Faculty
Ah-Hyung “Alissa” Park
Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean
Professor:
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Colin Chenxiang Wang
Postdoc: Jan. 2024 – present
Ph.D. in Chemistry
UCLA
Andrew P. Grorud
Postdoc: Jan. 2024 – present
Ph.D. in Chemistry
University of Chicago
Ning Zhang
Postdoc: March 2021 – present
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials
Newcastle University, UK
Co-advisor: Prof. Aaron Moment
Soyoung Choi
Postdoc: July 2024 – present
Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Engineering
Columbia University
Wonhyeong Lee
Postdoc: Sept. 2024 – present
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
KAIST, Korea
Dasol Choi
Postdoc: July 2024 – present
Ph.D. in Food Science
University of Wisconsin
Co-advisor: Prof. Aaron Moment
Prashant Jadhao
Postdoc: Feb. 2025 – present
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Co-advisor: Prof. Aaron Moment
Zihang Su
Postdoc: Oct. 2024 – present
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Co-advisor: Prof. Aaron Moment
Daniel Oyekunle
Postdoc: June 2024 – present
Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry
Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Co-advisor: Prof. Aaron Moment
Ph.D. Students
Alex Peng
MS/PhD: 2022 fall – present
Julianne Oshiro
MS/PhD: 2023 fall – present
Jeoungjae Jang
PhD: 2024 fall – present
Main advisor: Aaron Moment
Kaiwen Harriet Zhang
PhD: 2025 winter – present
Aseel Almadani
PhD: 2024 fall – present
Former Members
Post-Doctoral Researchers:
- Xiaoyang Shi (Postdoc: Nov. 2021 – May 2024): Ph.D. from Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University – Currently at Arbon
- Julia Yang (Postdoc: 2022 – 2023): (main advisor: Boris Kozinsky at Harvard University): currently a faculty member at Georgia Institute of Technology (2024 – present)
- Seokyoon Moon (Postdoc: Nov. 2021 – 02/2023): Ph.D. from School of Earth Sciences and Environmental Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Gwangju, South Korea. Currently a faculty member at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea (03/2023 – present)
- Hunter B. Vibbert (Postdoc: January 2021 – 2022): Ph.D. from Department of Chemistry, University of Chicago: Currently a Senior Professional Staff, Asymmetric Operations Sector (AOS), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (2023 – present)
- Mengqi Shen (Postdoc: April 2021 – 2023): Ph.D. from Department of Chemistry, Brown University. Currently at Saudi Aramco Research Center, Boston, MA (2023 – present)
- Qiaowan Chang (Postdoc: April 2021 – 2023): Ph.D. from Department of NanoEngineering, University of California San Diego. Currently a faculty member at Washington State University (08/2023 – present)
- Jeffrey Xu (Postdoc: April 2021 – 2022): Ph.D. from Department of Chemical Engineering, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY: Currently at Lyten (2023 – present)
- Dongjae Kim (Postdoc: Nov. 2021 – August 2022): Ph.D. from Department of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, South Korea. Currently a faculty member at Soonchunhyang University, Korea (2022 – present)
- Andrzej Gladysiak (Postdoc: April 2020 – Feb 2022): Ph.D. from Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Sion, Switzerland
- Guanhe Rim (Postdoc: June 2020 – February 2021): Ph.D. from Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University. Currently at Saudi Aramco Research Center, Boston, MA (2024 – present)
- Peng Peng (Postdoc: 2019 – 2020): Currently a faculty member at the Institute of Process Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (2025 – present)
- Chengchuan Zhou (Postdoc: 2019 May – September): Currently at Southern Asset Management, Shenzhen, China
- Wanlu Li (Postdoc: 2018 – 2019): Currently a faculty member at Montclair State University, New Jersey (2019 – present)
- Hui Zhou (Postdoc: 2015 – 2017): Currently a faculty member at Tsinghua University, China (2021 – present)
- Greeshma Gadikota (Postdoc: 2014 – 2015): Currently a faculty member at Cornell University (2019 – present)
- Junfeng Wang (Postdoc: 2013 – 2014): Currently a faculty member at Chinese Academy of Sciences – Institute of Process Engineering, China
- Camille Petit (Postdoc: 2010 – 2013): Currently a faculty member at Imperial College London, UK (2013 – present)
- Hyun Woo Kang (Postdoc: 2012 – 2013): Currently at Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute, Korea (2013 – present)
- Youngjune Park (Postdoc: 2009 – 2011): Currently a faculty member at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST), Korea (2015 – present)
Ph.D. & M.S./Ph.D Students:
- Amanda Ooi (PhD: 2020 fall – 2024 summer): Currently at KLA (2025 – present)
- Xiaolong Wu (PhD: 2018 – 2024 summer)
- Soyoung Choi (PhD: 2020 spring – 2024 spring): Currently a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA
- Jonah Williams (MS/PhD: 2021 spring – 2024 spring): Currently at Department of Energy (2024 – present)
- Annie Ga Hyun Lee (MS/PhD: 2021 spring – 2024 spring): Currently at Arbon
- Danny Haonan Huang (PhD: 2019 summer – 2024 spring)
- Sara Hamilton (MS/PhD: 2018 – 2022): Currently at Department of Energy (2023 – present)
- Tony Gordon Feric (MS/PhD: 2017 – 2022): Currently at Department of Energy (2023 – present)
- Guanhe Rim (PhD: 2015 – 2020): Currently at Saudi Aramco Research Center, Boston, MA (2024 – present)
- Emily Hsu (MS/PhD: 2015 – 2019): Currently at Exponent in CA, USA (2019 – present)
- Chengchuan Zhou (PhD: 2014 – 2019): Currently at Southern Asset Management, Shenzhen, China (2019 – present)
- Ming Gao (PhD: 2015 – 2018): Currently a Chief Engineer at GreenOre CleanTech LLC. (2022 – present)
- Maxim Stonor (MS/PhD: 2012 – 2017): Currently a consultant at Simon-Kucher & Partners Consulting LTD (2017 – present)
- Xiaozhou Zhou (MS: 2009-2011 and PhD: 2011 – 2015): Founder and the CEO of GreenOre CleanTech (2017 – present) – Selected as the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific (2021).
- Kyle Fricker (MS/PhD: 2009 – 2014): Currently at EERE (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy), U.S. Department of Energy (2014 – present)
- Thomas E. Ferguson (MS/PhD: 2008 – 2014): Currently Licensing Associate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (2018 – present)
- Huangjing Zhao (MS/PhD: 2008 – 2014): Currently the CTO of GreenOre CleanTech (2017 – present)
- Ed Swanson (PhD: 2010 – 2014): Boston Consulting Group, Seattle, WA (2014 – 2017); Currently at Tesla (2017 – present)
- Greeshma Enukonda Gadikota (MS/PhD: 2010 – 2013): Currently a faculty member at Cornell University (2019 – present), previously a faculty member at University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Kun-Yi Andrew Lin (MS/PhD: 2008 – 2012): Currently a faculty member at National Tsing Huan University (2023 – present), previously a faculty member at National Chung Hsing University (2013 – 2023)
- Diandian Zhao (PhD: 2020 – 2024): (main advisor: Shiho Kawashima in CEEM)