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| Alumni Graduate Students | ||||
| Student | Degree/Year | Present Location | ||
| Joseph Fauty | Ph.D./1975 | Not Available | ||
| Volker Wilms | Ph.D./1978 | Deceased | ||
| Mitchell Dorfman | M.S./1979 | Sulzer Metco | ||
| Saed Safai | Ph.D./1979 | Honeywell Engines | ||
| Joseph Vargas | M.S./1979 | Not Available | ||
| Kannan Krishnan | M.S./1980 | Not Available | ||
| Eric Lieberman | M.S./1983 | Pratt & Whitney | ||
| Hareesh Bhat | Ph.D./1984 | Not Available | ||
| Narayanaswamy Shankar | Ph.D./1984 | Chromalloy | ||
| K. R. Subramanian | Ph.D./1984 | Not Available | ||
| Bijay Saha | Ph.D./1985 | Not Available | ||
| Leonard Brown | Ph.D./1985 | Not Available | ||
| John Nerz | M.S./1987 | GE Aviation | ||
| Rangaswamy Subramaniam | Ph.D./1987 | Sulzer Metco | ||
| Daren Gansert | M.S./1988 | HAI | ||
| Xiai-xi Guo | Ph.D./1988 | Applied Materials | ||
| Keith Kowalsky | M.S./1988 | Flame Spray Induction | ||
| Chon Tuck | M.S./1988 | Not Available | ||
| Richard Neiser | Ph.D./1989 | Sandia National Labs | ||
| Sanjay Sampath | Ph.D./1989 | Stony Brook University | ||
| Hougong Wang | Ph.D./1989 | Applied Materials | ||
| Robert Borra | M.S./1990 | Not Available | ||
| Kerry LaPierre | M.S./1990 | Sulzer Metco | ||
| Lysa Russo | M.S./1990 | Stony Brook University | ||
| Jerritt Gluck | M.S./1991 | Not Available | ||
| Rajan Bamola | Ph.D./1992 | Surface Modification Systems | ||
| Yvonne Horan | M.S./1992 | Not Available | ||
| Rajesh Tiwari | Ph.D./1992 | Applied Materials | ||
| Paul Treadway | M.S./1992 | Not Available | ||
| Chris Perdikaris | M.S./1993 | Global Tungsten Products | ||
| Jan Ilavsky | Ph.D. 1994 | Aragonne National Labs | ||
| Srikanth Reddy | M.S./1994 | Ford Motors | ||
| Raphael Benary | M.S./1995 | Consultant | ||
| Zhonjian Chen | Ph.D./1995 | Chromalloy | ||
| Robert Greenlaw | M.S./1995 | Mesoscribe Technologies | ||
| Karlis Gross | Ph.D./1995 | Monash Univ. | ||
| Chung-Kwei Lin | Ph.D./1995 | Not Available | ||
| Jeffrey Brogan | Ph.D./1996 | Mesoscribe Technologies | ||
| Klaus Dobler | M.S./1996 | St. Louis Metallurgy | ||
| Robert Gansert | Ph.D./1996 | Advance Materials | ||
| Sang-Ha Leigh | Ph.D./1996 | Caterpillar Inc | ||
| Ravi Purandare | M.S./1997 | Not Available | ||
| Saifi Usmani | Ph.D./1997 | Nanoslurry Inc | ||
| Ahmed Ibrahim | Ph.D./1998 | Farmingdale State Univ | ||
| Aron Newman | Ph.D./1998 | Physical Sciences | ||
| William Smith | M.S./1998 | Mesoscribe Technologies | ||
| Thomas Chraska | Ph.D./1999 | Inst. of Plasma Physics, Cz | ||
| Jiri Matijicek | Ph.D./1999 | Inst. of Plasma Physics, Cz | ||
| Jon Gutleber | M.S./ 1999 | Mesoscribe Technologies | ||
| Dongil Shin | M.S./ 1999 | Tecnaplasma System | ||
| Srinivasan Rangarajan | Ph.D./2000 | Not Available | ||
| Shiang-Yu (Sandy) Tan | Ph.D./2000 | Not Available | ||
| Xianyang Jiang | Ph.D./2000 | Caterpillar Inc. | ||
| Steven DePalo | M.S./2000 | Self Employed | ||
| Mathew Gold | M.S./ 2001 | GE | ||
| Rogerio Lima | Ph.D./2001 | CNRC, Canada | ||
| David Cook | Ph.D./2001 | Ford Motor Co. | ||
| Ashish Patel | M.S./2001 | Sulzer Metco | ||
| Anand Kulkarni | Ph.D./ 2002 | Siemens Energy | ||
| Lubos Prchlik | Ph.D./2002 | Skoda Turbine Research, Cz | ||
| Limin Sun | Ph.D./2002 | Not Available | ||
| Xiaoyun Wang | Ph.D./2002 | Sensitron | ||
| Yu Gu | Ph.D./2003 | Not Available | ||
| Brian Keyes | M.S./2003 | MesoScribe Technologies | ||
| David Otterson | Ph.D./2003 | Not Available | ||
| Zhiquang Wang | Ph.D./2003 | GE Research | ||
| Anirudha Vaidya | Ph.D./2004 | Siemens Energy | ||
| Swarnima Deshpande | Ph.D./2004 | Not Available | ||
| Jeffrey Swab | Ph.D./2004 | Army Research Lab | ||
| Li Li | Ph.D./2004 | Praxair Inc. | ||
| Quingu Yan | Ph.D./2004 | Not Available | ||
| Melissa Butters | M.S./2005 | Pratt and Whitney | ||
| Xiangzhong Guo | Ph.D./2005 | Boston Scientific | ||
| Petr Michlik | Ph.D./2005 | Caterpillar | ||
| Ondrej Racek | Ph.D./2005 | Caterpillar | ||
| Atin Sharma | Ph.D./2006 | Sulzer Metco | ||
| Joseph Japson | M.S./2007 | MesoScribe Technologies | ||
| Srinivasan Vasudevan | Ph.D./2007 | Applied Materials | ||
| Yajie Liu | Ph.D./2007 | Novellus | ||
| Wei-Guang Chi | Ph.D./2007 | Siemens Energy, China | ||
| Wanhuk Brian Choi | Ph.D./2007 | Postdoc at Stony Brook | ||
| Antonio Caccavale | M.S./2007 | Con Edison | ||
| Shanshan Liang | Ph.D./2008 | Stony Brook Univ. | ||
| Wesley Francillon | Ph.D./2008* | Texas Instruments | ||
| Alfredo Valarezo | Ph.D./2008 | Universidad San Francisco de Quito | ||
| Wei Zhang | Ph.D./2008 | CVD equipment Corp. | ||
| Chris Dambra | Sulzer Metco | |||
| Phil Scala | Sulzer Metco | |||
| Matthew Gold | GE Energy | |||
| Joshua Margolies | GE Energy | |||
| Guangha Wei | ||||
| Hongbin Xiong | ||||
| Narasimhan Srinivasan | Veeco Instruments | |||
| Travis Wentz | M.S./2009 | CTSR | Jongkwon Chung | M.S./2010 | Doosan Infracore, South Korea | 
| Gopal Dwivedi | M.S./2010 | current Ph.D. student | ||
| Chris Jensen | M.S./2010 | CTSR | ||
| Jose Colmenares-Angulo | Ph.D./2010 | Sulzer Metco | ||
| Ravi Dey | M.S./2011 | current Ph.D. Student | ||
| Junghan Kim | M.S./2011 | LG Chem, South Korea | ||
| Ari Sagiv | M.S./2011 | Stony Brook University | ||
| Arash Ghabchi | Ph.D./2011 | |||
| Post-Doctoral Fellows | ||||
| Scholar | Topic | Present Location | ||
| B. Gudmundsson | High Tc Superconductivity | Siemens | T. Jewett | Plasma sprayed FGMs | Valenite | 
| G.X. Wang | Modeling of Solidification | Univ. of Akron | ||
| R. Goswami | Microstructure Development | NRL | ||
| Y. Wan | Process Modeling | Not Available | ||
| A. Dent | Process-Microstructure Relationship | Materials Connexions | ||
| P. Sujatha Devi | Precursor based synthesis of oxides | CGCRI-India | ||
| U. Senturk | Thermal Barrier Coatings | Potters Industries, Inc. | ||
| H. Sitepu | Neutron stress and texture measurement | ILL-Grenoble | ||
| V. Luzin | Neutron stress and texture measurement | ANSTO-Australia | ||
| M. Raja | Characterization of magnetic ensors | DMRL India | ||
| S. Tankiewicz | Sensor and electronics by thermal spray | Sensors for medicine | ||
| B.G. Ravi | Precursor based synthesis of oxides | Current with J.Parise | ||
| D. Kharas | Deposition of semiconductor devices | Sarnoff Corporation | ||
| A. Kulkarni | Advanced coating characterization | Siemens Energy | ||
| T. Streibl | Integrated process diagnostics | BMW research- Munich | ||
| M. Friis | Process-structure relations | SKF - Sweden | ||
| A.N. Vaidya | Process maps and process reproducibility | Siemens Energy | ||
| Y.H. Wu | Microstructural Characterization of Coatings | Composites company | ||
| W.B. Choi | Parent Metal Restoration | ReliaCoat Technologies | ||
| Y. Tan | Thermal properties of coatings | Current post-doc | ||
| K. Shinoda | Deposition Rate Effect on Plasma Spray | AIST Japan | ||
| A. Valarezo | In-situ Coating Properties | Universidad San Francisco de Quito | ||
| Undergraduate Students | ||||
| Scholar | Degree/Year | Present Location | ||
| Nicole Wagner | ||||
| Niranjana Ruiz | ||||
| Angela Yuan | ||||
| Eli Rosofsky | ||||
| Chris Del | ||||
| Maike Johanson | ||||
| Anita Ristorucci | ||||
| Thomas Thersleff | ||||
| Christine Mancine | ||||
| Jason Trelewicz | Stony Brook University | |||
| Fabiola Bruschetti | ||||
| Cassandra Holtzgartner | ||||
| Jessica Jimenez | ||||
| Charles Greenhut | ||||