HSL Alumni

If you wish to be added to the list, email us with your current information. If you wish to get in contact with other HSL alumni, please contact Liz Zotos (zotos at mit dot edu).

Many alumni returned for the MVL@50 Symposium held on September 14, 2012. The symposium booklet is available, which includes the program, some photos and two articles by Larry Young reflecting on his history with HSL.

Here is a link to a slide show of alumni and friends of HSL which was presented at our March 5 2009 Strategic Planning Event.

 
Year Name (Degree) Last known place
2022: Eswar Anandapadmanaban (S.M.) ???
  Morgan Blevins Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Eric Hinterman (Ph.D.) SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA
  Madelyn Hoying ???
     
2021: Becca Browder (S.M.) SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA
  Sarah Gonzalez (S.M.) ???
  Alvin Harvey (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D., HSL
  Brandon Koo (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D., HSL
  Brandon Lechinsky (S.M.) TBD
  Tim McGrath (Ph.D.) NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
  Daniel Poe (S.M.) TBD
  Paul Stegall (Postdoc) Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
  Leia Stirling (Director, Visiting Prof.) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
     
2020: Nick Anastis (S.M.) Draper Lab, Cambridge, MA
  Aditi Gupta (Ph.D.) USAID, Washington D.C.
  Shea Lombardo (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Julia Milton (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Alan Natapoff (Res. Scientist) Cambridge, MA
  Golda Nguyen (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Allison Porter (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Rachel Price (S.M.) Hansman Lab, MIT
  Jeremy Stroming (S.M.) TBA
  Jessica Todd (S.M.) Continuing for PhD, MIT/WHOI
     
2019: Richard Fineman (Ph.D.) Apple, Inc.
  Christine Joseph (S.M.) Aurora Flight Sciences, Cambridge, MA
  Roedolph Opperman (Ph.D.) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  Todd Sheerin (Ph.D.) The Aerospace Corporation
     
2018: Blake Bequette (S.M.) U.S. Army
  Srinivasa Aditya Bhattaru (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Conor Cullinane (Ph.D.) Pirouette Medical, LLC
  Inderraj S. Grewal (S.M.) MDA Robotics, Houston, TX
  Eric D. Hinterman (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Chris King (S.M.) General Electric
  Johannes Norheim (S.M.) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT)
  Hosea Siu (Ph.D.) MIT Lincoln Lab
     
2017: Sherrie Hall (Ph.D.) Draper Lab, Cambridge, MA
  Forrest Meyen (Ph.D.) Lunar Outpost, Arvada, CO
  Chika Eke (S.M.) Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN
  Alison Gibson (S.M.) SpaceX
  Tim McGrath (S.M.) MIT HSL
     
2016: Pierre Bertrand (S.M.) San Francisco, CA
  Tony Broll (S.M.) Navy
  Raquel Galvan-Garza (Ph.D.) Lockheed Martin. Herndon, VA
  Lynn Geiger (S.M.) Northrup Grumman
  Hannah Groshong (S.M.) Spy Pond Partners, Arlington, MA
  Dustin Kendrick (Ph.D.) Engineer for Adidas, Portland, OR
  Sabrina Reyes (S.M.) Navy
  Morris Vanegas (S.M.) Biomedical Device Researcher, Cambridge, MA
     
2015: Giuseppe Cataldo (Ph.D.) NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  Ana Diaz Artiles (Ph.D.) Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
  Alexandra Hilbert (S.M.) Lockheed Martin, Denver, CO
  Sam Schreiner (S.M.) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  Aleksandra Stankovic (S.M.) Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
     
2014: Anton Aboukhalil (Ph.D.) ??
  Allie Anderson (Ph.D.) Asst. Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  Celena Dopart (S.M.) Boeing, Houston, TX
  Brad Holschuh (S.M., Ph.D.) Asst. Prof., Univ. of Minnesota, School of Design
  Aaron Johnson (Ph.D.) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  Justin Kaderka (Ph.D.) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
  Jared Rize (S.M.) Mechanical Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head,  MD
  Becky Vasquez (S.M.) Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA
     
2013: Torin Clark (Ph.D.) Asst. Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
  Nora Newie (Visiting Student) Germany
  Christopher Trigg (S.M.) SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA
  Stephanie Tritchler (S.M.) Radoil, Houston, TX
  Brian Wee (B.S.) Grad Student, Tufts Univ.
     
2012: Rita Domingues (Visiting Student) Portugal
  Andrea Gilkey (S.M.) Boeing, Houston, TX
  Ryan Kobrick (Post-doc) Assistant Faculty,Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL
  Caroline Lowenthal (S.M.) Museo Interactivo Mirador, Santiago, Chile
  Jaime Mateus (Ph.D., Post-doc) SpaceX
  Paulo Melo (Visting Student) Portugal
  Victor Wang (S.M.) Care.Coach, Millbrae, CA
     
2011: Tatsuya Arai (PhD) Smith & Nephew, Mansfield , MA
  Rachel Forman (S.M.) SpaceX, Los Angeles , CA
  Michal Kracik (Visiting Student) Poland
  Alex Stimpson (S.M.) Post-doc, Duke University
  Andrew Vechart (S.M.) Honeywell, Minneapolis, MN
  Erika Wagner (S.M., PhD, Staff) Blue Origin, Seattle, WA
  Hui-Ying Wen (S.M.) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena , CA
     
2010: George Christou (S.M., PhD.) ??
  Sofia d'Orey (Internship ) Portugal
  Rahul Goel (S.M.) Baylor College of Medicine
  C.J. Hainley (S.M.) ESCO Corp., Portland, OR
  Roedolph Opperman (S.M.) Aurora Flight Sciences, Cambridge, MA
  Teresa Pontillo (S.M.) New York
  Raghav Venkatesan (S.M.) Chennai, India
  James Waldie (Post-doc) Australia
  Alex Walther (Visiting student) Cambridge, UK
     
2009: Andrew Hearn (Internship) Ireland
  Mike Newman (S.M.) NASTAR, Philadelphia, PA
  Lt. Chris Oravetz (S.M.) US Air Force, Dayton, OH
  Andrew Rader (Ph.D.) Cambridge, MA
  Linette Rivera (Summer Intern) Univ. of Puerto Rico
  Pierre Selva (Visiting student) Supaero, France
  Jun Jay Tan (S.M.) Cambridge, MA
  Zakiya Tomlinson (S.M.) Honeywell Technollogy Systems, Greenbelt, MD
     
2008: Adrian Collins (Internship) Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
  Jessica Edmonds (Ph.D.) Aurora Flight Sciences, Cambridge, MA
  Joe Essenburg (S.M.) Stroud Consulting, Calgary, Canada
  Thaddeus Fulford-Jones (Ph.D.) Radial Analytics, Cambridge, MA
  Arthur Guest (Internship) Canada
  Lasse Lindqvist (Internship) Nokia, Finland
  Doulas Stewart (FAS Internship) Ireland
  Leia Stirling (Ph.D) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
     
2007: Hirofumi Aoki (Post-doc) Nagoya University, Japan
  Dan Buckland (S.M.) Duke University, Durham, NC
  Claire Cizaire (S.M.) Dept. of Aeronautics/Astronautics, MIT
  Kevin Duda (Ph.D.) Draper Lab, Cambridge, MA
  Paul Elias (S.M.) MIT-Harvard HST Program
  Ivo Ferreira (Internship) ESTEC/ESA, Netherlands
  Thomas Jarchow (Post-doc) ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
  Dan Judnick (S.M.) The Aerospace Corp., El Sugundo, CA
  Jessica Marquez (Ph.D.) NASA Ames Research Center, CA
  Alejandra Menchaca Brandan (S.M.) Payette, Boston, MA
  Robert Ocampo (S.M.) San Francisco, CA
  Scott Sheehan (S.M.) Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
     
2006: Anton Aboukhalil (S.M.) MIT Aero/Astro
  Kristen Bethke (S.M.) Tufts University, Medford, MA
  Phil Ferguson (Ph.D.) Microsat Systems Canada, Inc, Toronto, Canada
  Nicole Jordan (S.M.) NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
  Jeremie Pouly (S.M.) France
  Liang Sim (S.M.) Boeing, Seattle, WA
     
2005: Bruce Webster (S.M.) Navajo Technical College, NM
  Christopher Carr (Sc.D.) MIT Dept of Earth, Atmo, Pl. Sci
  Carlos Pinedo (S.M.) US Air Force
     
2004: Ian Garrick-Bethell (S.M.) Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz
  Miwa Hayashi (Ph.D.) NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn View, CA
  David Benveniste (S.M.) Alstom, Paris, France
  Sophie Adenot (S.M.) France
  Sylvain Bruni (S.M.) MIT Humans & Automation Lab
     
2003: Heiko Hecht (Post-doc) University of Mainz, Germany
  Joaquin Blaya (S.M.) eHealth Systems, Chile
  Annie Frazier (S.M.) Recall, Atlanta, GA
  Brad Pitts (S.M.) Cambridge, MA
     
2002: Berengere Houdou (S.M.) European Space Agency, Holland
  Nate Newby (M.Sc.) Wyle Labs, Houston, TX
  Joseph Saleh (Ph.D.) School of Aerospace Engineering, Ga. Tech
     
2001: Allan Atamer (M.Sc.) XLTEK, Toronto, Canada
  Mindy Delaney (M.Sc.) Orbital Sciences Corp.
  Sylvie Loday (M.Sc.) McKinsey & Co., New York
  Patricia Schmidt (Ph.D.) NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
  Scott Rasmussen ??
     
2000: Carol Cheung (M.Sc.) MIT Lincoln Labs
  William Hutchison (M.Sc.) MIT Dept of Earth, Atmo, Pl. Sci
  Lisette Lyne (M. Sc.) UK
  Jason Richards (M.Sc.) Houston, TX
  Grant Schaffner (Ph.D.) University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
  Kathleen Sienko (M. Sc.) Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
     
1999: Andrew Beall (Post-doc) WorldViz & Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA ,
     
1998: Amir Amir (Ph.D.) McKinsey & Co., Miami, FL
  G. Luca Callini (M.Sc.) NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
  Jennifer Rochlis (M.Sc.) NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX
     
1997: Adam Skwersky (M.S .) IBM Software Group
  Anna Tomassini Porter (S.M.) Lockheed Martin, Littleton, CO
     
1996: Albert Assad (S.M.) US Air Force
     
1995: Christopher Pouliot (M.S.) Google, Mountain View, CA
     
1994: Corinna Lathan (Ph.D.) AnthroTronix, Silver Spring, MD
  Stephen Robinson (Post-doc) University of California, Davis, CA
  Ted Smith (Post-doc) University of Louisville School of Medicine, KY
     
1993: Ted Liefeld (M.S.) Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of California, San Diego  
  Juan Carlos Mendoza (M.S.) World Bank, Washington, DC
     
1992: Dava Newman (Ph.D.) NASA (MIT MVL/Dept. of Aero & Astro)
     
1990: Dan Merfeld (Ph.D.) Mass Eye & Ear, Boston, MA
  Mark Shelhamer (Sc.D.) NASA (The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD)
     
1988: Peter Diamandis (S.M.) Zero-Gravity Corp./X-Prize
     
1985: Remy Malan (S.M.) ICon Professional Services, Foster City, CA
     
1979: Byron Lichtenberg (Sc.D.) Southwest Airlines
  Troy Crites (S.M.) Foods-4-Thought,Greater Washington, DC
     
1977: Greg Zacharias (Ph.D.) US Air Force (Charles River Analytics, Cambridge, MA)
     
1976: Thomas Vidic (S.B.) Elkhart Clinic, Elkhart, IN
     
1975: Arye Ephrath (Ph.D.) Mythology, Inc., Fairfax, VA
     
1974: John Allum (Sc.D.) University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland
     
1973: Chas Burr (S.M.) Regis College, Weston, MA
     
1972: Charles Oman (Ph.D.) MIT MVL/Dept. of Aero & Astro
     
1970: Lew Nashner (Sc.D.) NeuroCom, Clackamas, OR
     
1968: Jack Forster (S.M.) CACI, Washington, DC
     
1962: Laurence Young (Sc.D.) MIT MVL/Dept. of Aero & Astro