• Yoshihiko Nagai, Physics, University of Kansas, 1998. Dissertation: Controlling chaos, blowout bifurcation, and periodic-orbit theory in chaotic dynamics.
• Tolga Yalcinkaya, Physics, University of Kansas, 1998. Dissertation: Phase characterization and controlling chaos in deterministic flows.
• Saeed Taherion, Physics, University of Kansas, 1999. Dissertation: Experimental and numerical study of synchronization in coupled chaotic oscillators and effect of filtering on topological entropy.
• Mukeshwar Dhamala, Physics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: Transient chaos.
• Lonnie Sauter, Mathematics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: Generalized synchronism, low-dimensional chaos, and phase coherence in coupled chaotic systems.
• Mary Ann Harrison, Physics, University of Kansas, 2000. Dissertation: On-off intermittency and patterning in spatially extended dynamical systems.
• Victor Andrade, Physics, University of Kansas, 2002. Dissertation: Superpersistent chaotic transients and bifurcation from riddled to fractal basins.
• Younghae Do, Mathematics, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Noise-indued chaotic transients.
• Liqiang Zhu, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Neural learning with applications to brain-machine interface.
• Antonio Rinaldi, Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2004. Dissertation: Bridging the scales with statistical damage mechanics. (Joint supervision with Prof. Dusan Krajcinovic from ASU Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering).

Master

• Robert Hayden, Mathematics, University of Kansas, 1995. Thesis: Can the correlation dimension distinguish between seizure and non-seizure activities? (joint supervision with Prof. D. Lerner from KU Mathematics).
• Xuan-Dong Hua, Physics, University of Kansas, 1996. Thesis: Controlling on-off intermittent dynamics.
• Tolga Yalcinkaya, Physics, University of Kansas, 1996. Thesis: Chaotic scattering and the blowout bifurcation route to strange nonchaotic attractors.
• Kaj Williams, Mathematics, University of Kansas, 1998. Thesis: Unstable dimension variability in coupled chaotic systems (joint supervision with Prof. D. Lerner from KU Mathematics).
• Mukeshwar Dhamala, Physics,University of Kansas, 1999. Thesis: Controlling transient chaos in deterministic flows with applications to electrical power systems and ecology.
• Mary Ann Harrison, Physics, University of Kansas, 1999. Thesis: Transition to high-dimensional chaos.
• Arvind Raghu, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2001. Thesis: Coherence resonance in chaotic systems and experimental observation
• Bin Xu, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2003. Thesis: Shadowing of statistical averages in chaotic systems.
• Yirong Liu, Mathematics, Arizona State University, 2004. Thesis: Noise promotes species diversity in nature.
• Mayur Shah, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2004. Thesis: Integer ambiguity resolution with GPS signals in jamming environment.
• Anil K. Kandangath, Electrical Engineering, Arizona State University, 2004. Thesis: Inducing chaos in electronic circuits by resonant perturbations.

Postdoctoral fellows and graduate students

Postdoctoral Fellows:

• Ruslan Davidchack, 1/1/1998-12/31/1999, Ph.D. in Physics (1998) from University of Kansas.

• Awadhesh Prasad (3/1/2000 - 2/28/2001), Ph.D. in Physics (1999) from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

• Alessandro de Moura, 1/1/2001 - 12/31/2001, Ph.D. in Physics (1999) from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.

• Zonghua Liu, 3/1/2000 - 7/10/2003, Ph.D. in Applied Physics (1998) from Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Science.

• Takashi Nishikawa, 2/1/2001 - 8/15/2003, Ph.D. in Mathematics (2000) from University of Maryland, College Park.

• Adilson E. Motter, 3/1/2002-6/30/2003, Ph.D. in Physics from Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.

• Liang Zhao, 3/1/2003-12/31/2004, Ph.D. in Computer Science (1998) from Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica, Brazil.

• Jong-Won Kim, 3/1/2004-1/31/2005, Ph.D. in Physics (2002) from University of Maryland at College Park.

• Liqiang Zhu, 9/1/2004-2/28/2005. Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2004) from Arizona State University.

• Kwangho Park, 10/1/2003-present, Ph.D. in Physics (1997) from Konkuk University, Korea.

Ph.D. students:

• Liang Huang, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

• Qingfei Chen, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

• Natalia Navarova, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

Master Students:

• Suprada Urval, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

• Lakshmi Rajagopalan, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

• Satish Krishnamoorthy, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

• Saurabh Gupte, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

• Prasanna Surakanti, Electrical Engineering, ongoing.

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