Members
Principal Investigator

Bhuvnesh Bharti
Ph.D. – Technische Universität Berlin, Germany – 2012
M.S. – Panjab University Chandigarh, India – 2009
B.S. – Panjab University Chandigarh, India – 2007
Phone: +1 (225) 578-3546
E-mail: bbharti@lsu.edu
Research Assistant Professor
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Jin Gyun Lee Postdoctoral Research Associate - University of Colorado, Boulder - 2025 Ph.D. – Louisiana State University – 2021 B.S. – North Carolina State University – 2015 E-mail: JinGyun.Lee@lsu.edu
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Graduate students

Ruchi Patel
B.Engg. - University of Mumbai - 2021

Pulari Kartha
B.S. - University of Arizona - 2024

Victoria Horton*
B.S. Florida State University - 2022

Samir Neupane
B.S. - McNeese University - 2022

Ethan Robson*
B.S. - University of Tennessee -2023

Wenhao Chang
B.E. – Xi’an University – 2021
Undergraduate students
Grant Pendergraft (2025 - present)
Group Alumni
PhD graduates

Jin Gyun Lee
2021

Yingzhen Ma
2022

Amber Pete*
2022
Ahmed Al Harraq
2023

Hashir Gauri
2025
Kennedy Guillot*
2025

Amrutha Raghu
2025

Philip Brahana
2025
Masters graduates:
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Yusheng Guo 2020 |
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Brishty Choudhury 2022 |
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Undergraduate students:
- Grant Pendergraft (2025-present)
- Destiny Marvel (2025-2026)
- Sydney Gemeinhardt (2025-2026)
- Andrew Johnson (2024-2025)
- Joseph C. Romanos (2024-2025)
- Danielle Bryant (2023-2024)
- Lucas Sabanis (2023-2024)
- Aubry Hymel (2018-2023)
- Ruby Goldberg (2022-2023)
- Anton Michel (2022 DAAD scholar)
- Olivia Arcemont (2021)
- Miguel Jasso (2020)
- Nathan Anderson (2020)
- Emma Joslin (2019-2020)
- Evan Casper (2019)
- Luke Larive (2018-2019)
- Keaton Teas (2017-2018)
- Caroline Kieffer (2016-2018)
- Stacey Wieseneck (2016-2017)
- Kelly Lannigan (REU 2018)
- Vanel Porter (REU 2017)
- Lauren Spahn (REU 2019)
- Olivia Carroll (High-school 2017-2018)
Postdocs:
- Laura Sanchez (2019-2020)
- Rohini Kanwar (2022-2023)
*co-supervised with Dr. Michael Benton (Chemical Engineering, LSU)


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