Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researchers
Nathan Lawrence
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Project: Reinforcement learning, model predictive control
Email: nplawrence at berkeley.edu
Personal Webpage: [link]
Ahmed Aboudonia
Post Doc, Applied Mathematics, Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Project: Safe learning-enabled control
Email: aboudonia at berkeley.edu
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: Interplay of reinforcement learning and optimization-based control
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
Past Members
Nathan Liu (Undergraduate researcher)
Luke Harris (Undergraduate researcher)
Aditya Udgaonkar (Undergraduate researcher) - Graduate student at Stanford University
Nima Moini (Postdoctoral researcher) - Mesoscopic Technologies
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)