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

  • Sangbo Son

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    2024, Kangwon National University, Geology, Ph.D.

    Ab Initio Thermodynamics for the Crystallization of REE-Carbonate Minerals, Predictive Modeling for Solvothermal Synthesis

  • Joonsoo Kim

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    2025, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering PhD
    2018, Seoul National University, Chemical and Biological Engineering, M.S.
    2016, Seoul National University, Materials Science and Engineering, B.S.E

    Crystallization, carbonate minerals, dolomite, thermodynamics, materials data science

  • Woohyeon Baek

    PhD Candidate
    2019, Kyungpook National University Daegu, Chemistry, M.S.
    2016 - Kyungpook National University Daegu, Geology and Chemistry, B.S.E

    Thermodynamic Atomistic Modeling of Interface, Multiphase, Mineralogy, Crystallography, Electrochemistry, and Solid-State Materials

  • Nicholas David

    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

  • Shibo Tan

    PhD Candidate
    2023, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering M.S.
    2021, University of Pittsburgh, Materials Science and Engineering B.S.E

    Prediction of Solid-State Reaction Onset Temperature, CALPAHD method, Machine Learning of Phase Diagram

  • Gillian James

    PhD Candidate
    2023, University of Michigan, Materials Science and Engineering B.S.E

    Metastability in transition-metal oxides, nucleation kinetics, redox shifts at the nanoscale, high throughput DFT computation, surface energies

  • Joshua Willwerth

    PhD 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.

  • Abrar Rauf

    Abrar Rauf

    PhD Candidate
    2022, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering, B.S.E

    Generalized Computational Framework for High-Dimensional Phase Diagrams, Theoretical Synthesis and Discovery of Materials.

  • Hao-En Peng

    PhD 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

  • 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

  • Daniel Blevins

    PhD Pre-Candidate
    2024, University of Missouri - Columbia , Math B.S, Physics B.S

    Theoretical materials synthesis and discovery, high-dimensional phase geometry, materials informatics, machine learning, energy

  • 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

  • Emily Oliphant (PhD Materials Science and Engineering and Scientific Computing, 2025), MIT Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Jiadong Chen (PhD Materials Science and Engineering and Scientific Computing, 2024), Software Engineer Silicon Valley

  • Krystal Quinn (MS Materials Science and Engineering, 2023), Raytheon

  • 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)