GROUP LOGO
The “CAT” Group
GROUP Hoodie
Designer: Feng-Yang Chen
GROUP PHOTO (Feb. 2024, Rice Campus)
GROUP PHOTO (Jan. 2022, Rice Campus)
GROUP PHOTO (Apr. 2021, Sam Houston National Forest)
GROUP PHOTO (Oct. 2020, Clear Lake Park)
PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR
Associate Professor
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
Dr. Ziang (Kevin) Xu, PhD in Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University
Dr. Valery Okatenko, PhD in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, EPFL
Dr. Shaoyun Hao, PhD in Chemical Engineering and Technology, Zhejiang University
Dr. Zhiwei Fang, PhD in Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin (click for Zhiwei’s personal website)
Dr. Tae-Ung Wi, PhD in Energy and Chemical Engineering, UNIST (click for Tae-Ung’s personal website)
PhD STUDENTS
Yoon Park, co-advised with Prof. Lisa Biswal, B.S. Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
Malik Paulino, B.S. Chemical Engineering (Sustainability), Caltech
Junwei Zhang, B.S. Chemical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Zhou Yu, M.S. Chemical Engineering, Columbia University
Wei Ping Lam, B.S. Chemical Engineering, UIUC
Sushanth Ashokkumar, B. Tech Chemical Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Chase Sellers, co-advised with Prof. Tom Senftle, B.S. Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University
Chang Qiu, B.S. Chemistry, USTC
Ahmad El Gazzar, B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Rochester
Yuge Feng, co-advised with Prof. Lisa Biswal, B.S. Chemical Engineering and Industrial Biotechnology, Tsinghua University
Zachary Adler, B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of Connecticut
MASTER STUDENTS
Yile Yang, B.S. New Energy Materials and Devices, Tongji University
UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
Cedric Lau, ChBE
Diego Conner, ChBE
Brianna Schulstad, ChBE
Gwenyth FitzSimmons, ChBE
Christina Bencin, ChBE
Joshua He, ChBE
Alex Hwang, Chemistry
VISITING STUDENTS
Gyuyong Jang, PhD student from Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Yonsei University
GROUP ALUMNI
| Name | Position in Group |
| Priti Kharel | undergraduate summer intern |
| Bruce Peng | undergraduate summer intern |
| Priyanka Thapa | undergraduate |
| Kaitian Mao | undergraduate summer intern |
| Kun Jiang | postdoc |
| Tingting Zheng | visiting graduate student |
| Yunrui Qiu | undergraduate summer intern |
| Qizheng Huang | undergraduate summer intern |
| Lei Fan | visiting graduate student |
| Kun Sun | visiting graduate student |
| Chuan Xia | SCI Attwell-Welch postdoc fellow |
| Patrick Eifert | undergraduate student |
| Xiao Zhang | Rice Academy postdoc fellow |
| Divyesh Khatri | undergraduate summer intern |
| Taehwa Jeon | postdoc |
| Zhen-Yu Wu | postdoc |
| Lyla Dong | undergraduate |
| Patrick Aghadiuno | undergraduate |
| Shriya Sharma | undergraduate summer intern |
| Stephanie Pecaut | undergraduate |
| Justin Sharp | master student |
| Nana Konado | undergraduate |
| Dior Muankaew | REU student |
| Jiale Wan | undergraduate summer intern |
| Eugene McCarty | undergraduate summer intern |
| Yuheng Wu | undergraduate intern |
| Shou-Kun Zhang | postdoc |
| Ryan DuChanois | postdoc |
| Rosalynn Nankya | postdoc |
| Chloe Pool | REU student |
| Peng Zhu | PhD and postdoc |
| Feng-Yang Chen | PhD |
| Jung ‘Tim’ Kim | PhD |
| Yang Xia | PhD and postdoc |