Professor Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz
Principal Investigator
Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Email: kabdulaz@usc.edu
Graduate Students
Seongbin Jo
CEE Ph.D. student
Email sjo016@ucr.edu
CEE Ph.D. student
Email sjo016@ucr.edu
Naharin Jannath
MSE Ph.D. student
Email njann003@ucr.edu
MSE Ph.D. student
Email njann003@ucr.edu
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS
Musa Najimu, Ph.D.
Email: musan@ucr.edu
Email: musan@ucr.edu
Bruno H. Arpini, Ph.D.
Email: brunohenrique.arpini@ucr.edu
Email: brunohenrique.arpini@ucr.edu
Undergraduate Students
Waniya Hassan
MACREU
Undergraduate institution: University of Southern California
Research topic: Atomic Layer Deposition of Plasmonic Nanoparticles
Mentor: Naharin Jannath
Leonardo Bautista
MACREU
Undergraduate institution: University of Southern California
Research topic: Carbon Capture and Utilization
Mentor: Seongbin Jo and Dr. Bruno Rapini
Ph.D. and PostDoctoral
Group Alumni
Dr. Soham Shah
Former CEE Ph.D. student (Graduated Fall 2022)
Currently employed: Packaging Engineer, Intel Inc.
Dr. Luz Cruz
Former MSE Ph.D. student (Graduated Spring 2022)
GAANN Fellow
Currently employed: Module and Integration Yield Engineer, Intel Inc.
Former MSE Ph.D. student (Graduated Spring 2022)
GAANN Fellow
Currently employed: Module and Integration Yield Engineer, Intel Inc.
Dr. Mark Gale
Former CEE Ph.D. student (Graduated Spring 2022)
Currently employed: Visiting Lecturer Harvey Mudd College
Former CEE Ph.D. student (Graduated Spring 2022)
Currently employed: Visiting Lecturer Harvey Mudd College
Undergraduate GROUP ALUMNI
Annette Phan
B.S. Material Science and Engineering
Spring/Summer 2021 - 2022
Research: Carbon Capture and Utilization
B.S. Material Science and Engineering
Spring/Summer 2021 - 2022
Research: Carbon Capture and Utilization
Peter Nguyen (UC LEADS)
B.S. Material Science and Engineering
Summer 2021
Research: Biomass Valorization
B.S. Material Science and Engineering
Summer 2021
Research: Biomass Valorization
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)
(Summer 2021 MACREU)
Tommy Hao Hui Xu
(Summer 2021 MACREU)
Oge Ogbechie, B.S. Chemical & Environmental
(Summer 2021)
Marissa Moreno
MacREU student (Summer and Fall 2019)
Research: Biomass valorization strategies
MacREU student (Summer and Fall 2019)
Research: Biomass valorization strategies
Mariyah Bandukwala
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Thanvarath Pinyochon
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Email: tpiny001@ucr.edu
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Email: tpiny001@ucr.edu
Samuel Sayono
B.S. Material Science and Engineering
Current: EAG Laboratories, Failure Analysis Engineer
Ryan Pan
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Zhaoxi Yang
B.S., Chemical and Environmental Engineering (UCR GPP)
Currently employed: Ph.D. student, UC Riverside
B.S., Chemical and Environmental Engineering (UCR GPP)
Currently employed: Ph.D. student, UC Riverside
Jenna Ynzunza
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Currently employed: Ph.D. student, UC Irvine
B.S. student, Chemical and Environmental Engineering
Currently employed: Ph.D. student, UC Irvine
Monica Fajardo
B.S. student, Material Science and Engineering
B.S. student, Material Science and Engineering