Graduate Students

Director of graduate studies:  Roger Ruan

Name Degree Areas of Interest Advisor
Claire Anderson Ph.D.

Lignocellulose Decomposition

Jonathan Schilling
Charles Ayers Ph.D. Jiwei Zhang
Natalia Calixto Manicipe Ph.D. Brett Barney
Bilge Camur Ph.D. Brett Barney
Siane Chirpich Ph.D.

Hydrogelogy, Water Quality, Soils, Wastewater Treatment, Nitrate Track

Joe Magner
Kimberly Colgan Ph.D.

Food Systems, Climate, and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Jason Hill
Leilei Dai Ph.D.

Chemical recycling of waste plastics

Roger Ruan
Benjamin Dietz M.S. Brett Barney
Madeline Faubion M.S. Jason Hill
Elizabeth Flage M.S. Joe Magner
Daniel Furuta Ph.D.

Pollution monitoring methods, sensing systems, electronics

Bruce Wilson
Madisen Gittlin Ph.D.

Sustainable Food Systems, Waste Management, Global Climate Change

Jason Hill
Kyrie Greenberg M.S. Omar Espinoza
Saman Gultom Ph.D. Bo Hu
Jianfei Guo Ph.D. Roger Ruan
Eric Hanson Ph.D. Chris Lenhart
Fatemeh Heidari Ph.D. Bo Hu
Daniel Jurado Pineda M.S. Bo Hu
Ozlem Karakas M.S. Roger Ruan
Nohhyeon Kwak Ph.D. Jiayu Li
Francisco Lahoud Ph.D.

Hidrology and Remote Sensing

John Nieber
Suman Lata Ph.D.
Chenxi Lin Ph.D.

Remote sensing, Sustainable agriculture, Deep learning

Zhenong Jin
Tanushree Maheshwari M.S. Ping Wang
Dmitri Mataya M.S. Roger Ruan
Matthew Petri Ph.D.

Sustainable Systems Management

Omar Espinoza
Kathryn Phillips Ph.D.

Life Cycle Assessment, Sustainable Production Systems

Timothy Smith
Aaron Pietsch M.S.

Urban Stormwater, River Hydrology, Agricultural Water Use, Plant Taxonomy

John Chapman
Peter Rootes M.S. Brett Barney
Rosalind Russell M.S.

Sustainable Food Systems, Regenerative Agriculture, Social Equity

Gary Sands
Nihar Sakhadeo William Tze
Koushik Sampath Ph.D.

Food processing, Industrial safety, Renewable Energy, Unit operations, Process Engineering, Refining, Effluent treatment

Shri Ramaswamy
Erin Schwister M.S. Brett Barney
Fengyun Shi M.S.

food Image processing

Yang Ce
Hunter Simpson Ph.D. Jonathan Schilling
Alexander Steiner Ph.D. Brett Barney
Vinni Thekkudan Novi Ph.D.

Nanobiodiagnostics, Food Safety, Environmental Safety

Abdennour Abbas
Jaime Thissen M.S.

Renewable Energy and Safety

Roger Ruan
Nathan Utt Ph.D.

Engineering water management systems to maximize both economic and environmental benefits. 

Gary Sands
Leif Van Lierop Ph.D.

Bioremediation, fungi-plant interactions, fermentation

Bo Hu
Anna Warmka M.S. Erin Cortus
Chao Xu Ph.D. Ping Wang
Yufeng Yang Ph.D.

Precision agriculture

Zhenong Jin
Leikun Yin Ph.D.

Sustainable agriculture management, crop mapping

Zhenong Jin
Junxiong Zhou Ph.D. Zhenong Jin