Past Members

Former Graduate Students

Dr. Julio Padilla - Research Scientist at NASA

Dr. Gabriel Gonzalez - Professor, El Paso Community College

Dr. Brenda Porta - Associate Professor, Northern New Mexico College

Dr. Alejandro Bugarin - Associate Professor, Florida Gulf Coast University

Dr. Nazario Lopez - Professor, Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Morelos

Dr. Alejandro Arzola - Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua

Dr. Hugo Alarcon - Professor, Southwest University

Dr. Ariful Ahsan - Research Scientist at UTEP's Aerospace Center

Dr. Tariqul Islam - Research Scientist at Intel 

Dr. Itzia Cruz - Research Scientists at Merk 

Dr. Javier Hernandez  - Research Scientist at Halocarbon

Luis Andujo, M.S. - Research Scientist at Carroll Company

Mauro Ruiz, M.S. - Research Scientist at Marathon Petroleum Corporation

Former Undergraduate Research Students

Dr. Gabriela Escalera (completed Ph.D. program at Rice University) 

Dr. Abril Chavez (graduate student at Rice University)

Dr. Leonel Barrera (completed Ph.D. program at Northwestern University)

Dr. Sarit Pal (completed Ph.D. program at Texas A&M University, College Station)

Issac Torres (accepted to Ph.D. program at Northwestern University)

Juan Sanchez (accepted to graduate program at MIT)

Dr. Miguel Algara (completed MD program at Yale University Medical School)

Dr. Abril Ramirez (completed MD program at Boston University Medical School)

Dr. Victoria Loya (completed MD program at Boston University Medical School)

Dr. Marino Resendiz (Associate Professor, University of Colorado Denver)

Dr. Jose Rosales (graduate student at UTEP)

Paulette Ramirez (accepted to Dental School Program)

Dr. James (JT) Moore (completed Ph.D. program at University of Minnesota) 

Dr. Ruben Casillas (completed Ph.D. program at the Max Plank Institute in Germany)

Dr. Ember Sikorski (Research Scientist at Sandia National Labs)

Dr. Jose E. Marin Sanchez ( Neurological Surgery Resident at UT Southwestern Medical Center)

Dr. Jacobo Garcia (Intellectual Property Lawyer, Texas A&M University School of Law)

Dr. Andres Belmond (completed MD program at Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, Texas Tech)

Brian Barraza, M.S. (completed M.S. at the University of California Santa Barbara)