Kulik group alumni

name group role current
Isuru Ariyarathna PD Postdoctoral Associate at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Naveen Arunachalam GS Ph.D. ‘23 ChemE and now ML Scientist at Nosis Bio
Sule Atahan-Evrenk VS Software Engineer at TEKsystems
Anna Bair UROP MIT S.B. ‘23 and now gradaute student at UC Berkeley
Akash Bajaj GS Ph.D. ‘21 and now Applied Data Scientist at dunnhumby
Naomi Bright UROP MIT S.B. ‘19 and now Business Development Associate at BASF Bioservices
José Caetano VS PhD student MIT-Portugal
Lydia Chan SS Troy HS ‘18 and now Software Engineer at Tesla
Rafa Chavez UROP MIT S.B. CS expected ‘25
Shouping Chen SS Leadership Rotational Program Manager at Corning
Shuxin Chen UROP MIT S.B. ‘22 and now Software Engineer at Meta
Yeoungsu Cho PD Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Houston
Yael Cytter PD Research Scientist in Israel
Chenru Duan GS co-founder at Deep Principle
Freya Edholm UROP MIT ChemE SB ‘23 and now MIT CSE S.M. Student
Mohamed El-Safy VS PhD student at UiO with David Balcells
Kristen Eller UROP MIT S.B. ‘16 and now Senior Scientist at Darwin Biosciences
Terry Gani GS Ph.D. ‘20 ChemE (w/ Roman group) and now Sr. R&D Engineer at Cabot Corporation
Zach Giaccone SS Grad Student at UConn Dental School
Conrad Goffinet UROP MIT MSECP Program S.M. ‘21 and now Senior R&D Engineer at Via Separations
David Gonzalez Narvaez UROP University of Puerto Rico-Cayey ‘23 and now PhD student Columbia University Chemistry
Bryan Gough UROP MIT SB expected ‘25
Stefan Gugler MS ETH Zürich MS ‘18 Chemistry (with M. Reiher) and now postdoc at TU Berlin
Natalia Hajlasz UROP BS Harvard ‘22 and now PhD Student in Mathematics at NYU
Daniel R. Harper GS S.M. ‘21 and now Consultant at Sage Analysis
Alondra Hernandez UROP MIT ChemE SB expected ‘25
Wilson Ho UROP MIT SB expected ‘25
Efthymios Ioannidis GS Ph.D. ‘16 ChemE MBA ‘18 and now co-founder at HOMLI
Jon Paul Janet GS Ph.D. ‘19 ChemE and now Associate Director at AstraZeneca
Mugyeom Jeon UROP MIT Chemistry SB expected ‘25
Haojun Jia GS Ph.D. ‘24 Chemistry and now co-founder at Deep Principle
Yu Jin SS Peking University BS ‘18 Chemistry and now Postdoctoral Research Scholar at UChicago
Jelissa Kamguem UROP Lafayette College ChemE BS ‘23 and now PhD student Cornell University ChemE
Maria Karelina UROP MIT SB ‘17 Biology/EECS (6-7) and now Ph.D. Student in Stanford Biophysics (Dror Group)
Irem Kilic SS Bogazici University ‘23 and now PhD Student at Northeastern University
Jeong Yun Kim PD Samsung Korea
Frederik Ørsted Kjeldal VS PhD student at DTU
Hannes Kneiding VS PhD UiO ‘24 and now Researcher in Computational Sciences at UiO
Yashraj Kulkarni PD Postdoc at University of Copenhagen
John La UROP MIT SB ‘17 EECS and now Senior Software Engineer at DataCebo
Adriana Ladera SS University of South Florida ‘22 and now MIT Graduate Student in Computational Science and Engineering
Greg Lever PD Director at IQVIA
Grace Li UROP MIT CSE SB expected ‘25
Sean Lin SS Troy H.S. ‘19 and now Masters student in AeroAstro at Stanford
Fang Liu PD Assistant Professor at Emory University
Mingjie Liu PD Assistant Professor at the University of Florida
Yusu Liu GS Quantitative Researcher at Citadel
Brendan Mar VS Instructor at DeAnza College
Maximiliano Martinez UROP MIT ChemE SB expected ‘25
Ralf Meyer PD Postdoc at University of Graz
Rimsha Mehmood GS Ph.D. ‘21 Chemistry and now Senior Scientist at Merck
Mohamad Seyed Moosavi VS Ph.D EPFL ‘20 and now Assistant Professor at University of Toronto
Aditya Nandy GS Ph.D. ‘23 Chemistry and now Schmidt AI Futures Fellow U. Chicago 23-25 and incoming TT. Asst. Prof. UCLA CBE 2025
Azadeh Nazemi PD Senior Scientist at Pfizer
Jonas Oldenstaedt MS TUM expected ‘23 CSE and now PhD student at TUM
Niladri Patra PD Associate Professor at IIT Dhanbad
Helena W. Qi GS Ph.D. ‘19 Chemistry and now Principal Scientist at Pfizer
Sangeeta Rajpurohit VS Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Sahasrajit Ramesh MS Oxford MS ‘19 Materials and now Freelance Clean-tech Consultant
Alexander Reily Rocha VS Associate Professor Institute of Theoretical Physics at UNESP
Matt Rivera PD Chief Technical Officer at First Light Solutions
Dechen Rota UROP MIT SB Course X ‘23 and now Chemical Engineering PhD Student at the University of Minnesota
Jose Salcedo-Perez SS S.M. MIT Nuclear Engineering ‘19 and now Computational Physics Software Developer at Oak Ridge National Lab
Natasha Seelam GS Principal Data Scientist at A-Alpha Bio
Shaheer Syed UROP Mount St. Mary’s University BS ‘24 and now Bioinformatician at National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center
Michael Taylor PD Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Lab
Jakob Teetz MS ETH Zürich MS in Chemistry ‘24 and now PhD Student at ETH Zurich
Titus Tsai UROP MIT Chemistry SB expected ‘26
Vyshnavi Vennelakanti GS Ph.D. ‘23 Chemistry and now Postdoctoral Associate with Emily Carter at Princeton
Ava Waggett UROP MIT SB ‘19 ChemE and now MS University of Washington
Mengyi Wang GS S.M. MIT DMSE ‘20
Lisi Xie GS Ph.D. ‘16 ChemE and now Engineering Manager at Lam Research
Eve Xu UROP Smith B.S. ‘20 and now Ph.D. student at Princeton
Jing Yang PD Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University
Tzuhsiung Yang PD Assistant Professor at National Tsing Hua University (NTHU)
Zhongyue Yang PD Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University
Shuwen Yue PD Assistant Professor at Cornell University
Qing Zhao GS Ph.D. ‘18 MechE and now Assistant Professor at Northeastern University
Hongqian Zheng UROP USTC ‘23 and now PhD student UC Berkeley Materials

SS = summer student, UROP = undergraduate, VS = visiting scientist, MS = masters student resulting in degree, GS = graduate student, PD = postdoc

Heather J. Kulik
Heather J. Kulik
Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry