Mehran Kardar

Students

[1]   Timothy Halpin-Healy, (Joint advisor with Prof. B.I. Halperin at Harvard University), 1987
Professor of Physics at Barnard College, New York
[2]   Terence Hwa, Physics Department, MIT (Joint advisor with Professor T. Tanaka), 1990
Professor of Physics at UCSD
[3]   Maya Paczuski, Electrical Engineering Department, MIT, 1991
Professor of Physics, University of Calgary, Canada
[4]   Ernesto Medina, Physics Department, MIT, 1991
Dean, School of Physical Sciences & Nanotechnology, Yachay Tech. Univ., Ecuador
[5]   Hao Li, Physics Department, MIT (Joint advisor with Professor K. Huang), 1992
Professor, Department of Biochmistry and Biophysics, UC San Francisco
[6]   Leon Balents, (Joint advisor with Prof. D.S. Fisher at Harvard University), 1994
Professor, Physics Department & KITP, UC Santa Barbara
[7]   Lawrence Saul, Physics Department, MIT, 1994
Professor, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego
[8]   Deniz Ertas, Physics Department, MIT, 1995
Permanent member of staff at EXXON/Mobil Research and Engineering
[9]   Darren Pierre, Physics Department, MIT
Master's thesis awarded in 1997; Dominican priesthood.
[10] Ramin Golestanian, Inst. for Advanced Studies in Theor. Phys. & Math., Zanjan, Iran, 1998
Professor, Department of  Physics, Oxford University, England; Director, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
[11] Raissa D'Souza, Physics Department, MIT, 1999
Professor, Department of Computational Science and Engineering, UC Davis
[12] Mohammad Kohandel, Inst. for Advanced Studies in Theor. Phys. & Math., Zanjan, Iran, 1999
Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Canada
[13] Rava daSilveira, Physics Department, MIT, 2000
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France & University of Basel, Switzerland
[14] Jeffrey H. Chuang, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Profs. Tanaka and Grosberg), 2001
The Jackson Lab. For Genomic Medicine, Farmington, CT
[15] Kimani A. Stancil, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Profs. Tanaka and Feld), 2002
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Math & Science, US Merchant Marine Academy, NY
[16] Mehdi Yahyanejad, Physics Department, (Joint advisor with Professor C. Burge) MIT, 2004
Information Science Institute, University of Southern California
[17] Allan Lee, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. van Oudernaarden), 2005
Master’s thesis in 2005, MathWorks ->  Leap Scientific, LLC.
[18] Michael Slutsky, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. Leonid Mirny), 2005
Algorithm Engineer, Algotec Systems Ltd., Israel
[19] John Frank, Physics Department, MIT
Co-founder and CTO of MetaCarta.
[20] Sahand Jamal Rahi, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. Robert Jaffe), 2010
Lab for Physics of Biological Systems, EPFL, Switzerland
[21] Andrea Zoia , Visiting student from Milan Polytechnic
Permanent Research position at CEA/Saclay, France
[22] Clement Chatelain, Visiting student from Ecole Normale Superieure, Cachan (2007-08)
Permanent researcher at SANOFI, France
[23] Andrej Kosmrlj, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. Arup Chakraborty, Chem. E.), 2011
Associate Professor, Dept. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
[24] Alexander Shpunt, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. Leonid Mirny)
Co-founder of PrimeSense,  acquired by Apple Inc.
[25] Mohammad Faghfoor Maghrebi, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. Robert Jaffe), 2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan State University
[26] Vladyslav A. Golyk, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. Robert Jaffe)
Associate at McKinsey & Company, New York
[27] Michael Flynn, Physics Undergraduate thesis, MIT, 2015
PhD at UC Davis, Postdoc at Boston University
[28] Hanrong Chen, Physics Department, Harvard University, 2018
Genome Institute of Singapore
[29] Sherry Chu, Physics Department, MIT, 2019
Air traffic control, Vancouver
[30] Alex Siegenfeld, Physics Department, MIT, 2022
Postdoc at NECSI
[31] Herny Shackloton, Physics Department, Undergraduate Research, MIT
Doctoral studies at Harvard
[32] Daniel Swartz, Physics Department, MIT
[33] Deepti Kannan, Physics Department, MIT (jointly with Prof. Arup Chakraborty)

Postdoctoral Fellows