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So, people do actually graduate.  So far 94 and counting...


Brian Donovan, Ph.D. 2008, "Minimal Infrastructure Short Range Radar Networks", now with BBN Technologies, Cambridge, MA.


Ninoslav Majurec, Ph.D. 2008, "Advanced Multi-Frequency Radar:  Design, Preliminary Measurements and Particle Size Distribution Retrieval", now a Research Associate with the ElectroSciences Laboratory, Ohio State University.


Dragana Perkovic, Ph.D. 2008, "Radar Remote Sensing of Currents and Waves in the Nearshore Zone", now with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA


Gita Pathak, M.S. 2008. "Development of a Solid-State Doppler Marine Radar", now with Northrop-Grumman Electronic Systems, Baltimore, MD.


Yonghun Cheon, Ph.D. 2008, "Theory and Experiments of the Angle-of-Arrival Fluctuations through Atmospheric Turbulence", now with Samsung Electronics, Seoul, Korea.


Tao Chu, M.S. 2008, "Operation and Improvement of the IWRAP Airborne Doppler Radar/Scatterometer", now pursuing PhD at the University of Massachusetts


Karthik Srinivasan, M.S. 2007, "Design and Development of TIMMI - An Interferometric Radar", now with NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.


Francesc Junyent-Lopez, Ph.D. 2007, "Networked Weather Radar System using Coherent on Receive Technology",
M.S. 2003, "The Design, Development, and Initial Field Deployment of an X-band Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar", now  a Research Associate with Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO.


Kery Hardwick, M.S. 2007, "Mobile X-band Doppler Weather Radar:  System Improvements", now pursuing Ph.D. at the University of Massachusetts.


Razi Ahmed, M.S. 2006, "Radar System Characterization: Mathematical Models, Simulation
and Verification", now pursuing Ph.D. at University of Massachusetts.


Mario Behn, M.S. 2006, "Turbulence measurements in the atmospheric surface layer by means of an ultrasonic anemometer and thermometer".  Now with the Bundeswehr Institute for Underwater Sound and Geophysical Research, Kiel, Germany.


Elizabeth Kerr, M.S. 2006, "The Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler:  System Analysis and Modifications for Wind and Precipitation Measurement", now with
NOAA Aircraft Operations Center, Tampa, FL.


Zeynep (Culcuoglu) Tulu, M.S. 2005, "Considerations for Bistatic Radar Probing of Winds in  Clear-Air Conditions", now pursuing Ph.D. at University of Massachusetts.


Gordon Farquharson, Ph.D. 2004, "Microwave Radar Observations of Nearshore Ocean Dynamics", now with the University of Washington Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA
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Daniel Esteban-Fernandez, Ph.D. 2004, "Remote Sensing of the Ocean and Atmospheric Boundary Layer within Tropical Cyclones", now with
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.


Harry Figueroa, M.S. 2004, "Development of  the Ku-Band Radar Subsystem for the Advanced Multi-Frequency Radar for Atmospheric Research", now with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.


Jorge Roman-Nieves, M.S. 2004, "An Operational 95 GHz Cloud Radar for High-Altitude Unmanned Aircraft", now with Command Technologies, Inc., Melbourne, FL.


Sharmila Padmanabhan, M.S. 2004, "Design, Fabrication, and Deployment of a K-band Radiometer to Measure Microwave Emission of the Ocean Surface", now at Colorado State U., Ft. Collins, CO.


Fransisco Lopez-Dekker, Ph.D. 2003, "Spatial and Temporal Statistics of Clear-Air Radar Signals", now with Polytechnical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain.


William N. Junek, M.S. 2003, "Implementation and Test of a Dual-Beam Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar for Ocean Current Estimates", now with Command Technologies, Inc., Melbourne, FL.


Apoorva N. Bajaj,
M.S. 2003, "Deployment and Operation of an S-Band FMCW Doppler Radar", now with Johnson & Johnson, India.


Kevin A. Horgan, M.S. 2003, "Design and Implementation of a Dual-Mode Ka-Band Polarimetric Radiometer", now with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD.


Mohammed A. Aziz, M.S. 2003, "Ocean Surface Measurements and Calibration Techniques using a Ka-Band Polarimetric Radiometer", now with SQA Labs, Phoenix, AZ.


Matthew R. Agen, M.S. 2002, "Radiometric Water Vapor and Liquid Measurement Near 22 GHz", now with MITRE Corporation.


Antoni Castells, M.S. 2002, "Design and Implementation of the Imaging Wind and Rain Airborne Profiler", now a Ground Stations Engineer with EUMETSAT, Darmstadt, Germany.


Joan Pons, M.S. 2002, "Evaluation of a Multi-Channel Water Vapor and Liquid Water Radiometer for Airborne Use", now with EADS-CASA, Madrid, Spain.


Turker Ince, Ph.D. 2001, "Clear Air Radar Observations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer", now with Izmir University of Economics, Turkey


Jie Li, Ph.D. 2001, "Volume-Imaging UHF Radar Measurement of Atmospheric Turbulence", now with Eaton Vorad Technologies, San Diego, CA


Yuan Xia, Ph.D. 2001, "Sea-Surface Temperature and Sea-Surface Wind-Speed Retrievals from Spaceborne Radiometer Measurements", now with Microwave Instrumentation Technologies, Duluth, GA


Marc Bergada, M.S. 2001, "Design and Implementation of a Low Noise Front-end and Internal Calibration Loop for a Ka-band Cloud Radar", now wiith EADS-CASA, Madrid, Spain.


Vidhya Thyagarajan, M.S. 2001, "FPGA Based Data Acquisition and Control Systems for an X-band Weather Radar", now with GDA Technologies, Inc.


Juan Capdevila, M.S. 2001, "Design and Implementation of a Dual Beam Interferometer for Ocean Surface Current Vector Mapping", now with EADS-CASA, Madrid, Spain.


Olga Rodriguez-Lopez, M.S. 2001, "Attenuation Field Estimate From Dual-beam Airborne Radar Measurments".


James V. Eshbaugh, Ph.D. 2000, "Estimation of Sea Surface Topography with Interferometric Radar", now with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA


Lihua Li. Ph.D. 2000, "Retrieval of Atmospheric Attenuation Using Ground-Based and Airborne Millimeter-wave Cloud Radar Measurements", now with Goddard Earth Sciences and Technology Center, U. Maryland, Baltimore County.


Fei Wang, M.S. 2000, "Construction of a Ka-band Polarimetric Radiometer", now with Teradyne, Inc., Boston, MA.


Ray P. Bambha, Ph.D. 1999, "A Compact Millimeter-wave Radar for Studies of Clouds and Precipitation", now with U. California, Davis


John D. Isham, Ph.D. 1999, "Large-Scale Temporal and Spatial Imaging of Soil Brightness Temperature with an L-Band Synthetic Aperture Microwave Radiometer", now with Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, MA.


Gregory A. Sadowy, Ph.D., 1999, "A 95 GHz Airborne Cloud Radar: Statistics of Cloud Reflectivity and Analysis of Beam-Filling Errors for a Proposed Spaceborne Cloud Radar", now with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA

 
Fei Kong, M.S. 1999, "Development of a Data Acquisition System for a Digital Beamforming Atmospheric Radar", now with Teradyne, Inc., Boston, MA.

   
Jeffrey M. Baker, Ph.D. 1998, "Forward Scatter Polarimetric Measurements of Terrain at 35 and 225 GHz", now with Raytheon Co., Bedford, MA.


W. Jay Donnelly, Ph.D. 1998, "Revised Ocean Backscatter Models at C and Ku-band under High Wind Conditions", now with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, Lexington, MA.


Brian D. Pollard, Ph.D. 1998, "Local Structure of the Convective Boundary Layer measured by a Volume-Imaging Radar", now with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.


John M. Firda, Ph.D, 1997, "Application of Dual-frequency Millimeter Wave Doppler Spectra for the Retrieval of Drop-size Distributions in Precipitation", now with Raytheon Co., Tewksbury, MA.


John C. Galloway, Ph.D. 1997, "Use of a W-band Polarimeter to Measure Microphysical Characteristics of Clouds", now with ISO New England.


Geoffrey Hopcraft, Ph.D. 1997, "The Turbulent Eddy Profiler: A Digital-Beam-Forming System for Clear Air Turbulence Measurements",  now with Hewlett Packard, Inc., Santa Rosa, CA.


Yong Liu, Ph.D. 1997, "Analysis of Dual Polarization Microwave Ocean Images Obtained with a High Resolution X-band radar", now with Raytheon Co., MA.


Delwyn Moller, Ph.D. 1997, "Analysis of Ocean Current Measurement Techniques Using an X-band Imaging Radar", now with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.


Timothy M. Scheve, Ph.D. 1997, "Profiling of Atmospheric Water Vapor and Liquid Water with a K-band Spectral Radiometer", now with Raytheon Co., Bedford, MA.


Rudolf A. Pawul, M.S. 1997, "A High Resolution Radar Altimeter to Measure the Topography of Ice Sheets", now with ISO New England, Holyoke, MA.


Kristan (Pisarczyk) Tuttle, M.S. 1997, now with MIT Lincoln Laboratories.


Stephen P. Lohmeier, Ph.D. 1996, "Supervised Classification of Natural Targets Using Millimeter Wave Multifrequency Polarimetric Radar Measurements".  M.S. 1992, "Measurements and Models of Normalized Radar Cross Section for Snow Cover at 35, 95, and 225 GHz", now with Raytheon Co., MA.


Cynthia M. Breton, M.S. 1996, "L-, S-, and C-Band Microwave Radiometers for Soil Moisture and Sea Ice Measurements", now with Raytheon Co., Bedford, MA.

   
Bruce M. Williams, M.S. 1996, "Performance Characterization of a Millimeter-wave Polarimetric Radar".
    

James R. Carswell, Ph.D. 1995, "Off-Nadir Backscatter Measurements of the Ocean Surface Under Low-wind Conditions", now with Remote Sensing Solutions, Inc., Barnstable, MA.


Stephen M. Sekelsky, Ph.D. 1995, "A 33 GHz and 95 GHz Cloud Profiling Radar System (CPRS): Preliminary Estimates of Particle Site in Precipitation and Ice-phase Clouds", now with Telephonics, Inc., Bethpage, NY.


Paul S. Chang, Ph.D. 1994, "Observations and Theory of Polarimetric Backscatter from Snowcover at 35, 95, and 225 GHz", now with NOAA NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD.


Ellen J. Ferraro, Ph.D. 1994, "Analysis of Airborne Radar Altimetry Measurements of the Greenland Ice Sheet", now with Raytheon Co. Bedford, MA.


Stephen J. Frasier, Ph.D. 1994, "A Focused Array Imaging Radar for Ocean Remote Sensing", now with U. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.


Lazlo G. Hevizi, Ph.D. 1994, "Airborne Measurements of the Electromagnetic Bias", now with Ericsson, Budapest, Hungary.


Andrew W. Paylor, M.S. 1994, "A C-band Scatterometer for Normalized Radar Cross Section Measurement.


Steven C. Carson, Ph.D. 1993, "Airborne Measurements of Radar Backscatter from the Ocean Surface at C-band", now with SAIC, Washington, DC.


Peter W. Gaiser, Ph.D. 1993, "The Development of a Second Generation Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer", now with Remote Sensing Division, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC.


Andrew J. Griffis, Ph.D. 1993, "Earth Remote Sensing with an Electrically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer", now with Arete Associates, Tucson, AZ.


Andrew L. Pazmany, Ph.D. 1993, "A High Spatial Resolution 95 GHz Polarimetric Radar for Remotely Sensing Clouds", now with ProSensing, Inc., Amherst, MA.


Karen M. St. Germain, Ph.D. 1993, "Application of Spectral Microwave Radiometry to Sensing of Sea Ice and the Ocean Surface", now with Integrated Projects Office, NPOESS, Washington, DC.


Gary W. Gleason, M.S. 1993, "The Design and Development of an Analog Complex Correlator and other Subsystems for Thinned Array Microwave Radiometer"


Eric J. Knapp, M.S. 1993, "Polarimetric Radar Backscatter Measurements of Snow Cover at 225 GHz", now with CASA at U. Massachusetts.


Paul B. Ferraro, M.S. 1992, "A Ka-band Stepped Frequency Scatterometer for the Measurement of Normalized Radar Cross Section", now with Raytheon Co., MA.


Asif Gandhi, M.S. 1992, "Synthetic Aperture Radar:  Issues in Narrow Band Systems and Images of the Ocean Surface", now with Lucent Technologies.

Kazimierz T. Grzeslak, 1992, "C- and X-band Polarimetric Scatterometer (PolScat)", now with BAE Systems, New Hampshire.
 

James D. Menashi, M.S. 1992, "Measurement of Sea Ice Thickness with Microwave Radiometers"


Ivan PopStefanija, Ph.D. 1991, "Remote Sensing of Ocean Currents using a Multifrequency Microwave Radar", now with ProSensing, Inc., Amherst, MA.


Philip M. Langlois, M.S. 1991, "Design and Calibration of a 95 GHz Coherent Polarimeter", now with Millitech, Northampton, MA.


Jose G. Colom, M.S. 1991, "Development of a 35 GHz Network Analyzer Based Polarimetric Scatterometer", now with University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.


Sandra L. Cruz-Pol, M.S. 1991, "Phase Error Analysis of Polarimetric Radars", now with University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez.


Eugene Boltniew, M.S. 1990, "Design and Implementation of a Detection Subsystem in a C-band Scatterometer for Topographical Imaging of Terrain".


Sharon Gaddoniex, M.S. 1990, "A Polarimetric Radar Control and Data Acquisition Unit"


Mark Goodberlet, Ph.D. 1989, "Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) Calibration/Validation", now with Prosensing, Inc., Amherst, MA.


David J. McLaughlin, Ph.D. 1989, "Remote Sensing of the Ocean Surface with C- and Ku-Band Airborne Scatterometers", now with U. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.


James B. Mead, Ph.D. 1989, "Polarimetric Measurement of Foliage and Terrain at 225 GHz", now with Prosensing, Inc., Amherst, MA.


Alan B. Tanner, Ph.D. 1989, "Aperture Synthesis for Passive Microwave Remote Sensing: The Electronically Scanned Thinned Array Radiometer", now with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.


Kuo-Hua Hsueh, M.S. 1989, "An Interactive Image Processing System for SSM/I".


Christoph Borel, Ph.D. 1988, "Models for Backscattering of Millimeter Waves from Vegetable Canopies", now with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM.


Ram M. Narayanan, Ph.D. 1988, "Measurement and Analysis of Electromagnetic Scattering from Vegetation and Fallen Snow at 215 GHz", now with Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA.


Timothy C. Hiett, M.S. 1988, "Construction of an Electronically Steered Thinned Array Radiometer".


John B. Morris, M.S. 1988, "Ocean Surface Wind Speed Determination from SMMR Brightness Temperature Data and Applications to the SSM/I"


Douglas Vandemark, M.S. 1988, "Measurements of Atmospheric Liquid Water at 215 GHz", now with University of New Hampshire.


Christopher S. Ruf, Ph.D. 1987, "Atmospheric Profiling of Water Vapor and Liquid Water with a K-band Autocorrelation Radiometer", now with University of Michigan.


Niranjan G. Kanaglekar, Ph.D. 1987, "Noise, Intermodulation Distortion, and Large Signal S-Parameter Analyses of Microwave Systems"


Joseph Chandler, M.S. 1987, "Analysis and Modifications of a Stepped Frequency Microwave Radiometer".


Glenn W. Meurer, M.S. 1987, "The Stepped Frequency Delta-K Radar:  An Ocean Remote Sensing Instrument", now with MIT Lincoln Laboratories.


David S. McQueen, M.S. 1986, "A Stepped Frequency Delta-K Radar for Ocean Current Sensing"


R. S. Raghavan, Ph.D. 1984, "Measurement of Ocean Surface Currents from Space with Multi-Frequency Microwave Radars"