GROUP MEMBERS

Yuqing Fu
Chuanye Xiong
Haohong Song
Yujing Tong
Shicheng Li
Qiuyao Li
Dr. Hongjun Liu
Dr. Ming Lei
Dr. Bo Li
Yiming Chen
Anton Pozdeev
Yinan Yang
Vikash Khokhar

Alumni at Vanderbilt:

❖ Postdoc Adrian Dominguez-Castro: 2/3/2023 - 1/9/2024; PhD, University of Bremen, Germany.

❖ Mina Singh: MS in ChE, 9/1/2022 - 12/26/2023; B.S., Tulane University.

 Dr. Wei Zhao: Postdoc, 9/3/2022 - 12/2/202 for a short-term, three-month appointment; PhD, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology.


Group alumni at UCR

Hyuna Kwon: PhD graduate, 6/18/2021 - 3/25/2023; co-advised with Prof. Bryan Wong; B.S., Seoul National University. Now Postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA.

Tongyu Liu: Ph.D. graduate, 7/1/2019 - 1/8/2023; B.S., Univ. of Sci. Tech. China (USTC); M.S., Georgia State Univ. Now Boya Postdoc Fellow at Peking University, Beijing, China.

Dr. Lu Wang: Postdoc, 10/1/2021 - 9/30/2022; Ph.D., China University of Petroleum.

❖ Dr. Dhileep Reddy: Postdoc, 3/29/2021-6/25/2022. Ph.D., IIT Hyderabad. Now Postdoc at University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Kristen Wang: Ph.D. graduate, 8/7/2018 - 6/10/2022; B.S., University of California, San Diego. Now Instructor, Southwestern Community College, National City, CA.

Krystal Adan, undergraduate Honors’ student, Capstone project and senior research, Fall 2020 - Winter 2022.

Dr. Tao Wu: Postdoc, May 1, 2020 - Nov. 25, 2021; Ph.D., Nanjing University of Science and Technology. Now, a faculty member in Dalian Institute of Technology, Dalian, China.

Yangyunli Sun: Ph.D. graduate, 9/11/2017 - 8/2/2021; B.S., BeiHang University; M.S., USTC. Now, working in a company in Shanghai, China.

Dr. Shaoqi Zhan: Postdoc, 2/27/2020 - 2/12/2021; Ph.D., KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. Now, a postdoc at University of Oxford, Oxford, England.

Jiali Yang: visiting student, 9/9/2019 - 9/20/2020, from Chongqing Univ.

Lihua (Libby) Xu: Ph.D. graduate, 10/10/2018 - 7/31/2020; Interim Postdoc, 8/3/2020 - 9/4/2020. B.S., Beijing Univ. of Chemical Tech.; M.S., Univ. of Akron. Now, Senior Engineer, Samsung, San Jose, CA.

Nicole Onishi Feider: MS graduate, 11/20/2017 - 8/31/2020, and Spring 2021; B.S., Western Washington University. Now, Tenure Track Chemisry Instructor, Green River College, Auburn, WA.

Dr. Weiqiang Lv: Visiting scholar from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu),1/6/2020 - 8/20/2020.

Dr. Xianglan Xu: Visiting scholar from Nanchang Univ, 9/6/2019 - 8/16/2020.

Song Wang: Ph.D. graduate; 9/6/2016 - 7/31/2020; B.S., USTC. Now, Associate Staff Scientist, USTC, Hefei, China.

Dr. Xiang He: Visiting scholar from Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 4/24/2019 - 6/25/2020.

Izabel Lopez: undergraduate researcher (senior research), Jan. - June 2020. Now, Quality Control Chemist, Nora Pharma, Riverside, CA.

Dr. Bo Li: Postdoc, 11/02/2016-1/24/2020; Ph.D., Technical University of Munich; B.S., Peking Univ. Now, Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University.

Dr. Meena Singh: Postdoc, 1/23/2019 - 1/22/2020; Ph.D., Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India.

Qiang Wan: Visiting student, 12/3/2018 - 11/30/2019; Ph.D. student at Fuzhou Univ.

Peng Chi: Undergraduate summer intern from USTC, 7/1/2019-9/12/2019.

Victor Fung: Ph.D. graduate, 7/10/2015 - 5/10/2019; B.S., Cornell University. Now, Assistant Professor, School of Computing, Georgia Instittue of Technology.

Yijing Gao: Visiting Ph.D. student from Zhejiang University of Tech; 11/2/2018-5/3/2019. Now, Lecturer in Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang.

Dr. Rui Li: Visiting professor from Liaocheng University, 2/26/2018-2/25/2019.

Rui Xie: Graduate student, 9/12/2017 - 1/23/2019; B.S., Nankai Univ.

Cheng Zhan: Ph.D. graduate, 9/8/2014 - 6/30/2018; assistant project scientist, 7/1/2018-9/30/2018; B.S., University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Now, a faculty member at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, China.

Chad Priest: Ph.D. graduate: 9/2/2014 - 6/30/2018; assistant project scientist, 7/1/2018-9/30/2018; B.S., University of California, San Diego. Now, a postdoc at UCSD, La Jolla, CA.

Shaoze Zhang: Visiting Ph.D. Student from East China University of Science and Technology, 9/28/2017-9/27/2018. Now, a faculty member in Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China.

Taoyi Kong: Undergraduate student intern, from USTC, 7/2/2018 - 9/10/2018.

Dr. Runhong Huang: Assistant Project Scientist, 3/1/2017 - 8/10/2018; Ph.D., Monash University. Now, Quantitative Engineer at Goldman Sachs, New York, NY.

Dr. Huilong Dong: Visiting scholar from Soochow University, 5/5/2017 - 7/5/2018. Now, associate professor in Changshu Institute of Technology, Jiangsu.

Guoxiang Hu: Ph.D. graduate, 1/18/2016 - 6/1/2018; B.S., USTC. Now, assistant professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Altanta, GA. (website)

Cai Ning: Visiting student from Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, 10/6/2017-4/6/2018.

Prof. Lei Zhu: Sabbatical faculty from Florida State University, 9/14/2017-12/14/2017.

Dr. Ziqi Tian: Postdoc, 09/29/2014 - 09/29/2017; Ph.D., Nanjing University. Now staff scientist, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences (website).

Yadong Zhang: visiting student from Nanjing Univ. of Science and Technology, 9/26/2016-9/27/2017.

Dr. Qing Tang: Postdoc, 14 July 2014 - 22 July 2017; Ph.D., Nankai University. Now tenure-track faculty, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing Univ., China (website).

Jingwei Zhou: Visiting student from Sun Yat-Sen University, 12/2015 - 11/2016. Now in private industry.

Weihong Wu: visiting student from East China University of Science and Technology, 9/30/2015-9/30/2016. Now in private industry.

Mark Micklich: joint student (major professor, Ludwig Bartels), in UCR MSE program, 9/2015 - 9/2016.

Watit Sontising: graduate student, 5/2015-11/2015.

Dr. Runhai Ouyang: Postdoc, 2014-2015. Faculty, the Material Genome Institute, Shanghai University.

Yanlin (Christopher) Song: Undergraduate student, UCR Chemical Engineering Sophomore, Fall 2015-Winter 2016.

Wilberth Narvaez: Undergraduate student from Cal. State Long Beach, NSF MacREU summer research, 6/15/2015 - 8/21/2015.

Zhongxuan Zhang: Undergraduate student, UCR Junior, CNAS, Winter 2015 - Spring 2015.


Group alumini at ORNL:

Prof. Craig Teague, ORISE Visiting Faculty (summer 2014) and sabbatical research (2009-2010), from Cornell College, Iowa.

Ms. Ping Wu, visiting student (12/2012-06/2013), from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC); now a postdoc at USTC.

Dr. Hongjun Liu, postdoc (2012-2014), now working at University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Dr. Song-Hai Chai, postdoc (2010-2012), now working at Nanotek Instruments, Inc., Dayton, Ohio.

Dr. Nan Shao, postdoc (2011-2012), now working at University of Nebraska, Omaha.

Dr. Ravichandar Babarao, postdoc (2010-2012), now Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University, Australia.

Melissa Golden, HBCU/MEI faculty awardee (summer 2011), from California State University, Fresno

Fengyu Li, visiting student (summer 2010), from University of Puerto Rico (UPR); now a professor at Inner Mongolia University.


October 2019

November 2018

October 2017

October 2017

October 2016

August 2015

September 2014

Dr. Qing Tang
Weihong Wu
Jingwei Zhou
Yadong Zhang
Guoxiang (Panpan) Hu
Dr. Huilong Dong
Dr. Runhong Huang
Cai Ning
Shaoze Zhang
Chad Priest
Cheng Zhan
Rui Xie
Dr. Rui Li
Yijing Gao
Victor Fung
Qiang Wan
Dr. Meena Singh
Dr. Bo Li
Dr. Xiang He
Song Wang
Dr. Xianglan Xu
Dr. Weiqiang Lv
Nicole Onishi
Lihua (Libby) Xu
Jiali Yang
Dr. Shaoqi Zhan
Yangyunli Sun
Dr. Tao Wu
Kristen Wang
Dr. Ziqi Tian
Dr. Dhileep Reddy
Dr. Lu Wang
Dr. Wei Zhao
Tongyu Liu
Hyuna Kwon
Mina Saleh
Dr. Adrian Dominguez-Castro

* iMS Ph.D. student Vikash Khokhar joined on 1/29/2024.

* ChE Ph.D. student Anton Pozdeev joined on 1/3/2024; B.S., Moscow State University.

* ChE Ph.D. student Shuai Yuan joined on 11/3/2023

* ChE Ph.D. student Jinyi Zhang joined on 11/3/2023

* ChE Ph.D. student Yinan Yang joined on 11/3/2023

* Undergraduate student Yiming Chen joined on 8/3/2023

* Research Assistant Professor Hongjun Liu joined on 1/17/2023; PhD, Columbia Univ.

* Research Assistant Professor Bo Li joined on 1/2023; PhD, Technical University of Munich.

* Postdoc Ming Lei joined on 8/15/2022; PhD, UC Riverside.

* Ph.D. student Qiuyao Li joined on 3/28/2022; B.S., Sichuan University; M.S., USTC.

* Ph.D. student Shicheng Li joined on 9/20/2021; B.S., Zhejiang University.

* Ph.D. student: Yujing Tong joined on 1/4/2021; B.S., USTC. In-person at UCR, 9/3/2021.

* Ph.D. student: Haohong Song (MSE) joined on 9/14/2020; B.S., USTC. In-person at UCR, 8/30/2021.

* Ph.D. student: Chuanye Xiong (CEE), joined on 9/12/2019; B.S. and M.S., Tianjin Univ.

* Ph.D. student: Yuqing Fu, joined on 9/10/2019; B.S.: Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology.


Current Group Members:

April 2022

September 2023

June 2023