Lucy Y. Pao

Postdocs and Students


Current Graduate Students

Jeffrey A. Butterworth (Adaptive Strategies for Combined Feedforward/Feedback Control of Atomic Force Microscopes)

Matthew J. Travers (Multisensor Data Fusion / Satellite Tracking, co-advised with Todd D. Murphey)

Hua Zhong (Advanced Control for Tape Drives)

Jason H. Laks (Blade Pitch Control for Wind Turbines)

Fiona M. Dunne (Combined Feedforward/Feedback Control for Wind Turbines)

Marian Chaffe (Advanced Control of Near Field Scanning Optical Microsopes, co-advised with Robert R. McLeod)


Group Photo, February 2004: From left to right are:
back: Nathan Baltz, Richard Powers, Chris Lee, Nick Bernstein, Matt Baumgart, Craig Cutforth;
middle: Chanat La-orpacharapan, Weibin Xu;
front: Hua Zhong, Lucy Pao, Kathryn Johnson, and Wat Khawsuk.


Group Photo, October 2000: From left to right, bottom to top are: Roman Novoselov, Craig Cutforth, Mike Kalandros, Chris Lee, Nathan Baltz, Lidija Trailovic, Chanat La-orpacharapan, and Lucy Pao.


Past Postdocs

Vishwesh Kulkarni, 2003-2005 (currently a Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India)

Lidija Trailovic, 2003-2004 (currently at Northrop Grumman Corporation, Denver, CO)


Past Ph.D. Students

Brian P. Rigney (currently a Senior Staff Electrical Engineer at Western Digital Corporation, Longmont, CO)

Richard M. Powers (currently Vice President of R & D at RavenBrick LLC, Denver, CO)

Nicholas L. Bernstein (currently at Touch of Life Technologies, Aurora, CO)

Kathryn E. Johnson (currently on the faculty at the Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO; formerly at the National Wind Technology Center of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO, 2004-2005)

Chanat La-orpacharapan (currently at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, San Jose, CA)

Weerawat Khawsuk (currently on the faculty at the Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy, Nakhon Nayok, Thailand) Matthew D. Baumgart (currently at Ball Corporation, Boulder, CO)

Lidija Trailovic (currently at Northrop Grumman Corporation, Denver, CO)
(formerly a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Pensacola, FL, 2001-2002)

Christopher D. Lee (currently at Medical Simulation Corporation, Denver, CO)

Craig F. Cutforth (currently a Senior Servo Engineer at Seagate Technology, Longmont, CO)

Michael K. Kalandros (currently a Senior Staff Member at Applied Physics Laboratory, Columbia, MD)

Mark A. Lau (currently on the faculty at Turabo University, Puerto Rico)
(formerly a Visiting Assistant Professor at University of West Florida, Pensacola, FL, 2001-2002)

Past M.S. Students

Mathew A. Merkow (M.S., 2008)

Sutha Aphanuphong (M.S., 2007, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)
Co-recipient of the Best Paper Award at the 2005 World Haptics Conference

Yegor Plam (M.S., 2003, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Weibin Xu (M.S., 2004, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)
Co-recipient of the Best Commercial Potential Award at the 2004 International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems

Brian P. Reichenberger (M.S., 2002, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Roman Y. Novoselov (currently working at Numerica, Inc., Fort Collins, CO)
(formerly worked at CDM Optics, Boulder, CO, 2001-2002)
(co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Nathan T. Baltz (currently President of PhotoSense, Boulder, CO)

Shane Brown (M.S., 1999, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Farid Infed (M.S., 1999, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Yiannis (John) Pavlou (currently working at National Instruments, Austin, TX)
(M.S., 1998, co-advised with Dale A. Lawrence)

Neil A. Duchane (currently working at Raytheon)
(formerly worked at Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, 1998-2000) (M.S., 1998)

Matthew D. Leoni (M.S., 1996)

Vimal P. Patel (currently working at Trimble Navigation, Sunnyvale, CA) (M.S., 1996)

Christian W. Frei (currently working at Swiss Capital Alternative Investments AG, Zurich, Switzerland; formerly at BT&T Asset Management, Urdorf, Switzerland)
(Ph.D., 2000, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)

Robert N. Itschner (currently working at ABB, Zurich, Switzerland)


Past B.S. Students

Daniel B. Kopelove (B.S., expected 2009)

Jeff Swetnam (B.S., 2004)

Andrew C. White (currently working at Raytheon, Denver, CO) (B.S., 2004)
Co-recipient of the Best Commercial Potential Award at the 2004 International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems

Aleksandr M. Arustamyan (B.S./M.S., 2003)

Bryan A. Montross (B.S., 2001)

Flor Shirzadian (currently working at Hewlett Packard) (B.S., 2000)

Roman Novoselov (currently working at Numerica, Inc., Fort Collins, CO; formerly worked at CDM Optics, Boulder, CO, 2001-2002; MS student at the University of Colorado at Boulder, 1999-2001) (B.S., 1999)

Darrell L. Barnhart (currently pursuing graduate studies at University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT) (B.S., 1996)

Radu C. Frangopol (B.S., 1996)

Craig S. Lindqvist (now in the MBA program at the University of Colorado at Boulder; worked at Boeing, Seattle, WA from 1996 until 2002) (B.S., 1996)

Kheong S. Chan (currently pursuing graduate studies at National University of Singapore, Singapore) (B.S., Northwestern University, 1996)

Nathan V. Le (currently working at Motorola, Pheonix, AZ) (B.S., Northwestern University, 1996)