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07/2022: Wali Siddiqui joins the group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome Wali!
Principal Investigator:
Qing Zhao
Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Princeton University, 2018-2021
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering & Computational Science and Engineering, MIT, 2018
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University & Purdue University, 2012
Selected awards: 2024 NSF CAREER Award
2024 ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator Award
Postdoctoral Research Associate:
Kwanpyung (Kwan) Lee
Postdoc since 2025
Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research: embedded correlated wavefunction theory
Huang Qin
Postdoc since 2025
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Research: high entropy alloy, heterogeneous catalysis
Graduate Students:
Colin Gallagher
PhD student since 2023
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
Research: CO2 reduction, single atom catalyst
Chengyu Zhou
PhD student since 2023
B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology
Research: lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction reaction
Connor Fawcett
PhD student since 2024
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Villanova University
Research: embedded correlated wavefucntion theory
Undergraduate Students:
Sarah LaCroix
Undergraduate student since 2023
Research: single atom alloy, ammonia decomposition
Matthew Fei
Undergraduate student since 2024
Research: single atom catalyst, CO2 reduction
Alumni:
Manish Kothakonda (2023-2025), Postdoctoral research associate, Now postdoc at SUNCAT, Stanford.
Caroline Leduc (2024-2025), MS student
Pax Makhura (2022-2023), MS student with thesis
Carmen Cheng (2022-2024), Undergraduate student at NEU
Wali Siddiqui (2022-2023), Undergraduate student at NEU
Tanishka Kucheria (2022), Undergraduate student at NEU
Tyler Arnold (2022), Undergraduate student via REU-POWER program, Now undergraduate student at MIT.