Members

Principal Investigator

Dr. Haiyan Wang

Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering

Fellow of MRS, APS, AAAS, ACerS, ASM, and NAI

School of Materials Engineering

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Purdue University

Email: hwang00@purdue.edu

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Postdoctoral researcher

Dr. Juanjuan Lu

lu790@purdue.edu

Lizabeth Quigley

quigleyl@purdue.edu

Graduate Students

Amirr Neal

neal103@purdue.edu

Chang Liu

liu3512@purdue.edu

Claire Mihalko

cmihalko@purdue.edu

Shiyu Zhou

zhou1351@purdue.edu

Natalia del Rocio Garcia Godinez

ngarciag@purdue.edu

Jeremy Gan

gan69@purdue.edu

Anirutha Gnanasabai

gnanasab@purdue.edu

Abhijeet Choudhury

choudh54@purdue.edu

Huan Li

li4868@purdue.edu

Jialong Huang

huan1893@purdue.edu

Zhengliang Lin

lin2002@purdue.edu

Yingkai Jiao

jiao42@purdue.edu

Xia Chang Alex

xia234@purdue.edu

Allison Scher

anscher@purdue.edu

Zhongyujie Liu

liu4206@purdue.edu

Gangsan Lee

lee4102@purdue.edu

Chaoran Zhang

zhan5824@purdue.edu

Nathan Hajek

nhajek@purdue.edu

2025 Group Photos

Former Staff Scientist

Dr. Yifan Zhang (2023-2024)

Assistant Professor at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA

Former Postdocs (15)

Dr. Benjamin Stegman (2023-2024) (3D Printing manager)

Now Materials Engineer at Space X

Dr. Bethany Rutherford (2022) (TEM manager)

Now processing engineer at Samsung

Dr. Robynne Paldi (2021) (PLD manager)

Now research Engineer at SRI International

Dr. Di Zhang (2021) (TEM manager)

Now assistant professor at UT Arlington

Dr. Jaehun Cho (2020) (Flash sintering manager)

Now assistant professor at Inha University (South Korea)

Dr. Xing Sun (2020) (PLD manager)

Now processing engineer at Intel (Arizona)

Dr. Zhimin Qi (2020) (PLD manager)

Now processing engineer at Applied Materials

Dr. Xingyao Gao (2020) (PLD Manager)

Now processing engineer at Applied Materials

Dr. Zhongxia Shang (2020-2021) (TEM manager)

Now Staff Scientist for Purdue Microscopy Center, Purdue.

Dr. Jin Li(2020) (TEM manager)

Now professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

Dr. Sichuang Xue (2019-2021) (TEM manager)

Now Professor, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Dr. Jie Jian (2016-2019) (in situ TEM manager)

Now professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

Dr. Jijie Huang (2016-2019) (PLD manager)

Now Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China

Dr. Leigang Li (2016-2017) (PLD manager)

Now professor at Ocean University of China

Dr. Kaiyuan Yu (2013-2014) (in situ TEM, mechanical property testing manager)

Now Professor at China University of Petroleum - Beijing

Former Visiting Scholar (2)

Dr. Jijie Huang (2023)

Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China

Dr. Jin Xu (2013-2014)

Professor at College of Materials, Xiamen University, China

Alumni (40+ Ph.D.s, 20+ from Purdue University (2016-present), 20 from Texas A&M University (2006-2017))

Dr. Nirali Bhatt (2025), now Senior Researcher at ASM (Arizona)
Dr. Zedong Hu (2025), now a Process Engineer at Sandisk (California)
Dr. Lizabeth Quigley (2025), now a postdoc at Purdue MSE
Dr. Benson Tsai (2025), now Process Engineer at Western Digital (China)
Dr. Jiawei Song (2024), now failure analysis engineer at ASM (Arizona)

Dr. Yizhi Zhang (2024), now postdoc researcher at Zhejiang University
Dr. Jianan Shen (2024), now Process Engineer at Micron
Dr. James Barnard (2024), now Process Engineer at Micron
Dr. Juanjuan Lu (2023), now a postdoc and TEM manager at Purdue MSE
Dr. Hongyi Dou (2023), now Process Engineer at Western Digital
Dr. Zihao He (2022), now Process Engineer at Applied Materials
Dr. Bethany Rutherford (2022), now Process Engineer at Samsung (Austin, Texas)
Dr. Juncheng Liu (2022), now Process Engineer at Apple
Dr. Robynne Paldi (2021), see research engineer at SRI International
Dr. Matias Kalaswad (2021), now staff scientist at Sandia National Laboratory
Dr. Xin Li Phuah (2021), now yield engineer at Intel (Hillsboro)
Dr. Di Zhang (2021), see Assistant Professor at UT Arlington
Dr. Bruce Zhang (2020), now at Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division
Dr. Xuejing Wang (2020), now Assistant Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology
Dr. Shikhar Misra (2020), now Assistant Professor at IIT Kanpur
Dr. Zhimin Qi (2019), now Process Engineer at Applied Materials
Dr. Xingyao Gao (2019), now Process Engineer at Applied Materials
Dr. Xing Sun (2019), see Process Engineer at Intel (Arizona)
Dr. Han Wang (2019), now failure analysis engineer at Applied Materials
Dr. Leigang Li (2017), now Associate Professor at Ocean University of China
Dr. Meng Fan (2017), now senior engineer at KLA (Tencor)
Dr. Jijie Huang (2016), now Associate Professor at Sun Yat-sen University, China Former Postdocs list
Dr. Jie Jian (2016), now Associate Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
Dr. Clement Jacob (2016), now Senior Processing Engineer at Micron
Dr. Wenrui Zhang (2015), now Staff Scientist at Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering
Dr. Liang Jiao (2015), now manager at Intel (Hillsboro)
Dr. Fauzia Khatkhatay (2015), now Senior Process Engineer at Samsung (Austin)
Dr. Qing Su (2013) now Senior Process Engineer at Intel (Hillsboro)
Dr. Aiping Chen (2013), now Staff Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Dr. Yuanyuan Zhu (2013), now Associate professor at University of Connecticut
Dr. Li Chen (2013), now at Intel (Hillsboro)
Dr. Chen-Fong Tsai (2013), now at TSMC
Dr. Michelle Myers (2013), now at Intel
Dr. Joon Hwan Lee (2012), Samsung (South Korea)
Dr. Zhenxing Bi (2011), now patent lawyer at Perkins Coie LLP
Dr. Ickchan Kim (2011), now at NIST
Dr. Sungmee Cho (2011), now at ASM
Dr. Roy Araujo (2008), Intel.
Dr. Jong Sik Yoon (2008), Now at LG (South Korea)

Alumni (M.S. and Undergraduate Students)

Lauren Cail (BS, Chemistry (ACS), Minor in MSE, Fall 2023-Spring 2025)

Katrina Evancho (BS, MSE, Minor in Psychology, Spring 2023-Fall 2024)

Matteo Moceri (MS, MSE, Fall 2022-Spring 2024)

Elijah Hollander (BS, MSE, Fall 2023 - Spring 2024)

Ashley Wissel (BS, MSE, Fall 2019 - Spring 2020)

Lisette Lopez Contreras (BS, MSE, Spring 2019)

Matias Kalaswad (USRG 2016 Summer program)

Tianlin Lu (MS, ECEN, Summer 2011)

Fan Zhu (USRG 2010 Summer program)

Travis Neeley (REU 2010 Summer program)

Yichen Lo (MS, ECEN, Summer 2009)

Joshua Yang (BS, ECEN, Summer 2009)

Eric Noonan (BS, ECEN, Summer 2009)

Megan Fitzsimon (BS, ECEN, 2009-2010)

Jie (Joyce) Wang (MS, MSEN, August 2008)

Jiheon Kwon (BS, ECEN, May 2008)

Chia-Yun Chou (MS, MSEN, December 2007)

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