Alumni in Academia

Alumni from the Gharib Research Group have achieved success through a wide range of career paths. Some have founded highly successful startup companies or become entrepreneurs and leaders in industry, while others have pursued academic careers at universities and research institutions worldwide.

This list highlights former PhD graduates and postdoctoral researchers from our group who have chosen academic appointments, sorted by year:

Name, Position, University

  1. Dorian Liepmann
    Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering
    University of California, Berkeley

  2. Dana Dabiri
    Professor, Aeronautics & Astronautics
    University of Washington

  3. Kamran Mohseni
    Professor, Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
    University of Florida

  4. Paul Krueger
    Dean, College of Engineering
    Professor of Mechanical Engineering
    University of North Texas

  5. Michael OL
    Assistant Professor, Aerospace Engineering
    California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

  6. Mehrdad Zarandi
    Professor of Mathematics
    The American Public University System

  7. Matthew Ringuette
    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
    University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

  8. Lavi Rizki Zuhal
    Professor of Aerodynamics
    Institut Teknologi Bandung

  9. John Dabiri
    Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering
    California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

  10. Anna Iwaniec Hickerson
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    Keck Graduate Institute

  11. Flavio Noca
    Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering
    École de technologie supérieure

  12. Jijie Zhou
    Assistant Professor
    Nayang Tech University

  13. Arash Kheradvar
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, & Medicine (Cardiology)
    University of California, Irvine

  14. Abbas Nasiraei Moghaddam
    Associate Professor in Biomedical Engineering
    Amirkabir University of Technology

  15. Idit Avrahami
    Professor of Mechanical Engineering
    Ariel University

  16. Joseph Thomas Klamo
    Associate Professor, Department of Systems Engineering
    Naval Postgraduate School (NPS)

  17. Anna Grosberg
    Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
    University of California, Irvine

  18. Douglas Yung
    Teaching Professor, Biomedical Engineering
    Syracuse University

  19. Ehsan Jabbarzadeh
    Professor of Biomedical Engineering
    University of South Carolina

  20. Francisco Huera-Huarte
    Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
    University of Rovira i Virgili (URV)

  21. Amir Gat
    Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

  22. Adrianus Indrat Aria
    Senior Lecturer in Functional Nanomaterials
    Cranfield University

  23. Niema Pahlevan
    Associate Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Medicine
    University of Southern California

  24. Daegyoum Kim
    Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)

  25. Alireza Ramezani
    Associate Professor,  Electrical and Computer Engineering
    Northeastern University

  26. Ben Lin
    Department of Cardiology, Director of Echocardiography and Structural Echocardiography
    University of Southern California

  27. Cecilia Huertas-Cerdeira
    Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    University of Maryland, College Park

  28. Chris Roh
    Assistant Professor, Biological Engineering
    Cornell University

  29. Cong Wang
    Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
    University of Iowa

  30. Arian Aghilinejad
    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering
    University of California, Merced

  31. Xiaozhou Fan
    Assistant Professor, Sustainable Energy and Environment
    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology