Georgia Tech's School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering recognized the achievements of our undergraduate and graduate students over the past year.
An honors presentation and dinner were held April 13 in the Ford ES&T Building.
AIChE Outstanding Senior Award: Aaron Kent
AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award: Christian Cuba-Torres
AIChE Honors
AIChE Freshman Recognition Award - Raul Krishan
AIChE Donald F. Othmer Sophomore Excellence Award - Danai Efthymiopoulou
AIChE MAC Scholarship Award - Aaron Kent, Alyssa Murphy
AIChE Othmer Scholarship Award - Landon LaMarca
AIChE McKetta Undergraduate Scholarship Nominee - Hannah Reynolds
AIChE Outstanding Senior Award - Aaron Kent
AIChE Outstanding Undergraduate Course Assistant Award - Alexandra Seesee
AIChE Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant Award - George Marinis
AIChE Outstanding Faculty Award - Christian Cuba-Torres
Graduate Honors
Research Accomplishments
Ziegler Award for Best Paper - Adam Hsieh, “Unveiling the Reactivity of Fluoropolymers with Sodium Metal: Mechanistic
Insights and Battery Implications”
Ziegler Award for Best Thesis Proposal - Jouke van Westrenen, “Mechanochemical Hydrogenolysis Reactions for
Upcycling Polymeric Materials”
Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam - Tyler Cravey, Prasham Paras Mehta
Outstanding PhD Thesis - Habin Park
Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Award - Po-Wei Huang
Sigma Xi Best PhD Thesis Nominees - Steven Crouse, Jiahe Huang, Akriti Sarswat
CTL Outstanding Teaching Assistant - McKenna Martin-Downey
Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants - Sophia Hoch, William Krisko, Huston Locht, Isabel Panicker, Seth Porter
Exemplary Academic Achievement
Genevieve Ansay
Altaf Bacchus
Kyuhyeok Choi
Charles Codner
Tyler Cravey
Amanda Lorraine Cruz
Gabriel Desantis
Corinne Drabenstott
Joseph Fink
Kevin Friedman
Anirban Ghosh
Jakob Maximilian Hoch
Nathan Holland
Cameron Hubbard
Sukwoo Jung
Rridhisha Kumar
Yunjin Lee
Gabriella Lewinski
Oliver Long
Prasham Paras Mehta
Seyed Amin Mohammadi
Conor O’Brien
Emma Pastor Goodingham
Abdus-sobur Saliu
Kaden Schreiber
Shiue-Min Shih
Demet Tumkaya
Hsiang-Yu Wang
Eunho Yeo
Seongeun Yun
Yudong Zhao
Graduate Leadership
Symposium Chairs - Luisa Barraza Vergara, Mohammed Tahmid
AChEGS -
Seth Porter (President and Interim Treasurer)
Shifeng Xu (Vice President)
Trisha Daftari (Secretary)
McKenna Clinch (Outreach Chair)
Brian Chettle (Outreach Chair)
Sophia Hoch (Social Chair)
Tracy Dumakor (Social Chair)
Khanh Le (Safety Chair)
Diogo Cunha Mendes (Intramural Chair)
Jeeyoung Han (Community Values Chair)
Recruiting Committee - Isabel Panicker, Emad Renfroe
Career, Research, Innovation and Development
Conference (CRIDC) Poster Competition
College of Engineering Winner - Chizimuzo Chibuko
Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education Winners - Caitlyn Davis, Ishmamul Hoque Sadab
Office of the Executive Vice President for Research Winner - Ishita Kumar
Outstanding Performance on the Qualifying Exam: Tyler Cravey, Prasham Paras Mehta
Shell Outstanding Teaching Assistants: Isabel Panicker, Seth Porter, Sophia Hoch
Not pictured: William Krisko, Huston Locht
CTL Outstanding Teaching Assistant - McKenna Martin-Downey
Graduate Symposium Chairs: Mohammed Tahmid, Luisa Barraza Vergara
External Fellowship Recognition
Fulbright Fellowships - Luisa Acevedo, Demet Tumkaya
Herbert P. Haley Fellowship (COE) - Joshua Shippe
NSF Fellowships - Altaf Bacchus, Karly Liebendorfer
Jessie and Ralph W. Pries Fellowship (COE) - Tyler Cravey
President’s Fellowships -
Genevieve Ansay
Jordan Berezowitz
Tyler Cravey
Gabriel DeSantis
Corinne Drabenstott
Nathan Holland
Gene Koifman
ChBE Fellowship Recognition
Andria Deaguero Ping Fellowship - Richa Ghosh
Frank Dennis Fellowship -
Hyuck Joo Choi
Ana De Pereda Banda
Ji Gao
Adam Hsieh
Botagoz Kuspangaliyeva
Frederic Holloway
Daniel Kim
Henry Kantrow
Ishita Kumar
Linh Dieu Mai
Jiho Seok
Frederic Holloway Fellowship -
Daniel Kim
Henry Kantrow
Ishita Kumar
Linh Dieu Mai
Jiho Seok
Eckert Graduate Fellowship -
Sayan Bhowmik
Haoyu Chen
Daniel Manogaran Dinakarapandian
Sai Tarun Ganapavarapu
Yusef Haikal
Sidharth Laxminarayan
Huston Locht
Dingqi Nai
Van Son Nguyen
Jose Lopez Ninantay
Isabel Panicker
Rajas Poorna
Steven Schlosser
Youngsu Shin
Muskan Sonker
Undergraduate Honors
Institute Honors
Tau Beta Pi Winner - Michael Silas
Helen Grenga Award Nominee - Kayla Carneal
CoE Honors Day Award - Khue Phan
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior - Hannah Reynolds
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Senior - Rohan Datta
ChBE Outstanding Undergraduate Researcher - Diya Godavarti
CHBE CTL Undergraduate Teaching Assistant - Gabriella McCord
Leadership
AIChE Student Chapter - President: Alyssa Murphy; Vice President: Landon LaMarca
ChBE Student Advisory Board Leadership - Jack Fulton, Suann Kim
CHBE Peer Led Help Desk (a unit of SAB) - Jack Sanders, Leo Santamarina, Michael Silas
ChBE Student Ambassadors Leadership - Rohan Datta, Andrew Knobbe, Michael Silas
ChBE First-year Peer Mentors Leadership - Josh Clark, Emilie Fleck, Michelle Jing, Michael Silas
Chair’s Award—Outstanding ChBE Junior: Hannah Reynolds
CHBE CTL Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Gabriella McCord
First-year Freshmen and Transfer Students with 4.0 after Fall 2025
Sofia Acosta Diaz
Ashley Ahn
Harlow Babic
Milan Barnes
George Bason
Kylie Bauer
Matthew Baumann
Yeats Becker-Blease
Ella Beerensson
Noah Bohach
Carter Brock
Rania Chandra
Ella Chatterton
Keira Cheng
Sarah Curtis
Dhruv Deshpande
Mason Fosdick
Elizabeth George
Nicholas Giannetta
Andrew Gintert
Ramin Goziyev
Larkyn Hendren
Shea Hiotidis
Isaac Hoshide
Hannah Hsu
Avery Hutchinson
Scott Hyde
Anna Johannessen
Samuel Jordan
Austin Killebrew
Shiv Kolhe
Cayden Lai
Paola Leal
Kit Lun Jerico Lee
Wenzhe Li
Carrie Lim
Adrian Lopez Torres
San Roman
Bianca Lopez-Parnetti
Madison Lu
Diya Mahesh
Khoi Mai
Kyle Merkle
Anthony Miller
Jenna Mollner
Dylan Morris
Margaux Newman
Christopher Nguyen
Mai Nguyen
Riley Nieting
Sarah Nuno Chavez
Diogo O Laginha Martins
Joseph Pan
Joowon Park
Hrishi Patel
Meera Patel
Maxwell Perry
Jonathan Pham
Fernando Remolina
Sanchez Rucobo
Christian Satcher
Peter Shay
Shreya Shetty
Joseph Skidmore
Eleanor Smith
Tristan Smith
Alec Teff
Elizabeth Thompson
Kaylee Thornburgh
Siddharth Vedula
Rhoda Wang
Chanan Wijesooriya
Brodric Winston
Lillian Wojewoda
Jackson Wyant
Adam Yachin
Grace Younan
Mengyue Zhou