Member

 

Haimei Zheng, PI

    Senior Staff Scientist
            MSD, LBNL
     Adjunct  professor
          MSE, UC Berkeley
                    CV
Email: hmzheng@lbl.gov Phone: 510 486 6352
 
 

Diyi (Dylan) Cheng, postdoc

Postdoc (2023 – present)
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego (2023)
B.S., Materials Physics, Jilin University (2017)
 
 
 

Daewon Lee, postdoc

Interim Postdoc (2026 – present)
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2025)
M.S., Materials Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology  (2016)
B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology  (2014)
Email: dw_lee@lbl.gov
 
 

Zhen Wang, postdoc

Postdoc (Dec. 2025 – present)
Ph.D., Department of Energy, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea (2023)
B.S., School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science & Technology  (2014)
Email: zhenw@lbl.gov
 
 
 

Yi Chen, PhD student

Graduate Student (2023– present)
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2023-present)
M.Eng., Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2021-2022)
B.S., Chemistry, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (2016-2020)
 
 
 

Jiana Zheng, PhD student

Graduate Student (2024 – present)
Ph.D., Materials Science & Engineering, University of California, Berkeley (2024-present)
B.S, Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China (2020-2024)
 
 
 
 

Amy Ren, Research Assistant

Research Assistant (2023 – present)
B.S., Physics, University of California, Santa Barbabra (2022)
 
 

 

 

Botai Li, Undergraduate Researcher

Undergraduate Researcher (2025– present)

Chemical Engineering with Minor in Data Science, UC Berkeley (since 2024)

Email: bqwtie@berkeley.edu
 
 

 

 

Joshua Gunsalus, Undergraduate Researcher

Undergraduate Researcher (2025– present)

Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley (since 2024)

Email: joshua325000@berkeley.edu
 

 

 

 

Anders Thomas Voss, Undergraduate Researcher

Undergraduate Researcher (2025– present)

Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley (since 2024)

Email: anderstvoss@berkeley.edu
 

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Group Alumni

Postdocs

Postdoc: Honggang Liao (2011-2016)

Current: Professor, Xiamen University

Postdoc: Huolin Xin (2011-2013)

Current: Professor, UC Irvine

Postdoc: Kaiyang Niu (2011-2016)

Current: Senior Scientist, TDK Headway Technologies

Postdoc: Minghua Sun (2012-2013)

Current: Engineer

Postdoc: Zhiyuan Zeng (2013-2017)

Current: Professor, Hongkong City University

Postdoc: Yimin Wu (2013-2014)

Current: Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada

Postdoc: Runzhe Tao (2013-2014)

Current: Engineer, EAG Laboratories

Postdoc: Xin Liu (2014-2015)

Current: Engineer, Applied Materials Inc.

Postdoc: Xuezeng Tian (2015-2016; SIBRISE, Singapore)

Current: Professor 

Postdoc: Lei Yu (2016-2018 )

Current: Engineer, KLA Corporation

Postdoc: Zhanxi Fan (2017-2018)

Current: Professor, Hongkong City University

Postdoc: Jiwoog Yang (2017-2019)

Current: Professor, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Korea

Postdoc: Seunyong Lee (2018-2020)

Current: Professor, Hanyang University, Korea

Postdoc: Yu Wang (2018-2021)

Current: Professor, Guangzhou Science and Technology University

Postdoc: Yujun Xie (2020-2022)

Current: Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Postdoc: Sophia Betzler (2018-2021)

Current: Engineer, Applied Materials Inc.

Postdoc: Xianhu Sun (2022-2024)

Current: Professor, CH Science and Technology University

Postdoc: Qiubo Zhang (2019-2024)/Project scientist (2024-2025)

Current: Professor, Southwest University

Ph.D. Students

Matthew Hauwiller (UC Berkeley, Chemistry (Thesis with Paul Alivsatos), 2016-2018)

Current: Seagate Technology PLC 

Junyi Shangguan (UC Berkeley, Materials Science & Engineering, 2017-2022)

Current: Engineer, TDK Headway Technologies

Jiawei Wan (UC Berkeley, Materials Science & Engineering, 2019-2024)

Current: Engineer, Applied Materials

Qi Zheng (UC Berkeley, Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2021-2024)

Current: Postdoc, Stanford University

Daewon Lee (UC Berkeley, Materials Science & Engineering, 2019-2025)

Master Students

Haochen Li (UC Berkeley, 2017)

Visiting Ph.D. Students

Wen-I Liang  (National Chiao Tung University, 2013-2015)

Chung-Hua Chiu (National Chiao Tung University, 2014)

Tao Xiu (Southeast University, 2015-2016)

Yilong Zhou (Southeast University, 2014-2016)

Ye Fan (University of Oxford, 2015 Winer)

Juan Yang ( Dalian University of Science and Technology, 2017)

Xiaowei Zhang (Nanjing University, 2016-2017)

Qiubo Zhang (Southeast University, 2017-2019)

Xinxing Peng (Xiamen University, 2017-2019)

Wen Wang (Southeast University, 2018-2020)

Jiawei Sun (Southeast University, 2018-2020)

Chi Zhang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2018-2020)

Qi Zheng (Southeast University, 2018-2021)

Hyeonjong Ma (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), 2024-2025)

Undergraduate Students

Ann Choi (UIUC, COINS program, UC Berkeley, 2014 Summer)

Alex Powers (UC Berkeley, Chemistry, 2014-2016)

Ugochukwu Nwosu (UC Berkeley, Chemical Engineering, 2015-2016)

Weijia Chen (University of Science and Technology, 2016)

Raylin Chen (UC Berkley, Chemistry, 2016-2017)

Alyson Shen (UC Berkeley, MSE, 2016-2017)

Mo Lin (UC Berkeley, International Student Program @ MSE, 2019)

Kanokwan (Kano) Tungkitkancharoen (MIT, SULI Program LBNL 2025)

Visiting Scholars

Professor Liang Fang (Chongqing University, 2014)

Professor Junyi Wang (Jiangsu University, 2016-2017)

Dr. Tai-Feng Huang (Industrial Technology Research Institute, 2017-2018)

Professor Haicheng Wang  (Beijing Institute of Science and Technology, 2017-2018)

Professor Ming-Yen Lu  (National Tsing Hua University, 2019-2020)