Current Members

Junfeng Lin,
Ph.D. Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wanzhuo Shi,
B.S., University of Science and Technology of China
Emma York,
B.S., Bates College
Rahul Meena,
Lab Manager/Technician
Ph.D., Université Libre de Bruxelles

Former Graduate Students

  • Woojung Lee, Ph.D. (March 2025) — Investment Analyst, Hax, New York
  • Liang Li, Ph.D. (August 2024) — Postdoc, MIT
  • Claudia Prindle, Ph.D. (July 2024) — Endevica Bio, Chicago
  • Angela Paoletta, Ph.D. (May 2024) — Lecturer in Chemistry, Barnard College
  • Julia Greenwald, Ph.D. (July 2022) — ARPA‑E Fellow
  • Suman Gunasekaran, Ph.D. (June 2021) — Post‑Doc, Cornell University
  • Rachel Starr, Ph.D. (June 2021)
  • Tianren Fu, Ph.D. (May 2021) — Robinhood
  • E‑Dean Fung, Ph.D. (August 2020) — Amazon
  • Haixing Li, Ph.D. (April 2016) — Assistant Professor, Hong Kong
  • Olgun Adak, Ph.D. (October 2015)
  • Brian Capozzi, Ph.D. (May 2015) — Data Scientist, Macy's
  • Emma Dell, Ph.D. (March 2015)
  • Arunabh Batra, Ph.D. (May 2014) — Wayfair
  • Jonathan Widawsky, Ph.D. (May 2013) — Quantitative Engineer, Pragma Securities
  • Sriharsha Aradhya, Ph.D. (June 2013) — Western Digital
  • Michael Frei, Ph.D. (December 2011) — Consulting, McKinsey & Co.
  • Masha Kamenetska, Ph.D. (December 2011) — Assistant Professor, Boston University

Former Post‑Doctoral Researchers

  • Boyuan Zhang — Assistant Professor, Fairfield University
  • Cedric Schaack — Assistant Professor, Wake Forest University
  • Nick Orchanian — Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
  • Austin Evans — Assistant Professor, University of Florida
  • Yaping Zang — Assistant Professor, ICAS, Beijing
  • Giacomo Lovat — Senior Data Scientist, IBM
  • Michael Inkpen — Assistant Professor, USC
  • Carlos Arroyo — Professor, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE
  • Taekyeong Kim — Assistant Professor, Hankuk University, Korea
  • Hector Vazquez — Senior Scientist, Institute of Physics, Prague
  • Eek Huisman — Post‑doc, University of Groningen
  • Max Koentopp — Scientist, Q‑Cells SE, Germany

Former Undergraduates

  • 2023 — Zahidul Zahin — Lehman College, New York
  • 2022 — Daniel Cheng — Columbia College
  • 2022 — Zainab Adula — Columbia Engineering
  • 2020–2022 — Sophia Guizzo — Columbia Engineering
  • 2020–2022 — Iris Liu — Barnard College
  • 2020 — Francesca Abulencia — Emory University
  • 2019–2021 — Isabel Hernandez — Barnard College
  • 2018–2021 — Michael Van Duinen — Columbia College
  • 2019–2020 — Jang Choi — Columbia University
  • 2017–2019 — Caravaggio Caniglia — Columbia University
  • 2015–2016 — Nilam Patel — Barnard College
  • 2013–2015 — Camille Houferak — Barnard College
  • 2014 — Maksim Grinchenko — Columbia University
  • 2014 — Ingrid Stolt — Bard College
  • 2013 — Ang Li — Columbia SEAS
  • 2012–2013 — Dan Margulies — Rabi Scholar, Columbia University
  • 2012–2013 — Andy Joe — Cornell University
  • 2012 — Tanay Doctor — Columbia SEAS
  • 2012 — Rachel Brodsky — Barnard College
  • 2011 — Birger Hennings — Columbia SEAS
  • 2011 — Karis Hanson — Scripps College
  • 2009–2011 — Radha Parameswaran — Barnard College
  • 2008–2009 — Valla Fatemi — Columbia SEAS
  • 2008 — Nichole Sullivan — Illinois State University

Visitors

  • 2018 — Nils Rotthowe — Konstanz University
  • 2017 — Ingrid Ponce — Chile
  • 2016 — Julian Stamp — Konstanz University
  • 2015 — Anders Borges — University of Copenhagen
  • 2014–2015 — Andras Magyarkuti — Fulbright Scholar
  • 2014–2015 — Simon Henn — Konstanz University
Contact: Latha Venkataraman, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.
Am Campus 1, 3400 Klosterneuburg, Austria
Phone: +43 2243 9000 2352; email: latha.venkataraman(at)ist.ac.at