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 March 31 in the Ford ES&T Building.
AIChE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Winner: Shiv Kumar
AIChE Outstanding Senior Award Winner: Skylar Ryan
AIChE Honors
AIChE Freshman Recognition Award - Hannah Reynolds
AIChE Freshman Recognition Award - Gaetano (Guy) Difini
AIChE Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Excellence Award - Joshua Clark
AIChE MAC Scholarship Award - Alyssa Murphy
AIChE Othmer Scholarship Award - Hannah Reynolds
AIChE McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship Award - Darasimi Jakande
AIChE Outstanding Senior Award - Skylar Ryan
AIChE Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award - Jack Sanders
AIChE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - Shiv Kumar
AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award - Christian Cuba-Torres
AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award Winner: Christian Cuba-Torres
Graduate Honors
Research Accomplishments
Ziegler Award for Best Paper - Megan McSweeney
“A modular cell-free protein biosensor platform using
split T7 RNA polymerase”
Ziegler Award for Best Thesis Proposal - Andrea Fox
“Engineering Tryptophan-Kynurenine Metabolism in T-Cell Therapies for Effective Solid Tumor Treatment.”
Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam - Josh Shippee
Outstanding PhD Thesis - Alicia Robang
Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award - Siyu Zhou
Teaching Excellence
Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Jacob Dewitt, McKenna Downey, Phuong Anh Trinh, Ishmamul Sadab, Abraham Weinstein
Exemplary Academic Achievement
Faeze Akbari Beni
Brian Chettle
Mckenna Clinch
Kaijun Feng
Mohammad Ghadiri
Yidong Hua
Huajian Ji
Musaib Khan
Kunwoo Khim
Ahmed Mohamed
Exemplary Academic Achievement
Yesol Moon
Eric Pattison
Yelizaveta Pivnik
Joshua Shippee
Md. Burhan Kabir Suhan
Jou-Wen Wang
Wanning Wang
Minghong Wu
Shifeng Xu
Ziqi Zheng
Graduate Leadership
Symposium Chairs - Yusef Haikal, Ishmamul Sadab
AChEGS -
Soor Vora (President)
Alex Wee (Vice President)
Andy Chang (Treasurer)
Jin Yu (Secretary)
Adam Senko (Outreach Chair)
Xintong Xu (Social Chair)
Anomitra De (Social Chair)
Eric Sarbacker (DEI Chair)
Calib Lanier (Safety Chair)
Savyasachi Shrikhande (Intramural Chair)
Geoffrey Hopping (Intramural Chair)
Recruiting Committee
Ananya Vajapayajula
Chizi Chibuko
Lotanna Onua
Outstanding Scholar Athlete
Henry Freer
Recruiting Committee -
Ananya Vajapayajula
Chizi Chibuko
Lotanna Onua
Outstanding Scholar Athlete - Henry Freer
Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants: Jacob Dewitt, McKenna Downey, Abraham Weinstein, Ishmamul Sadab, Phuong Anh Trinh
Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam Winner: Josh Shippee
Graduate Research Symposium Chair: Ishmamul Sadab (not pictured Yusef Haikal)
Outstanding Scholar-Athlete Henry Freer with ChBE John F. Brock III Chair and Professor Christopher W. Jones
External Fellowship Recognition
NSF Fellowships - Jessica Bonsu, Ramy Ghanim, Geoffrey Hopping, Donguk (Daniel) Kim, Huston Locht
GEM Fellowship - Vanessa Psarras Roman
NNSA Fellowship - Emad Renfroe
ChBE Fellowship Recognition
Andria Deaguero Ping - Victor Brandao
Eastman - Anush Venkataraman
Frederic Holloway - Marco Avendano, Hammed Balogun, Logan Brabson, Zhitao Chen
Bert H Wells - Steven Crouse, Richa Ghosh
R.E.B. Foundation - Andrea Fox, James P Harris, Opeyemi Ojelade
Arch McNeill - Habin Park, Neung-Kyung Yu
James T Porter - Alexandra Patterson, Laura Proano
Chance Family - Tarunya Rao
Hal Field - Jennifer Lee, Suryateja Ravutla, Xiangting Lei
Arbuthnot Family - Javaz Rolle
Eckert Graduate - Raja Selvakumar, Zain Shabeeb, Athena Xu, Meghan Yutthasaksunthorn, Kaung Su Khin Zaw
McClain Fellowship - Chizimuzo Chibuko, Lotanna Onua, Ananya Vajapayajula
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Senior Winner: Owen Pittman (with ChBE John F. Brock III Chair and Professor Christopher W. Jones)
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior: Michael Silas
CHBE CTL Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Benjamin Wellisch
Undergraduate Honors
Institute Honors
Tau Beta Pi Nominee - Jeff Li
CoE Honors Day Award - Hannah Reynolds
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior - Michael Silas
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Senior - Owen Pittman
ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher - Anna Burson
CHBE CTL Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Benjamin Wellisch
Leadership
AIChE Student Chapter - President: Hannah Reynolds; Vice President: Darasimi Jakande
ChBE Student Advisory Board -Leadership: Suann Kim, Michael Silas, Katie Swanson
CHBE Peer Led Help Desk (a unit of SAB) - Michael Silas, Archita Jayaram, Agustina Rivata
ChBE Student Ambassadors - Leadership: Owen Pittman, Rohan Datta, Nevinka Wickramanayake
ChBE First-year Peer Mentors - Leadership: Audrey Fertig, Joshua Clark, Mattias Anders Silva Larsson
Undergraduate Scholarships
Albemarle Corporation Outstanding Sophomore Scholarship - Alexandra Seesee
Thomas L. Gossage International Enrichment Scholarship - Azamat Alibekov, Siddhant Gandhi, Bingcheng Huang, Abhigyan Lahiri, Mattias Anders Silva Larsson, Nishchay Rathi
Suzanne C. and Duncan A. Mellichamp Jr. Scholarship - Isabella Faciano, Grace Henderson, Darasimi Jakande
Elbert Ward Jones Jr. Scholarship - Lincoln Crowe
Exemplary Academic Achievement
Jonathan Acree
Oscar Alexandroff
Darshana Anand
Nathan Anderson
Cordelia Austin
Benjamin Carnes
Carolina Carrara
Owen Carroll
Seung Hun Chi
Shiva Chilukuri
Georgios Chrysafis
Wesley Clark
Dmitry Cole
Charlotte Cooper
Isabelle Coursey
Maya Cunningham
Karissa Dahn
Jake Dann
Rania Arabella De
Guzman
Jia Dhingra
Steve Doan
Adina Dominick
Kristin Evans
Siena Fazio
Kayla Felner
Ryan Fitzgerald
Gabrielle Freund
Ryan Fries
Eleanor Gau
Neil Ghosh
Jasmine Gistren
Ines Xhayet
Gonzalez
Manasvi Gupta
Alexander Gurch
Pelin Gurmen
Jason He
Jane Heller
Jack Hicks
Ke Miin Hing
Jennifer Hoang
Kathryn Hughes
Aravind Raghavendran
Iyer
Samuel Jabbour
Michael Jang
Christian Jimenez
Anvar Kadirbekov
Anuj Kakkad
Iniyan Karuppusamy
Rylan Keeton
Kaeyshia L Kesh
Abhinav Kharel
Delaney Kirk
Cason Klarman
Sophia Landis
Caroline Langford
Nori Liang
Yuan-Chi Lin
Kathryn Lindsley
Chloe Little
James Lovely
Grayson May
Dylan McLoughlin
Abigail McMahon
Shun Lei Yee Mon
Spandan Mondal
Anthony Natarella
Sumaira Nayeem
Kim Nguyen
Matthew Owen
Naomi Park
Caroline Perkins
Bryce Pyburn
Andrew Radtke
Rafeen Rahaman
Sathya Rajkumar
Mahika Rao
Taryn Roher
Martin Alejandro
Roman Molina
Vanessa Salazar
Meredith Shen
David Shin
Jackson Shirley
Logan Smith
David Soberano
Sophia Spencer
Elizaveta Taganova
Natalie Tan
Isabelle Taylor
Thanthar Moe Thaint
Coleton Thomas
Grace Thomas-Haney
Arnav Tiwari
Caroline Tzur
Frederick Wilson