DOCTORAL STUDENTS- Alumni
Yuan-Yuan Su; January 1992; Chemical Engineering at Washington University.
Thesis: Interfacial Stability Analysis of Multilayer Viscoelastic Fluids and its Application to Co-extrusion Processes.
Current Position: Professor of Chemical Engineering, NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan
Lambros Skartsis; January 1992; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: The Permeation of Fiber Beds by Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Fluids with Applications to the Autoclave and Resin Transfer
Molding Processes
Current Position: Head of Quality Assurance, Human Resources and Internal Control, Elite S.A. Footwear, Athens, Greece
Kapil K. Talwar; May 1992; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Viscoelastic Flow Computations Using the HP-Version of the Finite Element Method with Applications in Flow through Porous
Media.
Current Position: Chief Executive Officer, VPAC Innovations, Melbourne, Australia
Gregory M. Wilson; May 1993; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: An Experimental Investigation of Interfacial Instabilities in Superposed Flow of Polymer Melts.
Current Position: Director of the National Center for Photovoltaics; NREL, Golden, CO
Mohammad Ranjbaran: August 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Experimental Studies of Interfacial Instabilities in Multilayer Flow of Polymers Melts.
Current Position: Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering; Shahid Rajaeey University, Tehran, Iran
Kuan-Cheng (Garth) Su; December 1997; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Experimental Studies of Interfacial Instability in Superposed Flow of Well Characterized Polymeric Solutions.
Current Position: Global Director, Business and Market Segments, MTS Systems Corporation, Minneapolis, MN
Herambh K. Ganpule; May 1998; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: A Theoretical Investigation of Interfacial Instabilities in Multilayer Viscoelastic Channel Flows and Its Applications.
Current Position: Director, Strategic Business Development at 3M, St. Paul, MN
Ibrahim Mustafa; May 1998; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: A 3-D Nonisothermal Flow Simulation and Pulling Force Model for Injection Pultrusion.
Current Position: Research Scientist, SABIC Corp., Saudi Arabia
Anne Grillet; February 1999; Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (Joint with Eric Shaqfeh)
Thesis: Viscoelastic Instabilities in Recirculation Flows.
Current Position: Research Fellow, Sandia National Laboratory, New Mexico
Chao-Tsi Huang; December 1999; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Role of Fluid Elasticity and Dynamic Modulation on the Stability of Multilayer Flows down an Inclined Plane.
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Industry Technology Research Institute of Taiwan, Taiwan
Sairam Portaraju; December 2000; Chemical Engineering at Washington University (joint with Babu Joseph)
Thesis: Model Based Control of Polymer Composite Manufacturing Processes.
Current Position: Senior Research Scientist, Bayer Corp., Houston, Texas
Bin Yang; Graduated May 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Flow Modeling and Stability Analysis of Viscoelastic Flows Using the Finite Element Method.
Current Position: Senior Development Engineer at Corning Corporation, Corning, NY
Srikanth Kommu; May 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: A Theoretical/Experimental Study of Silicon Epitaxy and Particle Dynamics in CVD Reactors.
Current Position: Executive Director, Semiconductor Business, Brewer Science, INC, Rolla, MO
Sweta Goel-Somasi; August 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: An Atomistic Simulation of the Epitaxial Growth of Silicon (100).
Current Position: Manufacturing Scientist at Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN.
Madan Somasi; August 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Dynamics of Polymeric Fluids: A Combined Brownian Dynamics Finite Element Approach.
Current Position: Formulation R&D Leader at Corteva Agriscience, Indianapolis, IN.
Usamah Al-Mubaiyedh; August 2001; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Thermomechanical and Thermoelastic Instabilities in Taylor-Couette Flow.
Current Position: Professor and Head, Dept. of Chem. Eng., King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran Saudi Arabia
Alex G. Lee; October 2001; Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (Joint with Eric Shaqfeh)
Thesis: Viscoelastic Effects on Free Surface Displacement Flows: A Computational and Experimental Study.
Current Position: Basestocks & Specialties Global Marketing Strategy Advisor; ExxonMobil Fuels, Lubricants & Specialties Marketing,
Spring, TX
Piyush G. Gigras; From Aug. 1999 to Dec. 2002
Thesis: Flow Simulations of Entangled Polymeric Melts: A Multiscale Approach.
Deceased.
Gandharv Bhatara; December 2004; Chemical Engineering at Stanford University (Joint with Eric Shaqfeh)
Thesis: A Computational/Experimental Study of Elastic “Ribbing” Instabilities.
Current Position: Director of Business Development, Mentor Graphics, San Francisco, CA.
Vijay Gupta; December 2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Multiscale and Continuum Level Simulation of Polymer and Fiber Induced Effects on Flow Transitions and Turbulence.
Current Position: Assistant Professor (teaching track), University of Missouri, Columbia.
Arpita Mitra; December 2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Molecular Interactions Modulating Microtubule Stability and Dynamics
Current Position: Research scientist, Corning Corporation, New York
Dennis Thomas; December 2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University (Joint with Suresh Sureshkumar)
Thesis: Flow Instabilities and pattern formation in complex fluids: Effect of elasticity and thermal gradients
Current Position: Research Scientist, PNNL, Richland WA.
Vidya Venkataramani; August 2007; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Modeling and Simulation of Dynamics of Dilute Macromoelcular Solutions: A configurational Based Approach.
Current Position: Research Scientist, General Electric Corp. Bangalore, India
Anantha Koppol; August 2007; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Dynamics and Frictional Drag Behavior of Viscoelastic Flows in Complex Geometries: A Multiscale Simulation Approach
Current Position: Research Engineer, General Electric Corp. Bangalore, India
Swapnil Dhumal; December 2007; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: An Experimental/Computational Study of Gas-Phase Nanoparticle Synthesis with Applications in Photocatalysis
Current Position: Research Engineer, General Electric Corp. Bangalore, India
Mukund Vasudevan; December 2008; Chemical Engineering at Washington University (Joint with Suresh Sureshkumar)
Thesis: Flow Induced Self Assembly in Micellar Fluids with Applications to Nanomanufacturing
Current Position: Business Development Manager at Tessenderio Kerley, Inc., Phoenix, Arizona
Jun Mo Kim; August 2010, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee (joint with Brian Edwards)
Area of Research: Non-Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics Simulations of entangled macromolecules
Current Position: Research Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea
Arash Abedijaberi: August 2011; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Thesis: Dynamics of Polymeric Solutions in Complex Kinematics Bulk and Free Surface Flows: Multiscale/Continuum Simulations and
Experimental Studies
Current Position: Fiber Process Modeling Manager, Corning Inc., Corning, New York
Travis Russell: August 2014, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Brian Edwards)
Thesis: Composition Dependency of the Flory-Huggins Interaction Parameter in Polymer Blends: Structural and Thermodynamic
Calculations
Current Position: Senior Engineer, ENERCON Inc., Kennesaw, GA
Mahdy Malakzadeh: December 2014, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Thesis: Hi-Fidelity Simulation of the Self-Assembly and Dynamics of Colloids and Polymeric Solutions with Long Range Interactions
Current Position: Senior Polymer Engineer, Newell Brands, Charlotte, NC
Mouge Mohagheghi: May 2016, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Thesis: Dynamics and Self-Assembly of Single and Multi-Component Polymeric Fluids: A Mesoscopic Computational Study
Current Position: Senior Scientist Data Modeling, Proctor and Gamble Corporation, Cincinnati, OH
Amir Saadat: December 2016, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Thesis: Large Scale Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Dilute and Semi-dilute Polymeric Solutions
Current Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow with Eric S. G. Shaqfeh, Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University.
Hanieh Seyedeh Niroomand: May 2017, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with
Dibyendu Mukherjee)
Thesis: Morphological and Photoelectrochemical Characterization of Membrane Reconstituted Photosystem I (PSI)
Current Position: Research Scientist, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN
Mohammad Hadi Nafar Sefiddashti: December 2018, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
(Joint with Brian Edwards)
Thesis: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics of Entangled Polymeric Fluids
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar with Bamin Khomami and Brian Edwards, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University
of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tyler Hamilton Bennett: August 2019, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Thesis: Embedding and Photoactivating Photosystem I
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar with Jagit Nanda, Distinguished Staff Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Ravi Pamu: May 2020, Mechanical, Aerospace and Biomedical Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Dibyendu
Mukherjee)
Thesis: Tuning the Photocurrent Responses from Photosystem I via Microenvironment Alterations: Effect of Plasmonic Electric Fields
and Membrane Confinements
Current Position: Postdoctoral Scholar with Professors Mukherjee and Khomami, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University
of Tennessee, Knoxville
Erick Leonar Ribeiro: August 2020, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville (Joint with Professor
Mukherjee)
Thesis: Manufacturing of carbon-based hybrid nanocomposites with engineered functionalities via Laser Ablation Synthesis in Solution
(LASiS) techniques
Current Position: Associated Scientist, NASA Academic Mission Services, Columbia, Maryland
THESIS OPTION MASTER’S-Alumni
Catherine A. Langton; December 1989; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Processing-Property Interactions of Two Vinylidene-Fluoride/Trifluoroethylene Co-polymers.
Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Dow Chemical Corp., Midland, Michigan
Yen-Hung Lai; May 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Various Techniques for Measuring Permeability of Woven Fabrics Used in Liquid Composite Molding.
Current Position: Not available.
Srikanth Kommu; May 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Numerical Simulation of Injection Pultrusion
Current Position: Executive Director, Semiconductor Business, Brewer Science, INC, Rolla, MO
Luis D. Moreno; August 1996; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Stability of Viscoelastic Flows through Periodic Square Array of Cylinders.
Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Intel Corp., Portland, OR
Vijaylakshmi Ganesan; June 2002; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Linear Dynamics of Unidirectional Planar Shear Flows of Linear and Branched Polymeric Melts.
Current Position: Not available.
Joel Simonson; May 2003; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Acoustic Streaming in Complex Fluids.
Current Position: Senior Engineer, Anheuser-Bush, St. Louis, MO
Arash Abedijaberi: August 2007; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Washington University
Thesis: Dynamics of Branched Polymer Melts in Complex Kinematics Flow: A Computational/ Experimental Study.
Current Position: Fiber Process Modeling Manager, Corning Inc., Corning, New York
Sheng Hu; August 2013; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Thesis: The Impact of Selective Solvents on the Structure and Function Evolution in Solvent Annealed Organic Photovoltaics
Current Position: Senior R&D Scientist, Frontida BioPharm, Inc. Philadelphia, PA
Reza Ghanbari; December 2013; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Thesis: The Onset of Purely Elastic and Thermo-Elastic Instabilities in Taylor-Coutte Flow: Influence of Gap Ratio and Thermal Sensitivity
Current Position: Postdoc at Lund University, Sweden
POST DOCTORAL SCHOLARS-Alumni
Dr. Yuan-Yuan Su; 1/92-6/92; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Interfacial Dynamics of Multilayer Pressure Flows of Viscoelastic Fluids
Current Position: Professor of Chemical Engineering, NTUT, Taipei, Taiwan
Dr. Lambros Skartsis; 1/92-12/92; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Influence of Capillary Pressure on Permeation of Fiber Beds
Current Position: Head of Quality Assurance, Human Resources and Internal Control), Elite S.A. Footwear, Athens, Greece
Dr. Kapil K. Talwar; 1/93-3/93; 7/93-1/95; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Modeling of Thermoplastic Resin Transfer Molding Processes
Current Position: Chief Executive Officer, VPAC Innovations, Melbourne, Australia
Dr. Gyanendra P. Sasmal; 8/93-9/94; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Development of Finite Volume Based Flow Simulation Methods for Bulk and Free Surface Viscoelastic Fluids
Current Position: Analytical Engineer; Belcan Engineering Group Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
Dr. Ali Arefmanesh; 9/91-9/93; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Compression Molding of Semi-Crystalline Polymer Melts: A Finite Element Based Approach
Current Position: Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
Dr. Changfeng Li; 10/2002-12/2006; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Multi-scale Flow Modeling of Entangled Polymeric Systems; Mechanism of Polymer and Fiber Induced Turbulent Drag
Reduction.
Current Position: Professor, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu 212013, P.R. China
Dr. Hoon Goo Sim; 6/2003-5/2005; Chemical Engineering at Washington University
Area of Research: Flow Induced Macromolecular Scission.
Current Position: Research Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Dr. Dibyendu Mukherjee; 2007-2011; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee- Knoxville
Area of Research: Hybrid Photovoltaic Materials and Devices
Current Position: Research Scientist, Research Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of
Tennessee- Knoxville.
Dr. Xianggui Ye; 2007-2013; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee- Knoxville
Area of Research: Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
Current Position: Research Scientist, Brewer Science, Rolla, MO
Dr. Sheng Hu; 2015-2017; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Area of Research: Non-Precious Metal Catalysts; Laser Ablation
Current Position: Senior R&D Scientist, Frontida BioPharm, Inc. Philadelphia, PA
Dr. Bo Zhang, 2015-2017; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Area of Research: Fission Gas Modeling; Large scale simulation of population dynamics
Current Position: Research Scientist; International Graphene LLC, Columbia, SC
Dr. Hanieh Seyedeh Niroomand: 2017-2018, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Area of Research: Photoelectrochemical Characterization of Membrane Reconstituted Photosystem I (PSI)
Current Position: Research Scientist, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN
Dr. Michelle Aranha: 2019-2020, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Area of Research: Atomistic Simulation of Nano-Particle Membrane Interactions
Current Position: Research Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
RESEARCH ASSOCIATES-Alumni
Dr. Shengting Cui, Research Associate Professor; 2008-2015
Area of Research: Molecular Modeling and Simulations
Current Position: Application System Analyst; Washington State University, Washington
Dr. Nan-Sheng Liu, Research Associate; 2010 to 2013
Area of Research: Elastic Turbulence
Current Position: Professor, Department of Modern Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, Anhui, Hefei 230026,
China
Dr. Xianggui Ye; 2013-2015; Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at University of Tennessee- Knoxville
Area of Research: Rational Design of Soft Matter
Current Position: Research Scientist, Brewer Science, Rolla, MO
UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH- Alumni
Steven Durst, 1990; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry
John Kasab, 1990; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at University Wisconsin-Madison
Michael Cleveland, 1992; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dean Kassman, 1993; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at Rice University
Michael Fanset, 1993; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at UCSB
Luis Moreno, 1993; Position after Graduation: ChE MS Program at Washington University
Michael Biehn, 1994; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at North Carolina State
Lissa Padnick, 1994; Position after Graduation: BME Doctorate Program at UCSD
Polina Gertsberg, 1995; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry
Donald Eizenga, 1995; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at MIT
Dung Nguyen, 1995; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry
Carleen James, 1995; Position after Graduation: Joined Industry
Suzanne Hyde, 1996; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at University of Notre Dame
Wendy Jenks; 1996, Position after Graduation: Joined Industry
Darby Robinson; 1997, Position after Graduation: MD/PhD Program at Washington University
Justin Piper, 1998; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at Stanford University
Tariq Al-Ameri, 2001; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate Program at the Imperial College of London
Karen Leslie, 2001; Position after Graduation: Joined the ChE Doctorate Program at Johns Hopkins University
Bryan Hendricks, 2002; Position after Graduation: MS Program in Env. Eng. at Washington University
Ajey Dambal, 2003; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at Stanford University
Ryan DePuit, 2005; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at UCSB.
Heath Johnson, 2008; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at NCST.
Bryan Smith, 2008; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at University of Michigan.
Zhao Wang, 2009; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at University of Wisconsin.
Ben Renner, 2010; Position after Graduation: ChE Doctorate program at MIT.
Mar May, 2010; Position after Graduation: Process Engineer, Dow Chemical Company, Houston, Texas.
Hannah Haines, 2013; Position after Graduation: Process Engineer, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN.
Neil Brown, 2014; Position after graduation: Process Engineer, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN.
Samira Ibrahim, 2016; Position after graduation: PhD student in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN.
Kangmin Cheng, 2017; Position after graduation: PhD student in Mechanical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Brian Park, 2018; Position after graduation: PhD student in Chemistry, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Madison Sherrod, 2018; Position after graduation: Process Engineer, Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport, TN.
Carl Edwards, 2019; Position after graduation: PhD student in Computer Science, University of Illinois- Urbana- Champaign.
Bahar Meshkat, 2019: Position after graduation: Medical School at Vanderbilt, Nashville, TN.
OTHER PAST GRADUATE STUDENTS & POST DOCTORAL COLLABORATORS
Scott Prost-Domasky; Doctorate in ME from Washington University in 1997
Current Position: Consulting, Engineer, APES, Inc., St. Louis, Missouri
Area of Research: Dynamics of Polymeric Liquids in Time Periodic Flows
Patrick Doyle; Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 1997
Current Position: Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, MIT
Area of Research: Brownian Dynamic Simulation of Confined Polymeric Flows
Bin Lin; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2002
Current Position: Technical Director, Henkel, Phoenix, AZ
Area of Research: Influence of Non-Normal Interactions on dynamics of complex fluids
Nathan Woo; Doctorate in Computational Sciences from Stanford University in 2003
Current Position: Research Engineer, Intel Corp. Portland, Or
Area of Research: Non-Local Dynamics of DNA; DNA Scission.
Aravind Rammohan; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2003
Area of Research: Single Chain Dynamics in Time Periodic and Stochastic Flows.
Current Position: Division Director, Corning Corporation, New York
Kartik Arora; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2004
Current Position: Data Scientist & Vice President of Engineering at TOOVIA, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: An Experimental/Computational Study of Hydrodynamic Instabilities in Flow of Polymer Solutions and Melts.
Charles Schroeder; Doctorate in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University in 2004
Current Position: Professor Ray and Beverly Mentzer Faculty Scholar, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University
of Illinois-Urbana
Area of Research: Understanding the Dynamics of entangled macromolecules via single molecule visualization
- C. Ramaswamy; Doctorate in ChE from Washington University in 2005
Area of Research: Thermoelastic Interfacial Instabilities
Current Position: Senior Research Engineer, Eastman Chemicals, Tennessee