The Fellowship

  • Nitish Govindarajan

    Assistant Professor, PI

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  • Manya Aggarwal

    PhD student (Jan 2025-)

    B. S., University of Delhi (2022)

    M. S., IIT Delhi (2024)

    Topic: Electrocatalysis in blended electrolytes

  • Wayu Takemura

    PhD student (Aug 2025-)

    B. Eng, SIIT, Thammasat University (2025)

  • Diptansu Poddar

    PhD student (Aug 2025-)

    B. Tech, IIT Kanpur (2025)

  • Fiona Ho

    Undergraduate student (Jan 2025-)

    CN Yang Scholar

  • Ruijun Xu

    Undergraduate student (Feb 2025-)

  • Ashraf Ali

    Undergraduate student (May 2025-)

Former Mentees

  • Ankit Mathanker

    Topic: Developing neural network based interatomic potentials to predict solvation energies at electrified interfaces

    PhD candidate, Goldsmith Lab

    University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

  • Dr. Jiawei Guo

    Topic: Developing neural network based interatomic potentials to study cation effects at electrified Au interfaces

    PhD, UC Davis (Kulkarni group)

    Current Position: Postdoctoral researcher at Digital Synthesis Lab, UCLA

  • Dr. Sihang Liu

    PhD Thesis: Computational Investigations of Furfural Valorization

    Catalysis Theory Center, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

    Current Position: Quality engineer at NNE

  • Hugo Beks

    MSc Thesis: Determining acidity constants of molecular catalysts from DFT based molecular dynamics

    Van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Science, University of Amsterdam

    Current Position: Senior Data Analyst, ABN Ambro Bank