Michael A. Henson Group
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Group Members
Jared Hjersted
6th Year Ph. D.
Jared received his bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Utah. As an undergraduate he spent a semester abroad at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden. Jared joined Professor Henson's group in Fall 2003 and is currently working on dynamic modeling and genome-scale analysis of yeast metabolism.
Pavan Kumar Reddy Kambam
4th Year Ph. D.
Pavan completed his Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering at IIT Madras, Chennai. His final year project was on the two phase flow through micro channels. He is co-advised by Professor Henson and Professor Lianhong Sun, and he is currently working on experimental design and molecular modeling of quourm sensing sytems.
Marty Kolewe
3rd Year Ph. D.
Marty completed his BS in Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. After college, he worked for 3 years as a process control engineer for Amgen in the start up of their BioNext manufacturing facility. Marty is currently working on plant cell culture systems for the production of the anti-cancer agent paclitaxel, and is co-advised by Professor Henson and Professor Susan Roberts.
Neha Raikar
5th Year Ph. D.
Neha Raikar came from Mumbai, India. She completed her Bachelor's in Chemical Engineering at University Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai. Her final year project was on polymerisation reactor design for polyester production. Neha is co-advised by Professor Henson, Professor Mike Malone, and Professor Surita Bhatia, and she is currently working on design and operation strategies for manufacturing structured emulsions.
Jason Rosenberg
2nd Year Ph. D.
Jason received his bachelor's in Chemical Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2007. He interned for three months at the Process Dynamics and Control Group at DuPont in Wilmington Delaware, before joining Professor Henson's group. He is presently working on design and operation strategies for manufacturing structured emulsions. Jason is co-advised by Professor Henson, Professor Mike Malone, and Professor Julian McClements, and is currently working on design and operation strategies for manufacturing structured emulsions.
Christina Vasalou
3rd Year Ph. D.
Christina received her bachelor's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. After graduating she spent a year as a research assistant in RWTH, Aachen. Christina joined Professor Henson's group in 2006 and is currently working on modeling the circadian rhythm generation and synchronization in mammalian cells.
Raja Venkatasubramanian
6th Year Ph. D.
Raja obtained his Bachelor's and Master's degree in Chemical Engineering with specialization in process systems design and engineering through the dual degree program at IIT Bombay. His Master's thesis was titled "Non-linear Stochastic Model Indentification using GOBF-Weiner Models" under the guidance of Prof. S. C. Patwardhan and Prof. R. D. Gudi. He is presently working on Dynamic Modeling of Tumor Growth under the guidance of Professor Henson and Professor Neil Forbes.
Tim Hanly
1st Year Ph.D.
Tim received his BS in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In the summer of 2007, he participated in the UMass Institute for Cellular Engineering REU program. He joined Professor Henson's group in the fall of 2008 and is currently working on metabolic engineering and modeling of microbial consortia for biofuel production.
Jing Su
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Jing Su obtained his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering, the joint program of Georgia Tech and Emory University, with specialization in biomaterials, material informatics, tissue engineering, and systems biology. His PhD thesis was titled "Knowledge Discovery of Cell-cell and Cell-surface Interactions" under the guidance of Dr. J. Carson Meredith, Dr. Zorina Galis, and Dr. Larry McIntire. He is presently working on Multiscale Modeling and Analysis of Circadian Rhythm Generation and Synchronization under the guidance of Professor Henson.
Alumni |
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| Shoujun Bian Bayer Technology Services (Baytown, TX) |
Ph. D. | Project | |
| Bing Cao China BlueStar Membrane Technology Co. (Beijing, China) |
Post-Doc | Project | |
| Zhongzhou Chen Bayer Technology Services (Baytown, TX) |
Post-Doc | Project | |
| Suabtragool Khowinij | M. S. | Project | |
| Michael Kurtz ExxonMobil Chemical (Baton Rouge, LA) |
Ph. D. | Project | |
| Rujun Li Invensys (Houston, TX) |
Ph. D. | Project | |
| Richard McLain ExxonMobil Research and Development (Clinton, NJ) |
Ph. D. | Project | |
| Prashant Mhaskar McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) |
M. S. | Project | |
| Bernabe Quevedo General Electric Advanced Materials (Mount Vernon, IN) |
M. S. | Project | |
| Runhong Qi ExxonMobil Refining (Beaumont, TX) |
Ph. D. | Project | |
| Yongchun Zhang Bayer Bioproducts (Berkeley, CA) |
Ph. D. | Project | |
| Guang-Yan Zhu DTE Engergy (Detroit, MI) |
Ph. D. | Project 1 2 3 |
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