People

Principle Investigator

Dr. Feng Yan

  • Associate Professor: Jan, 2023 to Present,  Materials Science Program, School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ.
  • Associate Professor: Aug, 2022 to Dec, 2022  The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Assistant Professor: Aug. 2017 to July 2022     The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
  • Development Engineer: First Solar, Inc. Perrysburg, OH, USA, 2014-2017
  • Postdoctoral Fellow: 
Harvard University, Boston, MA, 2013;  Northwestern University, Materials Science and Engineering, Evanston, IL, 2012;Drexel University, Materials Science and Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, 2011
Education​Ph.D., Materials Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2007-2011M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2005-2007Google Scholar,
​Award:2020 NSF CAREER Award2020, 2021 U.S. Air Force Research Lab Summer Faculty Fellowship (AFRL)2018-2019 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Awards (ORAU)2018 SEC Faculty Travel Award

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Xiaoyu Gu

Current PhD Graduate Students

Jacob Wall

Ph.D. Student, Aug, 2022-Present

Al Amin

Ph.D Student, Jan 2021 -present

Xiaomeng Duan

Ph.D. Student, Aug, 2020-present

Wenjun Xiang

Ph.D. Student, Aug, 2021

Kausar Khawaja

Ph.D. Student, Aug, 2022

Yizhao Wang

Ph.D Student, Spring, 2024

Adam Dvorak

PHD student, MSE, 2024

Christopher Picart

PHD Student, 2024

Current Master Student

Undergraduate students 

Dante Borea

MSE, ASU

I am a junior studying Materials Science and Engineering at ASU. I love MSE and see the future in renewable energy and so I am interested in learning all that I can!" 

Connor Cagno, MSE, ASU

Oscar Hu

Josh Carbajal, ME, ASU

Alumni

Dr. Liping Guo, 2017-2021

Lam Research, USA

Dr. Angelique Montgomery, 2018-2021

Sandia National Lab, USA

Dr. S. N. Vijay, 2019-2023

First Solar, Inc

Dr. Harigovind G. Menon, 2019-2023

First Solar, Inc

Dr. Xiao Han, 2018-2023

First Solar, Inc.