Research Group Alumni
Former Graduate Students
Quazi Rasool
Quazi Rasool completed his Ph.D. in 2018. His thesis research developed parametric and mechanistic models of the emissions of reactive nitrogen species from soils. Quazi earlier received his M.S. degree from India Institute of Technology - Kanpur. Dr. Rasool now works for the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Brian Strasert
Brian Strasert completed his M.S. in 2017, modeling the air quality and health impacts of power plant emissions in Texas. Brian earlier received his B.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Rice University. Brian now works for GSI Environmental.
Wei Tang
Wei Tang completed his Ph.D. in 2014. His research focused on inverse modeling of nitrogen oxide emissions incorporating satellite data. Dr. Tang is now an associate professor and the director of the Center for Air Quality Modeling and Forecasting at the Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences.
Benjamin Lash
Benjamin Lash completed his M.S. in 2014. His research focused on modeling soil nitrogen.
Erin Chavez-Figueroa
Erin Chavez-Figueroa completed her M.S. in 2015. Her research focused on emissions of biogenic hydrocarbons from vegetation. Erin now works for Cactus Communications.
Wei Zhou
Wei Zhou completed his Ph.D. in 2013. His research focused on modeling of ozone formation from power plant plumes and on dynamic evaluation of ozone responsiveness to emissions trends. Dr. Zhou now works for Panasonic.
Antara Digar
Antara Digar completed her Ph.D. in 2012. Her research focused on characterizing the uncertainty of atmospheric response to emissions changes and associated health impacts. Dr. Digar now works for Intel.
Former Postdoctoral Research Associates and Research Scientists
Xue Xiao
Dr. Xue Xiao was a postdoctoral research associate whose research focused on inverse modeling incorporating satellite data with air quality modeling.
Rui Zhang
Dr. Rui Zhang was a postdoctoral research associate whose research focused on developing approaches to integrate satellite data with biogenic emissions models and atmospheric models to characterize the biogenic and anthropogenic influences on air quality as well as human health. He completed his Ph.D in Applied Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2010 and worked as a research associate in the Laboratory for Atmospheric Research at Washington State University from 2011-2014. Dr. Zhang now works as an air quality specialist for the South Coast Air Quality Management District.
Beata Czader
Dr. Beata Czader was a Research Scientist specializing in atmospheric modeling and chemical mechanisms. Her research focused on high-order sensitivity analysis of ozone and particulate matter response to emission controls, and on emissions of methane and ethane in the Houston region. Dr. Czader completed her Ph.D. and served as a postdoctoral scholar and research associate at the University of Houston, and now works as an air quality scientist for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
Adetutu Aghedo
Dr. Adetutu Aghedo was a postdoctoral research associate whose research focused on atmospheric modeling of ozone and particulate matter. She received her Ph.D. from Max Planck Institute for Meteorology and was a Caltech postdoctoral research associate with the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer group.
Yue Liu
Dr. Yue Liu was a visiting scholar supported by a China Scholarship Council fellowship.
Former Undergraduate Students
Raleigh Ricart, Carlos Rojo, Kirti Datla, Kyle Saari, Daniel Hodges-Copple, Oviea Akpotaire, Seoyeon Hong, Andrew Pegues, Catherine Douglass, Willie Xu, Lance Le, Kavita Venkateswar, Chris Chan, Rebecca Hyde, Komal Bansal, Shayak Sengupta, Ran Chen, Lun (Allen) Li, Elizabeth Piña, Amanda MacDonald, Fariha Rashid, Nicole Moes, Katherine Zoellmer, Vincent Gonzales, Tim Thomas III, Joanna Slusarewicz, Zach Rewolinski, Anthony Nguyen, James Li, Gabriel Meriano, Diego de la Fuente, Robin MacDonald, Lynn Niu, Amy Jiang, Winnie Louh, Yunseo Choi, Sarah Salvatore