Computational Materials Group

CMG Alumni

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Past Staff Scientist

  • Xiangguo Li (Staff Scientist 2020-2021): Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), China
  • Ram Krishnamurthy (Assistant Scientist 2013-2014): Staff scientist at Air Force Research Lab Ohio
  • Chao Jiang (Assistant Scientist 2012-2013): Scientist at Idaho National Lab
  • Ridwan Sakidja (Assistent Scientist 2011-2012): Associate Professor at Missouri State University

Past Posdoctoral Scholars

  • Dr. Khagendra Baral (Postdoc: 2022 – 2024)
  • Dr. Jianqi Xi (Postdoc: 2017-2021, Assistant Scientist 2021 – 2023)
  • Hongliang Zhang (Postdoc 2018-2020): Assistant Scientist at University of Wisconsin – Madison
  • Senlin Cui (Postdoc 2018-2019): Postdoc at Ames laboratory; Now Associate Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
  • Dr.  Xing Wang (Postdoc; 2016 – 2017):
  • Dr. Hubin Luo (Visiting Scholar: 2017-2018)
  • Shipeng Shu (Postdoc 2015-2018): Postdoc at Northwestern University; Now Materials Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory
  • Martha Gialampouki (Postdoc 2016-2018): Research Associates at Universite Catholique de Louvain – UCL; Now Project Officer at CINEA – European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
  • George Bokas (Postdoc 2014-2018): Research Associates at Universite Catholique de Louvain – UCL; Research Engineer at Siemens Digital Industries Software; Now Project Officer at CINEA – European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
  • Guangfu Luo (Postdoc 2012-2017): Research Scientist at Washington University in St. Louis; Now Faculty at Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), China
  • Jia-hong Ke (Postdoc 2015-2017): Faculty Research Associate at Oregon State University; Now Computational Scientist at Idaho National Laboratory
  • Mahmood Mamivand (Postdoc 2014-2017): Assistant Professor at Boise State University
  • Henry Wu (Postdoc 2013-2017)
  • Zhongnan Xu (Postdoc 2016-2017): Yield Engineer at Intel
  • Min Yu (Postdoc 2013-2015): Data Scientist at Kemper
  • Parijat Sengupta (Postdoc 2014-2015): Postdoc at Univeristy of Boston
  • Hyo On Nam (Postdoc 2012-2015): Scientist in Korea Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI)
  • Ming-Jie Zheng (Postdoc 2010-2014): associate researcher, Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Jie Deng (Postdoc 2012-2014): Development Engineer in SC Johnson
  • Katharina Vörtler (Postdoc 2012-2014): Systemberaterin at Robotron Datenbank-Software GmbH
  • Anh T. Ngo (Postdoc 2012-2013): Postdoc at Princeton University
  • Shujiang Yang (Postdoc 2012-2013): contractor at Deere & Company at Moline, IL
  • Glen Jenness (Postdoc 2013): Postdoc at Catalysis Center for Energy Innovation (CCEI), University of Delaware
  • Wei Xiong (Postdoc 2012-2013): Research Associate at Northwestern University; Now Assistant Professor at University of Pittsburgh
  • Ha Nguyen (Postdoc 2012-2013)
  • Bing Zheng (Postdoc 2012-2013): Associate Professor, Beijing Institute of Technology
  • Brian Puchala (Postdoc 2010-2013): Assistant Research Scientist, University of Michigan
  • Alejandro Londono (Postdoc 2010-2012): Polymer modeling engineer at 3M
  • Mehdi Benhassine (Postdoc 2010-2012): Now Assistant de recherche at Faculté Polytechnique de Mons – UMONS
  • Narasimhan Swaminthan (Postdoc 2009-2012): Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
  • Yueh-Lin Lee (Postdoc 2011-2012): Postdoc at MIT; Now Scientist at National Energy Technology Laboratory
  • Saumitra Saha (Postdoc 2009-2012): Now Researcher at the University of Melbourne
  • Shih-kang Lin (Postdoc 2010-2011): Associate Professor with tenure at National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
  • Ligen Wang (Postdoc 2009-2010): California Institute of Technology
  • Kim Sungtae, PhD (Staff scientist 2008-2010), Performance Assessment and Detection Analysis Dept. Sandia National Laboratories
  • Samrat Choudhury (Postdoc 2008-2010): Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at Los Alamos National Lab
  • Andrew Heim (Postdoc 2008-2010): Postdoc Research Fellow in Computer-Aided Drug Design and Structural Bioinformatics in University of the Sciences in Philadelphia

Past Graduate

  • Vrishank Jambur (PhD 2023)
  • Ben Afflerbach (PhD 2022): Postdoc at UW-Madison
  • Lin Lin (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2022): Postdoc at Princeton University
  • Dongzheng Chen (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2022): Staff Engineer, R&D Engineering, Western Digital
  • Jun Young Kim (Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2022)
  • Mingren Shen (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021): Software development engineering at Amazon
  • Yeqi (Faust) Shi (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021): Postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Benjamin Afflerbach (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021): Postdoc at CMG, UW-Madison
  • Zhuohan Li (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021): Postdoc at Berkeley Lab
  • Yipeng Cao (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021)
  • Tianyu Ma (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021): Huawei Technologies, Co. Ltd.
  • Gregory Palmer (Master, 2020)
  • Shuxiang Zhou (PhD, 2020): Idaho National Lab
  • Chaiyapat Tangpatjaroen (PhD in Materials Science, 2019): ASML
  • Cheng Liu (PhD in Engineering Physics, 2019): Apple Inc.
  • Tomonori Baba (Master in Engineering Physics, 2018):
  • Wei Li (Master in Materials Science, 2018): Software Engineer at Google
  • Jie Feng (PhD in Materials Science, 2018): Machine Learning Engineer at Applied Materials; Now Applied Scientist II at Amazon
  • Hao Jiang (PhD in Materials Science, 2017): Process Engineer at Applied Materials
  • Lei Zhao (PhD in Materials Science, 2017): Software Development Engineer at Amazon
  • Huibin Ke (PhD in Materials Science, 2017): Postdoc at Ohio State University; Now Assistant Professor at Beijing Institute of Technology, China
  • Tam Mayeshiba (PhD in Materials Science, 2017): Linux Systems Administrator, UW-Madison Libraries
  • Shenzhen Xu (PhD in Materials Science, 2017): Postdoc at Princeton University; Now Assistant Professor at Peking University, China
  • Hyunseok Ko (PhD in Materials Science, 2017): Researcher at Korea Institute of Ceramic Engineering and Technology (KICET)
  • Franklin Hobbs (Master in Materials Science, 2017)
  • Zhewen Song (Master in Materials Science, 2017): Software Engineer at Bloomberg
  • Mehrdad Arjmand (PhD in Engineering Mechanics, 2016): co-founder at NovoMoto
  • Xing Wang (PhD in Engineering Physics, 2016): Postdoc at Oak Ridge National Lab; Now Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University
  • Ao Li (PhD in Materials Science, 2016): Master at New York University, Mathematical Finance Program; Associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Associate, Portfolio Manager at PIMCO
  • Wei Xie (PhD in Materials Science, 2014): Postdoc at UC-Berkeley; Now Faculty at Shanghai University in the Materials Genome Institute.
  • Austin Way: Graduate student at UW-Madison
  • Kai Huang (PhD in Materials Science, 2015): Postdoc at Northwestern University; Now at Shenzhen Bay Laboratory
  • Ryan Jacobs (PhD in Materials Science, 2015): Staff Scientist at CMG, UW-Madison
  • Zhizhang Shen (PhD in Geoscience, 2015): Postdoc at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • James Gilbert (PhD in Materials Science, 2015): Postdoc at Argonne National Lab; Now Assistant Materials Scientist at Argonne National Lab
  • Milind Gadre (PhD in Materials Science, 2014): Process engineer at Applied Materials
  • Leland Barnard (PhD in Materials Science, 2013): Materials Engineer at Buehler; Now Bioinformatics R&D Engineer at Regeneron Genetics Center
  • Nathan Pinney (PhD in Materials Science, 2013): Sr. Research Scientist at Genscape Inc.; Now Chief Technology Officer at LineVision
  • Yun Liu (PhD in Materials Science, 2012): Postdoc at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Now working at Apple Inc.
  • Maneesh Mishra (PhD in Materials Science, 2012): Process Engineer at Micron Technology
  • Heather Jacobsen (M.S. in CBE, 2012)
  • Erman Erdogan (M.S. in Materials Science, 2012)
  • Marcin Wojdyr
  • Chao Shen (M.S. in Materials Science, 2012)
  • Edward (Ted) Holby (PhD in Materials Science, 2011): Postdoctoral researcher at Los Alamos National Lab; Now staff scientist at Los Alamos National Lab
  • Yueh-Lin Lee (PhD in Materials Science, 2011): Postdoctral Research Associate at MIT; Now ORISE Fellow at National Energy Technology Laboratory
  • Sarah Khalil (M.S. in Materials Science, 2010)
  • Anshuman Sharma (M.S. in Materials Science, 2010): A.O. Smith India
  • Benjamin Swoboda (M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Engineering Physics, 2010): Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory
  • David Shrader (M.S. in Materials Science, 2010): Systems Engineer, Intermediate, High Performance Computing Systems Integration, Application’s Readiness, Los Alamos National Lab
  • Yifei Mo (PhD in Materials Science, 2010): Postdoc in Ceder Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Assistant Professor at University of Maryland;
  • Vasilios Vlahos (PhD, 2009):
  • Julie Tucker (PhD, 2008): Principal Scientist at Bechtel Marine propulsion Corporation; Now Assistant Professor at Oregon State University
  • Amelia (Amy) Bengtson (PhD, 2008):  Turner Postdoc, University of Michigan

Past Undergraduate

  • Benjamin Anderson (Informatics Skunkworks Team, 2015)
  • Parker Sear (2015): Graduate student at University of Colorado Boulder, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
  • Andrew Sanville
  • Tom Angsten (2013): PhD student at UC Berkeley
  • Paul Kamenski (2008): PhD student in Department of Materials at University of Oxford
  • Haotian Will Wu (2015)

Past Visitors

  • Qiang Zheng (graduate student, 2019-2021): University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
  • Juan David Tapia Perez (graduate student, 2018-2019): Universidad de Antioquia, Columbia
  • Yu-chen Liu (graduate student, 2017-2018): National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
  • Hubin Luo (staff scientist, 2016-2018): Ningbo Institue of Industrial Technology, Ningbo, China
  • Haijin Lu (graduate student, 2016-2018): Shanghai University, Shanghai, China
  • Maciej Piotr Polak (graduate student, 2017-2018): Wroclaw University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland
  • Jui-Shen Chang (2015)
  • Saswati De (summer, 2014)
  • Kumaresh Murugan (graduate student, spring 2013, fall 2013, and spring 2014): Working at Amazon
  • Hyunwoo Kim (undergraduate student, spring 2013)
  • Chandana Hosamane Kabbali (summer 2014)
  • Zbigniew Dendzik (visiting scholar, spring 2014): University of Silesia
  • Alexa Gonzalez Rosario (undergraduate student summer 2013): University of Puerto Rico
  • Jihad Naja (undergraduate student Summer 2013): American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • Nada Alameddine (undergraduate student Summer 2013): American University of Beirut, Lebanon
  • Sebastian Gast (graduate student 2012-2013): University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • Hamed Hosseinzadeh (graduate student 2013)
  • Jianhong Dai (2011, 2011): Harbin Institute of Technology
  • Jing Han (2011, 2011): China University of Mining and Technology
  • Yamil Huertas Morales (undergraduate student summer 2012): undergraduate student at the University of Puerto Rico – Bayamon Campus
  • Oscar Fajardo (2010, 2011): PhD student at Universidad de Zaragoza – ICMA, Zaragoza
  • Chaohui He (visiting professor, 2011): Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China
  • Riza Dervisoglu (M.S., 2010): PhD student at Stony Brook University