Ilias Mitrai

Assistant Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, UT  Austin

Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2023
Diploma in Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2018

E-mail: ilias.mitrai@austin.utexas.edu
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Jiyong Lee

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, 2023

B.S., Energy & Environmental Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Yonsei University, 2021

Joined group in Fall 2024

Research topic:  Explainable optimization;  Design of energy systems
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Tongjia Liu

B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2025

Joined group in Fall 2025

Research topic:  Design of optimization algorithms
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Aditya (Adi) Sankaran

B.S., Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2024

Joined group in Fall 2025, co-advised with Prof. Michael Baldea

Research topic:  Interpretable Machine Learning, Data-driven material discovery
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