Lab Alumni


Graduate Students Mentored as Chair of Committee (10 MS, 9 PhD)

Venkatesh Phadnavis – MS 2002, Microsoft

Bakul Pant – MS 2003, Solutia, Inc

Ritesh Shah – MS 2003, Schlumberger

Abhishek Jain – MS 2005, Bharatiya Career Institute, India

Sean Murphy – MS 2005, Intel

David Slade – Ph.D. 2010, REG Fuels

Qiying Jiang - Ph.D. 2010, University of Kentucky

Sedighah Faraji – Ph.D. 2010,

Lina Zhao – Ph.D. 2011

Mauricio Antezana- MS 2011 Evonik

Luke Silvey – MS 2012 Hospira

Andrew Duncan – PhD, 2015, Associate Teaching Professor Kansas State University

Griffin Roberts – PhD, 2015, Co-Founder PrairieFood

Travis Wentworth – PhD, 2015, Intelligence Quest

Weiwei Li, PhD, 2016, Miller Auto Technology

Robbie Hable – PhD, 2018, BASF

Max Jiang – MS, 2021, KU School of Engineering

Lateef Jolaoso, Non-thesis MS, 2021

Joao Poli, MS Current

​Previous Undergraduate Students Mentored

Sam Briley

Jared Hutton

Tae Yoo

Esteban Miranda

Mandy Ruhman

Shawn Benson

Andrew Doerflinger

Anthm Grey

Austin Petz

​Courtney Crain

Joseph Hadel

​Daniel Tabakh

​Mark Lafollette

Eric Eisenbarth

Joel Billinger

Colin White

Sarah Graves

Matthew Cunningham

Jacob Jaksetic

​Kunal Kshirsagar

Tiffany Kinsella

James Miller

Karl Aldreks

Ann Eddy

Caroline Jarmoc

Alejandra Rocha

Gabriel Stanton

Sizhe Jin

Randy Ngelale

Rachel Swezy

Eddie Munoz 

Jake Garrett

Umar Hamdeh

Robbie Hable

Andrew Dougherty

Francie Fangman

Lauren Crandon

Natalie Hubbell

Matt Crawford

Maria Ramirez

Juan Saganome 

John Hack 

Vinzent Strobel

Nick Kuchinski

Kara Walker

David Tierney

Shannon Gray

Donald Dyster

Hal Laurence

Brianna Christian

Catherine Siegman

Bryce Jaeger

Greg Loving

Jeff Hoffman

Noorbahiyah Pavlicek

Elizabeth Mahoney

Kristen Loftus

Joe Deneault

Gene Cody

Andrew Moore

Brian Larkin

Jenna Waselynko

Sean Resky

Xiao Liang

Don Claus

Tom Li

Jason Brewer

Ryan Coiner

William Bennett

Melody Redburn

Nathaniel Newman

Shawn Coleman

Amanda Batchel

Kate Motter

Bill Eckman

Katherine Harry

Tatum Davis

Rachel Levine

Jager Livingston

Michael Cunningham

Justin Ellrich

Andrew Duncan 

Jonathan Allison

Raul Desai

Jessica Mohatt

Nicholas Willis

Shane Kjergaard

Patrick Stallbaumer

Brian Morrow

Derek Breid 

Kate Wilbanks 

Sean Mueller 

Jake Imber 

Brent Lee 

Ray Pratt

Ian Palko 

John Daniels 

Holly Hydeman 

Mariam Makboul 

Nan Zhao 

Michael Kreutzer

Phil Black

Alex Tobia 

Kristin Gerdes 

Kirk Gerdes 

Ali Porbandarwal