People

Principal Investigator

Associate Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, Rice University
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
M.S. and B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

Ming obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT, where he received outstanding thesis award for his dissertation “Thermodynamic and Morphological Transitions in Crystalline and Soft Materials Interfaces”. After graduation, he launched his career at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory first as a Lawrence Postdoctoral Fellow and then a staff scientist. He joined Shell Oil in 2013 as a materials and corrosion engineer, where he focused on applying materials science and novel technologies to solve practical materials & corrosion problems in the oil & gas industry. In 2015, he became an assistant professor at Rice University in 2015. Ming is a recipient of the DOE Early Career Award and Rice School of Engineering Teaching and Research Excellence Award.

Graduate Students

Shaoxun Fan

PhD candidate
M.S., B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, China

Andrew Hitt

PhD candidate
M.S., B.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Brown University

Zeyuan Li

PhD candidate

M.S., Columbia University

B.S., Peking University

Faizal Arifurrahman

PhD candidate, Fulbright scholar

M.S., Cranfield University, UK

B.S., Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia

Hongxuan (Max) Wang

PhD candidate

B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Duke University

Benjamin Cheung

PhD candidate

B.S. in Physics, Case Western Reserve University

Zhaoshun Wang

PhD candidate

M.S. in Chemical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

B.S. in Chemistry, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Yunlu Han

PhD candidate

B.S. in Chemistry, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dr. Liang, Hong, Senior software engineer at Mathworks

Dr. Zhili Hu, Currently Assistant Professor at College of Aerospace Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China.

PhD Students

Yavuz Savsatli, (2023), Zeta Energy

Youtian Zhang (2022), Western Digital

Fan Wang (2021), Ford Motor Company

Kaiqi Yang (2021), ATL

Master Students

Yannan Ma

Kuei-Yu Hsu

Alexander Foucher, PhD student at University of Pennsylvania

Ying Huang, PhD student at UC Irvine

Zhao Zhao, PhD student at Boston University

Xiaoxiao Zhang, Freeport McMoRan

Chujia Chen, CGG

Xiting Yang (2020)

Yuhan Lin (2022)

Yiwen Shi (2022)

Zelai He (2022)

Zexi Zhang (2023)

Yifan Wang (2023)

Yongqi Zhuo (2023)

Haizhou Zhan (2023)

Undergraduate Students

Yifan Henry Cao (2020), PhD student at MIT

Joseph Samara (2020), undergraduate student in MSNE, Rice

Maya Borowicz (2021), undergradate student in ECE, Rice