Group Members

Fei Liu
Ph.D.

Research Scientist
PhD: Peking University
fliu@iastate.edu

•NSF Travel Award
•Postdoctoral Scholar Seed Grant Award

Serkan Demirci
Ph.D.

Visiting Professor
Ph.D.: Gazi University
sdemirci@iastate.edu

Assistant Professor: Amasya University

Abhijit Bera
Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., AcSIR, CSIR
abhijitb@iastate.edu

Connor Thorpe

Postdoctoral Scholar Ph.D., Iowa State Univ.
cthorpe@iastate.edu

•ISU REX Award
•DPA Research Fellow
•F. Wendell Miller Scholar
•DataFEWSion Traineeship
•Go for gold award

Matthew Marander

Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Iowa State University
marander@iastate.edu

•McGee-Wagner Scholar
•ISGC Fellowship

Utsav Kumar Dey

Ph.D. Candidate
M.S.: Iowa State University
utsav@iastate.edu

Ritinder Sandhu

Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Iowa State University
ritinder@iastate.edu

Ricardo Ortega

Ph.D. Candidate
B.S.: Iowa State University
ortega@iastate.edu

•IINspire-LSAMP Scholar
•Copper Club Scholarship

Aneeba Chaudary

Ph.D. Candidate
M.S. Donghua University chaudary@iastate.edu

Thamer Rawah

Ph.D. Candidate
B.S. Saudi Arabia trawah@iastate.edu

Ahmad Malkawi

Ph.D. Candidate
M.S. Jordan University of Science and Technology malkawi@iastate.edu

Bingrui Huang

M.S. Candidate
B.S.: Iowa State University malkawi@iastate.edu

Cole Hanson

M.S. Candidate
B.S.: Carthage College chanson3@iastate.edu

Jack Nolder

Joseph Koenig

Collin Grota

Sophia Schmitz

Emily Olson

Current: Ecolab
emily.olson@ecolab.com

•Brown Graduate Fellow
•NASA Fellowship
•MSE REX Award

Ayuna Tsyrenova

Current: Seigwerk USA
ayuna.tsyrenova
@siegwerk.com

•Fulbright Scholar
•Catron Fellowship
•ISU TEX award
•MSE REX Award

Kyle Miller

Current: Valent BioSciences
kylem167@gmail.com

•Trinect Fellow Award
•ISU TEX Award

Yifan Li

Current: BASF
EvanYFLi@outlook.com

•Presidential Scholar
•Brown Graduate Fellow
•ISU TEX Award

Rebecca Mort

Current: 3M
therjmort@gmail.com

•NSF I-Corps Award

Tyler Kirscht

Current: Optomec

•ISU TEX Award
•Rohit Trivedi Best Paper

Connor Thorpe

Current: Postdoctoral Scholar, Iowa State Univ.

•F. Wendell Miller Scholar
•DataFEWSion Traineeship
•Go for gold award

Zihao Xu

Current: BASF
xxzzhh622@gmail.com

Yanhua (Conan)
Huang

Current: Bayer
yanhuah@iastate.edu

Zhengtao Yang

Current: Houston Electron Microscopy
zhengtaoyang104
@gmail.com

Charles Truka

•First-Year Honor

Ana Miller

Current: HID Global, Minneapolis

•NSF REU Award

Riley Behan

Current: MD/PhD University of Iowa

•NSF REU Award

Carmen Wu

•Summer NSF REU Student

Yasmeen Mansoorieh

•First-Year Honor

John Henjum

Current: ATI

Mason Kenkel

•First-Year Honors

Henry Thurber

Currrent: University of Michigan, Ph.D. Candidate

•First-Year Honors

Devin Palm

•First-Year Honor

Madison Drent

Current: 3M

•Dean’s Leadership Award
•undergraduate Research Assistantship (URA)

Tae Hyung Kim

Chanhong Lee

Currrent: Virginia Tech, Ph.D. Candidate

Xilong Ke

Ally Dunnum

Current: PhD candidate Georgia Institute of Technology

Annie Huynh

•APEX-E Summer Program

Kristen Aebischer

•IINspire-LSAMP scholarship

Andrew Ruba

Current: PhD Candidate University of Michigan

Elizabeth Griffin

Current: PhD candidate Northwestern

Adam Eichhorn

Current: PhD Candidate University of Michigan

Sai Maurice

Current: Donaldson

Junho Lee

Erin Peters

Current: Conagra

Jessica Fuertes-De Arcos

•NSF REU Scholarship

Robert Bengel

Billie Alexander

•APEX-E Summer Program

Joseph Koenig

Jack Nolder

•NSF REU Scholarship

Sophia Schmitz

•Boeing Fellow Intern

Julian Nelson

•IINspire-LSAMP scholarship