Current Students
Students currently in the Materials Science and Engineering PhD program are listed below, along with their advisor/co-advisor(s) and a brief description of their project, as it's confirmed.
Angela Abarca-Perez
- Project Title:
- Rational Design Of Catalytic Polymeric Membranes For Treating Nitrate In Drinking Water
- Department:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
- Advisors:
- Kyle Doudrick, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
- William Phillip, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Website
Faraj Al-Badani
- Project Title:
- Phyllosilicate clays as new gas sensing materials
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Nosang Myung, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Yamil Colon, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Grace Arntz-Johnson
- Project Title:
- Crystallography of neptunium-based metal-organic frameworks
- Department:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
- Advisors:
- Peter Burns, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
- Allen Oliver, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kareem Asham
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
Sara Bey
- Project Title:
- Three-Dimensional Chalcogenide Materials For Next Generation Electronic Devices
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Advisors:
- Badih Assaf, Physics and Astronomy
- Chris Hinkle, Electrical Engineering
Alice Burchett
- Department:
- Bioengineering
- Advisors:
- Meenal Datta, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Zhongyu Cheng
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- David Go, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Ethan Chu
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Stanislav Gordeyev, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Piyush Deshpande
- Project Title:
- Engineering all-solid metal-sulfur batteries
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Jennifer Schaefer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Casey O'Brien, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Yang Ding
- Project Title:
- High-throughput combinatorial printing for materials integration and scalable manufacturing of perovskite solar cells
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Ken Kuno, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Prashant Kamat, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Yanliang Zhang, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Google Scholar
Greg Durling
- Project Title:
- Photoswitchable Ionic Liquids: Light Mediated Directional Solvent Extraction
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Brandon Ashfeld, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Tengfei Luo, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Google Scholar
Sushrut Ghonge
- Project Title:
- Efficient upconversion and superfluorescence in cesium lead halide perovskite nanocrystals
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Advisors:
- Boldizsar Janko, Physics and Astronomy
- Ken Kuno, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Website
Bikram Ghosh
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
Irina Gushchina
- Project Title:
- Size- and excitation intensity-dependent terminal stoichiometries for halide photosegregation in CsPb(I0.5Br0.5)3 perovskite nanocrystals
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Ken Kuno, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Alexander Mukasyan, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Logan Hennes
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Jonathan Whitmer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Grayson Huldin
- Project Title:
- The development of a membrane-coated hierarchical nanopore electrode for clinically relevant biomolecule detection
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Kaiyu Fu, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Merlin Bruening, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Kristyna Hyblova
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Matt Rosenberger, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Jizhou Jiang
- Project Title:
- Tunable ionic organic networks fabricated by molecular layer-by-layer
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Jennifer Schaefer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Bryan Paulsen, Northwestern
Parham Keshavarzi
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Svetlana Neretina, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Kirill Kniazev
- Project Title:
- Using infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging for material characterization
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Ken Kuno, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Kyle Doudrick, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Jessica Komla
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Justin Krantz
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Ed Kinzel, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Zachary Lawson
- Project Title:
- The development of fabrication and synthesis protocols to produce substrate-immobilized plasmonic nanomaterials
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Svetlana Neretina, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Alan Seabaugh, Electrical Engineering
Wei-Kuo Li
- Project Title:
- Harnessing strong light-matter interactions in organic semiconductor materials
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Hsing-Ta Chen, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Yi-Ting Hsu, Physics and Astronomy
Lan Li
- Project Title:
- Radiographic monitoring of photopolymerized hydrogel scaffolds with methacrylate-modified gold nanoparticles
- Department:
- Bioengineering
- Advisors:
- Ryan Roeder, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering
- Vahid Serpooshan, Georgia Tech
Shih-Chuan Lien
- Project Title:
- Machine-learning assisted material search and design of topological crystalline superconductors
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Advisors:
- Yi-Ting Hsu, Physics and Astronomy
- Meng Jiang, Computer Science and Engineering
Tiago Migliati Zanon
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Tye Milazzo
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Tengfei Luo, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Joshua Morales Campos
- Project Title:
- Isolation of catalytically relevant sites in 2D extended solids through atom-transfer/exchange reactions
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Adam Jaffe, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Jason Hicks, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Jideofor Odoeze
- Project Title:
- Performance and reliability of deep-etched high-index-contrast ridge waveguide lasers
- Department:
- Electrical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Doug Hall, Electrical Engineering
- Sylwia Ptasinska, Physicis and Astronomy
- Masaru Kuno, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Benjamin Ogueri
- Project Title:
- Investigating Oxidation Prevention For Copper Nanoparticles During The Plasma-Liquid Interface (PLI) Synthesis Process
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- David Go, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- David Bartels, Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory
Alexander Padilla
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Adam Jaffe, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Sanjoy Saha
- Project Title:
- Dynamic hydrogels for controlling lymphatic differentiation and morphogenesis
- Department:
- Bioengineering
- Advisors:
- Donny Hanjaya-Putra, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, and Bioengineering
- Matt Webber, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Connor Schmidt
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Matt Webber, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Nileema Sharma
- Project Title:
- Tunning charge orders in Kagome metals Cs1-xKxV3Sb5 via alkali substitution
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Advisors:
- Xiaolong Liu, Physics and Astronomy
- Stephen Wilson, UC Santa Barbara
Muhammad Sohail
- Project Title:
- Molecular spatial control over 1D chalcogen polymers
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Emily Tsui, Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Jennifer Schaefer, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Runze Tang
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Svetlana Neretina, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Matthew Toole
- Project Title:
- Machine-learning-enhanced quantum materials visualization and discovery
- Department:
- Physics and Astronomy
- Advisors:
- Xiaolong Liu, Physics and Astronomy
- Xiangliang Zhang, Computer Science and Engineering
Vadim Trepalin
- Project Title:
- Second-year student
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Advisors:
- Ken Kuno, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Walker Tuff
- Project Title:
- Fabricating complex substrate-bound nanostructures through the incorporation of sacrificial metals and metal oxides
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Svetlana Neretina, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Jon Camden, Chemistry and Biochemistry
Kuixing Wang
- Department:
- Chemistry and Biochemistry
- Google Scholar
Sandra Weber
- Department:
- Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Advisors:
- Ruilan Guo, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Hezekiah Williams
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Ryan Roeder, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
Yucheng Yang
- Project Title:
- Nanoscale Characterization and Control of Strain and Defects in Two-Dimensional Materials for Optimized Quantum Emitters
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Matt Rosenberger, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Anthony Hoffman, Electrical Engineering
Frances Zengotita
- Project Title:
- Role of mineral particle size on the sorption behavior and redox chemistry of plutonium
- Department:
- Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
- Advisors:
- Amy Hixon, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
- Kyle Doudrick, Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences
Hanfeng Zhang
- Project Title:
- Materials informatics of liquidous materials for water desalination applications
- Department:
- Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Advisors:
- Tengfei Luo, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering
- Ed Maginn, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
- Brandon Ashfeld, Chemistry and Biochemistry