Members of the Group

Principal Investigator

  • Faruque Hasan, PhD

    Margaret ’85 and Graham Bacon ’85 Engineering Excellence Professor in Chemical Engineering, and
    Kim Tompkins McDivitt ’88 and Phillip McDivitt ’87 Faculty Fellow
    Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
    Texas A&M University

    Associate Director,
    Texas A&M Energy Institute

    Biosketch | Curriculum Vitæ

Current Members

Doctoral Students

Master's Students

Undergraduate Researchers

Alumni

Former Postdoctoral Associates

NameAppointmentCurrent Position
Dr. Kazi Monzure Khoda 2022 – 2024 Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, USA.

Former Doctoral Students

NameDegree ConferredStarting Position after Graduation
Dr. Ashfaq Iftakher2025AspenTech, Houston, Texas
Dr. Chinmay Aras2025Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
Dr. Mengdi Li2024Heliogen, Houston, Texas
Dr. Akhilesh Gandhi2023Core R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, Lake Jackson, Texas
Dr. M. Sadaf Monjur2023Core R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, Lake Jackson, Texas
Dr. Manali S. Zantye2022Electrification Engineer/Scientist, EPRI, Palo Alto, California.
Dr. Ahmed Harhara2022Data Scientist at Charles Schwab, Austin, TX.
Dr. Spyridon "Spyros" Tsolas2021Senior Research Specialist, Core R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, Lake Jackson, Texas
Dr. Akhil Arora2021Battery Algorithm Simulation Engineer, Apple Inc.
Dr. Salih Emre Demirel2020Senior Research Specialist, Core R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, Lake Jackson, Texas
Dr. Jianping Li2020Assistant Professor, The University of Tulsa
Dr. Shachit S. Iyer2019Senior Research Specialist, Core R&D, The Dow Chemical Company, Lake Jackson, Texas
Dr. Ishan Bajaj2019Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, India
Dr. Nitin Roy (co-advised)2018Assistant Professor, California State University, Sacramento, CA

Former Master's Students

NameDegree ConferredCurrent Position
OreOluwa Adetimirin2019Consultant with IHS Markit, Houston, Texas
Manali S. Zantye2019PhD Student, Texas A&M University
Changyeong Song2018Research Staff, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology, KRICT
Jiaxing Tang2018Graduated
Priyadarshini Balasubramaninan2017Research Engineer at CH2M, Chicago

Former Undergraduate Students

NameYearCurrent Position
Clayton Cromer2018Undergraduate, Texas A&M University
Mihir Annaldasula2017-18Undergraduate,Texas A&M University
Logan Duran2017Undergraduate, Texas A&M University
Ashis Patel2017Undergraduate, Texas A&M University
Hanlin Wang2017Undergraduate, Tsinghua University
Safeer Hafeez2017Undergraduate, Texas A&M University Qatar Campus
Kae Leong2017
Colton A. Cunningham2015-16Georgia Institute of Technology, Master of Science - MS in Analytics
Ricardo Tafarelo M. Araujo2015Energy Engineering, Federal University of Grande Dourado, Brazil.
Haoyang Li2015Technical Support Engineer, Hermes Microvision Inc., Boise, Idaho.

Photos

2025

Research group members, May, 2025

The SOULS research group with PVAMU faculty Dr. Nabila Shamim and students, January 31, 2025



2024

Celebrating Ashfaq's and Chinmay's success in their PhD candidacy and preliminary thesis proposal, December, 2024

Celebrating Mengdi's graduation, December, 2024

At the 15th anniversary of the Texas A&M Energy Institute, December, 2024

Group members at the AIChE Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2024

At the top of Mount Kearsarge hiking trail, Gordon Conference on Membranes and Processes, New London, NH, 2024

FOCAPD-2024 Conference, Breckenridge, CO, July, 2024

SOULS group photo, May, 2024



2020

Final day of the first-ever (and virtual) group writing retreat, December, 2020



2019

Group members attending the AIChE Annual Meeting at Orlando, FL, November, 2019



Group lunch at the AIChE Annual Meeting at Orlando, FL, November, 2019



Manali wins the third place among the ten finalsits of the Graduate Research Competition: Rapid Fire at the 2019 Society of Women Engineering (SWE) conference in California. Congratulations Manali! November, 2019



Spyros wins Best Poster Award at FOCAPD 2019 Conference in Copper Mountain, Colorado. Congratulations Spyros! July 17, 2019



Attending the FOCAPD-2019 Conference in Copper Mountain, Colorado, July 14-18, 2019



Manali successfully defends her MS thesis. Congratulations Manali! June 13, 2019



Shachit successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Shachit Iyer! March 05, 2019



Ishan successfully defends his PhD thesis. Congratulations Dr. Ishan Bajaj! February 22, 2019



2018

Manali (3rd from left) among the six invited participants and poster presenters from Texas A&M University at the C3E Women in Energy Symposium at Stanford University, December 2018



Ishan receiving the Outstanding Graduate Research Award, December 2018



Group members attending the AIChE Annual Meeting at Pittsburgh, October 2018 (Left to Right: Spyros, Akhil, Ishan, Manali, Prof. Hasan, Jianping, Shachit, and Emre)



Group members, Summer 2018 (Left to Right: Shachit, Ishan, Akhil, Emre, Prof. Hasan, Jianping, CY Song, Manali, Jiaxing, and Spyros)



Team wins the 2nd Annual U-Challenge, 2018!! (Left to Right: Emre, Shachit, Alvi, Ishan (Team Leader), Akhil, and Spyros. Photo Credits: credits to Residence life and U-Challenge)



2017

2017 ICChE (5th International Conference on Chemical Engineering), Dhaka, Bangladesh (Professor Hasan is among the plenary and keynote speakers)



2016

2016 Elsevier Award Ceremony during the AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (Professor Hasan (far right) received the “2015 Best Paper Award” from Computers & Chemical Engineering)



2016 Texas A&M Chemical Engineering Symposium (From Left to Right: Ishan, Shachit, Prof. Hasan, Jianping, Emre, and Priya. Jianping and Emre received “Best Poster Presentation” award)



2015

2015 Group dinner (Left to Right: Prof. Hasan, Justin, Shachit, and Ishan)