Principle Investigator

Xuedan Ma
Associate Professor
Materials Science and NanoEngineering
Google Scholar

Postdoctoral and Visiting scholars

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

Dr. Zhengjie Huang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Ph.D in Physics 

Graduate and Visiting Students

You Li
Graduate student
Applied Physics
You began his PhD degree at Rice University in Fall 2023. 

Kieran Caradec
Graduate student
Physics
Sorbonne University, France

Santiago Triana Bejarano
Graduate student
Applied Physics
Santiago began his PhD degree at Rice University in Fall 2025. 

Jyotiraditya Mishra
Graduate student
Applied Physics
Aditya began his PhD degree at Rice University in Fall 2025. 

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)
Xin-He Lin, Undergraduate Intern student (National Taiwan Normal University)