Alumni

Postdocs

  1. Martin Kenward (2007-2009). Current Location: Maya HTT, Montreal
  2. Jia Ou (2007-2011). Current Location: Apple
  3. Jaeseol Cho (2007-2009). Current Location: Samsung
  4. Tobias Foster (2008-2009, co-advised with Ted Davis). Current Location: Ecolab
  5. Mike Swickrath (2008-2009, co-advised with Victor Barocas and Yoav Segal). Current Location: NASA
  6. Sung-Gyu Park (2010-2012). Current Location: Korea Institute of Materials Science
  7. Zhicheng Long (2010-2015).
  8. Yanwei Wang (2011). Current Location:  Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Nazarbayev University (Khazakstan)
  9. Zhen Chen (2012-2013). Current Location:  Discover Financial Services
  10. Julian Sheats (2012-2016). Current Location: Medtronic
  11. Aashish Jain (2013-2016). Current Location: Amazon
  12. Shi Yu (2015-2017). Current Location: China University of Mining and Technology
  13. Michael McGovern (2015-2017, co-advised with David Morse). Current Location: SolidWorks
  14. Wei Mu (2015-2016). Current Location: Harbin University
  15. Vaidyanathan Sethuraman (2017-2020). Current Location: Oak Ridge National Labs
  16. So Jung Park (2020-2023, co-advised with Frank Bates). Current Location: Startup in South Korea
  17. Runfang Mao (2022-2024). Current Location: Shanghai University
  18. Sabin Adhikari (2023-2025). Current Location: Science Systems and Applications Inc.
  19. Luyang Li (2024-2026). Current Location: Xiamen University

Graduate Students

PhD Students

  1. Nabil Laachi, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2010. Current Location: Intel
  2. Margaret Linak, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2012. Current Location: USAID
  3. Dan Olson, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2012. Current Location: Wells Fargo
  4. Doug Tree, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2014. Current Location: Professor, BYU
  5. Sarit Dutta, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2014. Current Location: Postdoc, ENS-Lyon
  6. Joel Thomas, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2014. Current Location: US Navy
  7. Scott King, PhD in Materials Science, 2014. Current Location: IBM
  8. Abhiram Muralidhar, PhD in Materials Science, 2016. Current Location: Amazon
  9. Damini Gupta, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2017. Current Location: Intel
  10. Scott White (co-advised with Dan Frisbie), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2017. Current Location: The AES Corporation
  11. Pranav Agrawal (co-advised with Theresa Reinke), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2018. Current Location: Intel
  12. Akash Arora (co-advised with Frank Bates), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2018. Current Location: Dow Chemical
  13. Xiaolan Li, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2018. Current Location: Exxon-Mobil
  14. Hui-Min Chuang, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2019. Current Location: Intel
  15. Paridhi Agrawal, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2020. Current Location: Eli Lilly
  16. Aditya Bikram Bhandari, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2020. Current Location: Capital One
  17. Seunghwan Shin (co-advised with Xiang Cheng), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2020. Current Location: Assistant Professor, Kongju National University
  18. Mathew Thomas (co-advised with Dan Frisbie), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2020. Current Location: Micron
  19. GK Cheong, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2021. Current Location: PPG
  20. Zixue Ma, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2022. Current Location: 10x Genomics
  21. Anshul Chawla (co-advised with Frank Bates and Dave Morse), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2022. Current Location: Synopsys
  22. Logan Case (co-advised with Frank Bates), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2022. Current Location: TerranearPMC
  23. Sarah Seeger (co-advised with Tim Lodge), PhD in Materials Science, 2023. Current Location: Bostik
  24. Demetra Adrahtas (co-advised with Dan Frisbie), PhD in Materials Science, 2023. Current Location: Argonne National Lab
  25. Ryan Collanton, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2024. Current Location: Siemens
  26. Pengyu Chen, PhD in Materials Science, 2024. Current Location: Proctor & Gamble
  27. Benjamin Magruder, PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2025. Current Location: Cambridge University
  28. Ashutosh Nehete (co-advised with Frank Bates), PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2026. Current Location: Micron

MS Students

  1. Kevin Yocca, MS in Materials Science, 2007. Current Location: Arkema
  2. Noritoshi Araki (co-advised with Eray Aydil), MS in Materials Science, 2010. Current Location: Nippon Micrometal, Japan
  3. Teresa Sells (co-advised with Frank Bates), MS in Chemical Engineering, 2015. Current Location: Raytheon
  4. Calvin Nazareth, MS in Chemical Engineering, 2023. Current Location: Intel
  5. Clive Onyango, MS in Materials Science, 2024. Current Location: Intel

Undergraduate Students

University of Minnesota

  1. Josh W. Allen, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa06-Su07 (Grad School:MIT)
  2. Barry Badeau, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa10-Su13 (Grad School: University of Washington)
  3. Iker Batidor, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa24-Sp26 (Grad School: Delaware)
  4. Adam Burns, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Fa09-Sp10 (Grad School: Princeton)
  5. Lila Branchaw, Bioproduces and Biosystems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa25-Su26
  6. Sam Carpenter, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa08-Sp10
  7. Kaelyn Chahalis, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa20-Sp22
  8. Wonder Chang, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa08-Sp09
  9. Ya-Tang Chang, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su11
  10. Simon Choong, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa06-Sp08 (Grad School: MIT)
  11. Kevin Cizio, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa07-Sp09
  12. Donal Couch, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su21-Fa23 (Grad School: University of Michigan)
  13. Josh Dai, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa20-Sp21
  14. Jason DeFlorin, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp08
  15. Chen Gao, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp12-Sp13
  16. Lindy Heng, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa06 (Grad School: Columbia University)
  17. Weize Hu, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp12-Sp13 (Grad School: Georgia Tech)
  18. Derek Huang, Chemical Engineering University of Minnesota, Fa13-Su14 (Grad School: Cornell)
  19. Kyle Johnson, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp10-Su10
  20. Mark Joswiak, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp10-Su12 (Grad School: UCSB)
  21. Kathryn Klarich, Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Fa11-Su12
  22. Andrew LaBelle, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp17-Fa17
  23. Vanessa Lutske, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp08-Sp09
  24. Akshay Mathkar, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa06-Sp07
  25. Abby McGovern, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su17-Sp19
  26. Molly McGurk, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp07-Fa08
  27. Mike Meloche, Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su07-Sp08
  28. Patrick Meier, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su16-Fa16
  29. Jeremy Miller, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su13-Su14
  30. Heidi Nelson, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su09-Sp10 (Grad School: University of Washington)
  31. Ngyuen Ngyuen, Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Fa17
  32. Joel Paustian, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota (Biotechnology Institute REU), Su08 (Grad School: UCSB)
  33. Naveen Pillai, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su16-Sp17 (Grad School: NC State)
  34. Michael Quevillon, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa14-Su15 (Grad School: Notre Dame)
  35. Wes Reinhart, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su11-Su14 (Grad School: Princeton)
  36. Greg Schwartz, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su06-Sp08
  37. Kyler Sood, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa22-Sp23
  38. Nathan Stover, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su20-Sp21 (Grad School: MIT)
  39. Arianne Tan, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa09-Sp10
  40. Jacob Thelen, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su16-Fa16
  41. Emma Thompson, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su23-Fa23
  42. Mingwei Tian, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su10-Su11 (Grad School: Cornell)
  43. Brian Tomich, Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Su07 (Grad School: Lake Erie Osteopathic Medicine)
  44. Richard Tourdot, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa09-Su10 (Grad School: Penn)
  45. Ben Vaught, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp08-Sp09
  46. Vidhya Venugopal, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Su08-Fa08
  47. Linisia Wahyudi, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa07-Sp08
  48. Cyrus Watrin, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa24-Sp26
  49. Tom Weigel, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa18
  50. Mike Wisnoski, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Sp08-Sp09
  51. David Zheng, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa18-Fa19
  52. Ying Zheng, Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Fa22-Sp24 (Grad School: UT-Austin)

Visiting Undergraduate Students

  1. Allanah Austin, Chemistry, Grambling State University, Su13
  2. Nayla Bezares Sarkar, Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Su09
  3. Zsofia Bognar, Chemical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Fa16   
  4. Leon Dean, Chemical Engineering, UT-Austin (NNIN REU), Su12 (Grad School: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
  5. Carmelo Declet, Chemical Engineering, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez (Biotechnology Institute REU), Su06 (Grad School:Minnesota)
  6. Suman Gunasekaran, Harvard University (NNIN REU), Su13 (Grad School: Columbia University)
  7. Anthony King, Normandale Community College (MRSEC REU), Su26
  8. Jason Lee, Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst (NNIN REU), Su10 (Grad School: Berkeley)
  9. Jayne Lindstadt, Physics, University of Minnesota - Morehead (Biotechnology Institute REU), Su07-Su08 (Grad School: Clemson)
  10. Christina Matson, Biomedical Engineering, Mississippi State University (Biotechnology Institute REU), Su06 (Grad School: Notre Dame)
  11. Alan Owusu-Poku, Iowa State, Su17 (MRSEC REU)
  12. Mark Pagkaliwagnan, Chemical Engineering, UMass-Amherst (NNIN REU), Su14
  13. Frankie Pelaez, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas-Austin (NNIN REU), Su11 (Grad School: Minnesota)
  14. Marian Shaw, Chemical Engineering, NYU, Su16 (MRSEC REU, Grad School: Columbia University)
  15. Ashwin Srikrishna, Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University (MSI REU), Su10
  16. Cathryn Stevenson, Chemistry, Grambling State (MRSEC Faculty/Student), Su10 (Grad School: Marshall)
  17. Elliot Surber, Math, Minneapolis Community and Technical College (MRSEC REU), Su10
  18. Alyssa Terry, Biomedical Engineering, Mississippi State University (NNIN REU), Su09 (Grad School: University of Alabama)
  19. Irene Torija, Chemical Engineering, Autonomous University of Madrid, Su11