People
Principal Investigator
Lynden Archer
Lynden Archer joined the Cornell faculty in 2000. He was appointed director of the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering in 2010. Since 2008 he has served as co-director of the KAUST-Cornell Center for Energy and Sustainability.
His research focuses on transport properties of polymers and organic-inorganic hybrid materials. Archer is also interested in applications of hybrid materials for energy storage and carbon capture technologies. During the period 1993-94 he was a postdoctoral member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and has been recognized with several awards, including the AICHE MAC Centennial Engineer Award, James & Mary Tien Excellence in Teaching Award, the National Science Foundation Early Career Award, and DuPont and 3M Young Professor Awards. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering (polymer science) from the University of Southern California in 1989 and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Stanford University in 1993.
Doctoral Students
Mukul Tikekar
Mukul Tikekar is from Mumbai, India and received his BTech and MTech degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. As a PhD candidate in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, he is jointly advised by Prof. Donald Koch and Prof. Lynden Archer on stability analysis of electrodeposition, aiming to design strategies to suppress dendrite growth in lithium metal batteries.
Wajdi AlSadat
Wajdi AlSadat is originally from Saudi Arabia. He obtained his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Louisiana State University and M.S. from King Fahd University. He has worked in the oil and gas industry for about 12 years, and worked in Saudi Aramco's R&D Center, prototyping the first-of-a-kind post-combustion CO2 reduction technology for mobile sources before joining Cornell University's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering PhD program. Under the supervision of Professor L. Archer, Wajdi is working on metal/CO2 batteries as a novel approach to CO2 capture and energy storage. Happily married and has a curious ChemE-to-be boy. Fun fact: He mocks gravity (trad and sport rock climber).
Shuya Wei
Shuya Wei received her B.Eng. degree in Bioengineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2013. Her research focuses on nanoparticle-polymer composite materials design and their applications in electrochemical energy storage technologies.
Pooja Nath
Pooja Nath is from Himachal Pradesh, India and did her undergraduate in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. She currently studies the role of polymer gel electrolytes in controlling uneven electrodeposition in metal batteries using in situ optical microscopy.
Zhengyuan Tu
Zhengyuan Tu is from Nanchang, China and received his B.S degree in Polymer Science and Engineering (Chu-Kochen Honor College) from Zhejiang University. He currently studies the electrochemical behavior of lithium ion electrodeposition and transport based on nanoporous electrolyte and electrode in the context of lithium metal battery. He is also a piano and guitar player and a fan of classical music.
Google Scholar
Snehashis Choudhury
Snehashis hails from Kolkata, India. He did his undergrad in the department of Chemical Engineering at NIT Calicut, India . His current research focusses on the understanding of polymer relaxation behavior and ion transport properties in hairy nanoparticles system. He likes cooking and meditation.
Masters Students
Undergraduates
Michelle Chen
Michelle Chen is a senior at Cornell University studying Chemical Engineering from the Bay Area in California. She currently works on characterizing limitations on Li-Air batteries and aiming to find potential solutions in Li-Air battery inefficiencies. Fun fact: She can cross her eyes independently from each other.
Charles Wan
Charles Wan is a junior chemical engineering major from Rochester, NY. He currently studies aluminum-CO2/O2 batteries as a dual platform for carbon sequestration and electrical output. Fun fact: He is ambidextrous.
Michael Statt
Michael Statt is a senior at Cornell University studying Chemical Engineering from Rochester, NY. He currently studies a novel metal-air flow battery architecture for energy storage and carbon sequestration technologies. Fun Fact: He once hugged Joe Biden.
Alumni
Lin Ma
Lin Ma is from Fujian, China and has B.S degree in Chemical Engineering from Tsinghua University in Beijing. She is now currently a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She is interested in research about Lithium-Sulfur batteries, working on cathode materials to improve the performance of Li-S batteries. She is also interested in retarding the growth of dendrite of Lithium metal in Li-S battery.
Rahul Mangal
Rahul graduated from Archer grp in June 2016. He worked on investigating The Structural and Dynamics properties of nanoparticle polymer composites, with a specific focus on nanoparticles dispersed in entangled polymer melts, using techniques such as SAXS, XPCS, Rheology, and DLS. He is currently working as a Postdoc researcher at University of Wisconsin Madison. Rahul originally hails from from Rajasthan, India. He received his Bachelors of Technology (B.Tech) and Masters of Technology (M.Tech) from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
ResearchGate Google Scholar
Akanksha Agrawal
Akanksha is from New Delhi, India and received her Bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in the year 2012. She is currently investigating the structure, rheology and transport properties of matrix free polymer grafted silica nanoparticles and their subsequent use as electrolytes with high ionic conductivity. She loves to travel and she cannot live without coffee.
Mun Sek Kim
Mun Sek Kim is from Seoul, Korea and received B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from University California, Berkeley. He is a M.S. student in the Department of Chemical & Biomolecular and Engineering at Cornell University.
He is mainly interested in application of nanomaterials for secondary batteries. He is currently working on a separator modification for lithium batteries, specifically coating various forms and types of carbon-based and metal oxide-based nanomaterials (with/without surface functionalization) on a conventional separator.
Sampson Lau
Sampson is from the Bronx, NY. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 2007 and received his Bachelor's of Engineering in chemical engineering from The Cooper Union in 2011. He currently studies the limiting factors of the lithium-air battery using a combination of mathematical modeling and characterization experiments. He is also a b-boy (breakdancer) and performs and battles for Absolute Zero Crew.
Shaomao Xu
Shaomao received his B.S. degree in Chemical Process and Engineering from China University of Petroleum (East China). He is currently working on carbon dioxide capture.
Sung A Kim
PhD, 2014
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Yingying Lu
PhD, 2014
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Stanford University
Rajesh Kumar Mallavajula
PhD, 2014
Current position: Associate Scientist at Lubrizol Specialty Products, Inc.
Samanvaya Srivistava
PhD, 2013
Current position: Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Chicago
Jennifer Schaefer
PhD, 2013
Current position: Assistant Professor at University of Notre Dame
Zichao Yang
PhD, 2012
Current position: Senior Scientist at ElectroScience Laboratories, Inc
Praveen Agarwal
PhD, 2012
Current position: Sr. R&D Engineer at Dow Chemical Company
Lucas Landherr
PhD, 2011
Current position: Assistant Teaching Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University
Keesha Hayes
PhD, 2010
Current position: Senior (Chemical) Engineer at Procter & Gamble - R&D
Xiongwen (David) Lou
PhD, 2008
Current position: Professor at School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University
Chongli Yuan
PhD, 2007
Current position: Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University
Venkatachala Minnikanti
PhD, 2006
Current position: Director of Research and Development at Neptune Research IncJung Hun Lee
PhD, 2005
Current position: Research Scientist at LG Corp
Qiang Zhang
PhD, 2005
Current position: Chief Marketing Officer | Product & Biz Dev Leader | Analytics | Entrepreneur | Inventor | Sloan Fellow | Ph.D. Engineer
Javier Sanchez-Reyes
PhD, 2003
Current position: Research Engineer at SchlumbergerTien Dao
Texas A&M PhD, 2002
Current position: Research & Development Engineer at CelgardMuhammad Islam
Texas A&M PhD, 2000
Current position: Senior Research Scientist at Rhome & HaasHoJun Lee
Texas A&M PhD, 2000
Current position: Senior R&D Engineer at Samsung
Micahel Smith
Texas A&M PhD, 1999
Current position: Deputy Executive Director at National GEM Consortium✉ Contact
Vijay Mhetar
Texas A&M PhD, 1998
Current position: Senior Vice President - Global Technology at General Cable
Alexandra Corona
MS, 2010
Current position: Materials, Process, and Physics engineer at Boeing
Laura Olenick
MS, 2009
Current position: Researcher at The Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology at Northwestern University
Lauren Mangiola
MS, 2007
Current position: Product Manager at NestleJuliani Julani
MS, 2004
Current position: Family Business
Jason Maxey
Texas A&M, MS, 2000
Current position: Team Lead, Engineering & Modeling Group at HalliburtonShih Ping Chen
Texas A&M, MS, 1999
Current position: Technical Manager for Asia Pacific at Lyondell Basell Advance Polyolefins.
Gil Cohn
Postdoc 2013-2014
Current position: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Maryland
Yoho Wen
Postdoc 2012-2015
Current position: Assistant Research Scientist at National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (NSRRC)
Jayaprakash Navaneedhakrishnan
Postdoc 2010-2012
Current position: Chief Scientist at NOHMs Technologies
Juchen Guo
Postdoc 2011-2012
Current position: Assistant Professor of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at UC Riverside
Shyamal Das
Postdoc 2010-2012
Current position: Assistant Professor at Tezpur UniversityJingguo Shen
Postdoc 2010-2012
Current position:Senior Research Chemist at Axalta Coating Systems
Wanda Jones
Postdoc 2009-2011
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