Background

CISTAR Graduate Fellow

Education

• Purdue University, Ph.D. Chemical Engineering (2020 – Present)
• Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Bachelor of Technology, Chemical Engineering (2016 – 2020)

Experience

• Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan Undergraduate Intern (May - July 2019)

Publication: Huynh, H.T., Tsai, S.T., Hsu, P.J., Biswas, A., Phan, H.T., Kuo, J.L., Ni, C.K. and Chiu, C.C., Collision-induced dissociation of Na+-tagged ketohexoses: experimental and computational studies on fructose, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 24(35), 2022

• Advisor: Prof. Jhumpa Adhikari Undergraduate Researcher

Topic: Rational Solvent Design for Liquid-Liquid Extraction Processes Using Group Contribution Methods

• Advisor: Prof. Abhijit Chatterjee Undergraduate Researcher

Topic: Improvement of Interatomic Potentials for Metal Alloys Using Tunable Mixing Rule

Awards

• Undergraduate Research Award, IIT Bombay (2018)

Project Description

Anik is currently working on modeling sulfur-oxidative alkane conversion reactions in collaboration with the Marks group from Northwestern University. He is also collaborating with Prof. Juarez LF Da Silva's group from the University of São Paulo on understanding the surface structures of Pt3Mn using a cluster expansion approach.

Presentations

• ACS Spring Meeting, Indianapolis (2023) – Oral presentation
• AIChE Annual Meeting, Phoenix (2022) – Oral presentation
• 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting, New York (2022) – Oral presentation
• CISTAR Annual and Fall Meetings (2022, 2023) – Poster presentation
• Purdue Chemical Engineering Colloquiums (2022, 2023) – Poster Presentation
• Catalysis Club of Chicago Symposium (2021) – Poster Presentation
• SUNCAT Summer Institute, Stanford University (2021) – Poster Presentation