{"id":637,"date":"2014-07-29T00:08:06","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/?page_id=637"},"modified":"2026-01-16T12:04:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:04:02","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grabow.chee.uh.edu\/?page_id=637","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"table\" style=\"height: 1246px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse; border-style: hidden;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 100px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 25%; height: 100px;\">Name<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 25%; height: 100px;\">Degree from UH<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 25%; height: 100px;\">Graduation Date<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 25%; height: 100px;\">Last Known Affiliation<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richard-tran-6b6896a6\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Tran<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Summer 2025<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">ML and Chemistry Scientist, Entalpic, France<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gary-gildert-258aa726\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gary Gildert<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Spring 2025<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Industrial Engagement Program Director, UH Energy<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/shengguang-wang-b250082b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Shengguang Wang<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Summer 2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Staff Scientist at INL<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hong-zhong-a22a49241\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Hong Zhong<\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Summer 2024<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Senior Computational Chemist at FUJIFILM Electronic Materials U.S.A., Inc.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pak-wing-chen-0400507a\/\">Pak Wing Chen<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Summer 2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Research Chemist, BASF<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/solankiuofh\">Surya Pratap Singh Solanki<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Spring 2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Technical Specialist &#8211; Chemical Systems Modeling, Cummins Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yu-liu-15b7b4170\/\">Yu Liu<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Spring 2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/najmeh-honari-99487354\/\">Najmeh Honari<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Spring 2023<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Post-Doc, ECE Department, UH<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/cwang27\/\">Chenghao Wang<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Winter 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Material Engineer, Huawei Technologies<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 18px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bhuiyan-md-mushfikur-rahman-0a568b113\/\">Bhuiyan Md Mushfikur Rahman<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 18px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 18px;\">Summer 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 18px;\">Process Technologist, Infineum<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/deependraparmar15\/\">Deependra Parmar<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Summer 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Research and Technology Engineer, Ketjen<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Yu-Yen Chen<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Summer 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Technology Development Engineer, Intel<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/debtanu-maiti-a055a853\/\">Debtanu Maiti<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Spring 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Staff Scientist, Idaho National Labs<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeroen-poissonnier-827b5760\/\">Jeroen Poissonnier<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Visiting Researcher<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Spring 2022<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Post-Doc, Ghent University, Belgium<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Qianyu Ning<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Fall 2021<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Technology Trainee, SMIC, Shanghai, China<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/xiaoli-uh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xiao Li<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Fall 2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; text-align: left; height: 39px;\">Scientist, Process Operation and Modelling, Sanofi, Boston, MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 19px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Karun K. Rao<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Fall 2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 19px;\">Post-Doc, Stanford University<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 39px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Sravan Kumar<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">Fall 2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 39px;\">\n<div>Project Manager, Umicore AG &amp; Co. KG<span style=\"font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">, Hanau, Germany<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Hari Thirumalai<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Fall 2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Senior Chemical Engineer, Syzygy Plasmonics, Houston, TX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Unmesh Menon<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Mar 2020<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Technical Specialist, Cummins Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/quankdo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quan Do<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Fall 2019<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Catalyst Development Engineer, Stellantis, Detriot, MI<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Yuying Song<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Fall 2018<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Research Scientist, Cummins Inc, Columbus, IN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sashankkasiraju\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sashank Kasiraju<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Fall 2017<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Computational Scientist, University of Delaware, Newark, DE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 58px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 58px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/juan-manuel-arce-43927a85\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Juan Manuel Arce-Ramos<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 58px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 58px;\">Dec 2017<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 58px;\">Research Scientist, A*STAR &#8211; Agency for Science, Technology and Research, Singapore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Melanie Hazlett<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Fall 2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec\u200e, Canada<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 55px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 55px;\">Hung Vu Tran<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 55px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 55px;\">Dec 2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 55px;\">Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Houston, Houston, TX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Justin Dodson<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Post-Doc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Apr 2016<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Sr Engineer\/Chemist Testing and Analytic, Celanese, Pasadena, TX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 36px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Hieu Doan<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Fall 2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 36px;\">Postdoctoral Appointee, Argonne National Lab, Lemont, IL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 75px;\">Byeongjin Baek<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 75px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 75px;\">Fall 2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 75px;\">Research Scientist, Sabic, Houston, TX<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 75px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 75px;\">Arian Ghorbanpour<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 75px;\">Ph.D.<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; height: 75px;\">Fall 2015<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 25%; 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