PhD Students

Current Master Students 

• Tanmay Suresh More, M.S. joined 2022

• Manan Prakashchandra Jain, M.S. joined 2022

• Om Mahendra Korade, M.S. joined 2023

• Sharath Krishna Biju, M.S. joined 2023

• Vedika Bhanu Gowda, M.S. joined 2024

Former Graduate Students:

• Xuegeng Li, Ph.D. conferred February 2004.  Currently CEO, Optony Solar.

• Suddha Talukdar, Ph.D. conferred February 2004. Currently Engineering TD Manager at Intel.

• Yuanqing (Emily) He, Ph.D. conferred February 2006. Currently Staff Scientist at Sabic Innovative Plastics.

• Ken-Tye Yong, Ph.D. conferred September 2006.  Currently Associate Professor at Nanyang Tech. Univ.

• Weili Shi, Ph.D. conferred February 2007.  Currently CEO at DK Electronic Materials

• Hongwang Zhang, Ph.D. conferred February 2008.  Currently Senior Scientist at DK Electronic Materials

• Hongyi Dang, Ph.D. conferred February 2009.  Currently Senior Process Engineer at Technip, Houston, TX.

• Folarin Erogbogbo, Ph.D. conferred June 2009, Currently Assistant Professor at San Jose State University

• William Scharmach, Ph.D. conferred June 2011.  Currently Development Specialist at Praxair, Inc.

• Sha Liu, Ph.D. conferred September 2011. Currently Sales Engineer at Kemlab

• Munish Sharma, Ph.D. conferred September 2013. Currently Senior R&D Engineer at UOP Honeywell R&D

• Xin Liu, Ph.D. conferred February 2014, Currently Process Engineer at Applied Materials

• Xianliang Wang, Ph.D. conferred September 2015, Currently Applications Engineer at New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics

• Yue Li, Ph.D. conferred February, 2016, Currently at Zhejiang University

• Dewei Zhu, Ph.D. conferred June 2016, Currently at UB

• Qi Li, Ph.D. conferred September 2017, Currently at Energy Materials Corp.

• Shailesh Konda, Ph.D. conferred February 2018, Currently TD Module Engineer at Intel

• Liang Qiao, Ph.D. conferred February 2018, Currently Post-Doc at Rice University

• Parham Rohani, Ph.D. conferred June 2018, Currently CEO of NanoHydroChem, LLC

• Yang Liu, Ph.D. conferred September 2018

• Deqiang Yin, Ph.D. conferred September 2018

• Zhen Liu, M.S. conferred September 2000.  Currently Associate Principal Scientist at Merck

• Vi Dat "Victor" Tu, M.S. conferred September 2001.  Currently at US EPA.

• Carla Ng, M.S. conferred January 2003.  Currently Assistant Prof. at University of Pittsburgh.

• Juan Carlos Alva Nieta, M.S. conferred June 2003.  Currently at Global Business Manager for Thioplast at Akzo Nobel

• Kar-Chan Choong, M.S. conferred September 2003.  Currently Associate Consultant at Eli Lily

• Ajinkya Dighe, M.S. conferred February 2010. Currently Chemical Process Engineer at Godrej Industries Limited.

• Chen-An (Roger) Tien, M.S. conferred September 2010. Currently Procurement Manager at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise

• Nithin Ramadurai, M.S. conferred September 2010. Currently Senior Engineer at Olivo Labs, LLC/Living Proof, Inc.

• Ching-Wen (Ashley) Chang. M.S. conferred February 2011. Currently R&D Engineer at Lightlab Asia/Sweden AB

• Pooja (Chakrabarty) Roy, M.S. conferred September 2011. Currently Process Engineer at Herbalife

• Gary Martin, M.S. conferred September, 2011. Currently Applications Engineer at Aether DBS

• Digvijay Singh Chauhan, M.S. conferred February 2012. Currently Development Engineer at Unifrax

• Mark Kaus, M.S. conferred February 2012. Currently Process Engineer at Azota Ltd.

• Krystal Lajoie, M.S. conferred February 2013. Currently Process Engineer at Solvay

• Gauri Dilip Patki, M.S. conferred February 2013. Currently Research Chemist at Aptapharma, Inc.

• Vikram Reddy Ardham, M.S. conferred June, 2013, Currently Ph.D. student at TU Darmstadt

• Parham Rohani, M.S. conferred September, 2013, Currently Ph.D. student Chemical & Biological Engineering at UB

• Di Qi, M.S. conferred June, 2014, currently at ThermoFisher Scientific.

• Changning Li, M.S. conferred June 2014. Currently Ph.D. student in Biomedical Engineering at UB

• Saurabh Singh, M.S. conferred September 2014. Currently Semiconductor Research Engineer at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

• Yujie Ke, M.S. conferred June 2015. Currently Ph.D. student at Nanyang Technological University

• Christopher Miller, M.S. conferred September 2015. Currently Process Engineer at Wacker Chemie.

• Andrew Mowbray, M.S. conferred September 2015.

• Najing Li, M.S. conferred June 2016.

• Liang Guo, M.S. conferred September 2017.

• Zheng Fu, M.S. conferred September 2017. Currently Ph.D. student at UB

• Mayuresh Keskar, M.S. conferred June 2018.

• Santosh Gunturi, M.S. conferred June 2018.

• Ruijuan Yin, M.S. conferred June 2018.

• Shikuan Shao, M.S. conferred September 2018.

• Biju Mathew, M.Eng. conferred February 2005. Currently Project Engineer at Nestle S.A.

• Chin Kok Ooi, M.Eng. conferred February 2005. Currently at Schlumberger

• Rachel Peck, M.Eng. conferred June 2005.

• Jeffrey Pierce, M.Eng. conferred June  2005. Currently Senior Project Engineer at Javan Engineering

• Kok On Soh, M.Eng. conferred September 2005.

• Perry Pacouloute, M.Eng. conferred February 2009. Currently Project Engineer at Praxair

• Michelle Ford, M.Eng. conferred February 2014.

• Yong Joon Lee, M.Eng. conferred June 2015.

• Xiang Gao, M.Eng. conferred September 2015.

• Ming Zeng, M.Eng. conferred June 2016.

• Xiang Gao, M.Eng. conferred June 2018.

• Bhoomika Jayesh Sheth, M.S. conferred June 2019

• Naveshkaanth Alexander, M.S. conferred June 2019

• Anirudh Raghavan, M.S. conferred June 2019

• Suyash Nagpurkar, M.S. conferred September 2019

• Yi Chen, M.S. candidate, conferred February 2020

• Mohammad Moein Mohammadi,  Ph.D. conferred September 2020, currently at Intel

• Sandeep Kumar Dhandapani, M.S. conferred June 2020

• Chintan Shah, M.S. conferred Jan 2021

• Zheng Fu, Ph.D. conferred June 2021

• Mihir Shah, M.S. conferred June 2021

• Mohammad Malek,  Ph.D. conferred September 2021, currently DOE scientist at MilliporeSigma

• Abhishek Kumar,  Ph.D. conferred February 2021, currently postdoc at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

• Aniruddha Dutta, M.S. conferred June 2021, Currently research and development engineer at Arencibia 

• Khirabdhi Tannaya Mohanty, conferred June 2022, Currently PhD student at Texas A&M

• Disha Ravipati, M.S. conferred June 2023, Currently engineer at Intel

• Satyarit Rao, M.S. conferred June 2021, Currently chemist at Kilo Lab

• Vishvajeet Mane, M.S. conferred June 2021, Currently engineer at GlobalFoundries 

• Jilun Wei, M.S. conferred June 2022

• Mai Nitta, M.S. conferred June 2023, Currently scientist at Nitto Denko Technical 

• Shweta Vipulkumar Dani, M.S. conferred June 2024

• Kang Lan Tung, M.S. M.S. conferred June 2024

Visiting Researchers:

• Hongyu Wang, Associate Professor, Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications

• Peng Li, Ph.D. candidate, Jilin University

• Li Zhang, Associate Professor, Nanchang University 

• Yujuan Cao, Associate Professor, South China Normal University

• Hongyan Zou, Assistant Professor, Southwest University

• Kejun Tan, Professor, Southwest University

• Hui Liu, Assistant Professor, Southwest University

• Wenxia Zhao, Assistant Professor, Ningxia Normal University

• Yunjun Rui, Associate Professor, Nanjing University of Science and Technology

• Lin Tao, Ph.D. student, Nanjing University 

• Sampa Chakrabarti, Associate Professor, University of Calcutta

• Oscar Bomati-Miguel, researcher, University of Aragon (currently Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

• Anoop Gupta, Ph.D. student, University of Duisburg-Essen (currently at BASF)

• Seiichi Sato, Assistant Professor, Hyogo University

• Songbeom Kim, Ph.D. student, KAIST (currently at UNIST, Ulsan, Korea)

• Adil Mukhtarov, Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

• Polina Tereshchuk, Ph.D. student, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (currently at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

• Zakir Khakimov Professor, Institute of Nuclear Physics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan (deceased)

Undergraduate researchers for academic credit or through summer programs:

Dilakshana Ranjit, Yan Chen, Lakshay Chopra, Shashank Negi, Jacob O’Connor, Zhengxi Xuan, Sushanta Ray, Steven Li, Jimmy Wu, Adam Raszewski, Steven Setang, Fatou Cisse, John Stebbins, Abdul-Malik Davies, Lixiao Xu, Mark Pitman, Enzo Benfanti, Tanahiry Escamilla, Maisa Khaja, Mohammed Zaid, John Ghosen, Charles Darku, Zachary Wong, Kevin Jock, Andrew Craft, Jaehoon Jeong, Mark Falinski, Christopher Spengler, Keira Henry, Christina Olgin, Steven Brown, Daniel Salem, Ashley Narain, Bianca Kirkland, Xinyu Wang, Jordan Angie, Paul Garman, David Ramsammy, Janet Oluwole, Jean Kang, Matthew Hill, Demetra McIlwain, Mohammed Attwa, Ben Afriye, Conor Kilcoyne, Belle Cunningham, Larry Lai, Will van Bramer, Chenxu “Tony” Liu, Kwadjo Asante, Phillip Tucciarone, Nicholas Karker, Michael Demissie, YingYing Kwak, YingHaw Lee, Fenna Wiyasa, Joseph Marchica, Thao Nguyen, Ui Tee Cheah, Jasmine May, Christopher Thomas, Fenna Wiyasa, Daniel DeMonte, Krystal LaJoie, Yudazyco (no surname), Elizabeth Egbetokun, David Galuski, Elizabeth Oluwabunmi, Nikita Petrosyan, Yan Lian Tay, Franklin Yeboah, Brittany Malone, Mary Brummond, Ebun Ayandele, Geraldene Agbasionwe, Carlos Gonzales, Lola Ojurongbe, Sie Siong Wong, Tomiko Stroud, Roshad Coston, Joyce Eleda, Mary Akuamoah-Boateng, Justin Lawliss, Michael Williams, Calvin Setiawan, Mame-efua Afrane, Paul Schneeberger, Mark Rudolph, Misty Pender, Kristen Lane, Folarin Erogbogbo, Brian Peer, Alireza Goodarzi, William Scharmach, Phan Nee Saw, Siew Shee Lim, Ashish Chitalia, Chin Fan Tee, Howard Tan, Siew Chen Mak, Jessica Yee, Christine Balonek, Jeff Pierce, Daniel Kim, Sarah Marshall, Chiemezie Amadi, Thomas Agbanyo, James Tseng, Elijah Kim, and Scott Comstock.