- Hau Duong , Studies of fast ion confinement in the DIII-D
Tokamak, graduated c. 1994, currently employed by Nanostream (biomedical
research and development).
- Emil Ruskov , Studies of fast ion confinement in the Tokamak
Fusion Test Reactor using beam "blips",
graduated c. 1996.
- Ed Carolipio , The effect of Helical Field Perturbations
on Energetic Ion Confinement in the DIII-D Tokamak,
graduated 2000 (navigation
research and development).
- Jing Fang , Studies of Second Harmonic Generation in
semiconductor processing, graduated c. 2000, currently employed by Intel
(semiconductor research and development).
- George Watson , Ion species mix and ion density measurements
using radio frequency waves, graduated 2003, (military research and development).
- Liangji Zhao , Measurements of classical transport of fast
ions in the Large Plasma Device, graduated 2004, currently employed by
FarTech (fusion research).
- Yadong Luo , Thesis:
Fast-ion D-alpha diagnostic on
DIII-D, graduated 2007, currently working in finance in Boston
- Yang Zhang , Thesis project:
Fast ions and shear Alfven waves,
graduated 2008, (technology entrepreneur)
- Wayne Harris , Thesis project:
Ion flow measurements and plasma current analysis in the Irvine
Field Reversed Configuration,
graduated 2009, (industrial research and
development).
- Deyong Liu , Thesis project:
Fast-ion studies in the National
Spherical Torus Experiment: Transport by instabilities and acceleration
by high harmonic fast waves,
graduated 2009, currently employed by General Atomics (magnetic fusion).
- Erik Trask , Thesis project:
Macroscopic electromagnetic
properties of the Irvine
Field Reversed Configuration: equilibrium, power balance
and fluctuations,
graduated 2010, currently employed by TAE Technologies (fusion research).
- Shu Zhou, Thesis project:
Turbulent transport of energetic ions and thermal plasma,
graduated 2011, currently employed by Intel (plasma process engineer)
- Christopher Muscatello, Thesis project:
Velocity-space resolved fast-ion measurements in the DIII-D tokamak,
graduated 2012, currently employed by General Atomics (fusion research)
- Thomas Roche , Thesis project: Impurity transport in
a field reversed configuration experiment, graduated
2012 [Note: McWilliams is the primary advisor], currently
employed by TAE Technologies (fusion research)
- Nathan Bolte, Thesis project: passive FIDA light
in DIII-D, graduated 2015, currenty employed by TAE Technologies (fusion
research)
- Adam Preweisch, Thesis project: Fast ion transport by
magnetic fluctuations, graduated 2015.
- Luke Stagner, Thesis project:
Inference of the fast-ion distribution function,
graduated 2018; currently employed by General Atomics (fusion research).
- Daniel Lin, Thesis project:
FIDA measurements on DIII-D and JT-60SA; graduated 2022; currently
employed by General Atomics (diagnostics division)
- Genevieve Degrandchamp, Thesis project:
Ion cyclotron emission in DIII-D ;
graduated 2022; currently employed by Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory (fusion research).
- Alvin Garcia, Thesis project:
Spin Polarized Fuel and
Artificial Intelligence in Fusion Energy at DIII-D ;
graduated 2023; currently employed as
an ORISE postdoc (fusion research).
- Kenneth Gage, Thesis project:
Fast-ion losses and transport in DIII-D and ASDEX-Upgrade
- Garrett Prechel, Thesis project:
Solid state neutral particle analyzers on MAST-U and NSTX-U;
inference of the fast-ion distribution function
- Wataru Hayashi, Thesis project:
Fast-ion confinement in the LHD
- Mario Podesta (former postdoc), FIDA on NSTX, currently employed
by the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- David Pace (former postdoc), fast-ion research on DIII-D,
currently employed
by General Atomics
- Alessandro Bortolon (former postdoc), FIDA on NSTX, currently
employed by Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
- Xi Chen (former postdoc), Light-ion beam probe on DIII-D, currently
employed by General Atomics
- Deyong Liu (former postdoc), fast-ion research on NSTX, currently
employed by General Atomics
- Cami Collins (former postdoc), FIDA research on DIII-D,
currently employed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Guangzhou Hao (former postdoc), FIDA research at NSTX-U, currently employed
by Southwestern Institute of Physics (Chengdu)
- Xiaodi Du (former postdoc), Imaging neutral particle analyzer and
fast-ion research on DIII-D, currently employed by General Atomics
- Jeff Lestz (former postdoc), Instabilities driven by fast ions
and runaways near the ion cyclotron frequency
on DIII-D and LHD, currently employed by General Atomics.
- Javi Gonzalez-Martin (former postdoc), Trapped particle
imaging neutral particle analyzer and
fast-ion research on DIII-D and JET, currently an Assistant Professor
at the University of Seville.
- Bo Schmidt (incoming postdoc), Advanced data analysis techniques for fast-ion diagnostics at DIII-D.
- Jose Rueda Rueda (incoming postdoc), Fast-ion fluctuation measurements and analysis at DIII-D.
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