Group Alumni

Graduate Alumni

Washington State University (2024-present)

  • Benjamin Rooney-Sailand (M.S. 2025: Founder of ConiFriends)

University of Massachusetts Amherst (2011-2024)

  • Gaurav Mitra (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2025: Institutional Effectiveness Project Manager at UMass Amherst)
  • Hyunggu Kim (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2025)
  • Moshood Animashaun (M.Sc. UMass Amherst, 2024)
  • Enes Buz (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2024: Postdoc at MPI for Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden)
  • Haneen Mansoor (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2022: Materials Engineer at Electrified Thermal Systems)
  • Jillian Denhardt (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2022: Instructor at University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
  • Muhammad Abdullah (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2021: Process Engineer at Global Foundry)
  • William Harrigan (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2019: High School Chemistry Teacher)
  • Fumitoshi Kato (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2019: Process Engineer at Tokyo Electronics)
  • Dongming Zhou (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2017: Process Engineer at AMEC)
  • Keith Lehuta (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2016: Senior Scientist at Honeywell)
  • Swamy Pittala (Ph.D. UMass Amherst, 2016: Process Engineer at Intel)
  • Jenileigh Harris (M.Sc. UMass Amherst, 2014: Consultant)
  • Kim-Ngan Hua (M.Sc. UMass Amherst, 2013: Ph.D. University of Vermont, 2020)

Undergraduate Alumni

Washington State University (2024-present)

  • Ethan Nguyen (class of 2025, Fall)

University of Massachusetts Amherst (2011-2024)

  • Samuel Lawrence (class of 2024)
  • Anthony Mastromatteo (class of 2022)
  • Jacob Collins (class of 2021)
  • Ruby J. Nelson (class of 2020)
  • Christopher Roy (class of 2018, Grad student @ University of Wisconsin)
  • Peter Kelly (class of 2018, Grad student @ University of Maine)
  • Matthew Yee (class of 2018)
  • Anubhab Haldar (class of 2017, Grad student @ Boston University)
  • Anton El Khoury (class of 2017, Grad student @ University of California Los Angeles)
  • Samuel E. Michaud (class of 2016, Grad student @ University of Michigan)
  • Michael Mortelliti (class of 2016, Grad student @ University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill)
  • Benjamin Satterfield (class of 2015: Chem Eng)
  • Gino Dos Santos (class of 2014)
  • Austin Virtue (class of 2013: Ph.D. Chemistry, Univ. of Maryland)
  • Stan Najmr (class of 2013: Ph.D. Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania)
  • Robert Nathan (class of 2012)
  • Jesse Guillet (class of 2012: Ph.D. Chemistry, Boston University)
  • Tom Foley (class of 2011: J.D., Boston University)
  • Chris Coakley (class of 2012)
  • Bill Rowley (class of 2011)

Visiting Scholars

  • Eva Belmonte Sánchez (Universidad de Almeria)
  • Niall Coogan (visiting international student: Spring 2014)
  • Renita Thim (visiting international student: Spring 2011)

Old group photos

Photograph of the group outside of Goessmann Labs at the campus of UMass Amherst in January 2016 (from left-to-right: Swamy, Peter, Elaine, Chris, Michael, William, Fumi, Sam, Steven, Keith, and Dongming)
January 2016 (from left to right: Swamy, Peter, Elaine, Chris, Michael, William, Fumi, Sam, Steven, Keith, and Dongming)
Picture of the group taken in March of 2014 outside Goessmann Labs (from left to right: Niall, Dongming, Sam, Jenileigh, William, Swamy, Gino, Fumi, Keith, Michael, Kevin)
March 2014 (from left to right: Niall, Dongming, Sam, Jenileigh, William, Swamy, Gino, Fumi, Keith, Michael, Kevin)
Picture of the group in the Summer of 2013 outside Goessmann Labs (left to right: William, Jenileigh, Dongming, Kevin, Keith, Swamy).
Summer 2013 (left to right: William, Jenileigh, Dongming, Kevin, Keith, Swamy)
The group assembled on the stairs of the Integrated Science Building in Spring 2012 (left to right: Dongming, Kim, Keith, Kevin, Swamy)
Spring 2012 (left to right: Dongming, Kim, Keith, Kevin, Swamy)
Inaugural picture with photoshopped outline taken in Kevin's first semester at UMass Amherst (Spring 2011, from left-to-right: Jesse, Tom, Kim, Renita, Stan, Bill)
Spring 2011 (left to right: Jesse, Tom, Kim, Renita, Stan, Bill)