Former Members

Doctoral students


Yongjing Lin (2007-2012; currently with Applied Materials)

Guangbi Yuan (2008-2012; currently with Meta)

Sa Zhou (2007-2012; currently with Gru Energy Lab)

Matt Mayer (2008-2013; currently Research Group Leader at Helmholtz Institute Berlin)

Rui Liu (2008-2013; currently with Western Digital)

Jin Xie (2009-2015; currently Assistant Professor at Shanghai Tech University)

Chun Du (2011-2015; currently faculty at Central China University of Science and Technology)

Xiahui Yao (2012-2017; currently with Gru Energy Lab)

Wei Li (2012-2018; currently with Wang Lab)

Qingmei Cheng (2013-2018)

James Thorne (2013-2018; deceased in June 2019)

Yuming He (2013-2019; currently with Hisilicon)

Qi Dong (2014-2019; currently with University of Maryland)

Da He (2014-2019; currently with Applied Materials)

Jingru Luo (2015-2020; currently with NIO)

Yanyan Zhao (2015-2020; currently with Cabot)

Haochuan Zhang (2017-2022; currently with Wildcat Technologies)

Hongyan Wang

Tongtong Luo

Other graduate students


Weidong He (2007-2008)

Andrew Levine (2008-2010)

Zacahry Simpson (2009-2012)

Carrie Stephani (2011-2013)

Mengdi Liu (2016-2018)

Connor Gallacher (2021-2022)

Postdoctoral researchers


Dr. Huaizhou Zhao (2007-2008)

Dr. Xiaohua Liu (2008-2010; currently with Gru Energy Lab)

Dr. Yang Xu (2011-2012; currently Assistant Professor at University College London)

Dr. Xiaogang Yang (2011-2013; currently with Suzhou University of Science and Technology)

Dr. Ji-Wook Jang (2013-2014; currently Associate Professor at Ulsan Institute of Science and Technology)

Dr. Bingqing Zhang (2018-2019; currently Associate Professor at Hainan University)

Dr. Sufeng Cao (2020; currently with Aramco Service Company)

Dr. Yuanxing Wang (2019-2021; currently Assistant Professor at聽Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Dr. Rong Chen (2019-2021; currently with SES AI Corp)

Dr. Haoyi Li (2019-2022; currently with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab)

Dr. Ben Williams (2020-2023; current faculty at North Florida University)

Dr. Hongna Wang (2021-2023)

Dr. Pengpeng Wang (2023-2024)

Visiting scholars


Yan Zou (2008; currently: Fudan University, China)

Dr. Pengcheng Dai (2012-2014)

Prof. Song Li (2014-2016)

Prof. Peiyan Ma (2015-2016)

Prof. Weiqiang Fan (2016-2017)

Prof. Hongye Bai (2016-2017)

Dr. Shasha Zhu (2016-2017)

Mr. Xin Ba (2016-2017)

Dr. Hongbo Liang (Dec. 2018-May 2019)

Dr. Wenjua Fa (Sept. 2018-Sept. 2019)

Dr. Keyan Li (Sept. 2019 - Aug. 2020)

Undergraduate researchers

Mikayla聽Fahrenbruch聽(2022 -2024)

David Wang聽(2022 -2024)

John聽Santoro聽(2022 -2024)

Neal Mehta聽(2022 -2023)

Caroline Grimes聽(2022 -2023)

Madeline Dolack (2022 -2023)

Haden Wikar (2021-2023)

Justin Lee (2022-2023)

Tara McDonald (2020-2022)

Sean Bryant (2020-2022)

Nicholas Dulock (2019-2022)

Kyle Tro (2021)

Joanna Chloe (2019-2021)

Alinda聽Dersjant (2018-2020)

Christopher Povinneli (2018-2020)

Nicholas Wong (2018-2020)

Jeremy Espano (2017-2019)

Tianyue "Mary" Gao (2017-2019)

Xizi Zhang (2015-2018)

Hajin Hwang (2016-2018)

Ian Madden (2012-2015)

Erik Liu (2014-2017)

Ken Aruda (2009-2010)

Jae Jin (Lisa) Han (2012)

Henry Hoyt

Gregory Bischoping (2012-2015)聽

Jordan Tassone (2013-2015)

Zainul Hasanali (2007-2009)

Stafford Sheehan (2008-2011)