Ph.D. Graduates

University of Minnesota

Gaurav Kumar (Ph.D.’21, Dupont Water Solutions, USA)

Xuekui Duan (Ph.D.’20, postdoc EPFL, Switzerland)

Feng Xu (Ph.D.’20, Maxim Integrated, USA)

Matheus Dorneles De Mello (Ph.D.’ 20, Dow)

Yasmine Guerfachi (Ph.D.’ 18, Assistant Professor, South Mediterranean University, MedTech, Tunisia)

Prashant Kumar (Ph.D. ’18, co-advised with K. Andre Mkhoyan, postdoc University of Michigan)

Dandan Xu (Ph.D.’18, Lecturer, UMass Amherst)

Mansi Shah (Ph.D. ’18, co-advised with Ilja Siepmann, Bristol-Myers Squibb)

Nitish Mittal (Ph.D. ’18, co-advised with Prodromos Daoutidis, ExxonMobil, USA)

Meera Shete (Ph.D. ’18, Dow)

Han Zhang (Ph.D. ’17, co-advised with Chris Macosko, Cabot)

Neel Rangnekar (Ph.D. ’17, ExxonMobil, USA)

Mi Young Jeon (Ph.D. ’16, Intel, USA)

Maryam Khaleel (Ph.D. ’15, Assistant Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi)

Yasser Al Wahedi (Ph.D. ’15, Director Abu Dhabi Maritime Academy, UAE)

Garrett Swindlehurst (Ph.D. ’14, co-advised by Efrosini Kokkoli and Klearchos Papas, General Mills, USA)

Peng Bai (Ph.D. ’14, co-advised by J. Ilja Siepmann, Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst)

Anna Ines Torres Ripa (Ph.D. ’13, co-advised with Prodromos Daoutidis, Assistant Professor, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)

Kumar Varoom Agrawal (Ph.D. ’13, co-advised with Lorraine Francis, Assistant Professor, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)

Xueyi Zhang (Ph.D. ’13, Assistant Professor, Penn State, USA)

Nicole Atchison (Ph.D. ‘12, co-advised with Efrosini Kokkoli, R&D Engineer, Covidien, USA)

Elizabeth Emma Mallon (Ph.D. ‘12, co-advised with Aditya Bhan, Intel, USA)

Jared Stoeger (Ph.D. ‘12, Intel, USA)

Pyung-Soo Lee (Ph.D. ’11, Associate Professor, Chung-Ang University, South Korea)

Damien Douglas Brewer (Ph.D. ’11 co-advised with Satish Kumar, E-Ink, USA)

Rajiv Ranjan (Ph.D. ’10 United Technologies, USA)

Sandeep Kumar (Ph.D. ’10 co-advised with R. Lee Penn, Intel, USA)

Alex Lee (Ph.D. ’10 co-advised with LE Skip Scriven, Saint-Goben, USA)

Sudeep Maheshwari (Ph.D. ’09 co-advised with FS Bates, Partner, A.T. Kearny, USA/India)

Jungkyu Choi (Ph.D. ’08, Professor, Korea University, South Korea)

Sunho Choi (Ph.D. ’08, TBD)

Tracy Davis (Ph.D. ’07, Chevron, USA)

John Krohn (Ph.D. ’06, -BP, USA)

Hae Kwon Jeong (Ph.D. ’05, Kenneth R. Hall Professor- Texas A&M University, USA)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Maybelle Woo (Ph.D. ’07, Millipore, USA)

Zhiping Lai (Ph.D. ’04, Professor, KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

Harikrishanan Ramanan (Ph.D. ’04 co-advised with Scott Auerbach, Director – Research and Development by Ohmium International, Inc.)

Scott Fisher (Ph.D. ’04 co-advised with J Watkins – Sabic, USA)

Griselda Bonilla (Ph.D. ’04 co-advised with DG Vlachos –Senior Manager, IBM TJ Watson Research)

Sankar Nair (Ph.D.’03 – Professor and JF Simmons Faculty Fellow, Georgia Tech, USA)

Vladimiros Nikolakis (Ph.D.’01 co-advised with Dion Vlachos, W.L. Gore, USA)

Hugh Hillhouse (Ph.D.’01 – Rehnberg Chair Professor, University of Washington-Seattle, USA)

Laura Boudreau (Ph.D. ’99 – Chevron, USA)

Mark C. Lovallo (Ph.D. ’98 – Flow Smart Inc., USA)

Former Visiting Graduate Students (stayed for more than 1 year): 

Zhuopeng Wang (University of Aveiro)

Huiyong Chen (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering in Northwest University – China)

He Han (Postdoc, Dalian University of Technology)

Former Post-doctoral Fellows 

Johns Hopkins University

Dennis T. Lee (Assistant Professor, Stony Brook University)

Fatma Sahin (TUPRAS, Senior Researcher)

Tianyi Luo (EMD Electronics, R&D Chemist)

Zhe Li (Seagen, Process Engineer)

Peng Lu (Jacky) (Assistant Professor, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology)

Liwei Zhuang (Levi) (Assistant Professor, East China University of Science and Technology)

University of Minnesota

Sabrina Conrad (R&D Engineer, Sironix Renewables, USA)

Limin Ren (Associate Professor – tenure track- Dalian University of Technology, PRC)

Qiang Guo (Assistant Professor – Feng Wang group- Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, PRC)

Donghun Kim (Assistant Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea).

Xiaoli Ma (Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)

Jun Guo (co-advised with Efrosini Kokkoli, TBD)

Dae Woo Kim (Assistant Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea)

Omar Abdelrahman (co-advised with Paul Dauenhauer) (Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst)

Zhendong Liu (co-advised with Andreas Stein) (Assistant Professor – tenure track, Tsinghua University)

Casey Stephenson (TBD)

Bahman Elyassi (TBD)

Han Seung Lee (TBD)

Balasubramanian Veerappan Vaithilingam (Abu Dhabi Oil Refining Company Research Center (Takreer), UAE)

Nafiseh Rajabbeigi (SkyWater Technology Foundry, USA)

Aparna Iyer (MacDermid, Connecticut, USA)

Berna Topuz (Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Ankara University, Turkey).

Won Cheol Yoo (CCEI Fellow, co-advised with Mark Snyder-Lehigh University, Associate Professor, Hanyang University, South Korea)

Fernando Lima (co-advised with Prodromos Daoutidis, Associate Professor, West Virginia University), 

Christopher Lew (Chevron)

Chun-Yi Sung (co-advised with Matteo Cococcioni and Alon McCormick, TBD)

Dongxia Liu (co-advised with Aditya Bhan, Associate Professor, University of Maryland)

Parveen Kumar (Total, Mumbai)

Wei Fan (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Mark Snyder (Associate Professor, Lehigh University)

Nick Ergang (Nalco, USA) 

Stavros Caratzoulas (Associate Director for Computational Chemistry, CCEI, Univ. of Delaware)

George Karanikolos (Professor, Khalifa University, UAE)

Tim Drews (OsiSoft, California, USA)

Subhajit Gosh (Halliburton) 

Isabel Diaz (Tenured Scientist, Instituto de Catálisis, Madrid, Spain)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Raman Ravishankar (Atomic Energy Center, India)

Geraldo Nery (Associate Professor, UNESP-Sao Paulo State University, Brazil)

George Xomeritakis (UOP-LLC, USA) 

Neil Fernandes (Consultant, New Zealand)

Carola Braunbarth (SusTech GmbH & Co., Germany)

Former Visiting Lecturers/Professors

Xuefeng Guo (Nanjing University), Xianghai Guo (Tianjin University), Najun Li (Soochow University), Qiang Xiao (Zhejiang Normal University), Jianhua Yang (Dalian Institute of Technology), Liwei (Levi) Zhuang (East China University of Science and Technology), Yong Peng (Nanchang Institute of Technology)