Department Chair

Dr. Debi Prasad Choudhary


Live Oak Hall, Room 1128
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8268

Phone: (818) 677-2775

Send email

Hours: M-F 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

Student Award Recipients

Year   Recipient
2018   Mac Lee, Garrett Limon, Thomas Look
2017   Behnam Amlashi
2016   Gonzalo Hernandez, Yeimy Rivera, & Jonathan Zink
2015   Matthew Kim
2014   D'Artagnan Greene
2013   James Kentosh & Jon Spalding
2012   Gordon McDonald
2011   Kevin Raines
2010   Alice ShengyTseng
2009   Andrew Vandenberg
2008   Vincent Tagliamonti
2007   Mark Kurban
2006   Chaba Sandor
2005   Dundar Karabay
2004   Matthew Toigo
2003   Jose Ceja
2001   James F. Patterson
1998   Arturo Ortiz
1997   Hidehito Adaniya
1996   Sean C. Ahern and Dobrina Iotova
1995   Akemi Kayleng Knight
1994   Roya Zandi-Haghighi
1992   Hitoshi Watanabe
1989   Jack W. Deaton
1984   Ross D. Olney

Year   Recipient
2018   Patrick McMillin
2017   Kevin Joyce
2016   Daniel Davies
2015   Robert Hayes
2014   Jake Reschke
2012   Raika Khodadad and Benjamin Sherman
2011   Jacob Gayles and John Hodgson
2010   Evan Daniel Randles
2009   Gordon Macdonald
2007   Rajiv Uttamchandani
2006   Vincent Tagliamonti
2005   Daniel P. McDonald
2004   Greg Frye
2003   David Miccolis
2002   Makan Mohageg and Peter Porazik
2001   Jose A. Ceja
1996   Jason A. Pruet
1995   Kenneth M. Webb
1994   Shaan M. McClenton
1993   Thomas J. Bensky, William R. Lay, and Roya Zandi-Haghighi
1992   Patricia P. Lin
1991   Garen Moradkhanian
1990   Roy W. Chien
1989   Daryl G. Parker
1988   Frederick Linkchorst
1987   David H. Crosser
1986   Theresa M. Johnson
1985   Mark T. Cowan
1984   Eliot A. Eklund and Sharon F. Yarger
1983   Bruce E. Bozovich
1982   William P. Ambrose, Brian D. Hadley, and Garnik Hairapetian
1981   Vittorio Paolone
1980   Douglas Ganson
1979   David Lopiano
1978   Donald L. Aldrich, Don A. Bolton, and Virgene L. Severson
1977   Phillip E. Deutschile and Ross D. Olney
1976   Robin A. Reeder
1975   Thomas E. McGuire
1974   Robert V. Taylor
1973   Marian S. Downey, Lai W. Leung, and Stuart R. Stampke
1972   Stewart A. Einstein
1971   Daniel L. Kelly

Year   Recipient
2018   Austin Long & Himanshu Phirke
2017   Robert Broadfoot & Julius Chapman
2016   Joshua Neilson & Jesse Lopez
2015   Jacob Freeman & Menoa Yousefi
2014   Keith Gresiak & Jacob Freeman
2013   Albert Quintanilla & D'Artagnan Greene
2012   Sergio Orozco & John Hodgson
2011   D’Artagnan Green & Kemal Yassin
2010   Alice Shenyi Tseng & Tersi Arias
2009   George Gomesdacosta & Michael Lund
2008   Christian Wolowiec & Michael Lund
2007   Georgly Shcherbatyuk & Michael Dickson
2006   David Berkowitz
2005   Chaba Sandor
2004   Ilyea Shaikh
2002   Hank Scudder
2000   Kirsti M. Lewis
1992   Koorosh Vasseghi
1991   Linda Yin & Kintak Yue
1990   Erkin Sidick
1989   Armik Khachatourian
1988   David (Ye) Song
1987   Varujan Cakaroglu
1986   Frank (Feng) Gao
1985   George (Zhicheng) Wang
1984   Daiping (Diane) Ma
1982   Doug Meyer & Bill Sheng
1981   Jay Wightman
1980   Don Klabunde
1979   Steve Bitterly & Stephen Thorman
1978   Robin Reeder
1977   Don Lestrange & Jim Van Nieuwenhuyse
1976   Julio R Blanco & Robert O'Rear
1975   Don Sparks
1974   Larry Small
1973   Ken Raschke

Year   Recipient
2021   Aislinn McCann
2020   Joseph Carrasco
2018   Vidya Venkatesan
2017   Zeth Anthony De Luna
2016   Patrick McMillin
2015   John Rincon
2014   Daniel Davies
2013   Matthew Shpolyansky
2012   Jake Reschke
2010   Raika Khodadad
2009   John Hodgson

Sigma Pi Sigma Members of the Official Honor Society of the Physics Profession 
California State University Northridge Chapter 

Year   Inductee
2017    Behnam Amlashi, John Paul Talledo, Blake Tinoco
2016   Varderes Barsegyan, Daniel Davies, Melissa Ghafarian, Gonzalo Hernandez, Jesse Myers, Angelica Ottaviano, Yeimy Rivera, Sean Snyder, Alexandra Yep, Jonathan Zink
2015   Samuel Dickey, Jacob Freeman, Matthew Kim, Robert Hayes
2014   D'Artagnan Greene, Jake Reschke, Kareem Mehrabiani, Keith Gresiak
2013   Jon Spalding
2012   Cesar Ascencio, Raika Khodadad, Jeremie Priest, Hiral Patel, Benjamin Sherman
2011   David Berkowitz, Jacob Gayles, John Hodgson, Karen Hutchison, Tanaz Mohayai, Ken Nakatsukasa, Kevin Raines, Robert Starr
2010   Nathan Brown, Andrew Denio,George Gomes, Kelly Margaraitis, Yogeshwari Patel, Evan Randles, Alice Tseng, Frances Wulke
2009   Hayley Hays, Han Kyu Lee, Gordon MacDonald, Christina Schreib, Laura Wulke
2008   Georgiy Shcherbatyuk, Aspram Torosian, Chris Wolowiec
2007   Nadia Souri, Thomas Lincoln, Justin Miller, Hambik Tankazyan, Rajiv Uttamchandani
2006   Shelley Green, Thiago Halmer, Mark Kurban, Trevor Leonard, Rohit Sharma, Vince Tagliamonti, Chris Vergien, Andrew Wandenberg
2005   Geoffrey DeJaynes, Benjamin Ett, Dundar Karabay, Daniel McDonald, Farisa Morales, Nicholas Roueiheb, Andrew Shaw
2004   Elizabeth Bell, Mavis Irwin, Chaba Sandor, Matthew Toigo
2003   Kenneth Cooper, Berrie Goldman, David Miccolis, Mayra Tovar
2002   Lucas Haley, Makan Mohageg, Peter Porazik
2001   John E. Basinski, Jose A. Ceja, Patrick M. Collins, James F. Patterson
2000   Albert Hyuk Jin Lee, Alan Richard Kramer
1998   Taeseong Jeong, Zakia Kator, Linda Krawitz, Kirsti Lewis, John L. Markson, Arturo R. Ortiz, Antoine Shahin, Sung Ha Park, Robert Troy, Kenneth Miller Webb
1995   Sean Ahern, Victor Andrade, Roberto Eduardo Cano, Stephen Campbell, Kenneth Matthew Edmondson, Amar Quinsain Liang, Michelle Denise Mayer
1994   Jerry B. Dulco, Darin Tracy Solk
1993   Marcus Allin Alfred, Michael Robert Gluszczak, Josh Edward Reniker, Kevin Scott Thomas, Rick Ortiz Vazquez, Christopher John Wilson, Lin Yu-Suan
1992   Roya Zandi-Haghighi, Brook A. Henderson, John F. Zanni, Bryan Waldron, Hans-Peter Schwelbler, Hon Jung Yu, Hitoshi Watanabe, Patricia Lin, William R. Lay, Shaan M. McClendon
1991   Anthony L. Daniell, Bradley A. Blocksom
1989   Barton Landrum, Ronald A. Blum, David Rapkin
1988   Steven A. Larson
1987   Roger Miller, Joseph R. Gonzales, David R. Goldwater, Fred P. Linkchorst, Armik Khachatourian, Garen Moradkhanian, Bruce C. Goldstein, Thomas Bulharowski
1986   Daxin Sheila Zhuang, Varujan Cakaroglu, Robert Fielding, Martin E. Hummel
1985   Chris Stenland
1984   Stephen Frederick Motter, Kun Wong, Steve Kuo
1983   Frank Dino Panaro, A. Douglas Meyer, Elliott Allan Eklund, Sharon Fyfe Yarger, Jack Wesley Deaton, Peter George Ringold
1982   Kimberly L. Schumacher, Bruce Edward Bozovich
1981   Thomas M. Crawford, John D. Hagan, Thomas A. Stephens, Thomas W. Parslow, Philip G. Eliades, Garnik Austin Halrapetian, David Brent Reynolds, James Michael Kentosh, Vicky Lewolt
1980   William Patrick Ambrose, Jay Arden Wightman, Louis Kevin Zeldin, Joseph Bernardino Comunale, Vittorio Paolone, Dennis Ray Willett, Steven Eric Bitterly
1979   Carl Robert Ginnon
1978   Donald Paul Klabunde, Philip Ira Klutch, Robin Anthony Reeder
1977   Donald Patrick Lestrange, Don Allen Bolton, James Edwards van Nieuwenhuyse, Donald Lloyd Aldrich, Virgene Luella Severson, Jeffrey A. Blau, Neal Brian Sulmeyer
1976   Robert G. O'Rear II, Louis Beverino, Julio R. Blanco, Christopher Dean Smith
1975   Daryl M. Van Orden, Ross D. Olney, Bernard neil Adamson, William Doug Wilder, Robert Louis Richardson, Anton Nicolaus Paley, Steven Douglas Cochran, Bruce Michael Vose
1974   Earle I. Neill Jr., Richard S. Edelman, Sandra S. Lee, Ward A. Lillback, Thomas E. McGuire, Steven E. Anticevich, Nancy E. Macartney-Filgate, Donald M. Sparks, Jon Becker, James B. DaCosta, Nigel R. Wright, Michael P. Sveda, Kenneth S. Sklaroff, Thomas J. Humanic, Charles R. Meyer, Robert H. Benner, Russell J. Wallace
1973   Charles F. Harding, Lai-Wo Stanislaus Leung, Mark Hildor Nelson, Michael J. Mahoney, Joseph H.A. Chudy, Fred Sissine
1972   Robert T. Park, Stuart R. Stampke, H. Kathleen Worfolk, Marian S. Downey, E. Allen Whedon, Fredrick W. Bennett, Guadalupe D. Padilla, Larry D. Hilburn, Ronald Duane Stagers, Hirsch T. Goffman, Kenneth E. Raschke, Lance C. Stevenson, Isaac Rosen, John R. Mosher
1969   Stephen Rees Kerner, Harry Kurtgman, Tyrone Clark Marshall, David Howard Pace, Roger Lee Roark, Frank Garacci, Dennis James Martin, Joseph A. Swenson, David G. Cottle, Giulio C. Ricci, Alfred Smith-Polliser
1968   Bruce D. Wallace, Harmon W. Icenogle, Balazs Becht, Sim E. Fightmaster, Clifford R. Hogstedt, Timothy E. Winesburg, Norman C. Lucas, Lal Baboolal, Patrick M. Hurdle, Daniel D. Evans, Kenneth Matosain, Thomas L. Smith, Stephan Saneff, George Lawrence Naes, Jr., John Edward McGinnis, Hugo Bert Weiner, John Charles Hendershot, Kenneth Williams Fertig, Jr.
1967   Robert T. Johnson, Dennis A. Leatart, Jerry A. Wilson, Henry A. Kampmeyer
1966   Barry N. Warner, Leonard G. Hale, Wai-Min Lin, Gordon L. Salmon, Brian E. Dent, Kenneth L. Adams, Arthur Altshiller, Garin S. Bircsak, George D. Carpenter, Lawrence B. Golden, Robert S. Roberts, William E. Stoelzner, Philip L. Walker

Department Chair

Dr. Debi Prasad Choudhary


Live Oak Hall, Room 1128
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8268

Phone: (818) 677-2775

Send email

Hours: M-F 8:00 AM-5:00 PM

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