​Professor Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz
Principal Investigator
Pasqual and Adelina Early Career Chair in
​Civil and Environmental Engineering 
Email: [email protected]

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Graduate Students​

Saiyed Tasnim Md Fahim 
CEE Ph.D. student, USC
Email ​[email protected]

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Sairaj Patil 
CHE Ph.D. student, USC
Email ​[email protected]

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    Seongbin Jo
    CME Ph.D. student, USC
    Email [email protected]​
 

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Naharin Jannath
MSE Ph.D. student, USC
Email ​[email protected]

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POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS

   Musa Najimu, Ph.D. 
   ​Email: [email protected]​

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Bruno H. Arpini, Ph.D.
Email: ​[email protected]

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Undergraduate Students

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Ph.D. and PostDoctoral
​Group Alumni

​      Soham Shah, Ph.D.
     Former CEE Ph.D. student (Graduated Fall 2022)

     Currently employed: Packaging Engineer, Intel Inc. 
      
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           Luz Cruz, Ph.D.  
           Former MSE Ph.D. student (Graduated Spring 2022)
           GAANN Fellow 

           Currently employed: Module and Integration Yield Engineer, Intel Inc. 

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          Mark Gale, Ph.D. 
          Former CEE Ph.D. student (Graduated Spring 2022)

           Currently employed: Assistant Professor of Teaching,
         Colorado State University 

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​    Somchate Wasantiwut, Ph.D. 
    Former CEE Ph.D. student (Graduated Spring 2024)
    Fulbright Fellow
  

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​     Tu Nguyen, Ph.D. 
     Former CEE Ph.D. student
     GAANN Fellow
     

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Undergraduate GROUP ALUMNI

​Leonardo Bautista
MACREU
​Undergraduate institution: University of Southern California

Research topic: Carbon Capture and Utilization

Mentor: Seongbin Jo and Dr. Bruno Rapini

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​Waniya Hassan
MACREU
Undergraduate institution: University of Southern California

Research topic: Atomic Layer Deposition of Plasmonic Nanoparticles

Mentor: Naharin Jannath

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           Annette Phan
           B.S. Material Science and Engineering
           Spring/Summer 2021 - 2022
         
​            Research: Carbon Capture and Utilization

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            Peter Nguyen (UC LEADS)
            B.S. Material Science and Engineering 
            Summer 2021

            Research: Biomass Valorization

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              Jacob Graves, B.S. Material Science and Engineering
             (Summer 2021 MACREU)
             Tommy Hao Hui Xu
             (Summer 2021 MACREU)
             Oge Ogbechie, B.S. Chemical & Environmental     
             (Summer 2021)

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           Marissa Moreno
            MacREU student (Summer and Fall 2019)
         
​            Research: Biomass valorization strategies

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           Mariyah Bandukwala
            B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
          

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           Thanvarath Pinyochon
            B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
            Email: [email protected]
         
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            Samuel Sayono
            B.S. Material Science and Engineering
            Current: EAG Laboratories, Failure Analysis Engineer
        

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           Ryan Pan
            B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
           
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         Zhaoxi Yang
          B.S., Chemical and Environmental Engineering (UCR GPP)
         
​         Currently employed: Ph.D. student, UC Riverside 
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       Jenna Ynzunza
        B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering


       Currently employed: Ph.D. student, UC Irvine
       
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           Monica Fajardo
            B.S. student, Material Science and Engineering
            

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