April 2022
September 2023
June 2023, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
June 2024, Ocoee River rafting, Ducktown, TN
Group photos
Past Group Memebers
Group alumni at Vanderbilt
❖ Chemistry PhD student Lindsey Weissman rotation: 8/16/2024 - 9/19/24; B.S., SUNY Binghamton.
❖ Chemistry PhD student Ceclia Rava rotation 8/16/2024 - 9/20/24; B.S., Northeastern Univ.
❖ Liangnuo (Nova) Zhang: Undergraduate Summer Research Intern, Smith College; 5/20/2024 - 8/16/2024.
❖ Dehmi Mislenkov: VUSE Undersgradudate Summer Research Program, Saint Mary's College; 5/28/2024 - 8/17/2024.
❖ Nandana Venkitesh: VINSE REU student, UCLA; 6/8/2024 - 8/2/2024.
❖ Dr. Rongrong Yin: Postdoc 3/4/2024 - 8/14/2024. Ph.D., USTC. Now postdoc at Notre Dame.
❖ Liam Chapman: 5/28/2024 - 7/3/2024; high-school intern, RHESS program; Hillsboro High School, Nashville, TN.
❖ Dr. Ming Lei: Postdoc, 8/15/2022 - 6/28/2024; PhD, UC Riverside. Now postdoc at MIT.
❖ Dr. Adrian Dominguez-Castro: Postdoc, 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. Now in industry.
❖ Connor Lane: 5/28/2023 - 7/3/2023; high-school intern, RHESS program; Hillsboro High School, Nashville, TN.
❖ Dr. Wei Zhao: Postdoc, 9/3/2022 - 12/2/2022 for a short-term, three-month appointment; PhD, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology.
Group alumni at UCR
❖ Chuanye Xiong: PhD graduate in Chemical Engineering, 9/12/2019-6/14/2024; B.S. and M.S., Tianjin Univ. Now postdoc at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX.
❖ Fuqing Fu, PhD graduate in Chemistry, 9/10/2019-6/14/2024; co-advised with Prof. Juchen Guo. B.S.: Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology. Now postdoc 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 patent examiner, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
❖ 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 Computational Science and Engineering, 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.