Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering recognized the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students over the past year.  

An honors presentation and dinner were held April 10 in the Ford ES&T Building.

AIChE Honors

AIChE Outstanding Senior Award - Joshua Crawford (pictured above with School Chair Christopher Jones and Academic Advising Manager Ellen Murkison)

AIChE Freshman Recognition Award - Gabe Allred

AIChE Donald F. Othmer Sophmore Excellence Award - Ava Maalouf

AIChE MAC Travel Award - Andrea Green

AIChE Donald F. Othmer Junior Excellence Award Nominee - Christie Azar

AIChE McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship Nominee - Anugeeth Raghava

AIChE Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award - Andrew Neville, Sophia Ung (pictured below)

AIChE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - Hsiang-Ju (James) Kai

AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award - Christian Cuba-Torres, Yonathan Thio

Graduate Honors

Research Accomplishments

Ziegler Award for Best Paper - Rahul Venkatesh, “Data Science Guided Experiments Identify Conjugated Polymer Solution Concentration as a Key Parameter in Device Performance” (ACS Materials Letters) - pictured above with Associate Chair for Graduate Studies Martha Grover and Academic Advising Manager Ellen Murkison

Ziegler Award for Best Thesis Proposal - George Yuchen Chang, “The Kinetics of Ball Mill Mechanochemistry and Its Application to the Depolymerization of Plastic Waste”

Outstanding PhD Thesis - Shivesh Chaudhary, “Computer Vision Methods for Fast and Automated Processing of C. Elegans Whole-Brain Videos"

Academic

Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam - Sayan Bhowmik

Exemplary Academic Achievement - Sayan Bhowmik, Chizimuzo Chibuko, Karam Eeso, Ramy Ghanim, Yusef Haikal, Hsiang-Ju (James) Kai, Donguk Kim, Botagoz Kuspangaliyeva, Sidharth Laxminarayan, JiaJi Lin, Jihoon Park, Ishmamul Hoque Sadab, Zain Shabeeb, Youngsu Shin, Kaitlin StewardJacob Sweet, Brendan Tobin, Neung-Kyung Yu

Leadership

Symposium Chairs - Sojeong Gwon, Mikaela Gray

Teaching

Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Victor Brandao, Calib Lanier, Jagriti Sahoo, Amy Wood-Yang (pictured below)

Recruiting

Recruiting Committee - Chizi Chibuko, Sumin Lee, Lotanna Onua, Raja Selvakumar, Anush Venkataraman, Ananya Vajapayajula

Fellowship Recognition

Bert H. Wells Sr. Fellowship - Thomas Pho

Fredric Holloway Fellowship - Xuqing Cai, Qiang Fu, Bowen Mu

Hal Wilson Field Fellowship - John Cox, Siyu Zhou

R.E.B. Foundation Fellowship - Youngeun Kim

Arch McNeill Fellowship - Dowan Kim, Harini Sridharan

William R. McLain Fellowship - Alex Filippas

Charles Eckert Fellowship - Akriti Sarswat, Sabrina Westgate

NSF Graduate Fellowship - Calib Lanier, Anna Kaehr, Jamie Salinger, Alexander Heiler, Harry Tuazon

GEM Fellowship - Lotanna Onua

Fulbright Fellowship - Mario Zorrilla Valtierra

Undergraduate Honors

Overall Accomplishments

Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Senior - Kartik Saigal (pictured above)

Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior - Lizmarie Chávez

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship - Christopher Allen, Max Kazman

COE Honors Day Award - Anugeeth Raghavan

ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher - Hui Min Tee

CHBE CTL Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Koran Kotak

CETL Innovation and Excellence in Laboratory Instruction - Benjamin Galfond

Davidson Family Tau Beta Pi Senior Engineering Cup—ChBE Nominee - Christopher Allen

Leadership

AIChE Student Chapter Advisors - President: Vidhya Mallikarjunan, Vice President: Jacqueline Glazer

ChBE Student Advisory Board Advisor - Co-Presidents: Emily Joe, Suhyun Ki

CHBE Peer Led Help Desk - Sophia Ung, Koran Kotak, Kartik Saigal, Lauren Choe

ChBE Student Ambassadors - Matthew Addvensky, Caroline Orange, Jasmine Ramirez, Sofia Vainikos

ChBE First-year Peer Mentors Advisor - Executive Board: Suchir Ural, Melanie Henderson

Transfer Student Association - TSA Leadership: Joanna Thomas

Undergraduate Scholarships

3M Study Abroad Scholarship - Candice Johnson, Angelica MacApinlac, Kimberly Wennerholm, Ivana Uzuka

Albemarle Corporation Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship - Pallavi Natarajan, Christina Sealy

Goldwater Scholarship - Maeve Janecka (pictured above)

Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship - Ralph Andraos, Lizmarie Chávez, Jinhee Im, Saksham Malik, Quan Minh Nguyen, Kartik Saigal

Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Jr. Scholarship - Matthew Addvensky, Tariq Mohmedzain, Jasmine Ramirez, Sophia Ung

Exemplary Academic Achievement (4.0 Juniors and Seniors) - Kalpana Agarwal, Dema Alhazmi, Christopher Allen, Kathryn Amstutz, Abigail Auty, Elizabeth Bennett, Jessica Bermudez, Anna Brewer, Anna Burson, Andrey Chee, Christine Cheng, Lincoln Crowe, Saachi Dalvi, Thi Dao, Chandler Dietrich, Hamzah Farooqi, Lucien Fernandez, Gianna Fiduccia, Harper Finch, Layla Ghalayini, Naisargi Goyal, Carter Guerrin, James Harrison, Anthony Heiges, Joseph Henderson, Bingcheng Huang, Athena Hung, Timothy Hurley. Stella Joly, Kyle Katreeb, Nicolas Kelhofer, Ellie Kim, Sareum Kim, Weng Hei Kong, Michael Krausz, Chenyu Li, Jeffrey Li, Madelyne Loeffel, Oliver Long, Ava Maalouf, Saksham Malik, Lauren Mellinger, Tariq Mohmedzain, Aliasgar Momin, Nila Murali, Pallavi Natarajan, Duy Nguyen, Temi Oyedele, Owen Pittman, Javier Pratdesaba, Anu Raghavan, William Schulman, Christina Sealy, Henry Skinner, Kenneth Truong, Julia Vallier, Yvonne Walker, Colin Wegner, Benjamin Wellisch, Hannah West, Angela Wharton, Liliana Wuerth, Samuel Wyatt, Helen Zhu
 

Contact: Brad Dixon