Sejoong Oh, PhD (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, (2000). Vibration and Acoustics of Complex Structures. Chair. Currently at Ford Motor company.
Anand Parthasartahi, PhD, (2000), Numerical Modeling and Electro-Acoustic Stimulus Response for Cochlear Mechanics. Co-chair with Dr. Fred Nuttall Currently R&D Lead .
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, (2001) Efficient Finite Element Methods/Reduced-Order Modeling for Structural Acoustics with Applications to Transduction. Chair. Currently at Ford Motor Company.
Jeffery Bischoff, PhD, (2001) Constitutive Modeling and Testing of Soft Tissue. Co-chair with Prof. Ellen Arruda. Currently at Zimmer Orthopedics, Warsaw, IN.
Karen Lee Fegelman, PhD, (2002). Modeling Analysis and Experimental Verification of a Multi-Mode Vibro-Impacting System. Chair. Currently at P&G, Cincinnati, OH.
Sripriya Ramomoorthy, PhD (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 (2005) Biomimetic Trapped-Fluid Microsystems for Acoustic Sensing. Chair. Currently Associate Professor, Tufts University.
Niranjan Deo, candidate, (2006), Micro- and Macro-Mechanics of the Mammalian Cochlea. Product Leader General Robotics, Redmond WA..
Lei Cheng candidate (2007) Theoretical modeling and analysis of electroacoustic transducers. Chair. Currently Senior Principle Engineer at Bose Corporation.
Robert Littrell, pre-candidate (2010). High performance piezoelectric MEMS microphones. Chair. Currently Senior Director of Technology at Qualcomm.
Joe Olberding, Biomedical Engineering candidate (2010). Growth and remodeling in biological tissue. Co-chair with Krishna Garikipati. Currently at Explico in Philadelphia.
Julien Meaud, Mechanical Engineering (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 (2013). Micro and macro fluidic effects in cochlear mechanics. Chair. Currently Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Kennesaw State University.
Katherine Knisely, Mechanical Engineering (2014). Design and fabrication of a completely implantable cochlear implant. Currently: Sandia National Lab
Amir Nankali, Mechanical Engineering (2017). Nonlinear dynamics of the cochlea. Currently: Post-Doc at USC.
Chuming Zhao, Mechanical Engineering (2018). Ultraminiature Piezoelectric Implantable Acoustic Transducers for Biomedical Applications. Currently at Facebook Reality Labs.
Aritra Sasmal, Mechanical Engineering (2019). Hair cell sensing - active control, noise, and microfluidics in the cochlea. Currently at Senior GNC Engineer at Space X.
Alison Hake (2021). Piezoelectric MEMS Accelerometers for Sensing Ossicular Vibration
Nate Geib (2022) Spatial Nonlocality and Its Effects on the Scattering Characteristics of Wave-Bearing Media. Currently Research Associate at the University of Texas
Penny Kitsopoulos (2025) Design of Sensors and Actuators for Totally Implantable Auditory Prostheses. Currently Senior Engineering (TLDP) at BD.
Varun Goyal (2025) Micromechanics and Fluid Dynamics of Mammalian Cochlear Hair Bundles. Currently a Post-doc at Stanford University.
Weiyuan Fan (candidate) Topic: Time Domain Solutions for Cochlear Mechanics
Yuetong Hao (pre-candidate) Topic: Totally Implantable Auditory Prostheses
Iman Gholami (pre-candidate) Topic: Cochlear Mechanics