Lillian Tsitsi Mambiri is a chemical engineer and researcher with a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering (Chemical) from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She currently works as a Process Engineer at SLB, where she supports gas treatment and carbon capture projects. Her research has focused on the development of nanocomposite scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, with publications and presentations at national conferences. Dr. Mambiri has received awards for sustainable development research and honors from the Materials Research Society (MRS).

Ms. Riley Elizabeth Guillory will receive her Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering with a Bioengineering concentration and minors in Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, and Chemistry from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in May 2027. She is currently pursuing undergraduate research in biochemical and biomedical engineering. Ms. Guillory has worked as a Student Researcher at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette since 2023. In 2025, she joined a biochemical engineering research project and was selected for the Louisiana Undergraduate Research Assistantship (LURA) program. Her research interests include biosensors, nanomaterials, carbon nanoscrolls, chitosan and its biomedical applications, biomaterials, AI-based machine learning, Python, and Aspen Plus.

Dr. Dilip Depan is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the Institute for Materials Research and Innovation, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He received his B.S. in Chemistry and M.S. in Applied Chemistry from M.D.S. University, India, in 2000 and 2002, respectively, and his Ph.D. in Polymer Science and Engineering from the National Chemical Laboratory, India, in 2009. His research interests include understanding nanoscale-level interactions between graphene nanoscrolls, carbon nanotubes, and polymers.