Alumni

 

Postdoc Fellows

Dr. Enzheng Shi  ( 2017-2020)

• Assistant Professor (webpage)
• School of Engineering, Westlake University
• Email: shienzheng@westlake.edu.cn

Dr. Wenchao Zhao  (2019-2021),  jointly with Prof. Bryan Boudouris

• Professor
• Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University
• Email: wenchaozhao@njfu.edu.cn

Dr. Yao Gao  (2017-2021)

• Professor (webpage)
• Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Techonology
• Email: yaogao@hust.edu.cn

Dr. Hyojung Kim  (Korea NRF Postdoc Fellow; 2022-2023)

• Assistant Professor
• Institute:
• Email: 

Dr. Xuyi Luo  (2021-2023)

• Postdoc fellow with Prof. Yan Xia
• Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
• Email: 

Dr. Ke (Coco) Ma (2019-2023; Gilbreth Fellow joint with Prof. Jianguo Mei)

• Assistant Professor (Webpage)
• Shanghai Jiaotong University
• Email:

Dr. Kang Wang  (2019-2023)

• Professor (webpage)
• Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Email: 

Dr. Shuchen Zhang  (2020-2023)

• Assistant Professor (webpage)
• Department of Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China
• Email: 

Dr. Yoon Ho Lee (2021-2024)

• Assistant Professor (webpage)
• Environment & Energy Engineering, Sungshin Women’s University
• Email: 

Dr. Jiaonan Sun (2021-2024)

• Professor
• Chemical Engineering, Guangdong University of Technology
• Email: 

Dr. Seok Joo Yang  (since Jan 2022)

• Assistant Professor (webpage)
• Chemical Engineering, Gyeongsang National University
• Email: 

Dr. Wenhao Shao (2022-2025)

• Assistant Professor (webpage)
• Chemistry, University of Georgia
• Email: 

Graduate students

Xi Wang  (2020-2021)

• Graduate Student (with Prof. Yi Hou)
• National University of Singapore 
• Email: e0788089@u.nus.edu

Akriti (2017-2022)

• Rotation Engineer
• Lam Research
• Email: akriti@purdue.edu

Aidan Coffey (2017-2022)

• ALS Postdoc Fellow (with Dr. Chenhui Zhu)
• Advanced Light Sources, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Email: ahcoffey@purdue.edu

Blake Finkenauer (2017-2022)

• Device Engineer
• First Solar
• Email: bfinkena@purdue.edu

Sheng-Ning Hsu (2018-2023; co-advised with Prof. Bryan Boudouris)

• Device Engineer
• First Solar
• Email: hsu172@purdue.edu

Zitang Wei  (2018-2023)

• Postdoc Fellow (with Prof. Michael Strano)
• MIT 
• Email: wei0616@purdue.edu

Jee Yung Park  (2019-2024)

• Postdoc Fellow (with Prof. Peijun Guo)
• Yale University
• Email: 

Qixuan Hu (2020-2025)

• Engineer
• Dow Chemical
• Email: 

Undergraduate students

Divya Natarajan  ( 2017-2018)

• Major: Chemical Engineering, Minor: Computer Science
• Current:

Jiacheng Wu (2017-2018)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Viktoriya Trenkinshu (2017-2018)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Hanlin Zhu (2017-2018)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Xiaofeng Xiang (2018)

• Major: Chemistry
• Current: University of Washington, Seattle

Dong Hee Kim (2019)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current: SK Corp., Korea

Adam Troutman (2019)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Thao Nguyen (2018-2019)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Alan Pistone (2019-2022)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Yiyuan (Melody) Zhang (2020-2022)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current: University of Michigan, Graduate student

Brandon Hamel (2020-2021)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Leticia (Wyat) Cervantes (2021-2022)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Jake C. Schulz (2021-2022)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Lucas Martin Sy (2021)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Jack Jones (2021-2022)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Joseph Farrell (2021-2023)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Coleman B. Jennewein (2021-2023)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Ian N. Burch (2021-2022)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Nicholas Damiano (2022-2023)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Lukas Yi Peng (2023)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Anika Bhoopalam (2023-2025)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Dominick Maiorano (2023-2025)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Gangsan Lee (2023-2025)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Ryan Fasti (2023-2025)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Ben Ferris (2023-2025)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Emmy (Qilin) Huang (2024-2025)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Ram Goyal (2024-2025)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current:

Master Students

Xue Wang  (2018)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current: Colorado School of Mines

Mounika Dudala (2020)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current: UCLA

Qian Lu (2021)

• Major: Chemical Engineering
• Current: Penn State Univ.

Jisung Seo (2022)

• Major: Chemical Engineering & Materials Engineering
• Current: Military service

Visitors

Dr. Lei Meng  (July 2018)

• Home institute: UCLA (with Prof. Yang Yang)
• Current: Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chen Zhang  (July 2018 to September 2018)

• Home institute: Tsinghua University (with Prof. Lian Duan and Prof. Yong Qiu)
• Current: Tsinghua University

Gabriel Perez Schuster (June 2018)

• Home institute: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Current: Purdue University

Tong Lin  (July 2019)

• Home institute: Peking University
• Current:

Binghan Zhou  (July 2019)

• Home institute: Tsinghua University
• Current: 

Cindy Lorena Atencio Martinez  (June 2019)

• Home institute: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá D.C., Colombia
• Current: Purdue University

Dr. Haimin Li (2018 – 2019)

• Home institute:  Southwest Petroleum University, China. Associate Professor.
• Current: Southwest Petroleum University, China

Diana Carolina Jimenez Fonseca (2019)

• Home institute: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Current:

Yue Tian  (2019)

• Home institute: Zhejiang University
• Current:

Catherin Galvis Guiral (since March 2021; joint with Prof. Bryan Boudouris)

• Home institute: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Current:

Martin Gomez Dominguez (summer 2021)

• Home institute: Universidad de los Andes
• Current: Georgia Tech (graduate student with Prof. Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena)

Prof. Aihui Liang (2019-2021)

• Home institute: Jiangxi Normal University. Associate Professor
• Current: Jiangxi Normal University

Leonardo Franquilino (Feb 2022-Dec 2022; UG) 

• Home institute: Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Sao Paulo
• Current: Federal Institute of Science and Technology of Sao Paulo

Xinan Wu (07/2022-12/2022; UG)

• Home institute: Peking University
• Current: Peking University

Peiran Niu (07/2022-12/2022; UG)

• Home institute: Peking University
• Current: Stanford University

Wonryeol Yang (09/2022-12/2022; PhD student)

• Home institute: POSTECH
• Current: POSTECH

Ajeet Singh (10/2021-03/2023; SERB-OVDF fellow, visiting PhD student)

• Home institute: Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
• Current: 

Dr. Vijayakumar Chakkooth (03/2022-06/2022; Raman Fellowship)

• Home institute: National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST)
• Current: National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST)

Devansh Drolia (01/2023-05/2023; UG)

• Home institute: Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS)
• Current: 

Aline Carla Kruger (summer 2023; SURF fellow)

• Home institute: Drew University
• Current:

Tejaswini Haraniya (summer 2023; SURF fellow)

• Home institute: Case Western Reserve University
• Current:

Hithesh rai Purushothama (summer 2023; SURF fellow)

• Home institute: Arizona State University
• Current:

Kagachi Tateno (summer 2023; IAESTE fellow)

• Home institute: Aoyama Gakuin University
• Current:

Katerin Rodríguez (08/2023-12/2023)

• Home institute: National University of Colombia
• Current:

Chenyu Li (summer 2024; SURF fellow)

• Home institute: Georgia Tech
• Current:

Frederick Jusmin (summer 2024)

• Home institute: Hong Kong Univ. Sci. & Tech.
• Current:

Dr. Jing Li (2024-2025)

• Home institute: Dalian University of Technology
• Current: Dalian University of Technology

Raunak Dani (High School student; 2022-2024)

• Home institute: West Lafayette High School
• Current: Purdue University undergrad

Prashant Kumar (08/2023-02/2025; SERB-OVDF fellow, visiting PhD)

• Home institute: Central University of Jharkhand
• Current: Central University of Jharkhand

Avija Ajayakumar (09/2024-08/2025; SERB-OVDF fellow, visiting PhD)

• Home institute: National Institute for Interdisciplinary Sci. & Tech
• Current: Florida State Univ. Postdoc

Nils Golay (02/2025-08/2025; visiting MS)

• Home institute: EPFL
• Current: EPFL, graduate student