Members

GRADUATE STUDENTS


Xintong (Vanessa) Xu

Ph.D. Candidate in ChBE, minor in PSE | Joined 2023

Current Research:

Catalytic biowaste valorization, bio-based catalyst synthesis

Akanksha Lakra

Ph.D. Candidate in ChBE, minor in PSE | Joined 2021

Current Research:

Functional bionanomterials, nanoscale self-assembly, sustainable processes, packaging and paper making

Geng-Sheng (Brian) Lin

Ph.D. Candidate in ChBE, minor in PSE | Joined 2021

Current Research:

Sustainable materials synthesis, bio-based smart membrane design

Ji Gao

Ph.D. Candidate in ChBE, minor in ISyE | Joined 2021

Current Research:

Sustainable process control, machine-learning assisted biopolymer/biomaterial design

Abigael Wahlen

Ph.D. Candidate in ChBE, minor in ISyE | Joined 2020

Current Research:

Reinforcement Learning-based sustainable process control and optimization, catalytic biowaste valorization

Wenbo Peng

Ph.D. Candidate in ChBE, minor in chemistry | Joined 2019

Current Research:

Catalytic biowaste valorization, bio-based catalyst synthesis, carbon-negative reaction design, and application

RESEARCHERS


Dr. Abdulkerim Okbaz

Visiting Researcher| Joined 2023

Energy harvesting from flow-induced motions with triboelectric nanogenerators

Dr. Zhaoxian Qin

Post-Doc Researcher | Joined 2023

Nanoclusters, nanocatalyst, crystal structure, nanomaterials

VISITING SCHOLARS & STUDENTS


Rongrong Liu

Ph.D. Candidate | Joined 2022

Jiaxuan Liu

Ph.D. Candidate | Joined 2022

UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCHERS


Revati Railkar

Undergraduate student in ChBE | Joined 2022

ALUMNI

GRADUATE STUDENTS


Hanxi Bao (Ph.D)
Karyn Moses (Ph.D)
Nusheng Chen (Ph.D)
Tiantian Li (Ph.D)
Xiangju Fu (Ph.D)
William Sagues (MS)
Arianna Partow (Ph.D)
Letian Wang (Ph.D)
Shanyu Meng (Ph.D)
Suguna Jairam (Ph.D)

POST-DOC RESEARCHERS


Jijiao Zeng
Fei Wang
Qingzheng Cheng
Shuguang Zhang

VISITING & UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARS


Jose Perez Martinez, undergraduate student, GaTech, 2022-2023

Jungeun Lee, undergraduate student, GaTech, 2022-2023

Jacob Epps, undergraduate student, GaTech, 2022

Ethan Slaton, SURE undergraduate student, University of Florida, Summer 2022

Ya Pang, Visiting Scholar, Changsha University, 05/2014-04/2015.

Hua Qiu, Visiting Scholar, Northwestern Polytechnical University, 06/2014-05/2015.

Qifa Zhou, Visiting Scholar, Zhejian University, 11/2011-10/2012.

Cong Wang, Exchange undergraduate student, Shangdong Agricultural University, 09/2011-05/2012.

Lin Zhang, Visiting Scholar

Hongli Fan, Visiting Scholar

Fei Wang, Visiting Scholar

Xiaopeng Pei, Visiting Scholar