Group Members

Principal Investigators

Brenda Rubenstein

Brown University

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics

Graduate Students

Alan Bidart

Brown University

Chemistry

Andrew Reynoso

Brown University

Physics

Annette Lopez

Brown University

Physics

Esther Webber

Brown University

Chemistry

Gustavo Ramirez

Brown University

Chemistry

Iz Varghese

Brown University

Therapeutic Sciences

Kenneth Berard

Brown University

Chemistry

Octavia Florent

Brown University

Chemistry

Prateek Vaish

Brown University

Chemistry

Ryan Weiss

Brown University

Physics

Tilas Kabengele

Brown University

Chemistry

Xiaohang Jia

Brown University

Chemistry

Yaoqi Pang

Brown University

Chemistry

Yitian Liu

Brown University

Chemistry

Undergraduate Students

Faith Kim

Brown Class of 2025

Chemistry

Flavia Maria Galeazzi

Brown Class of 2026

Neuroscience and Computer Science

Jasper Lincoln

Brown Class of 2025

Chemical Physics

Jeffrey Tejada Peralta

Brown Class of 2025

Chemical Physics

Kevin Rapp

Brown Class of 2025

Chemical Physics

Kyle Lam

Brown Class of 2025

Chemistry

Orion Bloomfield

Brown Class of 2025

Computer Science

Simon Nirenberg

Brown Class of 2028

Chemical Physics

Tarek Razzaz

Brown Class of 2026

Physics

Winston Li

Brown Class of 2025

Computer Science

Yungeun Kim

Brown Class of 2025

Chemical Physics

High School Students

Ho-Joon Han

NJIT

Mayank Konduri

Katy High School, TX

Shaun Srirangum

Barrington High School

Stephen Yoon

Academy for the Advancement of Science and Technology

Visiting Students and Scholars

Ananya Shukla

Plaksha University

Grace Delaney

Brandeis University

Nikhil Kowshik

IIT Kharagpur

Shirui Li

Mount Holyoke College

Former Group Members

Former Postdoctoral Researchers and Fellows

Amir Afshar

2020–2022 Group Member

Computational Modeler of SiC Crystallization, Pallidus, Inc

Can Ataca

2016–2017 Group Member

Assistant Professor of Physics, UMBC

Daniel Nader

2022–2023 Group Member

Postdoc, Palacky University Olomouc

Edgar Landinez-Borda

2020–2021 Group Member

Computational Scientist, Julich Computing Center

Eshan Barati

2019–2021 Group Member

Postdoc, Howard University

Jeong Pil Song

2016–2020 Group Member

Research Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

Matthew Church

2019-2022 Group Member

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Hobart and William P. Smith Colleges

Ravinda Nanguneri

2017–2020 Group Member

Assistant Professor, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (Chennai)

Former Graduate Students

Benjamin Foulon

2017–2023 Group Member

Research Scientist, Johnson Matthey

Cancan Huang

2017–2022 Group Member

Research Scientist, Applied Materials

Daniel Staros

2019–2024 Group Member

Research Scientist, LANL

Gabriel Monteiro Da Silva

2020–2024 Group Member

Research Scientist, OpenEye

Gopal Iyer

2019–2024 Group Member

Research Scientist, LAM Research

Hongxia Hao

2016–2019 Group Member

Research Scientist, Microsoft Asia

Jordan Yang

2017–2022 Group Member

Analyst, Eight Roads Venture Capital

Leonard Sprague

2016–2021 Group Member

Assistant Professor of English for STEM, University of Tokyo

Mamikon Gulian

2016–2019 Group Member

Senior Software Engineering, Booz Allen Hamilton

Tong Shen

2018–2023 Group Member

Postdoc, Lidar Group (USC)

Yuan Liu

2016–2020 Group Member

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, NC State University

Former Master’s Students

Benjamin Davis

2018–2019 Group Member

PhD Student, UW Division of Engineering

Joseph Fichera

2018–2021 Group Member

PhD Student, UF Department of Physics

Lijun Wang

2018–2020, 2023 Group Member

Xiaohang Jia

2019–2021 Group Member

PhD student, Brown University (Rubenstein Group)

Former Brown Undergraduate Students

Adarsh Narayanan

2016-2017 Group Member

Software Engineer, Microsoft

Alberto Lopez Resendiz

2022 Group Member

Masters of Public Health, University of Illinois-Chicago

Anjali Srinivasan

2022 Group Member

Anvita Bhagavathula

2021–2023 Group Member

Electrical Engineering Graduate Student at MIT

Batia Friedman-Shaw

2019 Group Member

Physics Graduate Student, Perimeter Institute

Bunlong Leang

2018-2022 Group Member

Conenicus Weeden

2021–2024 Group Member

On gap year before Medical School

David Mayans

2017–2018 Group Member

Vested Financial Services

Dylan Sam

2017-2021 Group Member

CS Graduate Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Heesoo Kim

2017–2018 Group Member

Physics Graduate student, Stanford

Hersh Gupta

2017-2020 Group Member

MD/PhD Student, Mount Sinai

Jungho ("Daniel") Choi

2017–2022 Group Member

Physics Graduate Student, NYU

Kevin Guo

2018–2020 Group Member

MD/PhD student, Stanford

Logan Dooley

2021–2023 Group Member

Associate Software Engineer, Demiurge Studios

Minsik Cho

2016–2022 Group Member

Graduate Student, MIT

Nicholas Liu

2021–2023 Group Member

Associate, Boston Consulting Group

Noah Feng

2021–2024 Group Member

Tufts University School of Medicine

Noah Whelpley

2022–2024 Group Member

ACS COMP

Suraj Daru

2022–2024 Group Member

On gap year at UKG

Former High School Students

Aneekah Younus

2021–2023 Group Member

Wheeler High School

Brian Nguyen

2022 Group Member

Gatton Academy

Casey Lambert

2021 Group Member

Moses Brown High School

Cody Comyns

2021 Group Member

Philips Andover

Hannah Smith

2022 Group Member

Johnston High School

Omar Martinez

2017-2019 Group Member

Computer Engineering student, URI

Tahseen Younus

2019–2021 Group Member

Undergraduate, UIUC

Vaibhav Duggirala

2019–2021 Group Member

Brown PLME Class of 2025

Vishwas Duggirala

2019–2021 Group Member

Brown PLME Class of 2025

Former Visiting Students and Scholars

Abhikya Tripathy

2021 Group Member

IIT Kharagpur

Bin Liu

2020 Group Member

USTC

Carson Cole

2018 Group Member

Postdoc

Deepak Somani

2021 Group Member

IIT Kharagpur

Hang Zhang

2018 Group Member

USTC

Jade Kemp

2021 Group Member

Chemistry Graduate Student, Columbia

Jenel Fraij

2020 Group Member

Graduate Student, UCLA

Jessie Huang

2018 Group Member

Wellesley College

Jorge Estrada

2018 Group Member

University of Cantabria

Luke McHale

2019 Group Member

Chemistry Graduate Student, Colorado State University

Ray Zhai

2023 Group Member

Churchill College, University of Cambridge

Shriya Sharma

2021 Group Member

IIT Delhi

Swati Bodh

2018 Group Member

Amity University, India

Vinit Singh

2020 Group Member

IIT Kharagpur

Xuechen Zheng

2017 Group Member

Chemistry PhD Student, Johns Hopkins University

Yang Yu

2019 Group Member

Physics Graduate Student, University of Michigan

Yuvraj Misra

2021 Group Member

Graduate Student at UIUC