jeffrey TH 2020 UC Irvine, General Atomics
Michta, David TH 2020 TBD
Matteucci, Jackson TH 2020 TBD
St-Onge, Denis TH 2019 University of Oxford
Dong, Ge TH 2019 PPPL
Ng, Jonathan TH 2019 NASA, Goddard Space Center
Nichols, Jacob EX 2018 PPPL
Shi, Yuan TH 2018 LLNL
Swanson, Charles EX 2018 Princeton Satellite Systems
Teng, Qian TH 2018 Goldman Sachs
Zhou, Yao TH 2017 PPPL
Shi, Eric TH 2017 LLNL
Ruiz, Daniel TH 2017 Sandia National Laboratory
Davidovits, Seth TH 2017 PPPL
Jara-Almonte, Jonathan EX 2017 PPPL
Mitrani, James EX 2017 LLNL
Liu, Chang TH 2017 PPPL
Geyko, Vasily TH 2017 LLNL
Shi, Lei TH 2016 UC Irvine
Hay, Michael TH 2016 Volant Trading
Boyle, Dennis EX 2016 PPPL
Ellison, Charles Leland TH 2016 LLNL
Squire, Jonathan TH 2015 Caltech
Lucia, Matthew EX 2015 Lockheed Martin
Burby, Joshua TH 2015 New York University, Math Dept.
Myers, Clayton EX 2014 PPPL
Abrams, Tyler EX 2014 General Atomics
Logan, Nikolas EX 2014 PPPL
Wang, Hua EX 2014 N/A
Lyons, Brendan TH 2014 General Atomics
Stepanov, Anton EX 2014 Entrepreneur (Startup, Owner)
Campanell, Michael TH 2014 LLNL
Parker, Jeffrey TH 2014 Law school
Jacobson, Craig EX 2014 Phoenix, LLC.
Scotti, Filippo EX 2014 LLNL (@PPPL)
Rhoads, John EX 2013 Pointwise, Inc.
Ghantous, Katy TH 2013 École Polytechnique
Guan, Xiaoyin TH 2013 Law school
Yoon, Eisung TH 2013 Korea Institute of Nuclear Safety
Granstedt, Erik EX 2013 Tri Alpha Energy, Inc.
Yoo, Jongsoo EX 2013 PPPL
Griswold, Martin EX 2013 Personal startup company
Roach, Austin EX 2013 NSWC Crane
Schmit, Paul TH 2012 Sandia National Laboratory
Baumgaertel, Jessica TH 2012 LANL
Lundberg, Daniel EX 2012 Lockheed Martin
Dorfman, Seth EX 2012 UCLA
Fetterman, Abe TH 2012 Nomiku
Zhmoginov, Andrey TH 2012 LBNL
Peterson, Jayson TH 2011 LLNL
Kallman, Joshua EX 2011 LLNL
Raburn, Daniel TH 2011 Kyoto University
Smith, Sterling TH 2010 General Atomics
Ross, Patrick EX 2010 National Security Technologies
Dorf, Mikhail TH 2010 LLNL
Wang, Yansong TH 2010 Non-profit organization in China
Berzak, Laura EX 2010 LLNL
Stoltfus-Dueck, T TH 2009 PPPL
Yampolsky, Nikolai TH 2009 LANL
Smith, David R. EX 2009 University of Wisconsin-Madison (@ PPPL)
Park, Jong-kyu EX 2009 PPPL
Lukin, Vyacheslav TH 2008 NRL
Gray, Timothy EX 2008 Swarthmore College
Schartman, Ethan D. EX 2008 Nova Photonics, Inc
Chung, Moses EX 2008 Fermi Labs, Chicago
Diem, Stephanie J. EX 2008 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ferraro, Nathaniel M. EX 2008 General Atomics
Ren, Yang EX 2007 Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Jenkins, Thomas TH 2007 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sefkow, Adam EX 2007 Sandia National Laboratory
Parrish, Ian TH 2007 UC Berkeley
Liu, Wei TH 2007 Univ. of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Kolesnikov, Roman TH 2006 Deceased
Belli, Emily TH/CP 2006 General Atomics
Spaleta, Jeffrey EX 2006 Geophysical Institute, U of Alaska at Fairbanks
Smirnov, Artem N. EX 2006 Tri Alpha Energy, Inc.
Sharma, Ptrateek TH 2006 Indian Institute of Science, CCMT
Stowell, Ronald EX 2005 Deceased
Dodin, Ilya TH 2005 PPPL
Son, Seunghyeon TH 2005 Citicorp, Inc.
Kuritsyn, Alexey EX 2005 KLA-Tencor Corporation
Kornack, Thomas EX 2005 Twinleaf
Morrison, Kyle A. EX 2004 IDA
Dorf, Leonid A. EX 2004 Applied Materials Co.
Landsman, Alexandra EX 2004 ETH, Ultrafast Laser Physics
Foley, Elizabeth EX 2004 Twinleaf
Clark, Daniel S. TH 2003 LLNL
Zaharia, Sorin G. TH 2003 LANL
Rosenberg, Adam L. EX 2003 Office of Defense for Operational Energy
Ping, Yuan EX 2002 LLNL
Jones, Brent EX 2002 Sandia National Laboratories
Munsat, Tobin EX 2001 Univ. of Colorado, Boulder
Schekochihin, Alexander TH 2001 University of Oxford, U.K.
Strasburg, Sean TH 2001 Yale Law School
Breslau, Joshua TH 2001 PPPL
Li, Xiaohu TH 2001 Lehman Bros.
Carter, Troy EX 2001 UCLA
Karasik, Max EX 2000 NRL
Hsu, Scott C. EX 2000 LANL
Felice, GianMarco TH 2000 Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Malyshev, Mikhail EX 1999 Citidel Group, Inc.
Heeter, Robert F. TH 1999 LLNL
Trintchouk, Fedor EX 1999 Cymer Inc., San Diego
Chao, Edward H. EX 1999 Tomotherapy, Inc.
Savchenko, Vladislav I. TH 1999 Polymath, USA
Boldyrev, Stanislav TH 1999 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Snyder, Philip B. TH 1999 General Atomics
Fong, Bryan H.-L. TH 1999 HRL Laboratories
Leng, Lufeng EX 1999 Lucent Technologies
Park, Jaeyoung EX 1998 Energy Matter Conversion Corp
Long, Hui TH 1998 Santa Clara Corporation
Wright, John C. TH 1998 MIT
Menard, John E. EX 1998 PPPL
Herrmann, Mark C TH 1998 LLNL
Chen, Yang TH 1998 University of Colorado, Boulder
Wang, Zhehui EX 1998 LANL
Schwartz, Peter V. EX 1998 Northwestern University
Qin, Hong TH 1998 PPPL
Oliver, Hilary J. TH 1998 NIWA, New Zealand
Uzdensky, Dmitri A. TH 1998 University of Colorado, Boulder
Chandran, B.D.G. TH 1997 University of New Hampshire
Herrmann, H.W. EX 1997 LANL
Cauffman, S.R. EX 1997 CPI, Palo Alto, CA
Zhao, Yi TH 1997 BNP Paribus, NY
Lo, Ernest P. EX 1997 U of Quebec at Montreal
Smith, S. (PACM) TH 1997 Software Firm, Albuquerque, NM
Choe, W. EX 1996 KAIST
Cummings, J.C. TH 1995 Caltech, CACR
Beer, M.A. TH 1995 Johns Hopkins University
Chiu, G.S. EX 1995 Univ. of British Columbia
Moore, D.A. EX 1995 MKS, Inc. (Andover, MA)
Preische, S.A. EX 1995 Genmab, Inc.
Jones, T.D. EX 1995 NRL
Qian, Q. TH 1995 Goldman-Sachs
Voss, K. EX 1995 Lawrenceville School
Hu, G. TH 1995 Private industry
Wu, Y. TH 1995 ISYS Technology Corp
Lin, Z. TH 1995 UC Irvine
Artun, M. TH 1994 International Banking
Santoro, R.A. TH 1994 Lockhead Martin Corp.
Vetoulis, G. TH 1994 Center for Space Physics, Boston U
MacAulay, A.K. TH 1993 Univ. of Alberta in Edmonton
Zonca, F. TH 1993 ENEA CRE Frascati, Italy
McCauley, J.S. EX 1993 Analogic Corp.
Dorland, W. D. TH 1993 U of MD, College Park
Coster, D.P. TH 1993 Max Planck Inst., Garching
Krushelnick, K.M. EX 1993 University of Michigan
Zuiker, C.D. EX 1993 Argonne National Lab
Forest, C.B. EX 1992 University of Wisconsin-Madison
Smith, B.L. TH 1992 Air Force
Hwang, Y.S. EX 1992 KAIST, Korea
Roberts, D.W. EX 1991 LLNL
Glanz, J. TH 1991 NY Times
Ilcisin, K.J. EX 1991 Novellus Systems, Oregon
Chan, A.A. TH 1991 Rice University
Boivin, R.L. EX 1991 General Atomics
Cuthbertson, J.W. EX 1991 Investment Research Co.
Bowman, J.C. TH 1991 University of Alberta, Canada
Anderson, S.W. TH 1991 Dragon Systems, Inc.
Bannister, M.E. EX 1991 Oak Ridge National Lab.
Harley, T.R. TH 1990 Telogy Networks
Duval, R.E. TH 1990 Aerospace Corporation, CA
Powell, E.T. EX 1990 SAIC, Arlington, VA
Ward, D.J. TH 1990 LLNL