Alumni

Ph.D. Students – chronological order

1. Dr. Christopher Brockman (Ph.D. 2013)
Research Engineer
Intel Corporation

2. Prof. Arnab Mukherjee (Ph.D. 2014)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of California-Santa Barbara

3. Dr. Folarin Latinwo (Ph.D. 2014)
Data Science Manager, Synopsys (2017-present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton University (2014-2017)

4. Dr. Eric Johnson-Chavarria (Ph.D. 2014)
Program Director, NIH/National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities (CRCHD)

5. Dr. Utsav Agrawal (Ph.D. 2015)
Research Engineer
Intel Corporation

6. Prof. Amanda Marciel (Ph.D. 2015)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Rice University

7. Dr. Daniel Reilly (Ph.D. 2016)
Scientist III, AbbVie (2020-present)
Research Associate (Liarski Group), University of Chicago (2016-2020)

8. Dr. Luke Cuculis (Ph.D. 2016)
Director, Strategy, The Hershey Company, 2023-present
Senior Manager, The Hershey Company, 2020-2020
Boston Consulting Group (BCG), 2016-2020

9. Prof. Danielle Mai (Ph.D. 2016)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Stanford University

10. Dr. Kaiwen Hsiao (Ph.D. 2017)
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M (starting Jan 2023)
Postdoc, DeSimone Group, Stanford University, 2021-present
Research Engineer, Apple, 2019-2021; Intel, 2017-2019

11. Dr. Anish Shenoy(Ph.D. 2017)
Senior Software Engineer (Machine Learning), Google, 2021-present
Data Scientist, Intel Corporation, 2017-2021

12. Dr. Yuecheng (Peter) Zhou (Ph.D. 2019)
Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (starting 2024)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University

13. Dr. Songsong Li (Ph.D., 2020)
Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Chicago
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University (March 2025)

14. Dr. Shivani Patel (Ph.D. 2020)
Research Engineer
Intel Corporation

15. Dr. Dinesh Kumar (Ph.D. 2021)
Research Engineer
Dow Chemical

16. Dr. Hao Yu (Ph.D. 2021)
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Xu Group)
University of California, Berkeley

17. Dr. Michael Tu (Ph.D. 2022)
Research Engineer
Intel Corporation

18. Dr. Kasra Tabatabaei (Ph.D. 2022)
Research Scientist
New England Biolabs

19. Dr. Edward Jira (Ph.D. 2022)
Research Engineer
Dow Chemical

20. Dr. Caroline Li (Ph.D. 2023)
Research Engineer
3M


Postdocs – chronological order

Prof. Melikhan Tanyeri (2008-2013)
Assistant Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duquesne University

Dr. Younghoon Kim (2009-2012)
Staff Scientist
Genzyme

Dr. Kejia Chen (2015-2017)
Research Engineer
Google

Dr. Subhalakshmi (Subha) Kumar (2014-2017)
Senior Research Scientist/Engineer
Inprentus

Prof. Bo Li (2015-2020)
Assistant Professor
Kennesaw State University

Dr. Saadia Chaudhry (2021-2022)
Eagleton Science and Policy Fellow
Rutgers University

Dr. Piyush Singh (2019-2022)
Research Engineer
Dow Chemical

Prof. Michael Jacobs (2019-2022)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
Texas State University

Prof. Gabriel Burks (2020-2023)
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
University of Notre Dame

Dr. Inkyu Oh (2021-2023)
Research Engineer
Caterpillar