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Alumni
| Alumni Name: | Baris Bayram |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2006 |
| Dissertation: | Finite Element Analysis of Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers Beyond Conventional Operation |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Olav Solgaard |
| Current Position: | Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey |
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| Alumni Name: | Yongli Huang |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2005 |
| Dissertation: | Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers (CMUTs) Built with Wafer-Bonding Technology |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Olav Solgaard |
| Current Position: | President and CTO, Kolo Technologies, San Jose, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Ching-Hsiang Cheng |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2004 |
| Dissertation: | Electrical Through-Wafer Interconnects for Integrated Sensors and Actuators |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Olav Solgaard |
| Current Position: | Assistant Professor, Research Institute of Innovative Products and Technologies, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China |
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| Alumni Name: | Utkan Demirci |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2004 |
| Dissertation: | Acoustic Generation of Femtoliter to Picoliter Droplets Using Two-Dimensional Micromachined Microdroplet Ejector Arrays |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Krishna Saraswat |
| Current Position: | Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School, Brigham & Womens Hospital, Boston, MA |
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| Alumni Name: | Mohammed Hanif Badi |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2004 |
| Dissertation: | Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Lamb Wave Transducers |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Robert W. Dutton |
| Current Position: | Business Strategy Consultant, Boston Consulting Group, Dubai, United Arab Emirates |
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| Alumni Name: | Sean T. Hansen |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2004 |
| Dissertation: | Wideband Micromachined Microphones with Radio Frequency Detection |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Bertram A. Auld |
| Current Position: | Member of Technical Staff, Siemens Medical Systems, Mountain View, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Ömer Oralkan |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2004 |
| Dissertation: | Acoustical Imaging Using Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer Arrays : Devices, Circuits, and Systems |
| Principal Advisor: | Thomas H. Lee |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Current Position: | Senior Research Associate, Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Jeremy Aaron Johnson |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2003 |
| Dissertation: | Coherent Array Imaging Using Phased Subarrays: Towards Real-Time 3D Ultrasound Imaging |
| Principal Advisor: | Ramin Shahidi |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Current Position: | Senior R&D Engineer, Medtronic Vascular, Santa Rosa, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Kambiz Kaviani |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2003 |
| Dissertation: | Pipeline Analog-to-Digital Conversion for Three-Dimensional Ultrasound Imaging |
| Principal Advisor: | Bruce A. Wooley |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Current Position: | Senior IC Design Engineer, Rambus Inc., Mountain View, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Gökhan Perçin |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2002 |
| Dissertation: | Micromachined Piezoelectrically Actuated Flextensional Transducers for High Resolution Printing and Imaging |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Fabian W. Pease |
| Current Position: | Business Development Manager, National Semiconductor, Santa Clara, CA. |
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| Alumni Name: | Xuecheng Jin |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2002 |
| Dissertation: | Micromachined Capacitive Ultrasonic Immersion Transducer Array |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Thomas H. Lee |
| Current Position: | VP Engineering, iWatt Inc, Los Gatos, CA (Personal Email: xcjin@yahoo.com) |
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| Alumni Name: | Susan Lynn Morton |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1999 |
| Dissertation: | Ultrasonic Sensor for Photoresist Process Monitoring |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Mark McCord |
| Current Position: | Research Staff Member, HRL Laboratories, Malibu, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Jun Pei |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1998 |
| Dissertation: | Lamb Wave Sensors in Semiconductor Process Control and Nondestructive Evaluation |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Krishna C. Saraswat |
| Current Position: | Member of Technical Staff, KLA-Tencor, San José, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Fahrettin Levent Degertekin |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1997 |
| Dissertation: | Hertzian Contact Lamb Wave Sensors |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Abdullah Atalar |
| Current Position: | George W. Woodruff Chair in Mechanical Systems and Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA |
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| Alumni Name: | Matthew Isaac Haller |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1994 |
| Dissertation: | Micromachined Ultrasonic Devices and Materials |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Gordon S. Kino |
| Current Position: | Director, Advanced Bionics Corporation, Slymar, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Yong Jin Lee |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1994 |
| Dissertation: | Temperature Measurement in Rapid Thermal Processing Using Acoustic Techniques (Wafers, Lamb Waves) |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Krishna C. Saraswat |
| Current Position: | Founder, Co-Chairman, and President, Semizone Inc., Palo Alto, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Sanjay Bhardwaj |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1993 |
| Dissertation: | Acoustic Techniques for Thin Film Thickness Measurement in Semiconductor Processing (Acoustic Energy) |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Krishna C. Saraswat |
| Current Position: | Product Manager, Cisco Systems Inc., San José, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Chung-kao Peter Hsieh |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1993 |
| Dissertation: | Laser-Ultrasound Characterization of Spherical Objects (Ceramic Bearing Balls, Surface Wave Energy) |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Gordon S. Kino |
| Current Position: | General Manager, AsiaVest Partners, TCW/YFY Ltd., Beijing, China |
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| Alumni Name: | Can Cinbis |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1992 |
| Dissertation: | Noncontacting Techniques for Measuring the Surface Tension of Liquids |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Gordon S. Kino |
| Current Position: | Member of Technical Staff, Medtronic Inc., Minneapolis, MN |
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| Alumni Name: | Paul Andrew Reinholdtsen |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 1989 |
| Dissertation: | Image Processing for an Amplitude and Phase Acoustic Microscope |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Gordon S. Kino |
| Current Position: | Metrium Inc., Woodenville, WA |
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| Alumni Name: | Xuefeng Zhuang |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2008 |
| Dissertation: | Capacitive micromachined ultrasonics transducers with through-wafer interconnects |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Krishna Saraswat and Beth Pruitt |
| Current Position: | Engineer at Kolo Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, USA |
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| Alumni Name: | Serena H. Wong |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2008 |
| Dissertation: | Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers for therapeutic ultrasound |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Kim Butts Pauly and David Liang |
| Current Position: | Researcher at Pala Alto Research Center, USA |
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| Alumni Name: | Ira O. Wygant |
| Degree: | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, 2008 |
| Dissertation: | Three-dimensional ultrasound imaging using custom integrated electronics combined with capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
| Co-Advisor/s: | Thomas H. Lee, Dwight G. Nishimura |
| Current Position: | Engineer at National Semiconductor Cooperation, Santa Clara, CA |
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| Alumni Name: | Laurence Rolande Clarke |
| Degree: | Engineer Degree, 1986 |
| Dissertation: | Acoustic Evaluation of Grinding Damage in Silicon Nitride |
| Principal Advisor: | Butrus (Pierre) T. Khuri-Yakub |
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| Current Position: | Member of Technical Staff, Oracle Corporation, Nashua, NH |
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