Our Team

Principal Investigator

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Dr. Xiaofeng Feng

Associate Professor of Physics and REACT Cluster
Joint Appointments with Chemistry and MSE
            • Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University
            • Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
            • M.S., Tsinghua University
            • B.S., Peking University

 

Postdoc and Graduate Students

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Dr. Zhuanghe Ren

Postdoctoral Scholar
Ph.D., Zhejiang University

 

 

 

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Kaige Shi

Ph.D. Student in Physics
B.S., Southern University of Science and Technology

 

 

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Zhen Meng

Ph.D. Student in Chemistry
M.S., South China University of Technology

 

 

 

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Thomas Egan

Ph.D. Student in Chemistry
B.S., Florida State University

 

 

Undergraduate Students

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Nishant Brijlal

Undergraduate Student in Mechanical Engineering

 

 

 

Group Alumni

  • Dr. Jun Wang (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2017−2019; now a faculty member at Nanjing Tech University).
  • Dr. Zhuo Xing (Postdoctoral Scholar, 2018-2021; now a faculty member at Central China Normal University).
  • Dr. Lin Hu (Ph.D. student, 2016−2020; received the UCF Doctoral Research Support Award, College of Engineering and Computer Science Graduate Excellence Award, and Outstanding Dissertation Award).
  • Dr. Jili Yuan (Visiting Ph.D. Student, 2019−2021; now a faculty member at Guizhou University).
  • Dr. Zackary Parsons (Ph.D. Student, 2018−2023; received the UCF Doctoral Research Support Award, Outstanding GTA Award, and Graduate Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship).
  • Amy Schwandes (Undergraduate Researcher, 2017−2018; SURF Fellow).
  • Ryan Schale (Undergraduate Researcher, 2018).
  • Khanh Luu (Undergraduate Researcher, 2019).
  • Steven Romani (Undergraduate Researcher, 2019; SURF Fellow).
  • Kamal Harrison (Undergraduate Researcher, 2020−2021; SURF Fellow).
  • Salvador Rosa (Undergraduate Researcher, 2021; SURF Fellow).
  • Maia Willis (Undergraduate Researcher, 2022−2023; now a graduate student at University of California, San Diego).

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