Wenhao Sun
Principal Investigator
2020 - Assistant Professor - University of Michigan
2019 - Staff Scientist - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2016 - Postdoctoral Fellow - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2016 - PhD - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2010 - BS - Northwestern University (Materials Science and Engineering)
2010 - BS - Northwestern University (Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics)
Research Group
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Joonsoo Kim
PhD Candidate
2018, Seoul National University, Chemical and Biological Engineering, M.S.
2016, Seoul National University, Materials Science and Engineering, B.S.ECrystallization, carbonate minerals, dolomite, thermodynamics, materials data science
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Emily Oliphant
PhD Candidate
2017, Idaho State University, Physics, B.S.E(Co-advised by Emmanouil Kioupakis )
Conceptual Band Structure, Tight-Binding, Wannier Functions, generalizable chemical rules for solids and bonding, anomalies in electronic bandstructure, intuition driven materials discovery
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Woohyeon Baek
PhD Candidate
2019, Kyungpook National University Daegu, Chemistry, M.S.
2016 - Kyungpook National University Daegu, Geology and Chemistry, B.S.EThermodynamic Atomistic Modeling of Interface, Multiphase, Mineralogy, Crystallography, Electrochemistry, and Solid-State Materials
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Nicholas David
PhD Candidate
2022, Carnegie Mellon University, Materials Science and Engineering, Additional major in Applied Physics B.S.Materials informatics, Machine learning, Natural language processing, Bayesian statistics
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Shibo Tan
PhD Candidate
2023, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering M.S.
2021, University of Pittsburgh, Materials Science and Engineering B.S.EPrediction of Solid-State Reaction Onset Temperature, CALPAHD method, Machine Learning of Phase Diagram
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Gillian James
PhD Pre-Candidate
2023, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering B.S.EMetastability in transition-metal oxides, nucleation kinetics, redox shifts at the nanoscale, high throughput DFT computation, surface energies
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Joshua Willwerth
PhD Pre-Candidate
2023, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering B.S.E(Co-advised by Alan Taub)
Ab initio phase diagrams for alloy design exploration, high-throughput alloy characterization, data science & multicomponent / high entropy alloy thermodynamics. Studies liquid mixing for copious amounts of time whilst consuming tempered metastable chocolate.
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Abrar Rauf
PhD Pre-Candidate
2022, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, B.S.EGeneralized Computational Framework for High-Dimensional Phase Diagrams, Theoretical Synthesis and Discovery of Materials.
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Hao-En Peng
PhD Pre-Candidate
2023, National Tsing Hua University, Materials Science and Engineering, M.S.
2021, National Tsing Hua University, Materials Science and Engineering, B.S.E(Co-advised by Emmanuelle Marquis)
Oxidation behavior of high-entropy alloys, high-dimensional phase diagrams
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Ayesha Ulde
PhD Pre-Candidate
2024, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Computational Engineering, M.Tech.
2024, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, B.Tech.Materials Thermodynamics, Electronic Phase Diagrams, High-Throughput DFT Calculations
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Daniel Blevins
PhD Pre-Candidate
2024, University of Missouri - Columbia , Math B.S, Physics B.STheoretical materials synthesis and discovery, high-dimensional phase geometry, materials informatics, machine learning, energy
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Kayla Huang
PhD Pre-Candidate
2024, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Materials Science and Engineering, B.S.(Co-advised by Pierre Ferdinand Poudeu)
Predictive synthesis, solid-state synthesis, experimental design and optimization, materials synthesis for clean energy
Alumni
Jiadong Chen (PhD Materials Science and Engineering and Scientific Computing, 2024)
Krystal Quinn (MS Materials Science and Engineering, 2023)
Nina Perry (Undergraduate visiting student, 2023)
Dekota Thies (BS Materials Science and Engineering, 2023)
Peiwen Ren (Undergraduate visiting student, 2022)
Taorui Chen (MS Materials Science and Engineering, 2022)
Anirudh Appachar (MS Materials Science and Engineering, 2022)
Chao Feng (MS Materials Science and Engineering, 2021)
Nicholas Ruble (BS Materials Science and Engineering, 2021)
Brendan Casey Miles (MS Materials Science and Engineering, 2021)
Peter Son-Bell (MS Materials Science and Engineering, 2021)
Daniel Evans (BS Materials Science and Engineering, 2021)