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
M.S. 2025
Sargent & Lundy
Mingrui Zhu
M.S. 2022
Texas Instruments
Macks Johanesen
M.S. 2022
Google
Abhishek Bhandari
M.S. 2022
Alpha and Omega Semiconductor
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




