People

Jonathan J. MakelaProfessor (jmakela@illinois.edu)

Jonathan J. Makela received his B.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2003) from the School of Electrical Engineering at Cornell University. After completing his Ph.D. he spent two years in the Thermospheric and Ionospheric Research and Applications group at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC as a post-doctoral research associate. He joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign at the end of 2004 where he is currently the Able Bliss Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Current Group Members

NameProject
Cindy YuCindy is using MANGO data to understand gravity wave propagation characteristics from the mesosphere through thermosphere.
Divyansh JainDivyansh is writing code to improve the MANGO data collection for the FPI instruments. He is also working on an automated technique to determine whether MANGO images are contaminated by clouds.
Nikita VolynskiyNikita is writing code to improve the MANGO data collection for the FPI instruments. He is also working on an automated technique to determine whether MANGO images are contaminated by clouds.

Alumni

NamePositionInitial Placement
Mark ButalaVisiting Research Scientist Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joint Institute 
Jianqi QinVisiting Research Scientist Research Scientist at Illinois 
Zama Katamzi-JosephVisiting Fulbright Scholar South African National Space Agency 
Pierdavide CoissonPost-Doc Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Associate Physicist) 
Narayan ChapagainPost-Doc Tribhuvan University (Associate Professor) 
Luis NavarroPost-Doc Research Scientist at University of Colorado Boulder 
Hossein BagheriPost-Doc Motorola Mobility (Wireless Engineer) 
Matthew GrawePh.D. 2021; M.S. 2017; B.S. 2015Johns Hopkins University Applied Research Laboratory
Daniel FisherPh.D. 2017; M.S. 2013; B.S. 2010 Northrup Grumman 
Brian HardingPh.D. 2017, M.S. 2013 University of California at Berkeley 
Timothy M. DulyPh.D. 2014, M.S. 2011 ASTRA, LLC 
Yiyi HuangPh.D. 2012 Citadel Investment Group 
Ethan S. MillerPh.D. 2009 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Research Laboratory 
Kristina ChuM.S. 2019 LGS Innovations 
Aaron SmithM.S. 2018 NASA Glenn Research Center 
Doyoun KimM.S. 2017 Qualcomm 
Dimitrios IliouM.S. 2016 MathWorks 
Thomas GehrelsM.S. 2013 Rincon Research 
Uday KanwarM.S. 2011 Intel 
Peter R. HedlundM.S. 2010 The Johns Hopkins University Applied Research Laboratory 
Shaun ArmstrongM.S. 2008 Northrop Grumman 
Daniel YaoM.S. 2008 Citadel Investment Group 
Dwayne HagermanM.S. 2007 Indesign, LLC 
Matthew BaughmanB.S. 2020Graduate School at University of Michigan
Graham EllinghausenB.S. 2018Optiver
Dominic GrandeB.S. 2018Amazon Web Services
Jacob TomarasB.S. 2016SpaceX
Brishen HawkinsB.S. 2015Graduate School at the University of Illinois
David LauschkeB.S. 2015Jeffries
Shuo LiuB.S. 2015 Graduate School at the University of Illinois 
Zach WidderB.S. 2015Cisco
Chenshuo YueB.S. 2015 California Institute of Technology 
Robel AregaB.S. 2014 State Farm 
Derek ChenB.S. 2014Graduate School at the University of Illinois
Shawn AdderlyB.S. 2011 IBM 
Richard MuryantoB.S. 2011 Motorola Mobility 
Nicholas Yap Jiunn TerB.S. 2011 Graduate School at Stanford University 
Madi ZholbaryssovB.S. 2011 Graduate School at the University of Illinois 
Isankar SaikiaB.S. 2011 Graduate School at the New Jersey Institute of Technology 
Balaji TummalaB.S. 2011 Deloitte 
Sameeraj IlapavuluriB.S. 2010 JPMorgan Chase 
Michael DeJesusB.S. 2010 Graduate School at Stanford University 
David HoB.S. 2010 Graduate School at the University of Illinois 
Divey GulatiB.S. 2009 Epic Systems Corporation 
Daniel SlowinskiB.S. 2009 Motorola 
Jonathan GohB.S. 2008 Citigroup 
Tomasz WojtaszekB.S. 2007 Graduate School at the University of Illinois 
Peter JohnsonB.S. 2007 Naval Aviation Schools Command 
Jason ReadleB.S. 2006 Graduate School at the University of Illinois 
Ujwal Kiran
Thomas Fischer
Sarah Shim
Matteo Hoch
Joy Chen
Jailun Liu
Brian Chien
Alan Yang
David V. Thomas
Khanh Nguyen