Faculty Directory
Vilas Pol
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Email:
vpol@purdue.edu
Office:
FRNY
2146
Campus Phone:
(765) 494-0044
Mailing Address
Purdue University
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
480 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
480 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100
(765) 494-0805
Organizational Group
Faculty
Degrees Received
M.Sc., Pune University, India, 1996
Ph.D., University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, 2005
Ph.D., University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, 2005
Honors and Awards Received
IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) Power Electronics Society's Energy Storage Innovation Award (2025)
Jefferson Science Fellow finalist (Hiring Freeze), National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2025)
Asian American Engineer of the Year (2024)
Science Father - Best Researcher Award, Safer Batteries (2024)
Named as a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (2024)
Fulbright Specialist (Global): U.S. Department of State???s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning (06/14/2024 ??? 06/14/2027)
Fellow - The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024)
Foreign Fellow – Chemical Sciences Maharashtra Academy of Science (MASc), India (2023)
2023 and 2022 Purdue College of Engineering - Most Impactful Faculty Inventors
Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM - The Lowest Temperature (-100 Degrees Celsius) to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery (2022)
AIChE Excellence in Process (Microwave) Development Research Award (2021)
TMS Light Metals, Extraction and Processing division’s Energy Best Paper Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (2021)
Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials, Ulrika, Sweden (2020)
AIChE Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering, (2019)
Salutes to Excellence, American Chemical Society (2019)
Richard M. Fulrath Award - American Academic, The American Ceramic Society (2019)
Purdue Research Foundation, Trask Innovation Funds (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM for the fastest time to arrange all the elements of the periodic table (2018)
Purdue Faculty Scholar (2018-2023)
Fellow - World Technology Network (2016)
AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award (2016)
R and D Top 100 award, R and D Magazine, Las-Vegas, USA (2015)
ACS Certificate of Merit, Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR), American Chemical Society (2015)
British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly Award, World Carbon Conference, Rio-Brazil, (2013)
First Place, Science as Art competition, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2012)
Grand Prize, worldwide ‘How Does Chemistry Help YOU Be Green?’ video contest, American Chemical Society (2010)
Argonne Scholar (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship), Argonne National Lab. (2008)
Intel Prize, Outstanding poster, 25th Israel Vacuum Society Conference (2006)
Best Student Award, All Maharashtra State Student Welfare Association, India (2000)
Gold Medal, Kabaddi, DRDO Sports Board, Government of India (2000)
Jefferson Science Fellow finalist (Hiring Freeze), National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2025)
Asian American Engineer of the Year (2024)
Science Father - Best Researcher Award, Safer Batteries (2024)
Named as a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (2024)
Fulbright Specialist (Global): U.S. Department of State???s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning (06/14/2024 ??? 06/14/2027)
Fellow - The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024)
Foreign Fellow – Chemical Sciences Maharashtra Academy of Science (MASc), India (2023)
2023 and 2022 Purdue College of Engineering - Most Impactful Faculty Inventors
Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM - The Lowest Temperature (-100 Degrees Celsius) to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery (2022)
AIChE Excellence in Process (Microwave) Development Research Award (2021)
TMS Light Metals, Extraction and Processing division’s Energy Best Paper Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (2021)
Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials, Ulrika, Sweden (2020)
AIChE Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering, (2019)
Salutes to Excellence, American Chemical Society (2019)
Richard M. Fulrath Award - American Academic, The American Ceramic Society (2019)
Purdue Research Foundation, Trask Innovation Funds (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM for the fastest time to arrange all the elements of the periodic table (2018)
Purdue Faculty Scholar (2018-2023)
Fellow - World Technology Network (2016)
AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award (2016)
R and D Top 100 award, R and D Magazine, Las-Vegas, USA (2015)
ACS Certificate of Merit, Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR), American Chemical Society (2015)
British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly Award, World Carbon Conference, Rio-Brazil, (2013)
First Place, Science as Art competition, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2012)
Grand Prize, worldwide ‘How Does Chemistry Help YOU Be Green?’ video contest, American Chemical Society (2010)
Argonne Scholar (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship), Argonne National Lab. (2008)
Intel Prize, Outstanding poster, 25th Israel Vacuum Society Conference (2006)
Best Student Award, All Maharashtra State Student Welfare Association, India (2000)
Gold Medal, Kabaddi, DRDO Sports Board, Government of India (2000)
Graduate Student Names
Annie Sun
Austin Choi, DoD SMART Fellow
Daecheol Jeong (co-advised by Dr. Brian Tackett, Purdue ChE)
Sooryadas Sudhakaran (co-advised by Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee (Purdue, ME)
Sung-Kwang Jung (co-advised by Dr. Martin Byung-Guk Jun (Purdue, ME)
Saibhargava Reddy Mandapati (IIT Kharagpur, India, SERB fellow)
Jyotirekha Dutta (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Mohammad Zaid (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Austin Choi, DoD SMART Fellow
Daecheol Jeong (co-advised by Dr. Brian Tackett, Purdue ChE)
Sooryadas Sudhakaran (co-advised by Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee (Purdue, ME)
Sung-Kwang Jung (co-advised by Dr. Martin Byung-Guk Jun (Purdue, ME)
Saibhargava Reddy Mandapati (IIT Kharagpur, India, SERB fellow)
Jyotirekha Dutta (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Mohammad Zaid (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Research Associate Names
Dr. Sayan Das
Dr. Dongjoon Sin
Dr. Dongjoon Sin
Names of Undergraduate Researchers
Marlene Tedy-Gabriel
Shawn Belongia
Jason Packard
Will Stasko
Nicolas Luca Simi
Will Friedrich
Felipe Martinez
Shawn Belongia
Jason Packard
Will Stasko
Nicolas Luca Simi
Will Friedrich
Felipe Martinez
Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Nanostructured Electrodes
Materials Discovery and Characterization
Materials Discovery and Characterization
Energy
Electrochemical Energy Storage - Batteries
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Manufacturing
Materials Processing
Technology Developments
Technology Developments
Visiting and Adjunct Faculty
Vilas Pol
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Email:
vpol@purdue.edu
Office:
FRNY
2146
Campus Phone:
(765) 494-0044
Mailing Address
Purdue University
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
480 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
480 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100
(765) 494-0805
Organizational Group
Faculty
Degrees Received
M.Sc., Pune University, India, 1996
Ph.D., University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, 2005
Ph.D., University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, 2005
Honors and Awards Received
IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) Power Electronics Society's Energy Storage Innovation Award (2025)
Jefferson Science Fellow finalist (Hiring Freeze), National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2025)
Asian American Engineer of the Year (2024)
Science Father - Best Researcher Award, Safer Batteries (2024)
Named as a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (2024)
Fulbright Specialist (Global): U.S. Department of State???s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning (06/14/2024 ??? 06/14/2027)
Fellow - The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024)
Foreign Fellow – Chemical Sciences Maharashtra Academy of Science (MASc), India (2023)
2023 and 2022 Purdue College of Engineering - Most Impactful Faculty Inventors
Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM - The Lowest Temperature (-100 Degrees Celsius) to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery (2022)
AIChE Excellence in Process (Microwave) Development Research Award (2021)
TMS Light Metals, Extraction and Processing division’s Energy Best Paper Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (2021)
Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials, Ulrika, Sweden (2020)
AIChE Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering, (2019)
Salutes to Excellence, American Chemical Society (2019)
Richard M. Fulrath Award - American Academic, The American Ceramic Society (2019)
Purdue Research Foundation, Trask Innovation Funds (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM for the fastest time to arrange all the elements of the periodic table (2018)
Purdue Faculty Scholar (2018-2023)
Fellow - World Technology Network (2016)
AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award (2016)
R and D Top 100 award, R and D Magazine, Las-Vegas, USA (2015)
ACS Certificate of Merit, Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR), American Chemical Society (2015)
British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly Award, World Carbon Conference, Rio-Brazil, (2013)
First Place, Science as Art competition, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2012)
Grand Prize, worldwide ‘How Does Chemistry Help YOU Be Green?’ video contest, American Chemical Society (2010)
Argonne Scholar (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship), Argonne National Lab. (2008)
Intel Prize, Outstanding poster, 25th Israel Vacuum Society Conference (2006)
Best Student Award, All Maharashtra State Student Welfare Association, India (2000)
Gold Medal, Kabaddi, DRDO Sports Board, Government of India (2000)
Jefferson Science Fellow finalist (Hiring Freeze), National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2025)
Asian American Engineer of the Year (2024)
Science Father - Best Researcher Award, Safer Batteries (2024)
Named as a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (2024)
Fulbright Specialist (Global): U.S. Department of State???s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning (06/14/2024 ??? 06/14/2027)
Fellow - The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024)
Foreign Fellow – Chemical Sciences Maharashtra Academy of Science (MASc), India (2023)
2023 and 2022 Purdue College of Engineering - Most Impactful Faculty Inventors
Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM - The Lowest Temperature (-100 Degrees Celsius) to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery (2022)
AIChE Excellence in Process (Microwave) Development Research Award (2021)
TMS Light Metals, Extraction and Processing division’s Energy Best Paper Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (2021)
Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials, Ulrika, Sweden (2020)
AIChE Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering, (2019)
Salutes to Excellence, American Chemical Society (2019)
Richard M. Fulrath Award - American Academic, The American Ceramic Society (2019)
Purdue Research Foundation, Trask Innovation Funds (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM for the fastest time to arrange all the elements of the periodic table (2018)
Purdue Faculty Scholar (2018-2023)
Fellow - World Technology Network (2016)
AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award (2016)
R and D Top 100 award, R and D Magazine, Las-Vegas, USA (2015)
ACS Certificate of Merit, Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR), American Chemical Society (2015)
British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly Award, World Carbon Conference, Rio-Brazil, (2013)
First Place, Science as Art competition, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2012)
Grand Prize, worldwide ‘How Does Chemistry Help YOU Be Green?’ video contest, American Chemical Society (2010)
Argonne Scholar (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship), Argonne National Lab. (2008)
Intel Prize, Outstanding poster, 25th Israel Vacuum Society Conference (2006)
Best Student Award, All Maharashtra State Student Welfare Association, India (2000)
Gold Medal, Kabaddi, DRDO Sports Board, Government of India (2000)
Graduate Student Names
Annie Sun
Austin Choi, DoD SMART Fellow
Daecheol Jeong (co-advised by Dr. Brian Tackett, Purdue ChE)
Sooryadas Sudhakaran (co-advised by Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee (Purdue, ME)
Sung-Kwang Jung (co-advised by Dr. Martin Byung-Guk Jun (Purdue, ME)
Saibhargava Reddy Mandapati (IIT Kharagpur, India, SERB fellow)
Jyotirekha Dutta (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Mohammad Zaid (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Austin Choi, DoD SMART Fellow
Daecheol Jeong (co-advised by Dr. Brian Tackett, Purdue ChE)
Sooryadas Sudhakaran (co-advised by Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee (Purdue, ME)
Sung-Kwang Jung (co-advised by Dr. Martin Byung-Guk Jun (Purdue, ME)
Saibhargava Reddy Mandapati (IIT Kharagpur, India, SERB fellow)
Jyotirekha Dutta (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Mohammad Zaid (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Research Associate Names
Dr. Sayan Das
Dr. Dongjoon Sin
Dr. Dongjoon Sin
Names of Undergraduate Researchers
Marlene Tedy-Gabriel
Shawn Belongia
Jason Packard
Will Stasko
Nicolas Luca Simi
Will Friedrich
Felipe Martinez
Shawn Belongia
Jason Packard
Will Stasko
Nicolas Luca Simi
Will Friedrich
Felipe Martinez
Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Nanostructured Electrodes
Materials Discovery and Characterization
Materials Discovery and Characterization
Energy
Electrochemical Energy Storage - Batteries
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Manufacturing
Materials Processing
Technology Developments
Technology Developments
Emeritus Faculty
Vilas Pol
Professor of Chemical Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Email:
vpol@purdue.edu
Office:
FRNY
2146
Campus Phone:
(765) 494-0044
Mailing Address
Purdue University
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
480 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100
Davidson School of Chemical Engineering
Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering
480 Stadium Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100
(765) 494-0805
Organizational Group
Faculty
Degrees Received
M.Sc., Pune University, India, 1996
Ph.D., University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, 2005
Ph.D., University of Bar-Ilan, Israel, 2005
Honors and Awards Received
IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers) Power Electronics Society's Energy Storage Innovation Award (2025)
Jefferson Science Fellow finalist (Hiring Freeze), National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2025)
Asian American Engineer of the Year (2024)
Science Father - Best Researcher Award, Safer Batteries (2024)
Named as a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (2024)
Fulbright Specialist (Global): U.S. Department of State???s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning (06/14/2024 ??? 06/14/2027)
Fellow - The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024)
Foreign Fellow – Chemical Sciences Maharashtra Academy of Science (MASc), India (2023)
2023 and 2022 Purdue College of Engineering - Most Impactful Faculty Inventors
Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM - The Lowest Temperature (-100 Degrees Celsius) to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery (2022)
AIChE Excellence in Process (Microwave) Development Research Award (2021)
TMS Light Metals, Extraction and Processing division’s Energy Best Paper Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (2021)
Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials, Ulrika, Sweden (2020)
AIChE Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering, (2019)
Salutes to Excellence, American Chemical Society (2019)
Richard M. Fulrath Award - American Academic, The American Ceramic Society (2019)
Purdue Research Foundation, Trask Innovation Funds (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM for the fastest time to arrange all the elements of the periodic table (2018)
Purdue Faculty Scholar (2018-2023)
Fellow - World Technology Network (2016)
AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award (2016)
R and D Top 100 award, R and D Magazine, Las-Vegas, USA (2015)
ACS Certificate of Merit, Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR), American Chemical Society (2015)
British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly Award, World Carbon Conference, Rio-Brazil, (2013)
First Place, Science as Art competition, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2012)
Grand Prize, worldwide ‘How Does Chemistry Help YOU Be Green?’ video contest, American Chemical Society (2010)
Argonne Scholar (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship), Argonne National Lab. (2008)
Intel Prize, Outstanding poster, 25th Israel Vacuum Society Conference (2006)
Best Student Award, All Maharashtra State Student Welfare Association, India (2000)
Gold Medal, Kabaddi, DRDO Sports Board, Government of India (2000)
Jefferson Science Fellow finalist (Hiring Freeze), National Academies Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2025)
Asian American Engineer of the Year (2024)
Science Father - Best Researcher Award, Safer Batteries (2024)
Named as a Top Scholar by ScholarGPS (2024)
Fulbright Specialist (Global): U.S. Department of State???s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) and World Learning (06/14/2024 ??? 06/14/2027)
Fellow - The Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) (2024)
Foreign Fellow – Chemical Sciences Maharashtra Academy of Science (MASc), India (2023)
2023 and 2022 Purdue College of Engineering - Most Impactful Faculty Inventors
Purdue University Outstanding Engineering Teachers (Fall 2022, Spring 2021, Spring 2019)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM - The Lowest Temperature (-100 Degrees Celsius) to Charge a Lithium-ion Battery (2022)
AIChE Excellence in Process (Microwave) Development Research Award (2021)
TMS Light Metals, Extraction and Processing division’s Energy Best Paper Award, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (2021)
Fellow – International Association of Advanced Materials, Ulrika, Sweden (2020)
AIChE Professional Achievement Award for Innovations in Green Process Engineering, (2019)
Salutes to Excellence, American Chemical Society (2019)
Richard M. Fulrath Award - American Academic, The American Ceramic Society (2019)
Purdue Research Foundation, Trask Innovation Funds (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021)
GUINNESS WORLD RECORDSTM for the fastest time to arrange all the elements of the periodic table (2018)
Purdue Faculty Scholar (2018-2023)
Fellow - World Technology Network (2016)
AIChE Sustainable Engineering Forum Research Award (2016)
R and D Top 100 award, R and D Magazine, Las-Vegas, USA (2015)
ACS Certificate of Merit, Division of Environmental Chemistry (ENVR), American Chemical Society (2015)
British Carbon Society’s Brian Kelly Award, World Carbon Conference, Rio-Brazil, (2013)
First Place, Science as Art competition, MRS Fall Meeting, Boston (2012)
Grand Prize, worldwide ‘How Does Chemistry Help YOU Be Green?’ video contest, American Chemical Society (2010)
Argonne Scholar (Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship), Argonne National Lab. (2008)
Intel Prize, Outstanding poster, 25th Israel Vacuum Society Conference (2006)
Best Student Award, All Maharashtra State Student Welfare Association, India (2000)
Gold Medal, Kabaddi, DRDO Sports Board, Government of India (2000)
Graduate Student Names
Annie Sun
Austin Choi, DoD SMART Fellow
Daecheol Jeong (co-advised by Dr. Brian Tackett, Purdue ChE)
Sooryadas Sudhakaran (co-advised by Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee (Purdue, ME)
Sung-Kwang Jung (co-advised by Dr. Martin Byung-Guk Jun (Purdue, ME)
Saibhargava Reddy Mandapati (IIT Kharagpur, India, SERB fellow)
Jyotirekha Dutta (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Mohammad Zaid (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Austin Choi, DoD SMART Fellow
Daecheol Jeong (co-advised by Dr. Brian Tackett, Purdue ChE)
Sooryadas Sudhakaran (co-advised by Dr. Partha P. Mukherjee (Purdue, ME)
Sung-Kwang Jung (co-advised by Dr. Martin Byung-Guk Jun (Purdue, ME)
Saibhargava Reddy Mandapati (IIT Kharagpur, India, SERB fellow)
Jyotirekha Dutta (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Mohammad Zaid (IIT Hyderabad, SPARK fellow)
Research Associate Names
Dr. Sayan Das
Dr. Dongjoon Sin
Dr. Dongjoon Sin
Names of Undergraduate Researchers
Marlene Tedy-Gabriel
Shawn Belongia
Jason Packard
Will Stasko
Nicolas Luca Simi
Will Friedrich
Felipe Martinez
Shawn Belongia
Jason Packard
Will Stasko
Nicolas Luca Simi
Will Friedrich
Felipe Martinez
Nanoscale Science and Engineering
Nanostructured Electrodes
Materials Discovery and Characterization
Materials Discovery and Characterization
Energy
Electrochemical Energy Storage - Batteries
Environmental Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Manufacturing
Materials Processing
Technology Developments
Technology Developments