Our Team
Patrick T. Underhill
Principal Investigator
Patrick received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a B.S. in Physics in 2001 from Washington University, St. Louis. He then received a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from MIT in 2006 advised by Patrick Doyle. After postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin, Madison with Michael Graham, he began as a Professor at Rensselaer in 2008.
Rahul Kumar
Postdoctoral Associate
B.Tech., IIT Bombay, 2015
Ph.D., Tulane University, 2024
Research Interests: Mesoscale simulation of soft matter, Self-assembly
Hobbies: Hiking, Movies, Table tennis
Gaurang Shukla
Graduate Student
B.Tech., ICT Mumbai, 2021
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Research Interests: Field theory modeling, Numerical solutions of SDEs
Hobbies: Soccer, Chess, Formula 1
Xiaoyan (Tina) Wang
Graduate Student
B.S., University of Rochester, 2020
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Research Interests: Influence of topology on polymer dynamics in high shear rate flow
Hobbies: Cooking/baking
Alumni
Postdoctoral Researchers
Shreyash Gulati
Doctoral Students
Mary Margaret Sta Cruz
Shangren Zhu
Toluwanimi Bello
Sabitoj Singh Virk
Angelo Setaro
Edmund Tang
Yuzhou Qian
Purba Chatterjee
Harsh Pandey
Suhas Rao
Sandeep Chilukuri
Yaser Bozorgi
Kajetan Sikorski
Rangarajan Radhakrishnan
Undergraduate Students
Tejus Shastry
Zhiyuan Xu
Conner Burns
Guinevere Tillinghast
Samuel Keller
Rahul Sujanani
Nicholas McNeill
Sylvia Szafran
Gregory Sowiak
Megan Balfe
Seth Ludwig
Tyler Gruttadauria
Jonathan Volpe
Hannah Clough
Kevin Dai
Connor Schleicher
Briana Kilberg
Zachary Menteur
Amanda Knight
Michael McIntyre
Hannah Fix
Andrew Liptak
Katherine Woychik