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 |
| 2024: 2023: | Rachel Bellisle (Ph.D.) Michael Brown (S.M.) Alvin Harvey (Ph.D.) Akshay Kothakonda (Ph.D) Maya Nasr (Ph.D.) Cody Paige (Ph.D.) Allison Porter (Ph.D.) Jessica Todd (Ph.D.) Ferrous Ward (Ph.D.) Thomas Abitante (Ph.D.) Shravan Hariharan (S.M.) Aaron Makikali (S.M.) | Post-doc, MEEI, Boston, MA ?? Post-doc. MIT Media Lab Post-doc, MEEI, Boston, MA Post-doc, Harvard University Director, SEI, MIT Media Lab NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX JPL, Pasadena, CA SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA ??? SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA ??? |
| 2022: | Eswar Anandapadmanaban (S.M.) Morgan Blevins Eric Hinterman (Ph.D.) Madelyn Hoying | ??? Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA Continuing for Ph.D. at MIT |
| 2021: | Becca Browder (S.M.) Sarah Gonzalez (S.M.) Alvin Harvey (S.M.) Brandon Koo (S.M.) Brandon Lechinsky (S.M.) Tim McGrath (Ph.D.) Daniel Poe (S.M.) Paul Stegall (Postdoc) Leia Stirling (Director, Visiting Prof.) | SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA ??? Continuing for Ph.D., HSL Continuing for Ph.D., HSL TBD NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX TBD Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2020: | Nick Anastis (S.M.) Aditi Gupta (Ph.D.) Shea Lombardo (S.M.) Julia Milton (S.M.) Alan Natapoff (Res. Scientist) Golda Nguyen (S.M.) Allison Porter (S.M.) Rachel Price (S.M.) Jeremy Stroming (S.M.) Jessica Todd (S.M.) | Draper Lab, Cambridge, MA USAID, Washington D.C. Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) Cambridge, MA Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) Hansman Lab, MIT TBA Continuing for PhD, MIT/WHOI |
| 2019: | Richard Fineman (Ph.D.) Christine Joseph (S.M.) Roedolph Opperman (Ph.D.) Todd Sheerin (Ph.D.) | Apple, Inc. Aurora Flight Sciences, Cambridge, MA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA The Aerospace Corporation |
| 2018: | Blake Bequette (S.M.) Srinivasa Aditya Bhattaru (S.M.) Conor Cullinane (Ph.D.) Inderraj S. Grewal (S.M.) Eric D. Hinterman (S.M.) Chris King (S.M.) Johannes Norheim (S.M.) Hosea Siu (Ph.D.) | U.S. Army Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) Pirouette Medical, LLC MDA Robotics, Houston, TX Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) General Electric Continuing for Ph.D. (MIT) MIT Lincoln Lab |
| 2017: | Sherrie Hall (Ph.D.) Forrest Meyen (Ph.D.) Chika Eke (S.M.) Alison Gibson (S.M.) Tim McGrath (S.M.) | Draper Lab, Cambridge, MA Lunar Outpost, Arvada, CO Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN SpaceX MIT HSL |
| 2016: | Pierre Bertrand (S.M.) Tony Broll (S.M.) Raquel Galvan-Garza (Ph.D.) Lynn Geiger (S.M.) Hannah Groshong (S.M.) Dustin Kendrick (Ph.D.) Sabrina Reyes (S.M.) Morris Vanegas (S.M.) | San Francisco, CA Navy Lockheed Martin. Herndon, VA Northrup Grumman Spy Pond Partners, Arlington, MA Engineer for Adidas, Portland, OR Navy Biomedical Device Researcher, Cambridge, MA |
| 2015: | Giuseppe Cataldo (Ph.D.) Ana Diaz Artiles (Ph.D.) Alexandra Hilbert (S.M.) Sam Schreiner (S.M.) Aleksandra Stankovic (S.M.) | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Texas A&M University, College Station, TX Lockheed Martin, Denver, CO Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA |
| 2014: | Anton Aboukhalil (Ph.D.) Allie Anderson (Ph.D.) Celena Dopart (S.M.) Brad Holschuh (S.M., Ph.D.) Aaron Johnson (Ph.D.) Justin Kaderka (Ph.D.) Jared Rize (S.M.) Becky Vasquez (S.M.) | ?? Asst. Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Boeing, Houston, TX Asst. Prof., Univ. of Minnesota, School of Design University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA Mechanical Engineer, Naval Surface Warfare Center Draper Laboratory, Cambridge, MA |
| 2013: | Torin Clark (Ph.D.) Nora Newie (Visiting Student) Christopher Trigg (S.M.) Stephanie Tritchler (S.M.) Brian Wee (B.S.) | Asst. Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO Germany SpaceX, Los Angeles, CA Radoil, Houston, TX Grad Student, Tufts Univ. |
| 2012: | Rita Domingues (Visiting Student) Andrea Gilkey (S.M.) Ryan Kobrick (Post-doc) Caroline Lowenthal (S.M.) Jaime Mateus (Ph.D., Post-doc) Paulo Melo (Visting Student) Victor Wang (S.M.) | Portugal Boeing, Houston, TX Assistant Faculty,Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL Museo Interactivo Mirador, Santiago, Chile SpaceX Portugal Care.Coach, Millbrae, CA |
| 2011: | Tatsuya Arai (PhD) Rachel Forman (S.M.) Michal Kracik (Visiting Student) Alex Stimpson (S.M.) Andrew Vechart (S.M.) Erika Wagner (S.M., PhD, Staff) Hui-Ying Wen (S.M.) | Smith & Nephew, Mansfield , MA SpaceX, Los Angeles , CA Poland Post-doc, Duke University Honeywell, Minneapolis, MN Blue Origin, Seattle, WA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena , CA |
| 2010: | George Christou (S.M., PhD.) Sofia d’Orey (Internship ) Rahul Goel (S.M.) C.J. Hainley (S.M.) Roedolph Opperman (S.M.) Teresa Pontillo (S.M.) Raghav Venkatesan (S.M.) James Waldie (Post-doc) Alex Walther (Visiting student) | ?? Portugal Baylor College of Medicine ESCO Corp., Portland, OR Aurora Flight Sciences, Cambridge, MA New York Chennai, India Australia Cambridge, UK |
| 2009: | Andrew Hearn (Internship) Mike Newman (S.M.) Lt. Chris Oravetz (S.M.) Andrew Rader (Ph.D.) Linette Rivera (Summer Intern) Pierre Selva (Visiting student) Jun Jay Tan (S.M.) Zakiya Tomlinson (S.M.) | Ireland NASTAR, Philadelphia, PA US Air Force, Dayton, OH Cambridge, MA Univ. of Puerto Rico Supaero, France Cambridge, MA Honeywell Technollogy Systems, Greenbelt, MD |
| 2008: | Adrian Collins (Internship) Jessica Edmonds (Ph.D.) Joe Essenburg (S.M.) Thaddeus Fulford-Jones (Ph.D.) Arthur Guest (Internship) Lasse Lindqvist (Internship) Doulas Stewart (FAS Internship) Leia Stirling (Ph.D) | Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland Aurora Flight Sciences, Cambridge, MA Stroud Consulting, Calgary, Canada Radial Analytics, Cambridge, MA Canada Nokia, Finland Ireland University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 2007: | Hirofumi Aoki (Post-doc) Dan Buckland (S.M.) Claire Cizaire (S.M.) Kevin Duda (Ph.D.) Paul Elias (S.M.) Ivo Ferreira (Internship) Thomas Jarchow (Post-doc) Dan Judnick (S.M.) Jessica Marquez (Ph.D.) Alejandra Menchaca Brandan (S.M.) Robert Ocampo (S.M.) Scott Sheehan (S.M.) | Nagoya University, Japan Duke University, Durham, NC Dept. of Aeronautics/Astronautics, MIT Draper Lab, Cambridge, MA MIT-Harvard HST Program ESTEC/ESA, Netherlands ETH, Zurich, Switzerland The Aerospace Corp., El Sugundo, CA NASA Ames Research Center, CA Payette, Boston, MA San Francisco, CA Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 2006: | Anton Aboukhalil (S.M.) Kristen Bethke (S.M.) Phil Ferguson (Ph.D.) Nicole Jordan (S.M.) Jeremie Pouly (S.M.) Liang Sim (S.M.) | MIT Aero/Astro Tufts University, Medford, MA Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Manitoba, Canada NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX France Boeing, Seattle, WA |
| 2005: | Bruce Webster (S.M.) Christopher Carr (Sc.D.) Carlos Pinedo (S.M.) | Navajo Technical College, NM MIT Dept of Earth, Atmo, Pl. Sci US Air Force |
| 2004: | Ian Garrick-Bethell (S.M.) Miwa Hayashi (Ph.D.) David Benveniste (S.M.) Sophie Adenot (S.M.) Sylvain Bruni (S.M.) | Dept of Earth & Planetary Sciences, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn View, CA Alstom, Paris, France France MIT Humans & Automation Lab |
| 2003: | Heiko Hecht (Post-doc) Joaquin Blaya (S.M.) Annie Frazier (S.M.) Brad Pitts (S.M.) | University of Mainz, Germany eHealth Systems, Chile Recall, Atlanta, GA Cambridge, MA |
| 2002: | Berengere Houdou (S.M.) Nate Newby (M.Sc.) Joseph Saleh (Ph.D.) | European Space Agency, Holland Wyle Labs, Houston, TX School of Aerospace Engineering, Ga. Tech |
| 2001: | Allan Atamer (M.Sc.) Mindy Delaney (M.Sc.) Sylvie Loday (M.Sc.) Patricia Schmidt (Ph.D.) Scott Rasmussen | XLTEK, Toronto, Canada Orbital Sciences Corp. McKinsey & Co., New York NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX ?? |
| 2000: | Carol Cheung (M.Sc.) William Hutchison (M.Sc.) Lisette Lyne (M. Sc.) Jason Richards (M.Sc.) Grant Schaffner (Ph.D.) Kathleen Sienko (M. Sc.) | MIT Lincoln Labs MIT Dept of Earth, Atmo, Pl. Sci UK Houston, TX University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| 1999: | Andrew Beall (Post-doc) | WorldViz & Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA |
| 1998: | Amir Amir (Ph.D.) G. Luca Callini (M.Sc.) Jennifer Rochlis (M.Sc.) | McKinsey & Co., Miami, FL NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX NASA-Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX |
| 1997: | Adam Skwersky (M.S .) Anna Tomassini Porter (S.M.) | IBM Software Group 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.) Stephen Robinson (Post-doc) Ted Smith (Post-doc) | AnthroTronix, Silver Spring, MD University of California, Davis, CA University of Louisville School of Medicine, KY |
| 1993: | Ted Liefeld (M.S.) Juan Carlos Mendoza (M.S.) | Dept. of Medicine, Univ. of California, San Diego World Bank, Washington, DC |
| 1992: | Dava Newman (Ph.D.) | NASA (MIT MVL/Dept. of Aero & Astro |
| 1990: | Dan Merfeld (Ph.D.) Mark Shelhamer (Sc.D.) | Mass Eye & Ear, Boston, MA 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.) Troy Crites (S.M.) | Southwest Airlines 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 |