iCOUP Leadership
Executive Committee
Baron Peters
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
baronp@illinois.edu
Senior Investigators
Mahdi Abu-Omar
University of California
Santa Barbara
mabuomar@ucsb.edu
Russell Bowers
University of Florida
bowers@chem.ufl.edu
Megan Fieser
University of Southern California
fieser@usc.edu
Anne McNeil
University of Michigan
ajmcneil@umich.edu
Baron Peters
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
baronp@illinois.edu
Susannah Scott
University of California
Santa Barbara
sscott@ucsb.edu
Researchers
Salai Ammal
University of South Carolina
ammal@cec.sc.edu
Marek Pruski
iCOUP Advisor
mpruski@iastate.edu
Postdoctoral Researchers
Carly Byron
Argonne National Laboratory byron@anl.gov
Sam Hunt
Argonne National Laboratory
shunt@anl.gov
Changhae Kim
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
cakim2@illinois.edu
Praveen Kumar
Ames National Laboratory
kumarp@ameslab.gov
Chao Meng
Ames National Laboratory cmeng@iastate.edu
Bertrand Neyhous
University of Michigan
neyhouse@umich.edu
Akalanka Tennakoon
Ames National Lab
akalanka@iastate.edu
Ritesh Uppuluri
Northwestern University
ritesh.uppuluri@northwestern.edu
Xuchun Wang
Argonne National Laboratory xuchunwang@anl.gov
Yunpu Zhao
Ames National Lab
tyzhao@ameslab.gov
Graduate Students
Rasaq Adams
University of Florida
r.adams@chem.ufl.edu
Eunice Castro
University of Southern California
eccastro@usc.edu
Olajide Bamidele
University of South Carolina
bamidele@email.sc.edu
Mubarak Bello
University of South Carolina
mabello@email.sc.edu
Danielle Burns
University of California
Santa Barbara
danielleburns@umail.ucsb.edu
Ziqiu Chen
University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign
ziqiuc2@illinois.edu
Ruoyu Cui
Ames National Laboratory
rycui@iastate.edu
Shilin Cui
Cornell University
sc2938@cornell.edu
Emmanuel Ejiogu
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
eejiogu2@illinois.edu
Jiankai Ge
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign jiankai2@illinois.edu
Daniel Howell
Ames National Laboratory
dkhowell@iastate.edu
Iqtidar Hussain
Ames National Lab
ihussain@iastate.edu
Rahul Jha
University of Michigan
rkjha@umich.edu
Thomas Johnson
Ames National Lab
tommyj@iastate.edu
Michelle Lapak
University of Florida
mlapak@ufl.edu
Yu-Hsuan Lee
University of California
Santa Barbara
y_lee476@ucsb.edu
Longji Li
Ames National Lab
longjil@iastate.edu
Jacqueline Lopez
Cornell University
jcl422@cornell.edu
Max Meirow
Northwestern University
meirow@
u.northwestern.edu
Minghui Niu
Ames National Lab
minghui@iastate.edu
Ian Peczak
Northwestern
University
ianpeczak2023@
u.northwestern.edu
Jiakai Sun
University of California
Santa Barbara
jiakai@ucsb.edu
Simin Sun
Ames National Laboratory
simins@iastate.edu
Kajol Tonk
Ames National Lab
tonk03@iastate.edu
Vikas Verma
Ames National Laboratory vikasv@iastate.edu
Yi-Yu Wang
Ames National Laboratory
yiyuwang@iastate.edu
Zach Wood
University of Southern California woodz@usc.edu
Xun Wu
Ames National Lab
xunw@iastate.edu
Yiheng Yan
University of Florida
yan.yiheng@chem.ufl.edu
Jiahui Yang
Northwestern
University
jiahuiyang2021@u.northwestern.edu
Undergraduate Students
Marie Burns
University of South Carolina
marieeb@email.sc.edu
Rudan Feng
University of California Santa Barbara
feng787@ucsb.edu
Alexandra Heuston
University of California Santa Barbara
aheuston@ucsb.edu
Advisory Board
Phillip Hustad
Geminatio
Cynthia Jenks
Oak Ridge National
Laboratory
Malika Jeffries-EL
Boston University
Jerzy Klosin
Dow Chemical Company
Alceo Macchioni
University of Perugia
Michael Reynolds
Shell USA
Aaron Sattler
ExxonMobil
Alumni
Chang-Il Ahn, Ames National Laboratory
Alejandra Arroyave, Argonne National Laboratory
Ranjan Behera, Ames National Laboratory
Shaojang Chen, Ames National Laboratory
Sun Chenyue, Cornell University
Matthew Crab, Ames National Laboratory
Theresa Crawford, Ames National Laboratory
Fenghua Ding, Northwestern University
Michaela Esveld, Ames National Laboratory
Alexandra Fresh, Ames National Laboratory
Ryan Hackler, Argonne National Laboratory
Arjan Hijlkema, University of California Santa Barbara
Uddhav Kanbur, Ames National Laboratory
Robert Kennedy, Northwestern University
Andrew Kocen, Cornell University
Jessica Lamb, Argonne National Laboratory
Tao Li, Argonne National Laboratory
Xingyi Lyu, Argonne National Laboratory
Katie Mccullough, Argonne National Laboratory
Marijke Nielsen, Ames National Laboratory
Sarah Parke, Cornell University
Alexander Paterson, Ames National Laboratory
Marissa Pina, Argonne National Laboratory
Jessica Rodriguez, Ames National Laboratory
Jacqueline Rohrer, University of California Santa Barbara
Mohammad Saleheen, University of South Carolina
Jarod Willmon, Ames National Laboratory
Ryan Yappert, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Kyung-Eun You, University of South Carolina
Armin Shayesteh Zadeh, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Danny Zeng, University of California Santa Barbara
Fan Zhang, University of California Santa Barbara
