Most Recent Photos of the Group
Group members at the MRS Fall 2023: Jason Madinya, Nitant Gupta, Audrey Collins, Shizhao Lu, Jay Shah, and Zijie Wu! Also catching up with former lab member – Tyler Martin (NIST)
Group celebration of Christian Heil’s thesis defense and a farewell dinner (February 15, 2023) From Left to Right- Jason Madinya, Shweta Burgula, Nitant Gupta, Audrey Collins, Shizhao Lu, Christian Heil, Jay Shah, Erik Anderson, Stephen Kronenberger, and Zijie Wu! (Missing from photo: our lab undergrad researcher Kaveri Srivatsava)
Members of the group at 2022 annual holiday group lunch and end-of-the-year celebration! (Zijie Wu, Jay Shah, Arthi Jayaraman, Shweta Burgula, Stephen Kronenberger, Shizhao Lu, Erik Anderson, Audrey Collins, Nitant Gupta, and Christian Heil; not in photo- Jason Madinya and Kaveri Srivatsava)
Members of the group celebrating 2022 CBE department holiday dinner. [L to R: Zijie Wu, Audrey Collins, Jason Madinya, Nitant Gupta and his spouse, Shizhao Lu, Erik Anderson. Missing in this photo – Stephen Kronenberger, Christian Heil, Shweta Burgula, & Jay Shah)
Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Research Associates
- Dr. Nitant Gupta nitant@udel.edu
- Dr. Jason Madinya jmadinya@udel.edu
- Dr. Sojung Park sojungp@udel.edu
Graduate Students
- Vinson Liao (5th year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) liaov@udel.edu
- Stephen Kronenberger (3rd year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) skronen@udel.edu (NRT secondary advisor: Prof. Austin Brockmeier, UD ECEG & DSI)
- Tristan Myers (3rd year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) tmyers@udel.edu
- Erik Anderson (2nd year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) ejanders@udel.edu
- Shweta Burgula (2nd year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) shwetab@udel.edu – co-advised by Prof. April Kloxin, UD CBE & MSEG
- Audrey Collins (2nd year PhD student, UD Chemistry) audreyc@udel.edu co-advised by Prof. Laure Kayser, UD MSEG & CHEM)
- Jay Shah (2nd year PhD student, UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) jayshah@udel.edu
- Sri Vishnuvardhan Reddy Akepati (2nd year MS Student, Masters Program in Data Science, UD) akepati@udel.edu
- Lalith Nagidi (2nd year MS student, Masters program in Data Science) lalith@udel.edu
- Aanish Paruchuri (2nd year MS student, Masters program in Data Science) aanishp@udel.edu
- Will Dodd (1st year UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) wbdodd@udel.edu
- Pavan Ravva (2nd year MS student, Robotics program) ravva@udel.edu
NRT – MIDAS Program’s co-advised Graduate Students
- Peter Osazuwa (2nd year PhD student, UD Materials Science and Engineering, Primary Advisor: Laure Kayser)
- George Kramarenko (2nd year PhD student, UD Biomedical Engineering, Primary Advisor: Emily Day)
- Justin Labombard (1st year PhD student, UD Electrical and Computer Engineering, Primary Advisor: Austin Brockmeier)
- Kelsey Koutsoukos (1st year PhD student, UD Materials Science and Engineering, Primary Advisor: Laure Kayser)
- Leonardo Pierre (1st year PhD student, Delaware State University, Physics, Primary Advisor: Qi Lu)
Undergraduates
- Kaveri Srivastava (senior in UD Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering)
- Nina Borodin (junior in UD Chemistry)
Honorary members
- Group members’ dogs and cats
Past Members (position in our group, last known position)
At University of Delaware, Newark
Shizhao Lu (PhD 2024, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)
Zijie Wu (PhD 2023, Oak Ridge National Lab)
Christian Heil (PhD 2023, Dow Chemicals)
Arjita Kulshreshtha (PhD 2022, Dow Chemicals)
Phillip Taylor (PhD 2022, Sandia National Lab, then UVA Chemical Engineering as Asst. Prof. Fall 2024-)
Geoffrey Bonnanzio (Senior Thesis, Grad. Student at Northwestern)
Michiel Wessels (PhD 2021, Siemens USA)
Dr. Ziyu Ye (Postdoc 2020-2021)
Dr. Utkarsh Kapoor (Postdoc 02/2019-06/2021, Texas A&M; Asst. Prof. University of Wyoming 08/2023-)
Thomas Gartner (PhD 2019, Asst. Prof. Georgia Tech 01/2022-06/2023; Asst. Prof. Lehigh Univ. 07/2023-)
Christopher Johnson (Senior thesis, Grad. student at U. Penn)
Dr. Daniel Beltran-Villegas (Postdoc 08/2016-07/2019, Johnson & Johnson)
Dr. Ivan Lyubimov (Postdoc 07/2016-05/2019, DLS)
Dr. Prhashanna Ammu (Postdoc 07/2017-05/2019, Corning 06/2019-08/2022; Start up NobleAI 08/2022-)
Daniel Intriago (Senior thesis, Air Products till 07/2023; PhD student Princeton Fall 2023-)
Kevin Modica (Senior thesis, Grad. student at UCSB)
Joshua Condon (MS with thesis 2017, Capital one)
Tyler Martin (PhD 2016, NIST )
Dr. Ahmadreza Ghobadi (Postdoc 08/2014- 08/2016, Procter & Gamble)
Paul Blanchard (REU undergrad researcher, Grad. student at U. Minnesota)
Dr. Francesca Stanzione (Postdoc 02/2014-03/ 2016, The Cambridge Crystallographic Center)
Ryan Friedrich (MS course work,01/15-05/15)
At University of Colorado, Boulder
Hilary Marsh (PhD 2015, Ch2M Hill)
Carla Estridge (PhD 2015, Boeing)
Sloane McNeill (Undergrad researcher CU Chem/Comp Sci)
Anna McLeland (Senior Thesis,08/13-05/14)
Mellika Ashtiani (Undergrad research, 05/13-05/14 )
Brandon Lin (Senior Thesis, MS thesis,08/12-05/14 )
Daniel Johnson (MS non-thesis, 01/13-05/14)
Dr. Renfeng Hu (Postdoc 2013)
Dr. Eric Jankowski (Postdoc 08/11-03/14, Assoc. Prof. Boise State University)
Robert Elder (PhD 2014, Food & Drug Administration)
Arezou Seifpour (PhD 2013, Alteryx)
Alex VanFosson (MS with thesis 01/12-05/13, OSIsoft)
Xiao Ba (Senior thesis)
Charles Starbird (MS 01/11-06/12,Eastman Chemical)
Paul Dodd (Senior thesis, graduate student UMichigan )
Dr. Dongsheng Zhang (Postdoc 05/10-09/11, Postdoc at UT Dallas)
Chris Mckinney (REU student 05/11-07/11)
Mohamed Seyam (Grad student 01/09-07/11)
Dr. Nate Wentzel (Postdoc 07/10-05/11, Assoc. Prof. Milligan College)
Dr. Steve Dahl (Postdoc jointly with Prof.Hrenya 02/10-03/11) BP, Houston
Dr. Nitish Nair (Postdoc from 06/09-12/10, Shell, India)
Tyler Martin (REU student summer 2010, grad student CU)
Jeff Hajewski (Rotation student summer 2010 )
Neil Patel (Broomfield high school student, Winter 2009)
Phil Spicer (Undergrad research assistant 05/09-12/09)
Owen Lewis (Undergrad research assistant 02/09-08/09, grad student at MIT)
Philip Calabrese (Rotation student spring 2009)
Audrey Schaiberger (Undergraduate Independent study Fall 2008)
