From our first graduates in 1995, to the most recent CSE alumni, our computational scientists find work in a broad range of industry (both large and small companies) and also work in government labs, obtain postdoc positions, and are offered faculty positions in academia. Listed below are the entry positions, or most recent positions, of our alumni.
| Name | Dept. | Deg. | Date | Initial or current employment |
| Tong Liu | ABE | PhD | Aug 16 | Monsanto |
| Wei Yan | ABE | PhD | Dec 10 | Caterpillar, Champaign |
| Pratik Bhattacharjee | AE | MS | May 03 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Michael S. Breitenfeld | AE | MS | Jan 98 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Christian Chilan | AE | PhD | Oct 09 | HDF Group |
| Heath Dewey | AE | MS | Aug 06 | ATK, Brigham City, UT |
| Rajeev Jaiman | AE | MS | Feb 03 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Satish Kumar | AE | MS | Sept 00 | United Airlines, Chicago |
| Ashish Mishra | AE | MS | May 11 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Jose Padilla | AE | MS | Dec 02 | University of Michigan |
| Richard Page | AE | MS | May 07 | Analytical Graphics Inc. |
| Sameer Rishipathak | AE | MS | May 04 | NCSA, UIUC |
| Michael Rybalko | AE | PhD | Dec 11 | Gulfstream Aerospace |
| Daniel Stromberg | AE | MS | May 00 | Pratt & Whitney, Hartford, CT |
| Steven F. Wojtkiewicz | AE | PhD | Jul 99 | University of Minnesota |
| Mariusz Zaczek | AE | MS | Jun 02 | NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston |
| Peter Freddolino | BioP | PhD | May 09 | Princeton University |
| Tuseeta Banerjee | Chem | PhD | May 16 | Wolfram Research |
| Jiahao Chen | Chem | PhD | May 09 | MIT |
| Bryan Goodman | Chem | PhD | Jan 00 | Ford Motor |
| Panagiotis Dimitrakopoulos | ChBE | PhD | May 98 | Postdoc, Caltech |
| Zeming Gou | ChBE | PhD | Aug 03 | Clemson University |
| David Lei Ma | ChBE | PhD | May 02 | UTC Fuel Cells, South Windsor, CT |
| Efimia Metsi | ChBE | PhD | May 00 | BP-Amoco Chemicals, Naperville |
| Jeremy Van Antwerp | ChBE | PhD | May 99 | Calvin College |
| Marc Viera | ChBE | PhD | Aug 02 | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Samantha Weiss | ChBE | PhD | May 16 | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| George Alhaj | CEE | MS | Aug 08 | Tishreen University, Syria |
| Meghna Babbar | CEE | PhD | Dec 06 | Texas A&M University |
| John Bignell | CEE | PhD | May 06 | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Carlos Caldas | CEE | PhD | May 03 | University of Texas, Austin |
| Ramon Calderer | CEE | MS PhD | May 09 May 12 | Intel, Hillsboro, OR |
| Mariano Cantero | CEE | PhD | May 07 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Yenny Chandra | CEE | MS | May 09 | Houston, TX |
| Nathan Crane | CEE | PhD | Jul 02 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Arun Gain | CEE | MS | May 10 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Arne Gullerud | CEE | PhD | May 99 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Piyush Gupta | CEE | MS | May 11 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Varun Gupta | CEE | MS | Aug 10 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Jason Hales | CEE | PhD | Aug 01 | Idaho National Laboratory |
| Paulo Herrera | CEE | MS | Dec 03 | University of British Columbia |
| Xiaoming Huang | CEE | MS | May 11 | TradeLink, Chicago |
| Chau Hoai Le | CEE | MS PhD | May 06 Aug 10 | Caterpillar, Champaign |
| Sofia Leon | CEE | PhD | Dec 10 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Yong Liu | CEE | PhD | Aug 01 | Biotechnology Center, UIUC |
| Anshu Manik | CEE | PhD | Dec 02 | Res Assoc, Michigan State |
| Vikas Mehra | CEE | MS | Aug 06 | Riverglass, Champaign |
| Mark Messner | CEE | MS | Aug 11 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Kalyana Nakshatrala | CEE | PhD | May 07 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Alireza Namazifard | CEE | PhD | May 00 | General Electric, Albany, NY |
| Tam Hong Nguyen | CEE | MS PhD | Dec 06 Aug 10 | Northeastern University |
| Patrick O’Hara | CEE | PhD | May 10 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Wallied Orabi | CEE | PhD | Aug 10 | Florida International University |
| Julia Plews | CEE | MS | May 11 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Arun Prakash | CEE | PhD | Oct 07 | Postdoc, UCLA |
| Octavio Sequeiros | CEE | PhD | Dec 08 | Shell, Netherlands |
| Abhishek Singh | CEE | PhD | Oct 07 | INTERA, Austin, TX |
| Pratyush Sinha | CEE | MS | Aug 06 | Riverglass, Champaign |
| James Sobotka | CEE | MS PhD | May 06 Dec 10 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Lauren Stromberg | CEE | MS | May 10 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Alok Sutradhar | CEE | PhD | May 05 | MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston |
| Ertugrul Tacirogul | CEE | PhD | Dec 98 | UCLA |
| Timothy Truster | CEE | MS | May 10 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Daniel Turner | CEE | PhD | Sep 08 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Amanda White | CEE | PhD | Dec 05 | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| Tristan Wietsma | CEE | MS | May 12 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Shengquan Yan | CEE | PhD | May 06 | Microsoft |
| Tomas Zegard | CEE | MS | Dec 10 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Tyler Alumbaugh | CS | MS | May 05 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| Nana Arizumi | CS | PhD | May 12 | CEA-Leti Clinatec, France |
| Jehanzeb Hameed Chaudhry | CS | PhD | Aug 11 | Postdoc, Colorado State University |
| Eric Cyr | CS | PhD | Dec 08 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Robert Engle | CS | MS | Dec 03 | IBM, Rochester, MN |
| Paulo Figueiredo | CS | MS | May 95 | Petrobras, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Mark Gates | CS | MS PhD | May 07 Aug 11 | Postdoc, University of Tennessee |
| Damrong Guoy | CS | PhD | Jul 01 | Synopsys |
| David Hardy | CS | PhD | May 06 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Aaron Hartman | CS | MS | May 00 | Systems and Synchronous, Aurora |
| Rebecca Hartman-Baker | CS | PhD | Oct 05 | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Russell Hewett | CS | PhD | Dec 11 | Postdoc, MIT |
| Jason Hibbeler | CS | PhD | Apr 97 | IBM |
| Paul D. Hovland | CS | PhD | May 97 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Jesus A. Izaquirre | CS | PhD | May 99 | Notre Dame University |
| Xiangmin Jiao | CS | PhD | Nov 01 | Stony Brook University |
| Venkatram Krishnaswamy | CS | PhD | May 97 | Intel |
| Antonio Lain | CS | PhD | May 95 | Hewlett-Packard |
| Orion Lawlor | CS | MS | Dec 04 | University of Alaska |
| Vanessa Lopez | CS | PhD | Jan 04 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Jonghyun Lee | CS | PhD | May 03 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Xiaosong Ma | CS | PhD | Aug 03 | North Carolina State University |
| Greg Mackey | CS | MS | Dec 03 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Dmitry V. Nekhayev | CS | MS | Feb 97 | Raindrop Geomagic |
| Hanna Neradt | CS | PhD | May 07 | Keiser University |
| Boyana Norris | CS | PhD | Aug 99 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Michael Parks | CS | PhD | Dec 04 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| D’laila Pereira | CS | MS | May 02 | Microsoft |
| Ali Pinar | CS | PhD | Aug 01 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Pradeep Kumar Prabhakaran | CS | PhD | Jul 98 | Intel |
| Jacob Schroder | CS | PhD | Aug 10 | Postdoc, U. Colorado |
| Christopher Siefert | CS | PhD | Jan 06 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Ari Trachtenberg | CS | PhD | Dec 99 | Boston University |
| Alper Ungor | CS | PhD | Jun 02 | University of Florida |
| Shun Wang | CS | PhD | Sep 07 | Credit Suisse, New York |
| Tao Wang | CS | PhD | Dec 00 | Avant! |
| Wei Wang | CS | PhD | May 05 | Goldman-Sachs |
| Terry Wilmarth | CS | PhD | Jan 05 | Intel |
| Michael Wolf | CS | PhD | May 09 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Zlatan Aksamija | ECE | PhD | Oct 09 | U. Wisconsin |
| Ozgur Aktas | ECE | PhD | Dec 01 | Bilkent University, Turkey |
| Kemal Aygun | ECE | PhD | Jun 02 | Intel |
| J. Jeffrey Dull | ECE | MS PhD | Jun 98 | St. Louis, MO |
| Arif Ergin | ECE | PhD | May 00 | Gebze Inst. Tech., Turkey |
| Eric J. Grimme | ECE | PhD | May 97 | Intel |
| Eugene Hodges | ECE | MS | Apr 96 | Cary, NC |
| Roberto Lavarello | ECE | PhD | Oct 09 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Daniel Manjarres | ECE | MS | May 09 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Marco Milla | ECE | PhD | May 10 | Radio Observatorio Jicamarca, Lima, Peru |
| Daniel J. Palermo | ECE | PhD | Apr 96 | Hewlett-Packard, Richardson, TX |
| Amber Roy-Chowdhury | ECE | PhD | Dec 95 | IBM |
| Yong Rui | ECE | PhD | Mar 99 | Microsoft Research |
| Andrew Smolik | ECE | MS | May 00 | Teradyne, Agoura Hills, CA |
| Daniel Weile | ECE | PhD | Aug 99 | Vis. Asst. Prof., UIUC |
| Ali Yilmaz | ECE | PhD | Jan 05 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Vaishali Shrivastava | IESE | MS | Dec 02 | Algor, Pittsburgh, PA |
| Mehmet Sayar | MatSE | MS | Dec 98 | PhD student, Northwestern |
| Shipeng Shu | MatSE | PhD | Aug 15 | Postdoc, UW-Madison |
| Teck Leong Tan | MatSE | PhD | May 11 | A-Star, Singapore |
| Pinchao Zhang | MatSE | PhD | May 16 | Industrial Technology Group |
| Ann Delano | Math | MS | Jan 99 | Richmond, VA |
| John Fettig | Math | MS | May 04 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Ka Lung Law | Math | PhD | Dec 08 | Hong Kong |
| Emily Schlafly | Math | MS | May 16 | Boston Univ. |
| Evan VanderZee | Math | PhD | Dec 09 | Argonne National Laboratory |
| Nilanjan Adhya | MechSE | MS | Aug 98 | I2 Technologies, Irving, TX |
| Badrinarayan Athreya | MechSE | PhD | Aug 06 | Caterpillar, Peoria |
| Sujana Chandrasekar | MechSE | MS | May 11 | General Electric, Bangalore, India |
| Aveek Chatterjee | MechSE | MS | June 03 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Sudipto Kumar De | MechSE | MS PhD | Jun 02 Oct 06 | Cadence Design Systems, San Jose, CA |
| Michael Dorneich | MechSE | PhD | Sep 99 | St. Paul, MN |
| Michelle Duesterhaus | MechSE | MS | Aug 01 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Barath Ezhilan | MechSE | MS | Dec 11 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Erika Fotsch | MechSE | MS | May 16 | Allison Transmission, Inc. |
| Mark Goodwin | MechSE | MS | May 09 | Exxon Mobil, Sugar Land, TX |
| Lance Hibbeler | MechSE | MS | Dec 09 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Apoorv Kalyankar | MechSE | MS | Aug 11 | Cummins Emission Solutions, Stoughton, WI |
| David Kijowski | MechSE | MS | Dec 10 | Exelon, Morris, IL |
| Anil Kumar Kodali | MechSE | MS PhD | Oct 05 Aug 10 | Intel |
| Shrenik Kothari | MechSE | MS | May 11 | Intel, Chandler, AZ |
| Deepak Kulkarni | MechSE | PhD | Oct 05 | Intel, Chandler, AZ |
| Chul Hee Lee | MechSE | PhD | May 06 | Caterpillar, Champaign |
| Min Li | MechSE | MS | May 99 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Justin Mach | MechSE | PhD | May 09 | Univ. North Texas |
| W. Joseph Mantle | MechSE | PhD | Aug 00 | Ford Motor, Dearborn, MI |
| Laura McLay | MechSE | MS PhD | Dec 01 May 06 | Virginia Commonwealth University |
| Julian Norato | MechSE | MS PhD | Jan 03 May 05 | Caterpillar, Champaign |
| Keith Rackers | MechSE | MS | Jun 95 | Grove City OH |
| Arvind Rajagopalan | MechSE | MS | Aug 00 | I2 Technologies, Dallas |
| Bharat Rangan | MechSE | MS | Aug 06 | ZS Associates, Chicago |
| William R. Reed | MechSE | MS | May 00 | U.S. Navy |
| Aaron Shinn | MechSE | PhD | Aug 11 | ExxonMobil, Houston |
| Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan | MechSE | MS | May 00 | Fluent, Lebanon, NH |
| Brian Taylor | MechSE | PhD | Dec 10 | Naval Research Laboratory |
| Satya Varadhan | MechSE | PhD | Dec 07 | Dassault Systems Simula Corp., Providence, RI |
| Seth Watts | MechSE | MS | Aug 09 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Zhenyu Xue | MechSE | PhD | Jun 01 | Harvard University |
| Ning Yu | MechSE | PhD | May 05 | Goodyear, Akron, OH |
| Lin Zhang | MechSE | PhD | May 08 | Caterpillar, Dunlap, IL |
| Neal Davis | NPRE | MS | May 10 | Computational Science & Eng, UIUC |
| Aaron Oaks | NPRE | MS | Dec 10 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Daniel Rock | NPRE | MS | May 01 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Rabie Abu Saleem | NPRE | MS | Dec 11 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Onder Uluyol | NPRE | PhD | May 98 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Saad Antoun Khairallah | Physics | PhD | May 07 | Carnegie Institution Geophysical Lab |
| Brent Kraczek | Physics | PhD | Oct 07 | University of Texas, Austin |
| Damian Menscher | Physics | PhD | Oct 05 | |
| Dmitry V. Nekhayev | Physics | MS | May 97 | Raindrop Geomagic |
| David Richards | Physics | PhD | Dec 97 | Arizona State University |
| Donald Siegel | Physics | PhD | Sep 99 | Sandia National Laboratories |
| Tommaso Torelli | Physics | PhD | Dec 00 | Mountain View, CA |
| Alexandros Trellakis | Physics | PhD | Jan 00 | Intel |
| Tim Wilkens | Physics | PhD | Aug 01 | Advanced Micro Devices |
| Nikolai Zarkevich | Physics | PhD | May 03 | Postdoc, UIUC |
| Shengquan Zhou | Physics | PhD | May 12 | Bloomberg LP, NYC |
| Fenghua Zong | Physics | PhD | Jan 02 | Seagate Technology, Bloomington, MN |
| Pinaki Chakraborty | TAM | MS PhD | May 03 May 06 | Postdoc in Geology, UIUC |
| Shelly Lawrence Henry | TAM | MS | May 00 | ARM, Austin, TX |
| Igor Kouznetsov | TAM | MS | May 00 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Yanning Liu | TAM | PhD | May 04 | Bellevue, WA |
| Ian McNamara | TAM | MS | Aug 15 | Northrop Grumman |
| D. Shane Stafford | TAM | PhD | Dec 08 | Stellar Science, Albuquerque |
| Brian Taylor | TAM | MS | May 05 | PhD student, UIUC |
| Shaojie Xu | TAM | PhD | Apr 96 | Intel |