PI
Graduate Students
Wencheng Bao, M.Sc.
PhD Student at CEE UIUC
MSc Columbia University
BSc University of Nebraska Lincoln
Yen-Chu Wu, M.Sc.
PhD Student at CEE UIUC
MSc at CEE UIUC & MIT
Ruolin Zhang, M.Sc.
PhD Candidate at CEE UIUC
MSc University of Michigan Ann Arbor
Hyunhwa Kim, M.Sc.
PhD Student at CEE UIUC
MSc Ohio State University
BSc Sungkyunkwan University
Sijia Li, B.Sc.
MSc Student at ISE UIUC
Alumni
Shanshan Liu, Ph.D.
Graduated with CEE at UIUC PhD in August 2024
Placement: Postdoctoral researcher at University of Michigan
Denissa Sari Darmawi Purba, Ph.D.
Graduated with CEE at UIUC PhD in August 2025
Placement: Postdoctoral researcher at BOKU University
Jiewen Luo, M.Sc.
Placement: PhD student at CEE UMass Amherst
MSc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign August 2024
Ying Zhang, M.Sc.
Placement: PhD student at University of Connecticut
MSc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign August 2025
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Anushka Gautam: supported through Student Sustainability Committee (Sep 2023 – Present)
Xingrui Pei: supported through FEMA’s Higher Education Program (Sep 2023 – Present)
Daniel Song: Illinois Space Grant Consortium’s Summer Undergraduate Research Program (UROP) (Jun 2025 – Aug 2025)
Jean-Christophe Raymond Bertrand: supported through INFORMS DEI Ambassador Program (Sep 2024 – May 2025) – Currently PhD student at ISE Virginia Tech
Ria Bhargava: Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship 2023 Cohort (Sep 2022-May 2023)
Tommy Stogin: CEE REU 2022 (Sep 2022-Dec 2022)
Chen Si: Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship 2022 Cohort (Sep 2021-May 2022)
Simon Balisi: Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship 2021 Cohort (Sep 2020-May 2022)
Joe Ye: Research Support Grant by the Office of Undergraduate Research 2021 (Jan 2021-Aug 2021) – Currently PhD student in ISE Georgia Tech
Steven Li Chen: Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research Program 2020 (Sep 2020-Dec 2020)