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Postdoctoral Research Fellows:

1. Songyang Pu (PhD, Pennsylvania State University, 2021).  Songyang did his PhD with Jainendra Jain at Penn State, followed by postdocs at Leeds University with Zlatko Papic and at University of Tennessee with Rui-Xing Zhang.  He is working on anomalous fractional Hall effects recently observed in twisted 2D materials.  

Ph.D. Students

1. Liangtao Peng (BS, Physics, 2021, Xiamen University, Fujian, China).   Liangtao started his PhD with me in Singapore and moved with me to Washington University.  He works on many body perturbation theory for moire systems.

2. Yiyang Lai (BS, Physics, Carnegie Mellon University).  Yiyang joined the group in 2025 and will be working on understanding the correlated behavior observed  in twisted TMD homobilayers like WSe2 and MoTe2.

3. Zongli Wei (MS in Physics, 2024, Brown University).  Zongli obtained his BS in Physics and Economics from Univesity of Colorado in Denver, and joined the group in 2025.  He will be working on understanding the strange metal behavior observed in twisted 2D materials.

4. Deniz Sarman (BS in Physics, 2025, Bogazici University, Turkey).  Deniz got her BS from Bosphorous University in Istanbul.  She joined Washington University and the group in 2025, and will be looking holography bounds and quantum geometry.  

Former Students and Group Alumni:

(Please drop me an e-mail if any of this information is incorrect)