William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
2018 CBE Graduate Degree Recipients
Spring 2018 Graduate School Degree Recipients Master of Science Graduates Advisors Murtadha Alshawaf Liang-Shih Fan Rahel Beyene Shang-Tian Yang Dhruba Deka Umit Ozkan Yamin Fan David Wood Xiangming Gu Bhavik Bakshi Pengfei Jiang Katelyn Reilly Kedar Kelkar Ilham El-Monier Jaron Maxson Katelyn Reilly Jackelyn Miozzi David Wood Savannah Moses Andre Palmer Vedant Shah Liang-Shih Fan Kuan-Hsuan Shen Lisa Hall Priya Sinha Li-Chiang Lin
Doctor of Philosophy Graduates Advisors Gokhan Celik Umit Ozkan Dissertation: Swellable Organically Modified Silica as a Novel Catalyst Scaffold for Catalytic Treatment of Water Contaminated with Trichloroethylene
Merideth Cooper David Wood Dissertation: Creating an Efficient Biopharmaceutical Factory: Protein Expression and Purification Using a Self-Cleaving Split Intein
Paul Garman L. James Lee Dissertation: Chemical Vapor Deposition of Silicon Oxycarbide Catalyzed Graphene Networks
Tien-Lin Hsieh Liang-Shih Fan Dissertation: Applications of Chemical Looping Technologies to Coal Gasification for Chemical Productions
Summer 2018 Graduate School Degree Recipients Master of Science Graduates Advisors Saurabh Ailawar Umit Ozkan Cody Park Andrew Tong Yensil Park Barbara Wyslouzil Mariah Whitaker Nicholas Brunelli
Doctor of Philosophy Graduates Advisors Minkyu Kim Aravind Asthagiri Dissertation: Multiscale Modeling of Oxidation and Reduction Chemistry on Transition Metal Oxides
Xinyu Liu Bhavik Bakshi Dissertation: Investigation of the Mechanism of Hydrogen Co-evolution during Electroless Deposition of Nickel and Cobalt Alloys
Janani Sampath Lisa Hall Dissertation: Structure-Property Relationships in Model Ionomers from Molecular Dynamics Simulation
Qiang Zhang Aravind Asthagiri Dissertation: Probing the Active Site of CNx Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction in Acidic Media: A First- Principles Study
Autumn 2018 Graduate School Degree Recipients Master of Science Graduates Advisors Dishari Basu Umit Ozkan Ruiqi Hu Li-Chiang Lin Brian Marshall David Wood Junjie Pan L. James Lee Neeraja Sundar Rajan Jeffrey Chalmers Shubhankar Upasani Bhavik Bakshi Yitao Zhang Liang-Shih Fan
Doctor of Philosophy Graduates Advisors Nitish Deshpande Nicholas Brunelli Dissertation: Catalytic Material Design: Design Factors Affecting Catalyst Performance for Biomass and Fine Chemical Applications
Yang Han Winston Ho
Dissertation: Facilitated Transport Membranes for Carbon Capture from Flue Gas and H2 Purification from Syngas: From Membrane Synthesis to Process Design
Aamena Parulkar Nicholas Brunelli Dissertation: Developing Synthesis and Characterization Methods for Enhancing Material Performance
Nicholas Wood James Rathman Dissertation: A Novel Kernel-Based Classification Method using the Pythagorean Theorem William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
CBE Graduate Program Seminar Series 2018
Autumn 2018:
1/9 David Dean, Associate Professor, Department of Plastic Surgery, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, “Material for 3D Printing Biomedical Devices”
1/16 Matthew Montemore, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemistry, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, “Understanding and Designing Transition Metal Catalysts”
1/23 Jesse Benck, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Engineering Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Efficient Solar Hydrogen Production and Gas Mixture Separations”
1/25 Snehashis Choudhury, PhD Candidate, School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, “Rational Design of Nanoporous Polymer Electrolytes and Solid-Liquid Interphases for Lithium Metal Batteries”
1/30 Xiaoxue Wang, PhD Candidate, Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “A Synergistic Approach to Soft Materials and Soft Electronics”
2/6 Yankai Cao, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “High-Performance Computing for Large-Scale Optimization and Machine Learning”
2/8 Nicholas Abbott, John T. and Magdalen L. Sobota Professor, Hilldale Professor and Director, Wisconsin Materials Research and Engineering Center, Chemical and Biological Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering & University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “New Insights into Hydrophobic Interactions Encoded by Chemical Nanoparticles”
2/13 William Xiaoguang Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow, John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, “Are Imperfections in Materials Useful?”
2/15 Joel Paulson, Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, “Advanced Control Methods for Complex Chemical and Biological Systems”
2/20 Davood Babaei Pourkargar, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, “Optimization-based Control of Complex Process Networks: Handling Complexity Through Model Reduction and System Decomposition”
2/22 Greg Grason, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, “Block Copolymer Assemblies Beneath the Surface: Modeling Intra-Domain Orientional Order and Chirality Transfer to Mesodomains”
3/22 Jacob Elmer, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Villanova University, “Overcoming Host Cell Defenses Against Gene Therapy”
3/27 Gerardine G. Botte, University Distinguished Professor, Russ Professor, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Director, Center for Electrochemical Engineering Research, Ohio University, “On the Electrolysis of Urea: from Water Remediation to Biomedical Devices”
3/29 Christopher Alabi, Assistant Professor and Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, “Coupling Molecular Design to Structure and Activity of Sequence-Defined Macromolecules”
4/3 Selen Cremaschi, B. Redd Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, “On Tactical and Strategic Decision Making for Chemical, Pharmaceutical, and Energy Industries Under Uncertainty”
4/10 Lance Munn, Associate Professor, Steele Laboratory for Tumor Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, “Tumor Engineering and Mechanobiology”
4/12 T. Alan Hatton, Ralph Landau Professor, Chemical Engineering, Director, David H. Koch School of Engineering Practices, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4/19 LOWRIE LECTURE I: Matthew Tirrell, Dean and Founding Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, “Polyelectrolytes in Multivalent Ionic Media: New Physics and New Materials”
4/20 LOWRIE LECTURE II: Matthew Tirrell, Dean and Founding Pritzker Director of the Institute for Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, “Building a New Engineering Program: Why and How?”
9/6 Will Medlin, Denver Business Challenge Endowed Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, “Controlling Selectivity in Heterogeneous Catalysis with Organic Monolayers”
9/13 Ryan Hartman, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, New York University, “Towards Intelligent Multiphase Laboratory Reactors for Discovery in Chemicals, Energy, and Materials”
9/20 Matthew Green, Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University, “Engineering Multifunctional Polymers for Water Treatment Membranes” 9/27 Amy Peterson, Associate Professor, Department of Plastics Engineering, University of Massachusetts Lowell, “Polyelectrolyte Multilayers for Therapeutic Cell Expansion”
10/9 Matthew Becker, W. Gerald Austen Endowed Chair in Polymer Science and Polymer Engineering, Professor of Polymer Science & Biomedical Engineering, The University of Akron, “New Resorbable Materials and Inks are Needed if Additive Manufacturing Will Really Change Medicine”
10/25 GRIP Seminar: Kayane Dingilian “Characterizing the Homogeneous Nucleation of Carbon Dioxide in a Supersonic Laval Nozzle”; Frank Kong “Iron-Based Chemical Looping Biomass Gasification for Carbon Nanofiber Production: Process Simulation and Experiments”
11/8 Randall Snurr, John G. Searle Professor and Department Chair, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, “Metal-Organic Frameworks as Tunable Platforms for Gas Storage, Chemical Separations, and Catalysis”
11/15 George Huber, Professor and Harvey D. Spangler Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “The Quest for Economic Technologies for the Production of Sustainable Fuels and Chemicals”
11/29 Christine Schmidt, Professor, J. Crayton Pruitt Family Chair & Department Chair, Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, “Engineering Natural-Based Materials for Functional Nerve Regeneration”
12/20 Daniel Heath, Lecturer, School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Melbourne, “Biomaterials: From Blood Compatibility to Stem Cell Expansion”