Alumni

Susan Odom (dec.)
Years in group: 2018
Associate Professor, University of Kentucky

Javit Drake
Years in group: 2022-2024
Currently an Associate Professor of the Practice at MIT

Matteo Gigli
Years in group: 2017-2018
Currently an Associate Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Madhu Majji
Years in group: 2021-2024
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Ohio University

Lingping Kong
Years in group: 2021-2023
Currently an Assistant Professor at SDSU

Yasser Ashraf Gandomi
Years in group: 2018-2020
Currently an Energy Storage Scientist at XL Batteries

Amira Alazmi
Years in group: 2019-2020
Currently a Dean of Scientific Research at University of Hafr Al Batin

Antoni Forner Cuenca
Years in group: 2017-2018
Currently an Associate Professor at Eindhoven University of Technology
Research website

Sujat Sen
Years in group: 2016-2018
Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Faculty page

Chaerin Kim
Years in group: 2015-2017
Currently a Research Scientist at International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research

Liang Su
Years in group: 2013-2017
Currently a Research Scientist at Form Energy, Inc.

Emily Carino
Years in group: 2013-2016
Currently a Senior Materials Scientist at florrent, Inc.

Kyler Carroll
Years in group: 2013-2015
Currently a Principal Battery Engineer – Next Gen Cell Lead at Our Next Energy (ONE)

Apurba Sakti
Years in group: 2014-2016
Currently a Data Science Advisor at Albemarle Corp.

Cindy Wong
Years in group: 2022-2024
Currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Colorado Boulder

Lauren Blanks
Years in group: 2023-2024
Currently a Fabrications Flight Commander for aircraft at RAF Lakenheath in the United Kingdom, Air Force

Lauren Clarke
Years in group: 2019-2024
Currently a Senior Research Scientist, Lockheed Martin

Bertrand Neyhouse
Years in group: 2019-2023
Currently a Postdoctoral Associate in the McNeill Group, Department of Chemistry, University of Michigan

Charles Wan
Years in group: 2018-2022
Currently a Consultant at Bain & Company

Alexis (AJ) Fenton
Years in group: 2017-2022
Currently a Chemical Mechanical Planarization Development Engineer at Intel Corporation

Aditya Limaye
Years in group: 2021-2022
Currently a Machine Learning Engineer at Tyba

Kara Rodby
Years in group: 2018-2022
Currently a Technical Principal at Volta Energy Technologies

Kevin Tenny
Years in group: 2018-2021
Currently a Business Strategy & Technical Development Manager at a Private Company

Katharine Greco
Years in group: 2017-2021
Currently the Director of Science at Still Bright

McLain Leonard
Years in group: 2016-2021
Currently an Electrochemical Engineer at PARC

Michael Orella
Years in group: 2015-2020
Currently an Associate at Exponent

Jeff Kowalski
Years in group: 2014-2019
Currently a Senior Research Engineer at Phase Two Chemicals

John Barton
Years in group: 2014-2019
Currently an Associate Research Scientist at Dow

Steven Brown
Years in group: 2014-2018
Currently a Development Specialist at Linde plc

Tom Carney
Years in group: 2015-2018
Currently a Senior Manager, Cell Engineering at Aspen Aerogels

Jarrod Milshtein
Years in group: 2014-2017
Currently Director of Engineering, Battery Module at Form Energy, Inc.

Miao Wang
Years in group: 2015-2017
Currently a Senior Research Specialist at Dow

Dafu Zhang
Years in group: 2013-2014
Currently a Quantitative Analyst in Singapore

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Gerardo Pagano
Years in group: 2024

Merle Blum
Years in group: 2023
Currently a PhD student, Technical University of Munich

Nick Price
Years in group: 2022 – 2023

Anne Niederdraenk
Years in group: 2019
Currently a PhD student, Technical University of Munich

Matthias Kornherr
Years in group: 2018
Currently a PhD student, Technical University of Munich

Cedrik Wiberg
Years in group: 2017
Currently the CEO of Rivus Batteries

Vincent Dieterich
Years in group: 2016
Currently a Research Assistant, Technical University of Munich

Thomas Burger
Years in group: 2014-2015
Currently a Catalyst Developer for fuel cells, Freudenberg Sealing Technologies

Lukas Langenegger
Years in group: 2014
Currently the CEO & co-founder of hemotune

Ava Vargas
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2024)

Dien Nguyen
Sept. 2022 – Feb. 2023

Elysia Yuan
Jun. 2022 – Feb. 2023

Chloe Brown
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2022)

Will Woltmann
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2022)

Sarah Hernandez
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2025)

Jonathan Lee
MIT MRL REU Participant (2021)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2021)

Akram Ismail
MIT MSRP (2021)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, University of Rochester, Chemical Engineering with a Minor in Computer Science (Class of 2022)

Alec Nguyen
MIT UROP (2020-2021)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)

Aba Kpeglo
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Last known: Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2021)

Nicole Munne
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)

Jude Bonesteel
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)

Tomás Herrera
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)

Destinee Hung
MIT UROP (2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering and Computer Science (Class of 2022)

Hong Nguyen
MIT UROP (2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2023)

Nicole Jacobsen
MIT UROP (2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2023)

Nick Aiello
MIT UROP (2019-2020)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)

Jesse Hinricher
MIT UROP (2017-2019)
Currently a PhD Student, MIT, Materials Science and Engineering

Madeline Bundy
MIT UROP (2018-2019)
Currently an Associate, ADL Ventures

Will Exson
MIT UROP (2019)
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2022)

James Obute
MIT Summer Research Program Participant (2019)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Texas at Austin, Chemical Engineering

Nathan Ewell
MIT MRL REU Participant (2019)
Currently a PhD Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering

Katherine E. Stoll
MIT UROP (2018-2019)
Currently a PhD Student, MIT, Materials Science and Engineering

Grace Moore
Summer Research Intern (2018)
Graduate Student, Sciences Po, Policy Stream: Energy, Environment, and Sustainability

Julianna La Lane Machado
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2018)
Undergraduate Student, University of Puerto Rico at Mayaüez, Mechanical Engineering (Class of 2021)

Zhirong (Justin) Fan
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2018)
Currently an Automation Engineer, NeoMatrix, Inc.

Yung Wei (Jessie) Hsiao
MIT UROP (2015-2018)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Delaware, Chemical Engineering

Emily Penn
MIT UROP (2017-2018)
Currently a PhD Student, Stanford University, Chemical Engineering

Alexandra Oliveira
MPC/CMSE Summer Scholar (2017)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Delaware, Chemical Engineering

Andres Badel
MIT UROP (2014-2017)
Currently an Engineer at a stealth mode startup

Changsu Cao
Visiting Undergraduate Student (2016)
Currently a PhD Student, Tsinghua University, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry

Jeremiah Collins
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Currently a J.D. Candidate, NYU School of Law

Barbara Lima
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Currently a Quality Engineer, Schlumberger

Daniel Newman
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Currently a Consultant, Galt & Company

Steven Chavez
MSRP Summer Student (2014)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Michigan

Stephen Gaffley
MIT UROP (2015-2016)
Last Known: Mechanical Engineer, Contour Crafting Corporation

Catherine Groschner
MPC-CMSE Summer Student (2014)
Currently a PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Materials Science and Engineering

Catherine Liou
MIT UROP (2013-2015)
Last Known: Graduate Student, MIT, M.S. Chemical Engineering Practice

Jaime Rodriguez
MSRP Summer Student (2015)
Currently a PhD Student, University of Washington, Chemical Engineering and Data Science

Raja Selvakumar
MIT UROP (2013-2014)
Currently a PhD Student, Georgia Institute of Technology, Chemical Engineering

Tamanna Urmi
MIT UROP (2015)
Currently a Data Science Consultant, a2i Programme

Lynn Yu
MIT UROP (2014-2015)
Last Known: Undergraduate Student, MIT, Mechanical Engineering

Jonathan Fakkema
MIT UROP (2016)
Currently a Reliability Test Engineer, Daimler Trucks North America

Alain Hyacinthe
MIT UROP (2016)
Currently a Senior Strategy & Innovation Analyst, Accenture

Kevin Tenny
MSRP Summer Student (2016)
Currently an MBA student, MIT Sloan

Victoria Yao
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2016)
Currently a Chemical Engineer, ExxonMobil

Kiera Gavin
MIT UROP (2017)
Currently a Development Coordinator, Cypress Creek Renewables

Alison Heuser
MIT UROP (2013)
Currently a Product Manager, Wayfair

Meghan Kenny
MIT UROP (2013)
Currently a Consultant, Bain & Company