PDRG Director:

Photo	Profile	Email
	Professor Kent Choquette	choquett@illinois.edu

PDRG Members:

Photo	Profile	Email
	Erin Raftery	raftery3@illinois.edu
	Nisha Kolagotla	nishak2@illinois.edu
	Daniel Pflug	dwpflug@illinois.edu
	Chloe Armstrong	chloeca2@illinois.edu

PDRG Alumni:

Graduate Students:

Graduate Student	Degree Awarded and Year	Last Known Employment
Nusrat Jahan	Ph.D. 2023	NIST
William North	Ph.D. 2023	U.S. Military Academy (West Point, NY)
Sanat Pandey	M.S. 2023	Analog Devices
Dr. Pawel Strzebonski	M.S. 2018, Ph.D. 2021	Meta
Raman Kumar
Dr. Katherine Lakomy	M.S. 2017, Ph.D. 2021
Dr. Harshil Dave	M.S. 2017, Ph.D. 2020	U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Dr. Bradley Thompson	M.S. 2015, Ph.D. 2019	Air Force Research Laboratory
Dr. Zihe Gao	Ph.D. 2018	University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Tom Fryslie	M.S. 2013, Ph.D. 2016	Stealth Startup
Shiyi Chen
Gautham Ragunathan	M.S. 2014	Intel
Dr. Janice Blane	M.S. 2014	Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Matthew T. Johnson	Ph.D. 2013	L3Harris Technologies
Dr. Hyejin Jeong	M.S. 2010, Ph.D. 2013	Molex
Dr. Meng Peun Tan	M.S. 2009, Ph.D. 2012	WaferTech
Nick Brown	M.S. 2011	Texas Instruments
Dr. Joshua Sulkin	M.S. 2007, Ph.D. 2011	Commonwealth Fusion Systems
Tom Jefvert	M.S. 2011
Dr. Dominic Siriani	Ph.D. 2011	Cisco
Dr. Matthias Kasten	Ph.D. 2010	GE Research
Dr. Antonios Giannopoulos	M.S. 2006, Ph.D. 2010	Fresca Management Corp.
Dr. Chen Chen	M.S. 2006, Ph.D. 2009	Marvell Technology
Dr. Chris Long	M.S. 2005, Ph.D. 2008	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dr. Ann Lehman Harren	M.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2007	Lumentum
Prof. Paul Leisher	M.S. 2004, Ph.D. 2007	Luminar Technologies
Dr. Yong Kwan (Robin) Kim	M.S., Ph.D. 2006	Samsung Electronics
Dr. Dan Grasso	M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2006	Apple
Karthik Samakkulam	M.S. 2005
COL. Jim Raftery	Ph.D. 2005	U.S. Military Academy (West Point, NY)
Prof. Aaron Danner	M.S. 2002, Ph.D. 2005	National University of Singapore
Chris Willis	M.S. 2004
Jason Lee	M.S. 2004	Alcoa, Inc (Newburgh, IN)
Ping Chen	M.S. 2002

Undergraduate Students:

Undergraduate Student	Years	Last Known Employment
Emil Comor	2023	UL Solutions
Clemens Ostermaier	2005	Infineon Technologies Austria AG
Mike Hwang	2004-2005	Graduate Student at Georgia Tech
Erin Yamaoka	2004-2005	TheoremOne
Sonia Lala	2004-2005
Eric Shyu	2004-2005	AMD
Yi Zhang	2003
Uppili Krishnamachari	2003-2004	DropShot Capital Management

Other Researchers:

Other Researcher	Position and Years	Last Known Employment
Woon-Kyung (Kevin) Choi	Visiting scientist 2005
Dr. Taesung Kim	Visiting scientist 2002-2004	Clean Air Associates
Dr. Erik Young	Post-doc 2002-2004	Sandia National Laboratories
Dr. Noriyuki Yokouchi	Visiting scientist 2001-2003	American Furukawa Inc.

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