Sejoong Oh, PhD, (graduated August 1999): Dynamic Stability of Interacting Spur Gears. Co-chair with Prof. James R. Barber., currently employed as Senior Contact Engineer at General Motors Corporation.
Pete Halliday, PhD, (graduated Winter 2000). Vibration and Acoustics of Complex Structures. Chair. Currently at Ford Motor company.
Anand Parthasartahi, PhD, (graduated, Winter 2000), Numerical Modeling and Electro-Acoustic Stimulus Response for Cochlear Mechanics. Co-chair with Dr. Fred Nuttall (Director of the Hearing Research Institute, Oregon State Health Sciences University, Professor Emeritus at Kresge Hearing Research Institute, at the U of M). Currently at Jabra Corporation.
Yuan Lin, PhD (Graduated July, 2000), Large Scale Computation and Optimization for Ultrasound Acoustic Transducers. Chair. Currently at SDRC - COSMOS Corp. Los Angeles.
John Dodson, PhD, (Graduated Winter 2001) Efficient Finite Element Methods/Reduced-Order Modeling for Structural Acoustics with Applications to Transduction. Chair. Currently at Ford Motor Company.
Jeffery Bischoff, PhD, (Graduated Summer 2001) Constitutive Modeling and Testing of Soft Tissue. Co-chair with Prof. Ellen Arruda. Currently at Zimmer Orthopedics, Warsaw, IN.
Karen Lee Fegelman, PhD, (Graduated Fall 2002). Modeling Analysis and Experimental Verification of a Multi-Mode Vibro-Impacting System. Chair. Currently at P&G, Cincinnati, OH.
Sripriya Ramomoorthy, PhD, (Graduated Summer 2004). Passive and Active Structural Acoustic Filtering in Cochlear Mechanics: Analysis and Applications. Chair. Currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai.
Robert D. White, (Graduated Summer 2005) Biomimetic Trapped-Fluid Microsystems for Acoustic Sensing. Chair. Currently Associate Professor, Tufts University.
Niranjan Deo, candidate, (graduated Summer 2006), Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of the Mammalian Cochlea. Currently, Microsoft, Redmond, WA.
Lei Cheng candidate, (Graduated Summer 2007) Theoretical modeling and analysis of electroacoustic transducers. Chair. Currently at Bose Corporation.
Robert Littrell, pre-candidate, (Graduated 2010). High performance piezoelectric MEMS microphones. Chair. Currently CTO Vesper Technologies.
Joe Olberding, Biomedical Engineering candidate (Graduated 2010). Growth and remodeling in biological tissue. Co-chair with Ellen Arruda and Krishna Garikipati. Currently at Exponent in Philadelphia.
Julien Meaud, Mechanical Engineering (Graduated 2011). High frequency amplification, filtering and nonlinearity in a computational model of the mammalian cochlear mechanics. Chair. Currently Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Yizeng Li, Mechanical Engineering (Graduated 2013). Micro and macro fluidic effects in cochlear mechanics. Chair. Currently Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kennesaw State University.
Katherine Knisely, Mechanical Engineering, (Graduated Summer 2014). Design and fabrication of a completely implantable cochlear implant. Currently: Sandia National Lab
Amir Nankali, Mechanical Engineering (Graduated Fall 2017 ). Nonlinear dynamics of the cochlea. Currently: Post-Doc at USC.
Chuming Zhao, Mechanical Engineering (Graduated Fall 2018). Ultraminiature Piezoelectric Implantable Acoustic Transducers for Biomedical Applications. Currently at Facebook Reality Labs.
Aritra Sasmal, Mechanical Engineering (Graduated 2019). Hair cell sensing - active control, noise, and microfluidics in the cochlea. Currently at Hyperloop.
Alison Hake (2021). Piezoelectric MEMS Accelerometers for Sensing Ossicular Vibration
Nate Geib (candidate) Active distributed control for non-reciprocal waveguides
Varun Goual (pre-candidate) Cochlear mechanics
Penny Kitsopoulos (pre-candidate) MEMS transducers for auditory prostheses