Alumni

SPG alumni have carried their experience in power electronics, hardware, controls, and electrified systems into industry and graduate research across the country.

Graduate Alumni

Former graduate researchers and their current destinations.

William Vavrik

William Vavrik

M.S. 2025
Sargent & Lundy

Mingrui Zhu

Mingrui Zhu

M.S. 2022
Texas Instruments

Macks Johanesen

Macks Johanesen

M.S. 2022
Google

Abhishek Bhandari

Abhishek Bhandari

M.S. 2022
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor

Wentao Jiang

Wentao Jiang

M.S. 2021
Qualcomm


Undergraduate Research Alumni

Former undergraduate researchers and where they continued after SPG.

  • Alec Loessy — Graduate Researcher, MIT
  • Dora Stavenger — Milwaukee Tool
  • Sandra Georgy — Milwaukee Tool
  • Jonathan Sengstock — MPR Associates
  • Ayush Garg — Graduate Researcher, MIT
  • Maddie Donku — ENTRUST Solutions Group
  • Christine Chung — Burns & McDonnell
  • TJ Pickett-Pinex — UIUC
  • Raymond Chen — Supermicro

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