Former Lab Members: Yale

Doctoral students

Postdoctoral researchers

Visiting scholars

Doctoral Students

Yale Doctoral Students Departure Date Title Affiliation
Masashi Kaneda July 2024 Postdoctoral Associate McGill University
Tayler Hedtke July 2024 Research And Development Engineer VVater
Sohum Patel Dec 2023 Postdoctoral Associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Julianne Rolf May 2022 Science and Technology Fellow California Council on Science and Technology
Ryan DuChanois Dec 2022 Co-founder and CEO Solidec
Yuhao “Sam” Du Oct 2022 Investment Analyst Greenwoods Asset Management
Cody Ritt Aug 2022 Postdoctoral Associate Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xuechen Zhou Jan 2022 Assistant Professor State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Cassandra Porter Dec 2021 Assistant Professor Auburn University
Camrynn ‘Cammie’ Fausey Sep 2020 Lead Aritificial Intelligence Engineer The MITRE Corporation
Evyatar Shaulsky Aug 2020 Staff Scientist BD
Douglas Davenport July 2020 Co-founder and CTO Aquatrino
Akshay Deshmukh Nov 2019 Research Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chanhee Boo July 2018 Assistant Professor Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Humberto Jaramillo June 2018 Water Treatment Engineer Jacobs
Jay Werber May 2018 Assistant Professor University of Toronto
Anthony Straub Aug 2017 Assistant Professor University of Colorado Boulder
Devin Shaffer Aug 2016 Associate Professor University of Houston
Marissa Tousley May 2016 Associate Professor Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Laura H Arias Chavez July 2014 Senior Chemical Engineer Oak Ridge National Lab
Katherine R. Zodrow June 2014 Senior Water Resource Engineer ECO Consulting
Ngai Yin Yip May 2014 Associate Professor Columbia University
Alberto Tiraferri Aug 2012 Professor Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy
Laura C. Sima Aug 2012 Technical Officer US Department of Energy
Jui Shan Yong Aug 2012 Technology Assessment Group Member BlueTech Research
Meagan S. Mauter Aug 2011 Associate Professor Carnegie Mellon University
Robert L. McGinnis May 2009 Global Innovator World Economic Forum
Anna Stirgwolt Brady-Estévez May 2009 Founding Partner American DeepTech
Maggie Montgomery May 2009 Technical Officer World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Allegra K. da Silva Aug 2008 Research and Innovation Director Brown and Caldwell
Kai Loon Chen May 2008 Manager DC Water
Wui Seng Ang May 2008 General Manager Singapore Public Utility Board (PUB)
Alexis de Kerchove May 2007 Vertical Marketing Manager Xylem Inc. – Stockholm, Sweden
Jeffrey R. McCutcheon May 2008 Professor University of Connecticut
Jane E. Hill Mar 2006 Associate Professor Dartmouth University
Zachary A Kuznar Aug 2005 Director – Energy Storage and Microgrid Development Duke Energy Corporation
Jim C. Chen Jul 2005 Assistant Professor Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Nathalie Tufenkji Nov 2004 Professor McGill University, Canada
Sharon L. Walker Nov 2004 Dean Drexel University
Eric M.V. Hoek Dec 2001 Professor University of California, Los Angeles

Postdoctoral Scholars

Yale Postdoctoral Researchers Departure Date Title Affiliation
Dr. Casey De Finnda June 2024 Assistant Professor University of California, Davis
Dr. Luis Francisco Villalobos Dec 2023 Assistant Professor University of Southern California
Dr. Mohammad “Mosi” Heiranian Aug 2023 Assistant Professor North Carolina State University
Dr. Nathanial Cooper July 2023 Assistant Professor Cambridge University
Dr. Tianchi Cao Jan 2023 Associate Professor Nankai University
Dr. Boreum Lee Dec 2022 Assistant Professor Chonnam National University
Dr. Li Wang Dec 2022 Professor School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University
Dr. Lea R. Winter July 2022 Assistant Professor Yale University
Dr. Xiaoxiong “George” Wang Jan 2022 Assistant Professor Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School
Dr. Wen Ma Dec 2021 Assistant Professor University of Sherbrooke
Dr. Ji-Soo Jang June 2021 Senior Researcher Korea Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Meng ‘Chris’ Sun Feb 2021 Associate Professor Tsinghua University
Dr. Zhangxin Wang Dec 2020 Professor Guangdong University of Technology
Dr. Xinglin Lu Oct 2020 Assistant Professor University of Science and Technology of China
Dr. Mohan Qin Dec 2019 Assistant Professor University of Wisconsin – Madison
Dr. Razi Epsztein Sept 2019 Associate Professor Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Dr. Vasiliki ‘Vicky’ Karanikola July 2019 Assistant Professor The University of Arizona
Dr. Ines Zucker Nov 2018 Senior Lecturer Tel-Aviv University
Dr. David Warsinger May 2018 Assistant Professor Purdue University
Dr. Tiezheng Tong July 2017 Associate Professor Arizona State University
Dr. Jongho Lee May 2017 Associate Professor University of British Columbia
Dr. Siamak Nejati May 2016 Associate Professor University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Francois Perreault Aug 2015 Professor Arizona State University
Dr. Edo Bar Zeev Aug 2015 Senior Lecturer Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dr. Shihong Lin Oct 2014 Associate Professor Vanderbilt University
Dr. Santiago Romero-Vargas Castrillon Aug 2014 Senior Lecturer University of Edinburgh
Dr. YunXia Hu Aug 2013 Professor Tiangong University
Dr. Moshe Ben-Sasson Aug 2013 Director for Water, Agriculture, Environment Israeli Ministry of Science, Technology, and Space
Dr. Saifur Rahaman May 2012 Associate Professor Concordia University
Dr. Jessica D. Schiffman Aug 2011 Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dr. Zhiyong Meng (co-advised by Prof. Chinedum Ousji) Jul 2011 Professor Peking University
Dr. William A. Phillip Jul 2011 Professor University of Notre Dame
Dr. Deb P. Jaisi Jan 2011 Professor University of Delaware
Dr. Debora F. Rodrigues Jul 2010 Professor Clemson University
Dr. Chad Vecitis Jul 2010 Associate Professor Harvard University
Dr. Seoktae (Steve) Kang Jan 2009 Professor Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Dr. Navid B. Saleh Jan. 2009 Professor University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Baoxia Mi Jan 2009 Associate Professor University of California, Berkeley
Dr. Moshe Herzberg 2007 Professor Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Dr. Thanh H. (Helen) Nguyen Nov 2006 Professor University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Jeremy A. Redman 2004 Lecturer California State University, Long Beach
Dr. Qilin Li 2003 Professor and Co-Director of NEWT Center Rice University
Dr. How Y. Ng 2003 Professor Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai
Dr. Pawel Weronski 2003 (co-advised) Associate Professor Institute of Catalysis & Surface Chemistry
Dr. Steven E. Mylon 2003 (co-advised) Associate Professor Lafayette College
Dr. Subir Bhattacharjee 2001 Founder and CEO IntelliFlux Controls
Dr. Arza Seidel 2000 Senior Editor Springer Nature
Dr. Chun-Han Ko 2000 Professor and Chairman National Taiwan University

Visiting scholars and researchers

Yale Visiting Scholars and Researchers Departure Date Title Affiliation
Jianhao Qian March 2024 Postdoctoral Associate Rice University
Abdessamad Belgada March 2022 Postdoctoral Researcher UM6P – University Mohammed VI Polytechnic
Rhea Verbeke Oct 2020 Postdoctoral Researcher Membrane Technology group, Katholieke Universiteit Lenven
Yanfang Guan Oct 2019 Research Associate University of Science and Technology of China
Chi Wang Sept 2019 Ph.D. Candidate Northeast Normal University
Mohamed Khayet June 2019 Professor Complutense University of Madrid
Lei Zhang June 2019 Associate Professor Tianjin University of Science & Technology
Sigyn Bjork Sigurdardottir April 2019 Postdoctoral Researcher Carlsberg Group
Masashi Kaneda Nov 2018 Postdoctoral Associate McGill University
Wei Cheng Nov 2018 Professor Harbin Institute of Technology
Wu Yang Oct 2018 Associate Professor Northeast Normal University
Xuan Zhang Sep 2018 Professor Guangdong University of Technology
Yunkun Wang Aug 2018 Associate Professor University of Science and Technology of China
Shu Wang April 2018 Ph.D. Student Tsinghua University
Nadir Dizge Feb 2018 Professor Mersin University
Zhi Geng Dec 2017 Associate Professor Northeast Normal University
Song Zhao Sept 2016 Assistant Professor Tianjin University, China
Zhining Wang March 2016 Professor Shandong University
Anne Bogler July 2015 Ph.D. Student Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Ming Xie May 2015 Vice-Chancellor Early Career Research Fellow Victoria University, Australia
Gang Ye Jan 2015 Associate Professor Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Xinglin Lu Jan 2014 Assistant Professor University of Science and Technology of China
Zhongguo Zhang Nov 2013 Professor Environmental Protection Research Institute of Light Industry, Beijing, China
Shuai Liang Feb. 2013 Lecturer Beijing Forestry University
Jack Gilron 2012 Associate Professor and Department Chairperson Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Atar Adout Oct. 2011 Environment Health-Water Quality Coordinator Ministry of Health, Israel
Yuchang Kim 2011 Principal Researcher Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
Yinghui Mo 2011 Engineer Institute of Seawater Desalination and Multipurpose Utilization, Tianjin, China
Yuji Yamashita 2011 Assistant Professor University of Tsukuba
Hyunse Kim 2010 Senior Researcher Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials
Isabel Cristina Tessaro 2010 Associate Professor Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
Esperanza Garcia Castello 2006 Associate Professor Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Esther Huertas 2006 Project Manager AQU Catalunya
Ana Rita Costa 2005 Process Engineer Galp  Energia
Bart Postmus 2003 Dutch Patent Attorney NLO
Sangyoup Lee 2002 Research Professor Korea University
Long Nghiem 2002 Professor University of Technology Sydney