Graduate Degrees
May 2008
MS
C. Rocio Misiego Arpa
Thesis Title: Polyimide-Carbon Nanotube Foam Nanocomposites from Powder Precursors: Synthesis and Characterization
Advisor(s): Byron Pipes
Undergraduate Institution: University of Valladolid
Position upon leaving Purdue: Process Engineer, SABIC Innovative Plastics
PhD
Jennifer G. Bugayong
Thesis Title: Model-Based Design and Optimization of Reversed-Phase Chromatographic Processes for Proinsulin Purification
Advisor(s): Linda Wang
Undergraduate Institution: University of Phillipines
Position upon leaving Purdue: R & D Engineer, Praxair, Inc.
Robert T. Collins
Thesis Title: Electrohydrodynamics of Free Surface Flows
Advisor(s): Osman Basaran/Michael Harris
Undergraduate Institution: University of Tennessee/Knoxville
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoc, Sandia National Laboratories
Jin Il Kim
Thesis Title: A Hybrid Cybernetic Modeling for the Growth of Escherichia coli in Glucose-Pyruvate Mixtures
Advisor(s): Doraiswami Ramkrishna
Undergraduate Institution: Korea University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Research Engineer, Samsung Engineering
Gowri Krishnamurthy
Thesis Title: Propane Aromatization over ZSM-5 Based Catalysts
Advisor(s): Nicholas Delgass
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Technology/Madras
Position upon leaving Purdue: Career Development Program Engineer, Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.
Avantika Shastri
Thesis Title: Metabolic Flux Analysis of Photosynthetic Systems
Advisor(s): John Morgan
Undergraduate Institution: University of Mumbai
Position upon leaving Purdue: Research Scientist, Sabic Innovative Plastics
Michael P. Tate
Thesis Title: Nanomaterials for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Advisor(s): Hugh Hillhouse
Undergraduate Institution: Washington State University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Dow Chemical
August 2008
MS
Aparajita Bhattacharya
Advisor(s): James Caruthers
Undergraduate Institution: University of Mumbai
Position upon leaving Purdue: Continuing for PhD, Purdue University
Balachandra B. Krishnamurthy
Advisor(s): James Caruthers/Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Tech/Madras
Position upon leaving Purdue: Continuing for PhD, Purdue University
Shatara C. Mayfield
Advisor(s): Julie Liu
Undergraduate Institution: North Carolina Agricultural & Technology State University
PhD
Lei Cao
Thesis Title: Kinetic Modeling of NOx Storage-Reduction on Monolith Catalysts
Advisor(s): James Caruthers/Nicholas Delgass
Undergraduate Institution: Tianjin University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Process Engineer, Abbott
Leaelaf M. Hailemariam
Thesis Title: The Purdue Ontology for Pharmaceutical Engineering
Advisor(s): Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Undergraduate Institution: Addis Ababa University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Senior Researcher, Dow Chemical
Rahul B. Kasat
Thesis Title: Elucidation of Chiral Recognition Mechanisms for Separations of Enantiomers using Polysaccharide-Based Sorbents
Advisor(s): Elias Franses/Linda Wang
Undergraduate Institution: Nagpur University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Research Engineer, DuPont
Bum Soo Kim
Thesis Title: Characterization and Analysis on Chemical and Mechanical Interactions during Chemical Mechanical Planarization (CMP) of Copper
Advisor(s): Stephen Beaudoin
Undergraduate Institution: Sogang University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Process Engineer, Intel
Joshua L. Ratts
Thesis Title: Reaction Steps for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction and NOx
Advisor(s): Fabio Ribeiro
Undergraduate Institution: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Position upon leaving Purdue: Senior Research Engineer, Caterpillar
Mark J. Uline
Thesis Title: Toward a Molecular-Level Understanding of Bubble and Droplet Nucleation in Simple Fluids
Advisor(s): David Corti
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postoctoral Fellow, Northwestern University
J. Camilo Zapata
Thesis Title: New Product Portfolio Management under Uncertainty
Advisor(s): Gintaras Reklaitis
Undergraduate Institution: Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana
Position upon leaving Purdue: OR Statistician, Eli Lilly & Company
Yinyan Zhao
Thesis Title: Polysaccharide Gel Microspheres for Peptide and Protein Drug Delivery
Advisor(s): Michael Harris/L. Taylor
Undergraduate Institution: Tsinghua University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University/IPPH
December 2008
PhD
Pei-Lun Chung
Thesis Title: Design, Modeling, and Optimization of a Multicomponent Separation Process for Insulin Purification Using Reversed Phase Chromatography
Advisor(s): Wang
Undergraduate Institution: National Taiwan University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoctoral Research Associate, ChE/Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Arun Gridhar
Thesis Title: Synthesis of Multicomponent Distillation Configuration
Advisor(s): Agrawal/Venkatasubramanian
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoctoral Research Associate, ChE/Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Jaehyun Hur
Thesis Title: Self and Guided Assembly of Colloids at Air-Water and Substrate-Water Interfaces
Advisor(s): Won
Undergraduate Institution: Seoul National University
Position upon leaving Purdue: R & D Engineer, Samsung Advanced Inst of Tech, Yongin-si, Gyunggi-do, S. Korea
Ravi Jaiswal
Thesis Title: Adhesion between Particles and Nanostructured Films
Advisor(s): Beaudoin
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Position upon leaving Purdue: Engineer, Intel Co, Hillsboro, OR
Kyung Jae Jeong
Thesis Title: Mechanical Characterization of ECM-mimetic Hydrogel Based on Heparin-Peptide Interactions
Advisor(s): Beaudoin/Panitch
Undergraduate Institution: Seoul National University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoctoral Fellow, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA
Kyle Kostroski
Thesis Title: Development of New Pressure-Swing Adsorption Processes: Combination Cycles, CZPSA, and SMB/PSA Hybrids
Advisor(s): Wankat
Undergraduate Institution: Purdue University
Position upon leaving Purdue: Research Engineer, BP America,Naperville, IL
Brian Kromer
Thesis Title: Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of Heterogeneous Catalytic Reactions: Two Case Studies
Advisor(s): Thomson
Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota
Position upon leaving Purdue: Development Associate, Praxair, Tonawanda, NY
Balachandra B Krishnamurthy
Thesis Title: Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management in Catalyst Chemistry Discovery Environments
Advisor(s): Caruthers/Venkatasubramanian
Undergraduate Institution: University of Minnesota
Position upon leaving Purdue: Software Development Engr, Amazon.com, Seattle, WA
Rahul Sharma
Thesis Title: An ABC Triblock Copolymer Based Approach for Non-Viral Gene Delivery
Advisor(s): Won
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Technology/Kanpur
Position upon leaving Purdue: Senior Research Engineer, Dow Chemical Company, Freeport, TX
Shanna Smith
Thesis Title: A Theoretical and Experimental Study on the Detection of Proteins in Solution with Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Advisor(s): Beaudoin
Undergraduate Institution: University of Cincinnati
Position upon leaving Purdue: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
Pradeep Suresh Babu
Thesis Title: An Ontological Informatics Approach to Mechanistic Mathematical Model Management in Pharmaceutical Product Development
Advisor(s): Reklaitis/Venkatasubramanian
Undergraduate Institution: Indian Institute of Technology/Madras
Position upon leaving Purdue: Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company, Midland, MI