
Dr. Bryan Beckingham
Mary and John H. Sanders Associate Professor, Dept. of Chemical Engineering
Director, Center for Polymers and Advanced Composites
Graduate Program Officer, Polymer & Fiber Engineering
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, Auburn University
Research Associates
Dr. Harrish Kumar Senthil Kumar – CPAC Engineer
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Adam Bachmann – Polymer Patterning/ Fabrication
Current Graduate Students

John Stockdale (PFEN) – Porous polymers for contaminant adsorption
Syed Readwan Ahmed (CHEN) – Biomimetic Membranes
Nicolas Ulrich (CHEN) – Bio-inspired Fluids
Logan Hikes (PFEN) – Anionic Polymerization
Dhrumil Hirpara (PFEN) – Polymer Membranes
Aliya Puryear (PFEN) – Polyurethanes
Drew Seller (PFEN) – Continuous Fiber 3D printing
Philip Darko (CHEN) – Phenolic extraction from pecan shells
Undergraduate Students
Current students:
- Madelyn Torrance (CHEN)
- Chase Morgese (CHEN)
- Savannah Chai (BSEN)
- Josh Deutschendorf (BMSC)
- Annie Wingate (BMSC)
Past Students:
- Nailah Braziel
- Ryan Wozniak ’24 (Currently at UPenn, PhD)
- Jessica Brouillette ’24 (Currently at Heersink School of Medicine, MD)
- Tymirrah Brown
- Sean Gannon
- Harrison Edwards
- Matthew Hajazin
- Camylle Lollar
- Mae Baird
- Barbara Allen
- Samantha Lawson
- Garret Taylor
- Jacob Johnson
- Christopher Nuckels ’21 (AL Department of Environmental Management)
- Brock Hunter ’22 (Currently at U. Delaware, PhD)
- Lingyu Zhou
- Minjae Jung,
- Krish Patel,
- Lily Gong ’21 (Currently at Rice University, PhD)
- Tina Huang ’21
- Sean Baxter ’21
- Tucker Sparks ‘20
- Alisa Mobley ’20
- Jihyuk Kim ‘19 (Currently at U. Delaware, PhD)
- Claudia Hu ‘19 (Currently at RPI, PhD)
- Xinyu Hou ‘19
- Avery Bush ‘18
Please contact me to talk further about potential opportunities in the Group.
PAST GROUP MEMBERS
- Sarah Gaston ( PhD, PFEN 2026)
- Harish Kumar Senthil Kumar (PhD, CHEN 2026)
- Pravin Aravindhan (PhD, CHEN 2025)
- Riana Rivera (MS, CHEN 2025) – Pursing CIVL PhD at Auburn
- Yi-hung Lin (PhD, CHEN 2025), Research Scientist, Samsung SDI America Inc.
- Antara Mazumder (PhD CHEN, 2024) Post-doc, Georgia Tech University
- Yoorae Noh (Post, Doc 2023) Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
- Vinita Vinod Shinde (PhD, CHEN 2022) Polymer Scientist, Eastman
- Yuyang Wang (PhD, PFEN 2022)
- Jung Min Kim (Luca) (PhD, CHEN 2021) Research Scientist, Samsung SDI America Inc
- Breanna M. Dobyns (PhD, CHEN 2020) Post-doc, U. of South Alabama
- Michael J. Minkler Jr. (PhD, CHEN 2020) Engineer, Milliken & Company
- Vimal Thakkur (MS-NT, PFEN 2020) Engineer, Reliance Composites Polymers
- Shreyas Shelke (MS, PFEN 2019) Materials Technology Engineer, Victaulic
- Sneha B. Chakrapani (MS, CHEN 2019) now at Syngene International







