Alumni

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

Information regarding the lecture series created to commemorate Professor Susan Odom’s life and legacy can be found here.

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

Sasha Gao
Years in group: 2019 – 2026
Currently CEO of Evidion Energy

Aida Farsi
Years in group: 2024-2026
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Oklahoma

Nick Matteucci
Years in group: 2021-2026
Currently a Postdoc in the Furst Group in ChemE

Nicola Poli
Years in group: 2025-2026
Currently the co-founder of E-Storage Engineering

Jaesung Kim
Years in group: 2023-2025
Currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Dankook University

Hao Zhang
Years in group: 2024-2025
Currently a Senior Research Fellow at MIT

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 in Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems at SDSU

Yasser Ashraf Gandomi
Years in group: 2018-2020
Currently a Staff Battery Engineer at Form Energy

Amira Alazmi
Years in group: 2019-2020
Currently a Vice Dean of the College for Administrative Affairs, Development and Quality at University of Hafr Al Batin

Antoni Forner-Cuenca
Years in group: 2017-2018
Currently a Professor and Vice Dean at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, Eindhoven University of Technology

Sujat Sen
Years in group: 2016-2018
Currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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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 an Electrochemical Materials and Interfacial Chemistry Researcher

Kyler Carroll
Years in group: 2013-2015
Currently a Senior Staff Cell Engineer, New Technologies at Tesla

Apurba Sakti
Years in group: 2014-2016
Currently a Principal Technical Leader at EPRI

Julia Sinisi
Years in group: 2026
Currently a Graduate Student at Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

Trent Weiss
Years in group: 2021-2026
Currently CTO of Evidion Energy

Roberto Interiano
Years in group: 2025-2026

Alex Quinn
Years in group: 2020-2026
Currently an Associate at Exponent

Chris Mallia
Years in group: 2020-2025
Currently a Postdoc in the Thompson group in DMSE

Catalina Garza Lozano
Years in group: 2024-2025
Currently a Senior Manager, Energy & Sustainability at Verizon

Katelyn Ripley-Kenyon
Years in group: 2021-2025
Currently a Consultant at Sage Analysis Group

Cindy Wong
Years in group: 2022-2024
Currently a Graduate Student Researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder

Lauren Blanks
Years in group: 2023-2024
Currently an Aircraft Maintenance Officer

Lauren Clarke
Years in group: 2019-2024
Currently a Senior Modeling Engineer at Form Energy

Bertrand Neyhouse
Years in group: 2019-2023
Currently an Assistant Professor in Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry at the University of Toronto

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

Alexis (AJ) Fenton
Years in group: 2017-2022
Currently an Engineer at Intel Corporation

Aditya Limaye
Years in group: 2021-2022
Currently Head of Modeling 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 Senior Product Marketing Manager at Bloom Energy

Katharine Greco
Years in group: 2017-2021
Currently the VP, Commercialization at Still Bright

McLain Leonard
Years in group: 2016-2021
Currently a Senior Electrochemical Engineer at Ebb Carbon

Michael Orella
Years in group: 2015-2020
Currently a Manager at Exponent

Jeff Kowalski
Years in group: 2014-2019
Currently a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Stealth Startup

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

Steven Brown
Years in group: 2014-2018
Currently a Cost Reduction Engineer at Linde

Tom Carney
Years in group: 2015-2018
Currently a freelance Owner, Consultant at Birch Labs

Jarrod Milshtein
Years in group: 2014-2017
Currently Chief of Staff at Redwood Materials

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

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

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Dillon Tan
Visiting from Imperial College London, Summer 2026

Sierra Czubaj
CASFER REU Student, Summer 2026

Spandan Mondal
CASFER REU Student, Summer 2026

Emilio Avellone
Years in group: 2026

Sarah Ronchetti
Years in group: 2026

Eleonora Natale
Years in group: 2025-2026

Gimena Marin Tajadura
Years in group: 2025

Nils Heim
Years in group: 2025

Florian Gollmann
Years in group: 2024-2025

Laura Pastor Muñoz
Years in group: 2024

Gerardo Pagano
Years in group: 2024

Merle Blum
Years in group: 2023

Nick Price
Years in group: 2022-2023

Anne Niederdraenk
Years in group: 2019

Matthias Kornherr
Years in group: 2018

Cedrik Wiberg
Years in group: 2017

Vincent Dieterich
Years in group: 2016

Thomas Burger
Years in group: 2014-2015

Lukas Langenegger
Years in group: 2014

Zhongyi Ho
Currently an Undergraduate Student at Imperial College

Katie Crowley
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2025)

Lia Bu
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2025)

Sarah Hernandez
Graduated from MIT (Class of 2025)

Irene Dong
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2027)

Michelle Wang
Currently an Undergraduate Student, MIT, Chemical Engineering (Class of 2026)

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)

Jonathan Lee
MIT MRL REU Participant (2021)

Akram Ismail
MIT MSRP (2021)

Alec Nguyen
MIT UROP (2020-2021)

Aba Kpeglo
MIT UROP (2019-2020)

Nicole Munne
MIT UROP (2019-2020)

Jude Bonesteel
MIT UROP (2019-2020)

Tomás Herrera
MIT UROP (2019-2020)

Destinee Hung
MIT UROP (2020)

Hong Nguyen
MIT UROP (2020)

Nicole Jacobsen
MIT UROP (2020)

Nick Aiello
MIT UROP (2019-2020)

Jesse Hinricher
MIT UROP (2017-2019)

Madeline Bundy
MIT UROP (2018-2019)

Will Exson
MIT UROP (2019)

James Obute
MIT Summer Research Program Participant (2019)

Nathan Ewell
MIT MRL REU Participant (2019)

Katherine E. Stoll
MIT UROP (2018-2019)

Grace Moore
Summer Research Intern (2018)

Julianna La Lane Machado
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2018)

Zhirong (Justin) Fan
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2018)

Yung Wei (Jessie) Hsiao
MIT UROP (2015-2018)

Emily Penn
MIT UROP (2017-2018)

Alexandra Oliveira
MPC/CMSE Summer Scholar (2017)

Andres Badel
MIT UROP (2014-2017)

Changsu Cao
Visiting Undergraduate Student (2016)

Jeremiah Collins
MIT UROP (2015-2016)

Barbara Lima
MIT UROP (2015-2016)

Daniel Newman
MIT UROP (2015-2016)

Steven Chavez
MSRP Summer Student (2014)

Stephen Gaffley
MIT UROP (2015-2016)

Catherine Groschner
MPC-CMSE Summer Student (2014)

Catherine Liou
MIT UROP (2013-2015)

Jaime Rodriguez
MSRP Summer Student (2015)

Raja Selvakumar
MIT UROP (2013-2014)

Tamanna Urmi
MIT UROP (2015)

Lynn Yu
MIT UROP (2014-2015)

Jonathan Fakkema
MIT UROP (2016)

Alain Hyacinthe
MIT UROP (2016)

Kevin Tenny
MSRP Summer Student (2016)

Victoria Yao
MRL/MRSEC Summer Researcher (2016)

Kiera Gavin
MIT UROP (2017)

Alison Heuser
MIT UROP (2013)

Meghan Kenny
MIT UROP (2013)