Craig Tracy and colleagues at the University of CA Davis have won the 2002 George Polya prize for their pioneering work on random matrices.

Head of the Technical Division at Fermilab.

Named Director of Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in California.

Wenbing Yun, President and Co-founder, and Steve Wang, PhD 1998, are involved in a new company XRadia making laboratory-based x-ray microscopes for integrated circuit failure analysis. For more information, visit www.xradia.com.

Teaching introductory astronomy classes at Citrus College in Glendora, CA.

Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at the University of Texas, Arlington.

Defense Department Fellow.

"I graduated from Stony Brook in early '94, with a PhD thesis on particle physics under Jack Smith's guidance. The labor market in the field was extremely difficult at the time so I promptly decided to explore opportunities outside academics. To my satisfaction I found out how much the U.S. industry valued my scientific education at Stony Brook along with my Engineering background. I took a position as Research Scientist at Dragon Systems in Newton, MA, at the time the leader in Speech Recognition technology, where I could develop- along with a team of physicists, mathematicians, engineers, linguists- leading edge applied research.

Personal reasons lead my wife and me to head back to Chile after a while. I entered a different field: logistics and information technology. Becoming a manager and leading big improvements for two top retailers in Chile was also a fascinating experience.

But destiny had new challenges reserved for me-I've always loved learning new things where I can make contributions-so after five years devoted to IT and logistics, I accepted a new position as Vice President of Distribution and Revenue Management at Lan Chile, one of the top three airlines in Latin America. I lead a team of 120 people devoted to the optimization of revenue, a field that incorporates the important components of operations research, analysis and technology to support it.

With the help of specialized software and a reservations data warehouse, we are able to forecast the demand for any given flight in the future, monitor all competitor pricing actions, analyze historic market behavior and thus take the necessary capacity and pricing decisions in order to obtain the maximum revenue possible from the flight.

I hope my story sounds helpful to some students. If anybody wants to contact me for further information or advice I would be very happy to help: smendoza@lanchile.cl or smendoza@rdc.cl ."

Marya Doery has a new internet software job in Connecticut, after her previous employer (also in internet software near the World Trade Center, was forced to make massive layoffs.)

Accepted a full professorship at Amsterdam University.

Accepted an assistant professorship at Purdue University.

Since graduating from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks with a Masters in Physics, has been working as a Research Analyst in physical oceanography at the UAF Institute of Marine Science. He loves living in Alaska, especially the outdoor activities. His goal is to become an Olympic long track speed skater (look for his name in 2006), but he also loves telemark skiing, ice fishing, hiking, and camping. "Cabin life up here is a little more rugged than what I ever expected to get used to, but running water is overrated, and outhouses never get backed up!"

At Jyvaskyla University in Finland.

Steve Wang along with Wenbing Yun (Pres. and Co-founder), PhD 1987, are involved in a new company XRadia making laboratory-based x-ray microscopes for integrated circuit failure analysis. For more information, visit www.xradia.com.

Won a prestigious and highly competitive Hubble Fellowship from the Space Telescope Science Institute, to be taken at MIT.

Postdoc at the University of Arizona, Tucson, working on quasi-one-dimensional Bose condensates with Marvin Girardeau and Ewan Wright.

Return to electronic yearbook

Last modified 1/18/04