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

  • Joonsoo Kim

    PhD Candidate
    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

  • 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

  • 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 Pre-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 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.

  • Abrar Rauf

    Abrar Rauf

    PhD Pre-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 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

  • 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

  • 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)