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

  • 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)

    Phase decomposition in high-entropy alloys, high-dimensional phase diagrams, solid-state phase transformation, physical metallurgy, thermodynamics and kinetics of materials, electron microscopy

  • Ayesha Ulde

    PhD 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

  • 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

  • Kaiwen Yu

    PhD Pre-Candidate
    2025, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chemistry (Macromolecule), B.S.

    (Co-advised by Sharon Glotzer)

    Building phase diagrams from interatomic potentials, molecular simulations of self-assembly

Alumni

  • Sangbo Son (Postdoc Materials Science and Engineering 2026), National Research Foundation of Korea — Postdoctoral fellow

  • Joonsoo Kim (PhD Materials Science and Engineering 2025), AstralQ

  • Daniel Blevins (MS Materials Science and Engineering 2025), Engineering @ Texas Instruments

  • 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)