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
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.
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
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, Chemical Engineering
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
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