Graduate Students

Abisola Ojoawo:abisola.ojoawo@utexas.edu
Graduate Research Assistant
B.S. Chemical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology(SDSM&T)
Research Focus: Modeling Stability of Colloidal Gels
 
 

Shreyas Sudhaman:sudhaman.shreyas@austin.utexas.edu
Graduate Research Assistant
B.S. Chemical Engineering, The Ohio State University
Research Focus: Tuning of Colloidal Gels
 
 

Postdoctoral Fellows:

Minaspi Bantawa:minaspi.bantawa@austin.utexas.edu
M.S. Physics, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
M.S. and Ph.D. Physics, Georgetown University, Washington D.C.
Research Focus: Colloidal gel stability, soft adhesive particle pastes
 

 

 

Alumni Members:

Tianfei Liu
B.S. Biochemical Engineering, Zhejiang University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

 

 

Ali Shahmohammadi
Alumni Post-doctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, Queen’s University, Ontario, Canada
Currently: Senior Statistician at Moderna
 

 

 

Yang H. Ban
B.S. Physics and Chemistry, University of North Florida
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Currently: Simulation Engineer at Sandbox Semiconductors
 
 

Monica Zakhari
Alumni Post-doctoral fellow
M.Sc. Computational Mechanics, Swansea University, Swansea, UK and Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Postdoc: Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, California, USA
Currently: Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

 
 

Xilan Zhu

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Currently: Process Engineer at Lam Research

 
 

Steven Stanley

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Brigham Young University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

 
 

Soumik Das

B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Currently: Post-doctoral associate at Cornell University
 
 

Fardin Khabaz
Alumni Post-doctoral fellow
PhD Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, 2016
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2011
Currently: Assistant Professor at the University of Akron
 
 

Meghali Chopra

B.S. Chemical Engineering, Stanford University
PhD Chemical Engineering, UT Austin, 2017
Currently: CEO, Sandbox Semiconductor
 
 

Mohammadreza Shafiei
Graduate Researcher
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology
M.S. Polymer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

 
 

Shruti Jain
PhD Candidate
B.Tech. Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar
Ph.D. Chemical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin

Ben Huntington 
Graduated in Summer 2017
Currently at :  Sandia National Labs

 

 

Andrew P. Spann
Alumni Post-Doc
Currently at : Veryst Engineering

 

 

Talha Arshad: 
Graduated in Summer 2016
Currently at : GLOBALFOUNDRIES

 

 

Mark Ferraro: 
Graduated in Spring 2016
Currently at : Sandia National Labs

 

 

Akhilesh Jain: 
Graduated in Summer 2016
Currently at : OSISoft

 

 

Michael J. Clements: 
PhD Candidate
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Arizona State University

 

 

Lavanya Mohan
Graduated in Fall 2013
Currently at : ExxonMobil

 

 

Parag Katira
Alumni Post-Doc
Currently at : San Diego State University

 

 

Jyoti Seth
Graduated in 2008
Currently at : Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

Jeffrey J. Gray
Graduated in Summer 2000
Currently at: Johns Hopkins University