2024
October 2024: Sugandha Verma, Kelsey Levine, and Asanka Wijerathne attended the 2024 AIChE conference and presented their research. Congratulations to Sugandha Verma for winning the 2024 CRE Travel Award!
October 2024: Jason Lu joins the group as a PhD student. Welcome Jason!
June 2024: Sugandha Verma and Asanka Wijerathne presented their research (titled "Combined Experimental and Microkinetic Analysis for the Low-Temperature Formation of Nitrous Oxide on Pt/Al2O3" and "Effects of Treatment Conditions and Support Properties on the Sintering Kinetics of Palladium Nanoparticles") at the Gordon Research Conference. Congratulations to both for their excellent presentations!
June 2024: Mohan Shankar joins the group as a research assistant. Welcome Mohan!
June 2024: Congratulations to Christopher Paolucci on being promoted to Associate Professor!
April 2024: Congratulations to Anukriti Shrestha, Anna Sviripa and Asanka Wijerathne on successfully defending their PhD!
February 2024: Congratulations to group member Sugandha Verma for winning an oral presentation award and group member Kelsey Levine for winning a poster award at the Southeastern Catalysis Society Symposium!
2023
November 2023: Anukriti Shrestha and Asanka Wijerathne presented their research at the 2023 AIChE Annual Meeting in Orlando.
August 2023: Anukriti Shrestha received a ACS CATL-ChemCatBio Graduate Student Travel Award and presented her research at the Fall ACS Meeting in San Francisco, CA.
August 2023: Anukriti Shrestha and Sugandha Verma attended the SUNCAT Summer Institute in Palo Alto, CA.
June 2023: Anukriti Shrestha and Sugandha Verma presented their research at the 28th North American Catalysis Society Meeting 2023 in Providence, Rhode Island.
April 2023: Congratulations to Keka Mandal on successfully defending her PhD!
March 2023: Congratulations to Asanka Wijerathne on winning the first place oral presentation award, Sugandha Verma for the first place poster prize, and Gabriel Dickey for the second place poster prize at the UVA Chemical Eng. Graduate Student Symposium!
February 2023: Congratulations to Anukriti Shrestha for winning an oral presentation award and Sugandha Verma for winning a 3rd place poster award at SECS!
2022
June 2022: Congratulations to Anna Sviripa on winning the First Place Graduate Student Poster Prize at Gordon Research Conference!
May 2022: Keka Mandal, Anna Sviripa, Anukriti Shrestha, Asanka Wijerathne, and Sugandha Verma presented their research at the 27th North American Catalysis Society Meeting 2022 in New York City.
May 2022: Congratulations to Anupama Jayaraman on winning the Donald F. Othmer Award, the Via Brothers Award, and the Thomson Scholarship, Shining Wang on winning the excellence in diversity award, and Kijeong Nam on receiving the Thomson scholarship!
March 2022: Congratulations to Keka Mandal on receiving the Kokes Travel Award to present her research at NAM27 in New York!
February 2022: Congratulations to Sugandha Verma on winning 3rd prize for the poster session at the Southeastern Catalysis Society Symposium!
February 2022: Anna Sviripa and Sugandha Verma presented their research at the Southeastern Catalysis Society Symposium in Atlanta.
2021
November 2021: Congratulations to Shining Wang on winning the 1st prize in Computing, Simulation and Process Control II, and overall 3rd in the Computing and Systems Technology Division at the 2021 AIChE Student Poster Competition!
November 2021: Keka Mandal, Anna Sviripa, Anukriti Shrestha, Asanka Wijerathne, Shining Wang and Anupama Jayaraman presented their research at the 2021 AIChE Annual Meeting in Boston.
May 2021: Congratulations to Karl Westendorff, Peter Sepulveda, and William McDevitt on their graduation! We wish them all the best as Peter joins his new position at Appian, and Karl and William go on to pursue PhD at MIT and Masters in Data Science at UVA, respectively.
March 2021: Congratulations to Anupama Jayaraman and Keka Mandal on winning the Double Hoo Award! ( https://news.virginia.edu/content/double-hoo-research-undergrads-and-grads-team-create-knowledge )
2020
December 2020: Congratulations to Anukriti Shrestha, Anna Sviripa and Asanka Wijerathne on passing their qualifying exams!
November 2020: Keka Mandal ( https://youtu.be/6Gpp7t6sU0g ) and Karl Westendorff ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL6O9pFb5fk&feature=youtu.be ) presented at the 2020 AIChE Annual Meeting.
May 2020: Congratulations to Michael Schapowal, Amna Tahir, and Jonathan Zheng on their graduation! We wish them the best as Michael and Amna start their new positions at DC Energy and Northrop Grumman, respectively, and as Jonathan goes on to pursue his PhD at MIT.
May 2020: Congratulations to Xutao Gao for defending his master's thesis! We wish him the best as he goes on to pursue his PhD at the University of Hong Kong, China.