Members

Fengqi You

Chair Professor and Principal Investigator

Benjamin Decardi-Nelson

Postdoc (Ph.D. in Control, Alberta)

AI for sustainable food production

Guangyao Chen

Postdoc (Ph.D. in CS, PKU)

AI for materials sustainability

Zhilong Wang

Postdoc (Ph.D. in EE, SJTU)

AI for materials informatics

Cheng Feng

Postdoc (Ph.D. in EE, Tsinghua)

Energy systems engineering

Siyuan Wang

Postdoc (Ph.D. in EE, Tsinghua)

Energy systems engineering

Yue Zhuo

Postdoc (Ph.D. in Control, ZJU)

AI for digital plant sciences

Yufan Zhang

Postdoc (Ph.D. in EE, SJTU)

Machine learning for energy and food systems

Guodong Chen

Postdoc (Ph.D. in Geology, HKU)

Energy systems engineering

Xueyu Tian

Postdoc (Ph.D. in SysEn, Cornell)

Sustainability analytics of perovskite PVs

Wei-Han Chen

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in CBE, Cornell)

AI for controlled environment agriculture

Guoqing Hu

Ph.D. Researcher (B.S. in AE, Purdue)

AI for cyber-physical-biological systems

Apoorv Lal

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in CBE, Cornell)

Energy systems and climate mitigation of ICTs

Fah Kumdokrub

Ph.D. Researcher (B.S. in ISyE, Wisconsin)

Circular economy and sustainability

Tianqi Xiao

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in Control, ZJU)

AI and the environment

Nathan Preuss

Ph.D. Researcher (B.S. in CS, Oklahoma)

Carbon dioxide removal & generative AI

Bingzheng Wang

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in Energy, ZJU)

Systems analytics for materials

Jinsung Kim

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in EE, Inha Univ.)

AI for controlled environment agriculture

Luxuan Sun

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in Econ., SJTU)

Sustainability analytics

Rahul Sheshanarayana

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in CBE, Cornell)

AI for materials informatics

Wenhao Yuan

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in MSE, NUS)

AI for materials informatics

Vinamr Jain

Ph.D. Researcher (B.Tech. in Phys, IIT Delhi)

AI for materials informatics

Kai Horstmann

Ph.D. Researcher (B.S. in CS, Cornell)

AI for sustainability

Sulenur Asal

Ph.D. Researcher (M.S. in Energy, Gazi Univ.)

Energy systems engineering

Sachin Jadhao

Ph.D. Researcher (Ph.D. in ChemE, ICT)

Exergy analysis

Santan Chaurasiya

Ph.D. Researcher (Ph.D. in IE, NIT)

Seaweed-biorefinery LCA

Minseong Kim

Research Visitor (CBE, Yonsei Univ.)

Energy systems and sustainability

Yinying Feng

Research Visitor (EE, Tsinghua)

Energy and power systems

Alumni

• Belinda Wang (M.S. ’12): Research Scientist, Honeywell
• Prasad Khatav (M.S. ’12): Managing Director, SS Techno Limited
• Yuan Yao (M.S. ’12): Ph.D. Student, Northwestern
• Wayne Ye (M.S. ’15): Software Engineer, eBay
• Dajun Yue (Ph.D. ’16): Senior Research Scientist, Amazon
• Jian Gong (Ph.D. ’17): Senior Analyst, Goldman Sachs
• Karson Leperi (Ph.D. ’18): Research Engineer, Intel
• Jiyao Gao (Ph.D. ’18): Director of Algorithm, Cardinal Operations
• Daniel Garcia (Ph.D. ’18): Research Scientist, ExxonMobil
• Raaj Bora (M.S. ’20): Research Engineer, James Hardie
• Jiwei Yao (M.S. ’20): Ph.D. Student, Univ. of Utah
• Chao Ning (Ph.D. ’20): Associate Professor, SJTU
• Yanqiu Tao (M.S. ’21): Ph.D. Student, Cornell
• Wei-Han Chen (M.S. ’21): Ph.D. Student, Cornell
• Jason Huang (M.S. ’22): Data Scientist, GEICO
• Apoorv Lal (M.S. ’23): Ph.D. Student, Cornell
• Xiang Zhao (M.S. ’23): Ph.D. Student, Cornell
• Shoudong Zhu (M.S. ’23): Software Engineer, NBCUniversal
• Tianhong Tan (M.S. ’23): Ph.D. Student, Ohio State Univ.
• Akshay Ajagekar (Ph.D. ’24): Quantitative Research Analyst, BestEx Research
• Rishi Balaji (M.S. ’24): Decision Scientist, Micron Technology
• Jeet Dhoriyani (M.S. ’24): Quantitative Analyst, SESCO Enterprises
• Guoqing Hu (M.S. ’24): Ph.D. Student, Cornell
• Akash Ajagekar (M.S. ’25): Research Assistant, Cornell
• Rahul Sheshanarayana (M.S. ’25): Ph.D. Student, Cornell
• Fah Kumdokrub (M.S. ’25): Ph.D. Student, Cornell
• Xueyu Tian (Ph.D. ’25): Postdoc, Cornell

Former Postdocs

• Yunfei Chu (2011–2014): Research Scientist, ExxonMobil
• Berhane Gebreslassie (2011–2012): Research Scientist, ExxonMobil
• Chang He (2013–2015): Associate Professor, Sun Yat-sen Univ.
• Chao Shang (2016–2018): Associate Professor, Tsinghua
• Inkyu Lee (2018–2019): Associate Professor, Pusan National Univ.
• Daison Manuel Yancy (2018–2020): Scientist, National Energy Technology Laboratory
• Lu Sun (2020–2021): Professor, XJTU
• Chunbo Zhang (2021–2022): Research Fellow, Univ. College London
• Shiyu Yang (2021–2023): Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology
• Qianzhi Zhang (2021–2023): Assistant Professor, Univ. of Alabama
• Xin Sun (2023–2024): Assistant Professor, Univ. of Groningen
• Shuangqi Li (2023–2024): Assistant Professor, Univ. of Leicester
• Bu Zhao (2023–2024): Assistant Professor, Univ. at Albany

Former Visitors

• Qiao Zhang (2012–2013): Associate Professor, XJTU
• Kailiang Tong (2012–2013): Ph.D. Student, ZJU
• Chen Yue (2013–2014): Assistant Professor, NUAA
• Stefan Hubert (2015): Ph.D. Student, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
• José E. Santibañez (2015): Professor, Tecnológico de Monterrey
• Aurora de Fátima (2015): Ph.D. Student, Universidad Michoacana
• Mingbo Yang (2015–2017): Associate Professor, XJTU
• Carlo Torres (2016): Ph.D. Student, Univ. of Southern Denmark
• Yuting Tang (2016–2017): Associate Professor, SCUT
• Hua Zhou (2016–2017): Associate Professor, XMU
• Na Luo (2016–2017): Associate Professor, ECUST
• Hyun Young Heo (2017): M.S. Student, KAIST
• Yingzong Liang (2017): Ph.D. Student, HKUST
• Gwenny Thomassen (2017): Ph.D. Student, Ghent Univ.
• Liang Zhao (2017–2018): Associate Professor, ECUST
• Jiaze Ma (2018): M.S. Student, CUP
• Minghao Xu (2018–2019): Ph.D. Student, Tsinghua
• Zuwei Liao (2018–2019): Professor, ZJU
• Musuizi Lei (2018–2019): M.S. Student, ETH Zurich
• Vanessa Ferreira (2018–2019): Ph.D. Student, Universidad de Sevilla
• Selene Cobo (2019): Ph.D. Student, Univ. of Cantabria
• Li Sun (2019–2020): Associate Professor, Southeast Univ.
• Runda Jia (2019–2020): Associate Professor, Northeastern Univ.
• Haifeng Qiu (2019–2020): Ph.D. Student, Southeast Univ.
• Haider Niaz (2021–2022): Ph.D. Student, Pukyong National Univ.
• Thomas Renaldy (2022): M.S. Student, TU Munich
• Haoran Li (2023): Ph.D. Student, Tsinghua
• Gabriele Furlan (2023): M.S. Student, EPFL
• Cuiling Wang (2023): Ph.D. Student, Tsinghua
• Daniel Cristiu (2023): Ph.D. Student, Università di Padova
• Raul Conchello (2023): M.S. Student, ETH Zurich
• Chengyu He (2023-2024): Ph.D. Student, Tsinghua
• Noman Raza Sial (2024): M.S. Student, Yeungnam Univ.
• Mariana Monteiro (2024): Ph.D. Student, Imperial College London
• Zhipeng Yu (2024): Ph.D. Student, Tsinghua
• Yijing Zhu (2024): Ph.D. Student, Nanjing Univ.
• Sucy Zhang (2024): Ph.D. Student, HK PolyU
• Yuhe Tian (2024): Assistant Professor, West Virginia Univ.
• Austin Braniff (2024): Ph.D. Student, West Virginia Univ.
• Lung-Yi Chen (2024-2025): Ph.D. Student, National Taiwan Univ.