Members of the Group

Principal Investigator

Efstratios N. (Stratos) Pistikopoulos FREng

Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute,
Editor-in-Chief, Computers & Chemical Engineering,
Dow Chemical Chair,
Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University

327 Giesecke Engineering Research Building
3251 Texas A&M University
College Station, TX 77843-3251
+1-979-458-0259
stratos@tamu.edu
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Current Members

Post-Doctoral Associates

Shayan Sean Niknezhad First Year sean.niknezhad@tamu.edu

Jafaru Musa Egieya

First Year

jafaru.egieya@tamu.edu

Doctoral Students

Rahul Kakodkar Fifth Year cacodcar@tamu.edu
Dustin Kenefake Fifth Year dustin.kenefake@tamu.edu
Marcello Di Martino Fourth Year dimartino@tamu.edu
Moustafa Ali Fourth Year moustafa.ali@tamu.edu
Natasha Jane Chrisandina Fourth Year nchrisandina@tamu.edu
Shivam Vedant Third Year shivam.vedant@tamu.edu
Swaminathan Sundar Third Year swaminathan.sundar@tamu.edu
Funda Iseri Third Year funda_iseri@tamu.edu
Sahithi Srijana Akundi Third Year sahithiakundi@tamu.edu
Elizabeth Jijy Abraham Second Year elizabeth.abraham@tamu.edu
Marco De Sousa Second Year marcopdsousa@tamu.edu
Betsie Montano Flores Second Year betsie_0410@tamu.edu
Catherine Nkoutche Second Year ckn@tamu.edu
Yuanxing (Yoly) Liu First Year liuyuanxing@tamu.edu
Lida Lamakani First Year lida.lamakani@tamu.edu
Zhane Ann Tizon First Year zamtizon@tamu.edu
Halil Iseri First Year halil.iseri@tamu.edu
Mohamed Hamdi Ibrahim Abdelhady First Year m_abdelhady@tamu.edu

Master's Students

Harsh Shah Second Year harsh1310@tamu.edu
Saatvi Suresh First Year saatvisuresh_1@tamu.edu

Current Visiting Scholars

Nuha Mohideen First Year nuham07@gmail.com

Undergraduate students

Noah Roberts Undergraduate student norob712@tamu.edu

Alumni

Former Postdoctoral Associates

Name	Appointment	Current Position
Meihong Wang	1997 – 1999	Professor, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
Dimitrios Gerogiorgis	2005 – 2008	Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
Kostas Kouramas	2006 – 2011	Group Leader, United Technologies Research Center Ireland, Ireland.
Michalis Koutinas	2007 – 2011	Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus.
H. Chang	2008 – 2010	Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea.
Altannar Chinchuluun	2009 – 2011	Associate Professor, Business School, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Giorgos Kopanos	2011 – 2013	Senior Scientist, Optimisation Leader at Flexciton Ltd, London, United Kingdom.
Christos Panos	2012 – 2013	Chemical Process Engineer, GSK, London, United, Kingdom.
Ruth Misener	2012 – 2014	Professor, Computing, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
Eirini Velliou	2012 – 2014	Associate Professor, Centre of 3D Models for Health and Disease, University College London, United Kingdom.
Nikolaos A. Diangelakis	2017 – 2018	Assistant Professor, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece.
Mario Eduardo Villanueva	2016 – 2017
Ioana Nascu	2016 – 2019	Associate Professor, Department of Automation, Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania
Rajib Mukherjee	2018 – 2019	Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Texas Permian Basin, USA.
Gerald S. Ogumerem	2019 – 2020	Senior Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company, Houston, TX.
Hari S. Ganesh	2019 – 2020	Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India.
Styliani Avraamidou	2018 – 2021	Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Burcu Beykal	2020 – 2021	Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.

Former Doctoral Students

Name	Degree Awarded	Current Position
Marianthi Ierapetritou	1995	Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware, USA.
Katerina Papalexandri	1995	VP gas and LCE growth, Caspian, BP
Thomas Thomaidis	1995	Director of Management Consulting, Greece.
Joaquin Acevedo	1996	Professor, Chemical Engineering, Monterrey University, Mexico.
Stavros Stefanis	1996	Principal, Strategy & Operations, Deloitte Consulting.
Jezri Mohideen	1996	Partner, Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP, United Kingdom.
Prasert Pavasant	1997	Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Chulalangkorn University, Thailand.
Nikos Bozinis	1998	Independent Software Developer.
Soraya Rahim Ismail	1998	Managing Director, Boost Juice Bars.
Myrian Schenk	1999	Jacobs Petroleum & Chemicals, London, United Kingdom.
Costas Vassiliadis	2000	Principal Manager, Consulting, PwC.
Vivek Dua	2000	Professor, Chemical Engineering, University College London, United Kingdom.
Vik Bansal	2000	Partner, Quantitative Portfolio Manager, Tudor Investment Corporation.
Andrew Buxton	2002	IT Vice-President, Credit Suisse, London, United Kingdom.
Vassilis Sakizlis	2003	Consultant Simulation Engineer, Genesis Oils and Gas Consultants, United Kingdom.
Jun-Hyung Ryu	2003	Associate Professor, Nuclear/Energy Systems Engineering, Dongguk University, Korea.
Vassilis Kosmidis	2003	Volatility Trader, Eni Trading & Shipping SpA - UK Branch, London, United Kingdom.
Christos Chatzidoukas	2004	Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Petros Proios	2004	Chemical Engineer, Industrial Operations Management, Greece.
Andre Hugo	2005	Lead Process Engineer - Prelude FLNG, Shell, Perth, Australia.
Pinky Dua	2005	Senior Director, Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Pfizer, United Kingdom.
Cleo Kontoravdi	2006	Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
Milica Folic	2007	Project Manager, Haldor Haldor Topsøe, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Nuno Faisca	2008	Head of EMEA Chemicals Consulting, Wood Mackenzie, London, United Kingdom.
Carolyn Lam	2009	Scientist, Lifeglimmer GmbH, Berlin, Germany.
Diogo Narciso	2009	Post-doctoral research scholar at University of Porto, Portugal.
Pei Liu	2010	Associate Professor, Thermal Engineering, Tsinghua University, China.
Luis Dominguez	2011	Associate Director, Digital Portfolio Technology Transfer and Testing, Lonza, Switzerland.
Anna Voelker	2011	Associate at Goldman Sachs, United Kingdom.
Harish Khajuria	2011	Head of Global Strategic Marketing, TDI at BASF, Rhineland-Palatinate,\ Germany.
Christos Panos	2012	Chemical Process Engineer, GSK, London, United, Kingdom.
Alexandros Kiparissides	2012	Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Martina Wittmann-Hohlbein	2013	Geophysics Applications Developer, Shell, Netherlands.
Romain Lambert	2013	Post-doctoral research scholar, Imperial College London, United Kindgom.
Eleni Pefani	2013	GlaxoSmithKline, Stevenage, United Kingdom.
Alexandra Krieger	2013	Process Expert CAS TechCenter at Covestro, Germany.
Pedro Rivotti	2014	Scientific Software Developer, Enthought, United Kingdom.
Jan Marzinek	2014	Postdoctoral Research Fellow, A*STAR/National University of Singapore, Singapore.
David Garcia Munzer	2014	Functional Lead - Cell Culture, Novartis, Switzerland.
Stamatina Zavitsanou	2014	Advanced R&D Engineer at Novo Nordisk, Denmark.
María Fuentes-Garí	2015	Process Systems Enterprise Limited (PSE Ltd), London, United Kingdom.
Ioana Nascu	2016	Assistant Professor, Department of Automation, Automation and Computer Science Faculty, Technical University of Cluj Napoca, Romania.
Argyro Iro Tsipa	2016	Lecturer at Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
Richard Oberdieck	2017	Lead Data Scientist, Banking Circle, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Maria M. Papathanasiou	2017	Lecturer at Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, United Kingdom.
Nikolaos A. Diangelakis	2017	Assistant Professor, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece.
Amit Manthanwar	2017	Program Manager at Clean Energy Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute.
Nikiforos Maragkos	2017	Recent Graduate.
Muxin Sun	2018	Recent graduate.
Styliani Avraamidou	2018	Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI.
Melis Onel	2019	Advanced Engineer at ExxonMobil Corporation, Spring, TX.
Gerald S. Ogumerem	2019	Senior Research Scientist, Dow Chemical Company, Houston, TX.
Justin Katz	2020	Optimization and Operations Research Engineer at Plume, Palo Alto, CA.
Burcu Beykal	2020	Assistant Professor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT.
Pankaj Goel	2020	Instrumentation and Control Engineer, ExxonMobil Corporation, Spring, TX.
William Tso	2020	Senior Data Scientist, Boston Consulting Group (BCG), New York City, NY.
Baris Burnak	2020	Research Scientist, Modeling and Optimization, Amazon.
Doga Demirhan	2020	Research Scientist, Shell, Houston, TX.
Christopher A. K. Gordon	2021	Senior Research Specialist, Dow Chemical Company, Lake Jackson, TX.
Yuhe Tian	2021	Assistant Professor, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.
Stefanos Baratsas	2021	Advanced Supply Chain Optimization Engineer, ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX.
Iosif Pappas	2022	Research Scientist, Shell Global Solutions International B.V., Amsterdam, NLD.
Denis Su-Feher	2022	Research Engineer, Cargill, Plymouth, MN.
R. Cory Allen	2022	ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering Company, Spring, TX.
Shayan Sean Niknezhad	2022	Post-Doctoral Associate at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Former Doctoral Students from Prof. Floudas' Research Group

Name	Degree Awarded	Current Position
Alexander M. Niziolek	2017	Senior Engineer at ExxonMobil Corporation, Houston, TX.
Onur Onel	2017	Group Lead at ExxonMobil Corporation, Houston, TX.
Logan Matthews	2018	Advanced Engineer at ExxonMobil Corporation, Clinton, NJ.

Former Master's Students

Name	Degree Awarded	Current Position
Utkarsh Shah	2017	Doctoral student at The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.
Iordanis Kesisoglou	2017	Doctoral student at University of Houston, Houston, TX.
Changkyu Kim	2017	Doctoral student at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Haneol Song	2018	Hydrogen supply chain engineer at Hyundai Motors Corporation, South Korea.
Seung Yeon Lee	2018	Doctoral student at University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
Naseem Masoud	2020	Recent graduate.
Shivam Vedant	2021	Doctoral student at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.
Vaishnav Meduri	2021	Data Scientist at Tapeout Technology, Intel, Hillsbro, OR.
Jessica Rodriguez	2021	Recent Graduate.
Sherralyn Sneezer	2021	Recent Graduate.
Vincent Carag	2021	Recent Graduate.
Armando Blancq Cazaux Del Bosque	2021	Recent Graduate
Ioannis Koumentis	2021	Process Engineer (Energy Transition), Genesis, Houston, TX.
Benjamin Auer	2024	Recent Graduate.

Former Undergraduate Students

Name	Degree Awarded	Current Position
Julie Cook	2021	Analyst at Nexant Energy and Chemicals Advisory, Houston, TX.
Josiah Butterfield	2021	Recent graduate.
Mary Rivera	2022	Application Engineer at Exxon Mobil, Baytown, TX.
Xiaoqing Cai	2021	Epic Systems, Verona, WI
Niket Parikh	2022	Recent graduate.
Nikos Poulassichidis	2021	Recent graduate.
Alex Chandel	2023	Recent graduate.