Trainees

*current or former funded fellow. 

Wenjing Li

PhD student, Mathematical Sciences
Research Interest: Ensemble Learning, Statistical Modeling

Graduated 2021

Dennis Hofmann*

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Intent recognition and automating data life cycle

Jacob Feinstein*

PhD student, Physics
Research Interest: Experimental Physics / Solid-State Physics

Maddie Reed*

PhD student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Sustainable synthesis and recycling of polymers, and biofuel development and applications

Samuel Allen* 

PhD student, Management
Research Interest/Topic of interest: Sustainability, Systems Thinking

Graduated 2022

Tim Woodard*

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Sustainable Energy- Developing technology for converting under-utilized energy resources into fuels and chemicals.

Paige Kington

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Modeling and data analysis in sustainable engineering from the molecular to system levels.

Eric Warnemunde Vertina*

PhD Student, Data Science
Research Interest: Accelerating Discovery and Characterization of Functional 2D Materials for Catalysis and Solar Energy Conversion Using Data Science Methods.

Kevin Heath*

PhD student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Research Interest: Agent-based modeling of bumblebees

Graduated 2022

Andrew M. Fitzgerald*

PhD Student, Physics
Research Interest: Terahertz science and technology, nanomaterials for energy conversion, and photonics.

Liz Belden

PhD student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Renewable/Alternative Fuels, Utilization of waste plastics for fuels

David Kenney

PhD student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Predicting solute partitioning with minimal knowledge of compound structure.

Matt Rando

MS student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Molecular Modeling and Sustainability

Graduated 2022

Xin Zhang

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Imitation Learning, Meta-Learning and Spatial-temporal Data Mining.

Nicholas Josselyn*

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Deep learning medical image analysis

Peter Van Nostrand*

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Explainable AI, Computational Social Science

Biao Yin

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Deep-Learning for Scientific Discovery of Materials with Improved Corrosion-Resistance on Small Datasets

Zhuowen Chen

PhD student, Business
Research Interest: Lithium ion battery supply chain management

Emily Sutherland*

PhD Student, Physics
Research Interest: Density Functional Theory, quantum mechanics, and solid-state physics

Sarah J. Weintraub*

PhD student, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Research Interest: Leveraging yeast biomass for natural alternative energy

Alex Moore*

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Deep learning for Chemical Sensing

Mia Barger

PhD Student, Data Science
Research Interest: Machine learning, Kalman Filter, electromagnetic scattering

Kevin Metzler

PhD student, Mathematical Sciences
Research Interest: Differential equations, data analytics, and game theory

Jennifer Belfield*

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Machine Learning

Joshua DeOliveira

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Sustainable deep learning and generative modeling

Sydney Packard*

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Bacterial biofilms and aggregates, biological soft matter, contributions of biopolymers to the physical properties of Staphylococcal biofilms and aggregatesri

H.Wieckowski

Hunter Wieckowski

MS student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Novel uses for sustainable materials

Karen Agro*

PhD student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Utilizing organic waste for environmental remediation applications. 

Muntasir Shahabuddin

PhD student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Low cost grid-scale engery storage

Kalen Laybourn

PhD Student, Chemistry & Biochemistry
Research Interest: Novel photocatalysis design

Erika Colin Ulloa

PhD student, Physics
Research Interest: nanomaterials for energy conversion, photocatalysis, ultrafast, spectroscopy

Qian Qian

PhD student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: Density Functional Theory, Photocatalysis, Carbon Dioxide Conversion & Carbon Nitride Materials

Sepideh Khanmohammadi

PhD student, Physics
Research Interest: THz spectroscopy of 2D materials

Julian Bennett

PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Studies
Research Interest: Extraction of biofuel via Hydrothermal liquefaction & waste-to-energy conversion 

Oluseun Olulana

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Fairness in AI energy conversion, photocatalysis, ultrafast, spectroscopy

Paige Silvia*

PhD student, Chemistry
Research Interest: Organic Synthesis

Gabby Cabebe

PhD student, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Research Interest: Utilizing bacteria for bioremediation in soil and water

Yiqun Duan

PhD Student, Chemical Engineering
Research Interest: n/ao

Natalie Frey*

PhD student, Physics
Research Interest: Experimental Physics, Quantum Sensing

Laura Londoño Fandiño

PhD student, Physics
Research Interest: Material Categorization

Stephen Price

PhD student, Computer Science
Research Interest: Applied Machine Learning for Materials  & Manufacturing Applications

Karen Bonilla

PhD Student, Data Science
Research Interest: Visualization Literacy

Kevin Hickey

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

Nick Pulsone

PhD student, Computer Science
Research Interest: AI & ML

Tom Heffernan

PhD student, Computer Science
Research Interest: AI, Geo-Cultural Bias, Causality

Shannon Song

PhD Student, Data Science
Research Interest: Predicting forced human migration patterns

Kevin Hickey

PhD student, Data Science
Research Interest: Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)

Nick Pulsone

PhD student, Computer Science
Research Interest: AI & ML