Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researchers
Nima Moini
Ph.D., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
Project: Analysis of PDEs, mathematical physics
Email: nima at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: N/A
Nathan Lawrence
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Project: Reinforcement learning, model predictive control
Email: nplawrence at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: [link]
Graduate Researchers
Shoubhanik Nath
Advanced Modeling Engineer, Micron Technology Inc.
M.Tech. Chemical Engineering, R.G. Manudhane Academic Excellence Award, Institute Silver Medal Award, IIT Bombay
B.E. Chemical Engineering, Jadavpur University
Project: Atomic layer etch on superconducting surfaces for quantum computing applications
Email: shoubhanik_nath at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: [link]
Joshua Hang Sai Ip
M.Eng. Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London (UK)
Project: Bayesian optimization with gradients
Email: ipjoshua at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: N/A
Melanie Huynh
B.S. Bioengineering, Magna Cum Laude, Minor Computer Science, Oregon State University
Project: Learning-based control and diagnostics of low-temperature plasmas for nanomaterial synthesis
Email: melanie.huynh at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: N/A
Thomas Banker
B.S. Chemical Engineering, Summa Cum Laude, The Ohio State University
Project: Reinforcement learning for optimization-based control policies
Email: thomas_banker at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: N/A
Alan Stoev
B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara
Project:
Email: stoev at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: N/A
Harry Papargyriou
Diploma in Chemical Engineering, University of Patras
Project:
Email: h.pap at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: N/A
Shauryaraj Jilkar
B.E. Chemical Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology
Project:
Email: shauryaraj_jilkar at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: N/A
Visiting Scholars
Dr. Xuekai Pei
Wuhan University
Undergraduate Researchers
Nathan Liu
Class of 2027
Luke Harris
Class of 2025
Aditya Udgaonkar
Class of 2025
Past Members
Rosileide Lopes (Visiting scholar) - Professor at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Alessandro Vargas (Visiting scholar) - Professor at Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná, Brazil
Victor Miller (Graduate researcher) - Solugen
Ketong Shao (Graduate researcher) - TikTok
Kimberly Chan (Graduate researcher) - SirenOpt
Kelci Skinner (Undergraduate researcher) - SirenOpt
Dr. Kwanghyun Cho (Visiting scholar) - Samsung Electronics
Mira Khare (Graduate researcher)
George Makrygiorgos (Graduate researcher) - SirenOpt
Kiet Tuan Hoang (Visiting graduate researcher) - PhD student at Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Thuc Anh Nguyen (Visiting graduate researcher) - PhD student at RWTH Aachen University
Jared O’leary (Graduate researcher) - SirenOpt
Angelo Bonzanini (Graduate researcher) - Controls engineer at Apple
Ging Martin (Graduate researcher) - Lam Research
Solveig Sannes (Visiting graduate researcher)
Raffaele Soloperto (Visiting graduate researcher) - PhD student at University of Stuttgart
Ali Akhavan (Visiting postdoctoral researcher) - Senior process engineer at CPFD Software
Vinay Bavdekar (Postdoctoral researcher) - Lead control engineer at Wabtec Corporation
Eddie Buehler (Graduate researcher) - Advanced process control engineer at Marathon Petroleum
Joseph El-Kadi (Undergraduate researcher) - Graduate student at University of Cambridge
Memia Fendri (Visiting graduate researcher) - Process engineer at Takeda
Dogan Gidon (Graduate Researcher) - Systems engineer at Cruise
Stephen Goode (Undergraduate researcher) - Operations shift manager at Anheuser-Busch InBev
Tor Aksel N. Heirung (Postdoctoral researcher) - Technical specialist at Lucid Motors
Shinje Lee (Visiting postdoctoral researcher)
Alan Liang (Undergraduate Researcher)
Yutong Liu (Undergraduate researcher) - Graduate student at University of Texas Austin
Roberto Marseglia (Visiting postdoctoral researcher) - Business analyst at Cambridge Management Consulting Labs
Marc Martin-Casas (Graduate Researcher) - Seed Investments and Development at Illumina
Joel Paulson (Postdoctoral researcher) - Assistant professor at The Ohio State University
Felix Petzke (Undergraduate researcher) - Graduate student at TU Chemnitz
Washington Stanley Reeder (Undergraduate researcher) - Plant engineer at Chemetry
Diogo Rodrigues (Postdoctoral researcher) - Postdoctoral researcher at IST, University of Lisbon
Tito Santos (Postdoctoral researcher) - Assistant professor at Federal University of Bahia
Sumesh Sharma (Undergraduate researcher) - Process development engineer at Illumina
Farshud Sorourifar (Undergraduate researcher) - PhD student at The Ohio State University
Dries Telen (Visiting postdoctoral researcher) - Research manager at EY Belgium
Lin Wang (Visiting graduate researcher)
Eileen Wu (Undergraduate researcher)
Lanato Xie (Visiting graduate researcher)
Li Zhe (Visiting graduate researcher)