These early career bios are stories of CMI researchers who were in their collegiate years through internship and externship programs during CMI Phase II, 2018-2023. Link to early career bios for CMI Phase I, 2013-2018 HERE, and for the current phase HERE.
CMI encourages researchers at various points in their careers, including as early as their collegiate years through internship and externship programs with universities, national laboratories or federal agencies. Profiles of students during CMI Phase II, 2018-2023, are linked here:
- Luis Aguayo Torrez, graduate student researcher and Fulbright scholar at Colorado School of Mines, 2023
- Lun An, postdoc, with Tatum Englund, Hailey Bates and Tyler Hall at Ames National Laboratory
- Sweta Balchandani, postdoc, University of Arizona
- Rakesh Chaudhary, AML externship at Ames National Laboratory
- Kayla Cunningham, Colorado School of Mines, externship, training
- Sidi Deng, Purdue University
- Maxwell Fleming, Colorado School of Mines
- Allison Fritz, National Energy Technology Laboratory
- Meghan Fujimoto, Idaho National Laboratory
- Kinjal Gandha, Ames National Laboratory
- Catherine House, intern at Idaho National Laboratory
- Tim Hsu, CMI postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Syed Islam, postdoc turned researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Katherine R. Johnson, postdoc turned staffer at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Vivek Kashyap, Colorado School of Mines
- Philip Keller, Colorado School of Mines, link
- Dayton Kizzire, postdoc at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Jayanthi Kumar, postdoc at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- Tessa Lee, Yale University
- Yi Li, graduate student at Purdue University
- Xubo Liu, postdoc at Ames National Laboratory
- Joseph Mattocks, graduate student Penn State and SCGSR at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Yamah Nabiyar, graduate student at Colorado School of Mines
- Mst (Nazu) Nazmunnahar, postdoc at Ames National Laboratory
- Max Neveau, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Gavin Nop, Iowa State University doctoral student and SCGSR at Ames National Laboratory
- Rubyann Olmos, SULI and intern at Ames National Laboratory
- Abhishek Sarkar, postdoc at Ames National Laboratory
- Mike Severson, Idaho National Laboratory
- Meng Shi, postdoc at Idaho National Laboratory
- Nathan Soland, University of California-Davis
- Mairym Vazquez, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
For further information please contact:
Cynthia Howell
Research Faculty, Education, Training and Outreach
CMI national laboratory partners hire interns, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory. See CMI early career researcher Jonathan Harter in this video about a process developed by CMI researchers to use robots to recycle batteries from electric vehicles.