Jonathan J. Makela, Professor (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
Name | Project |
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Cindy Yu | Cindy is using MANGO data to understand gravity wave propagation characteristics from the mesosphere through thermosphere. |
Divyansh Jain | Divyansh 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 Volynskiy | Nikita 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
Name | Position | Initial Placement |
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Mark Butala | Visiting Research Scientist | Assistant Professor at Zhejiang University-University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joint Institute |
Jianqi Qin | Visiting Research Scientist | Research Scientist at Illinois |
Zama Katamzi-Joseph | Visiting Fulbright Scholar | South African National Space Agency |
Pierdavide Coisson | Post-Doc | Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris (Associate Physicist) |
Narayan Chapagain | Post-Doc | Tribhuvan University (Associate Professor) |
Luis Navarro | Post-Doc | Research Scientist at University of Colorado Boulder |
Hossein Bagheri | Post-Doc | Motorola Mobility (Wireless Engineer) |
Matthew Grawe | Ph.D. 2021; M.S. 2017; B.S. 2015 | Johns Hopkins University Applied Research Laboratory |
Daniel Fisher | Ph.D. 2017; M.S. 2013; B.S. 2010 | Northrup Grumman |
Brian Harding | Ph.D. 2017, M.S. 2013 | University of California at Berkeley |
Timothy M. Duly | Ph.D. 2014, M.S. 2011 | ASTRA, LLC |
Yiyi Huang | Ph.D. 2012 | Citadel Investment Group |
Ethan S. Miller | Ph.D. 2009 | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Research Laboratory |
Kristina Chu | M.S. 2019 | LGS Innovations |
Aaron Smith | M.S. 2018 | NASA Glenn Research Center |
Doyoun Kim | M.S. 2017 | Qualcomm |
Dimitrios Iliou | M.S. 2016 | MathWorks |
Thomas Gehrels | M.S. 2013 | Rincon Research |
Uday Kanwar | M.S. 2011 | Intel |
Peter R. Hedlund | M.S. 2010 | The Johns Hopkins University Applied Research Laboratory |
Shaun Armstrong | M.S. 2008 | Northrop Grumman |
Daniel Yao | M.S. 2008 | Citadel Investment Group |
Dwayne Hagerman | M.S. 2007 | Indesign, LLC |
Matthew Baughman | B.S. 2020 | Graduate School at University of Michigan |
Graham Ellinghausen | B.S. 2018 | Optiver |
Dominic Grande | B.S. 2018 | Amazon Web Services |
Jacob Tomaras | B.S. 2016 | SpaceX |
Brishen Hawkins | B.S. 2015 | Graduate School at the University of Illinois |
David Lauschke | B.S. 2015 | Jeffries |
Shuo Liu | B.S. 2015 | Graduate School at the University of Illinois |
Zach Widder | B.S. 2015 | Cisco |
Chenshuo Yue | B.S. 2015 | California Institute of Technology |
Robel Arega | B.S. 2014 | State Farm |
Derek Chen | B.S. 2014 | Graduate School at the University of Illinois |
Shawn Adderly | B.S. 2011 | IBM |
Richard Muryanto | B.S. 2011 | Motorola Mobility |
Nicholas Yap Jiunn Ter | B.S. 2011 | Graduate School at Stanford University |
Madi Zholbaryssov | B.S. 2011 | Graduate School at the University of Illinois |
Isankar Saikia | B.S. 2011 | Graduate School at the New Jersey Institute of Technology |
Balaji Tummala | B.S. 2011 | Deloitte |
Sameeraj Ilapavuluri | B.S. 2010 | JPMorgan Chase |
Michael DeJesus | B.S. 2010 | Graduate School at Stanford University |
David Ho | B.S. 2010 | Graduate School at the University of Illinois |
Divey Gulati | B.S. 2009 | Epic Systems Corporation |
Daniel Slowinski | B.S. 2009 | Motorola |
Jonathan Goh | B.S. 2008 | Citigroup |
Tomasz Wojtaszek | B.S. 2007 | Graduate School at the University of Illinois |
Peter Johnson | B.S. 2007 | Naval Aviation Schools Command |
Jason Readle | B.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 |