Physics Career Seminars

CareerSeminars_April2015Newsletter

  • Prajwal Kulkami
    • Prajwal Kulkarni received in B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Pennsylvania State University in 2003. He went to Stanford University for graduate school, where he studied the near-Earth space environment. He graduated in 2009 with a PhD in Applied Physics. From 2009-2011 he served as a science policy fellow in science policy in Washington, DC. Since then, he has worked in various roles at different software companies. He is currently a Product Manager at EMS Software and is based in Denver, CO.
  • Emily Thompson
    • Emily Thompson is the Program Director for Growth at Insight Data Science. Insight is a 7-week intensive fellowship program that helps bridge the gap between academia and careers in data science and data engineering. Prior to Insight, Emily graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011, and was a post-doctoral research scientist in experimental high energy particle physics on the ATLAS detector based at CERN.
  • Tommer Wizansky
    • Tommer Wizansky is a senior software engineer with a doctorate in theoretical physics from Stanford University. Currently, he is a principal engineer with the data science team at AutoGrid where he works on software and predictive analytics for the energy sector. Previously, he worked at SolarEdge, developing software for photovoltaic devices and Structural, where he developed a financial optimizer for the rebalancing of equity portfolios.
  • Guneeta Singh Bhalla
    • Guneeta Singh Bhalla currently serves as Executive Director at The 1947 Partition Archive. Previously, she was an experimental condensed matter physicist and completed her tenure as a post-doctoral researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley, in December 2012. She studied quantum confinement at interfaces that include oxide heterostructures and domain walls in multiferroics. After a 2008 visit to the oral testimony archives at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial she was inspired and began interviewing Partition survivors in 2010. In 2011 The 1947 Partition Archive was born. She has personally interviewed over 100 Partition survivors and rallied volunteers to join in building the grassroots foundations of this people-powered organization. In 1947 her father’s family migrated from Lahore to Amritsar on August 14.
  • Kira Grogg
    • PhD in Physics in 2011 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • Fen Zhao
    • PhD in Applied Physics in 2010 from Stanford University.
  • Michele Petteni
    • PhD in Physics in 2003 from the Imperial College of London.
  • Sarah Loney
    • B.S. in Physics in 2003 from the University of Oregon.
  • Chris Harland
    • PhD in Physics in 2010 from the University of Oregon.
  • Asher Tubman
    • Asher Tubman graduated from the University of Oregon with a B.S. in Math and a minor in Physics, in 2007. He received his Master of Arts in Teaching from Pacific University in 2009 and currently teaches Physics at South Eugene High School.
  • Michael Mazur
    • PhD in Physics in 2008 from University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently a Senior Scientist at the National Security Technologies.
  • Michelle Deveny
    • B.S. in Physics in 2006 from the University of Oregon.
  • Burton DeWilde
    • PhD in Physics in 2012 from Stony Brook University.
  • Daniel Lenski
    • PhD in Physics in 2010 from the University of Maryland.
  • Jennifer Strauss
    • PhD in Physics in 2007 from Stony Brook University.
  • Vincent Chu
    • PhD in Applied Physics in 2009 from Stanford University.