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 |