Alumni
| Name | Position at Purdue | Advisor(s) | Graduation Year | Post-graduation Employment | Current Employment | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bereket Bekele | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2026 | Postdoc @ Prof. Joy Zheng, Brown University | |||
| Anik Biswas | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller and Fabio Ribeiro | 2025 | Argonne National Laboratory | |||
| Alex von Gunten | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2025 | ||||
| Sanghyun Ahn | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2025 | Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology (South Korea) | |||
| Hwiyoon Noh | Graduate Research Assistant | Brian Tackett | 2025 | Postdoc @ Prof. Marta Hatzell, Georgia Institute of Technology | |||
| Sopuru Ezenwa | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2025 | Postdoc @ Prof. Yogesh Surendranath, Massachussets Institute of Technology | |||
| Gaurav Deshmukh | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2024 | Postdoc @ Prof. Linda Broadbelt, Northwestern University | |||
| Ankita Morankar | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2024 | Postdoc @ Prof. Yang Shao-Horn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
| Ricem Diaz Arroyo | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2024 | Dow Chemicals | |||
| Brandon Bolton | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2024 | Ecovyst | |||
| Andrew Mikes | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2024 | Superior Graphite | |||
| Kaustubh Sawant | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2023 | Postdoc @ Prof. Phillip Sautet, UCLA | |||
| Christopher K. Russel | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2023 | Lecturer @ Washington University in St. Louis | |||
| Christian Breckner | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2023 | Swift Fuels | |||
| David Dean | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2023 | Shell | |||
| Songhyun Lee | Post Doctoral Research Associate | Rajamani Gounder | 2022 | Dow | |||
| Mykela Deluca | Post Doctoral Research Associate | Rajamani Gounder | 2022 | Mitra Chem | |||
| Elizabeth Bickel | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2022 | Postdoc @ Prof. Aditya Bhan, University of Minnesota | Assistant Professor @ University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | ||
| Yinan Xu | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2022 | Postdoc @ Prof. Juan de Pablo, University of Chicago | |||
| Chei Wei Chang | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2022 | Swift Fuels | |||
| Matthew Conrad | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2022 | Boston Consultancy Group | |||
| Junxian Gao | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2022 | Lam Research | |||
| Arunima Saxena | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2022 | Dow | |||
| Jeremy Avray | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2022 | Corteva | |||
| Siddarth Krishna | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Rajamani Gounder | 2021 | Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin | |||
| Laura Wilcox | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2021 | Aramco | |||
| Siddharth Deshpande | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2021 | Postdoc @ Prof. Dionisios Vlachos, University of Delaware | Assistant Professor, University of Rochester | ||
| Ranga Rohit Seemakurthi | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2021 | Postdoc @ Prof. Núria López, Institute of Chemical Research, Spain | |||
| Pushkar Ghanekar | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2021 | Eli Lilly and Company | |||
| Jeffrey Lowe | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Jeffrey Greeley | 2021 | General Motors | |||
| Abhijit Talpade | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2021 | Eastman | |||
| Trevor Lardinois | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2021 | Exponent | |||
| Casey Jones | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder and Fabio Ribeiro | 2021 | Dow Chemicals | |||
| Garrett Mitchell | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2020 | Intel | |||
| Claire Nimlos | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2020 | Postdoc @ NREL | |||
| Nicole Libretto | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2020 | Postdoc @ NREL | |||
| Johnny Zhu Chen | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2020 | Postdoc @ Baltrusaitis Group, Lehigh University | |||
| Young Gul Hur | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Rajamani Gounder | 2020 | Hyundai Motor Company | |||
| Philip Kester | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2020 | Dow Chemicals | |||
| Juan Vega-Vila | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2019 | Postdoc @ Simonetti and Sant group, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) | Assistant Professor, University of Maryland | ||
| Jason Bates | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2019 | Postdoc @ Stahl Group, University of Wisconsin–Madison | Assistant Professor, University of Virginia | ||
| Robert Warburton | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2019 | Postdoc @ Hammes-Schiffer Group, Yale University | Assistant Professor, Case Western University | ||
| Brandon Bukowski | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2019 | Postdoc @ Snurr Group, Northwestern University | Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University | ||
| Laryssa Cesar | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2019 | Dow Chemicals | |||
| Ishant Khurana | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2019 | Braskem | |||
| Ravi Joshi | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2019 | Phillips 66 | |||
| Stephen Purdy | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2019 | Postdoc @ Oak Ridge National Laboratory | R&D associate staff scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory | ||
| Cory Milligan | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2018 | Intel | |||
| Arthur Shih | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2018 | Postdoc @ Prof. Marc Koper Group, Leiden University | |||
| Paulami Majumdar | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2018 | Dow Chemicals | |||
| John Di Iorio | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2018 | Postdoc @ Prof. Román-Leshkov Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Munters | ||
| Michael Cordon | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder | 2018 | Postdoc @ Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |||
| Taufik Ridha | Graduate Research Assistant | Rakesh Agrawal | 2018 | ExxonMobil | |||
| Guanghui Zhang | Postdoctoral Research Associate | Jeffrey Miller | 2018 | Associate Professor at School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology | |||
| Han-Ting Tseng | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2018 | Intel | |||
| Zhenwei Wu | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2018 | Postdoc @ Prof. Matteo Cargnello, Stanford University | Shell | ||
| Yu-Hsuan Lee | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2018 | ||||
| Evan Wegener | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Miller | 2018 | Postdoc @ Argonne National Laboratory | |||
| Tej Choksi | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2017 | Postdoc @ Prof. Jens Norskov and Frank Abild-Pederson, Stanford University | Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore | ||
| James W. Harris | Graduate Research Assistant | Rajamani Gounder and Fabio Ribeiro | 2017 | Postdoc @ Prof. Aditya Bhan | Assistant Professor at University of Alabama | ||
| Heejoon Chun | Graduate Research Assistant | Jeffrey Greeley | 2017 | Samsung | |||
| Yanran Cui | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2016 | Postdoc @ Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |||
| Jonatan Albarracin | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2016 | BASF Catalyst GmbH, Germany | |||
| Mckay Easton | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro | 2016 | Postdoc @ Prof. Hilkka Kenttämaa group, Purdue University | |||
| Zhe Li | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2016 | PhD @ Iowa State University | |||
| Atish Parekh | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2016 | Shell | |||
| Viktor Cybulskis | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2016 | Postdoc @ Prof. Mark E. Davis, California Institute of Technology | Assistant Professor, Syracuse University | ||
| John Degenstein | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2016 | Twin Cities Research, Inc. (TCR) | |||
| Handan Yildirim | Postdoctoral Researcher | Jeffrey Greeley | 2016 | NASA | |||
| Xiangkui Gu | Postdoctoral Researcher | Jeffrey Greeley | 2015 | Wayne State University | |||
| Shankali Pradhan | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2015 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | |||
| Michael Detwiler | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2015 | BASF | |||
| Harshavardhan Choudhari | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2015 | SABIC | |||
| Amir Gharachorlou | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2014 | 3M | |||
| Dhairya Mehta | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2014 | Shell | |||
| Kaiwalya Sabnis | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2014 | SABIC | |||
| Fred Sollberger | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2014 | UOP | |||
| Vinod Venkatakrishnan | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2014 | Shell | |||
| Anuj Verma | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2014 | Abbott Labs | |||
| Zhijian Zhao | Postdoctoral Researcher | Jeffrey Greeley | 2014 | Professor, Tianjin University | |||
| Cem Akatay | Graduate Research Assistant | Eric A. Stach, Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass | 2013 | UOP | |||
| Shane Bates | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2013 | Albemarle | |||
| Paul Dietrich | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2013 | BP | |||
| Sara Yohe | Graduate Research Assistant | Rakesh Agrawal, Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass | 2013 | ExxonMobil | |||
| Damion Williams | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2012 | Caterpillar | |||
| Vincent Kispersky | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2012 | BP | |||
| Jun Wang | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2012 | Total Petrochemicals & Refining USA | |||
| Piotr Gawecki | Graduate Research Assistant | Rakesh Agrawal, Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass | 2012 | Shell | |||
| Wen-Sheng Lee | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2012 | Postdoc @ Prof. Aditya Bhan, University of Minnesota | Dow Chemical | ||
| Mayank Shekhar | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2012 | ExxonMobil | |||
| Jorge Pazmino | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2011 | Dow Chemical | |||
| Rong Zhang | Graduate Research Assistant | Chelsey Baertsch | 2011 | Instructor, University of South Florida | |||
| Andrew Smeltz | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2011 | United Technologies De Nora Tech, Inc. | |||
| Saurabh Chaugule | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2010 | Shell | |||
| Brad Fingland | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2010 | ExxonMobil Tenneco | |||
| Chris Tan | Graduate Research Assistant | Chelsey Baertsch | 2009 | Intel | |||
| Luis Bollman | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2009 | Dow Chemical | |||
| Hari Nair | Graduate Research Assistant | Chelsey Baertsch | 2008 | ExxonMobil | |||
| Gowri Krishnamurthy | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2008 | Air Products | |||
| Josh Ratts | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2008 | Caterpillar | |||
| Brian Kromer | Graduate Research Assistant | Fabio Ribeiro and W. Nicholas Delgass | 2008 | Praxair | |||
| Leaelaf Hailemariam | Graduate Research Assistant | Kendall Thomson | 2008 | Dow Chemical | |||
| Ajay Joshi | Graduate Research Assistant | Kendall Thomson | 2007 | BP | |||
| Charles Schaffer | Graduate Research Assistant | Kendall Thomson | 2007 | ExxonMobil | |||
| Yogesh Joshi | Graduate Research Assistant | Kendall Thomson | 2006 | ExxonMobil | |||
| Lasitha Cumaranatunge | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2006 | Johnson Matthey | |||
| Abhijit Phatak | Graduate Research Assistant | Kendall Thomson | 2006 | Postdoc @ Notre Dame | Intel | ||
| Aditya Bhan | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2005 | Postdoc @ Prof. Enrique Iglesia, UC Berkeley | Professor, University of Minnesota | ||
| Brad Taylor | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2005 | Phillips 66 | |||
| David Wells, Jr. | Graduate Research Assistant | Kendall Thomson | 2004 | Purvin & Gertz, Inc. | |||
| Jeff Kloosterman | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2003 | Air Products | |||
| Paul Fanson | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2002 | Toyota | |||
| Nora Yap | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2002 | Clariant | |||
| Eric Stangland | Graduate Research Assistant | W. Nicholas Delgass | 2000 | Dow Chemical |