Principle Investigator

Xuedan Ma
Associate Professor
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
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Postdoctoral and Visiting scholars

Dr. Jia-Shiang Chen
Visiting Scholar
Ph.D in Chemistry

Dr. Zhengjie Huang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D in Physics 

Dr. Oscar Huang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D in Chemistry  

Graduate Students

Kaitlin McAllister
Graduate student
Applied Physics
Kaitlin began pursuing her PhD at Rice University in Fall 2024 and joined the Ma group in Spring 2025.

Baxter Flor
Graduate student
Chemistry, Northwestern University (co-advisor: Prof. George Schatz)

Visiting Students

Xin-He Lin
Undergraduate student
Chemistry
National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

Kieran Caradec
Graduate student
Physics
Sorbonne University, France

Group Alumni

Dr. Yulei Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher (UMass)
Dr. Ying Yang, Postdoctoral Researcher (Cornell)
Dr. Ruggero Emmanuele, Postdoctoral Researcher (LANL)
Dr. Kyriacos Georgiou, Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Cyprus)
Dr. Xinxin Li, Postdoctoral Researcher (R&D Engineer, Applied Optoelectronics Inc.)
Dr. Darien Morrow, Postdoctoral Researcher (Emerald Cloud Lab)
Dr. Wei Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher (ZhangJiang Lab)
Dr. Sven-Hendrik Lohmann, Postdoctoral Researcher (MSH Medical School Hamburg)
Dr. Lintao Peng, Postdoctoral Researcher (Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield)
Diego Garcia, Undergraduate Intern Student (Purdue U)
Zixi Xia, Undergraduate Intern student (USTC)