During the symposium there were 11 poster presentations and 10 oral presentations given by students. Those presentations were judged by two chemical engineering alumni who returned to their alma mater: Dr. Amit Kulkarni (’01 PhD, Advisor: Dr. Charles Zukoski) from GE and Dr. Rahul Keswani (’12 PhD, Advisor: Dr. Dan Pack) from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
This year’s winners of the 13th annual Graduate Symposium are:
Poster Presentations
First Place: Joe Whittenberg, Advisor: Professor Paul Kenis, Microreactors for click chemistry-based synthesis of molecular imaging probes.
Second Place: Ankur Taneja, Advisor Professor Jon Higdon, Unified approach for function based geologic modeling, simulation reservoir and production history matching.
Third Place: Yelena Ilin, Advisor Professor Mary Kraft, Identifying the differentiation and cell cycle state of hematopoietic stem cells using Raman Spectroscopy.
Oral Presentations
First Place (tie): Vivek Kumar, Advisor Professor Paul Kenis, Development of high-throughput reactors for continuous synthesis of semiconductor nanoparticles; and Tong Si, Advisor Huimin Zhao, Enabling multiplex genome engineering in yeast by RNAi and CRISPR.
Third Place: Ming Li, Advisor Professor Ed Seebauer, Control of point defect behavior in metal oxides via surface band bending.
Other graduate students who participated in this year’s symposium are: Poster Presentations: Sam Hamedi Rad, Vahid Mirshafiee, Shuyan Zhang, Eitan Barlaz, Xi Yin, Zehua Bao, Steven Warren and Kai-Wen Hsiao. Oral Presentations: Geethika Yalamanchili, Jiazhang Lian, Laura Mozdzen, Jinrong Chen, Yung-Tin Pan, Samantha Weiss and Daniel Reilly.