LAB DIRECTOR

Costas D. Maranas - email: costas@psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 1995

POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS

Patrick Suthers - email: pfs13@psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2005
MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, 2000
BS, Chemical Engineering, Tennessee Technological University, 1997
   
YoungJung Chang- email: yjchang@engr.psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
MS, Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, 2001
BS, Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, 1997
   

GRADUATE STUDENTS (in order of seniority)

Hossein Fazelinia - email: hzf101@psu.edu
MSc, Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 1999
BSc, Chemical Engineering, IUT, Iran, 1997
   
Jonathan Chin - email: jwc184@psu.edu
BS, Chemical Engineering, Cornell University, 2004
   
Francisco Vital-Lopez - email: fgv101@psu.edu
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2002
   
Vinay Satish Kumar- email: vsk111@psu.edu
B.Tech, Civil Engineering, IIT Madras, 2005
   
Alireza Zomorrodi- email: auz107@psu.edu
MSc, Chemical Engineering, AmirKabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic), Iran, 2005
BSc, Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Iran, 2002
   
Sridhar Ranganathan- email: sur152@psu.edu
B.Tech, Sri Venkateshwara College of Engineering, India
   
Prabhasa Ravikirthi- email: pxr173@psu.edu
B.Tech, Biotechnology, IIT Madras, 2007

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Robert Pantazes- email: rjp5003@psu.edu
   
George Khoury- email: gak5001@psu.edu
   
Ben Swiniarski- email: bjs403@psu.edu
   

ALUMNI (in alphabetical order)

Anthony Burgard - email: apb121@psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2004
BS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2000
Currently a Research Scientist at Genomatica, Inc.

Kyle Camarda - email: camarda@ku.edu
BS, Chemical Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 1990
MS, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1994
PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
Currently Associated Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Kansas

Madhukar Dasika - email: msd179@psu.edu
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, IIT Madras, 2002
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2007
Currently Postdoctoral Scholar at Philip Morris USA

Kevin Dorfman - email: kevin.dorfman@curie.fr
PhD, Chemical Engineering, MIT, 2002
S.M., Chemical Engineering, MIT, 2001
BS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 1999
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institut Curie (France) Currently Assistant Processor at the University of Minnesota.

Tim Gaydos - email: tmg@cmu.edu
Currently Graduate Student at Carnegie Mellon University

Anshuman Gupta - email: axg218@psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering & Operations Research, Penn State University, 2002
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, 1997
Currently Programmer/Analyst for Information Technology Services at Penn State.

Dustin Holloway - email: dth128@bu.edu
Currently Graduate Student at Boston University

Michael Kalp - email: m.kalp@croda.com
Currently Project Engineer for Croda, Inc.

Andreas Lehmann - email: andreaslehmann@psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2004
MS, Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, 2000
MS, Chemical Engineering, Technical University of Berlin, 1995
Currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania

Kyle Martin - email: kwm128@yahoo.com
BS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2001
Currently at ExxonMobil Corporation

Scott McAllister - email: smcallis@princeton.edu
BS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2002
Currently Graduate Student at Princeton University

Gregory Moore- email: glm113@gmail.com
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2005
BS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 1998
Life Sciences Consortium Scholar, 2000-2001
Currently at Xencor, Inc.

Evgeni Nikolaev - email: en46@cornell.edu
PhD, Differential Equations, Lobachevski Nizhegorod State University, 1995
MS, Applied Mathematics, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, 1986
Currently Postdoctoral Researcher in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering at Cornell University

Spas Petkov
MS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 1997
Currently at BioTek Bulgaria

Priti Pharkya - email: pxp905@psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2005
BE, Chemical Engineering, Regional Engineering College Jaipur, 1997
Currently at Genomatica, Inc.

Michael Rogers - email: mjr219@psu.edu
MS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2004
MMM (Master of Manufacturing Management), Quality & Manufacturing Management, Penn State University, 2001
BS, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2000
Currently at DuPont

Manish Saraf - email: saraf@psu.edu
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2006
B.Tech, Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay, 2001
Currently at Citigroup.

Dr. Shankar Vaidyaraman - email: shankar.vaidyaraman@zsassociates.com
PhD, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University, 2000
Currently Marketing Associate for Eli Lilly and Company