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