Placement of 2021 Ph.D. Graduates

Employer	Job Title	City	State/Country
National Institutes of Health (NIH)	Postdoctoral Researcher	Bethesda	Maryland

_{Source: Post-graduation data compiled from graduating Physics Doctorate students.}

_{Note: Some recent graduates chose not to provide employer, job title, salary, and/or graduate school information in their response. This information includes all full-time salaries reported with the exception of internships, military service, or those positions outside the U.S.}

Placement Information for Prior Years

2020 Graduates

Machine Learning Engineer, Cisco, San Jose, CA
LTD Process Engineer, Intel Corporation (2), Santa Clara, CA
Quantitative Researcher (Finance), Morgan Stanley, New York, NY
Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),
Research Scientist, PlusAI, San Jose, CA
Postdoctoral Researcher, State University of New York Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY
Postdoctoral Research Scientist, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Postdoctoral Researcher in Computational Astrophysics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

2019 Graduates

Data Scientist, Atlanta Braves, Atlanta, GA
Quantitative Researcher, Citadel, Chicago, IL
Data Scientist, General Electric, Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Universite Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

2018 Graduates

Quantitative Researcher, Acceletrade, Bengaluru, India
Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University, New York, NY
Assistant Vice President, Credit Suisse, Zurich, Switzerland
Postdoctoral Associate, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Associate, Institute of High Energy Physics, Beijing, China
Senior Imaging Scientist, Intel, Santa Clara, California
Process Engineer, Intel, Santa Clara, California
Interconnect Integration and Development Engineer, Intel, Santa Clara, California
Quantitative Research Associate, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY
Postdoctoral Fellow, Max Plank Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Oak Ridge National Lab, Oak Ridge, TN
Data Scientist, Uber, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Bologna, Bolonga, Italy
Postdoctoral Associate, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Postdoctoral Associate, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

2017 Graduates

Computer Vision Engineer, Autel Robotics, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Columbia University, New York, NY
Postdoctoral Researcher, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Decision Support Analyst, Highmark Health, Pittsburgh, PA
Postdoctoral Researcher, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
Scientist, Nokomis, Charleroi, PA
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Academic Year 2015/2016

Post Doc, Royal Observatory, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Quantitative Researcher and Developer, ITG, Boston, MA
Scientist, Nokomis, Inc., Charleroi, PA
Quantitative Researcher, Citadel LLC, Chicago, IL
Machine Learning Engineer, Qeexo, Pittsburgh, PA
Material Data Scientist, Toyota, Ann Arbor, MI
Data Scientist, Neal Analytics, Seattle, WA
Research Scientist, Systems Engineering Group, Inc., Columbia, MD
Post Doc, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL
Chief Technical Officer, Hamiltonian Group, Washington D.C.
Post Doc, Harvard SEAS, Cambridge, MA
Software Developer, Epic, Verona, WI

Academic Year 2014/2015

Engineering Physicist, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, LLC, Kanagawa, Japan
Proprietary Trader, T3 Trading Group, New York, NY
Post Doc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Post Doc, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
Post Doc, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Data Analyst, CGG, Houston, TX
Post Doc, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Researcher, National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Pathum Thani, Thailand
Software Engineer, Intel, Phoenix, AZ
Post Doc, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville, South Africa
Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Academic Year 2013/2014

Engineer, Quest Link, San Diego, CA
Assistant Professor, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
Data Scientist, Drawbridge Inc., San Mateo, CA
Post Doc, Duke University, Durham, NC
Senior Data Science Engineer, Castlight Health, San Francisco, CA
Systems Engineer, Data Science Automation Inc., McMurray, PA
Post Doc, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA
Quantitative Analyst, WorldQuant LLC, Old Greenwich, CT
Software Engineer, Yahoo!, Sunnyvale, CA

Academic Year 2012/2013

Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Post Doc, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY
Post Doc, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
Post Doc, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Material Scientist, RJ Lee Group, Pittsburgh, PA
Process Engineer, Lam Research, Fremont, CA
Post Doc, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Post Doc, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Post Doc, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Post Doc, University of Padova, Padova, Italy

Academic Year 2011/2012

Post Doc, Rice University, Houston, TX
Post Doc, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Post Doc, UC Riverside, Riverside, CA
Post Doc, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Post Doc, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO
Post Doc, KEK, Tsukuba, Japan
Research Scientist, Schlumberger, Houston, TX
Research Scientist, Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, WA
Sr. Engineer, Intel, Portland, OR
Technology Associate, Thomson Reuters, New York, NY
Sr. Engineer, Intel, Portland, OR
Research Scientist, Nokomis Inc., Charleroi, PA
Post Doc, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Post Doc, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Academic Year 2010/2011

Post Doc, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Post Doc, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Post Doc, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, MD
Post Doc, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Post Doc, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA
Engineer, Intel, Portland, OR
Post Doc, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
Post Doc, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
Post Doc, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Sr. Engineer, Covidien Inc., Mansfield, MA

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