Alumni
| Name | Position at Purdue | Advisor(s) | Graduation Year | Post-graduation Employment | Current Employment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hwiyoon Noh | Graduate Research Assistant | Brian Tackett | 2025 | Postdoc @ Prof. Marta Hatzell, Georgia Institute of Technology | ||
| Chloe Arana | Masters Thesis | Brian Tackett | 2025 | |||
| 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 | ||
| 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) | ||
| Ian Smith | Masters | Fabio Ribeiro | 2016 | Delphi Automotive | ||
| 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 |