Principle Investigator
Principle Investigator
Mengen Wang
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2025 -
Assistant Professor: SUNY Binghamton, 2022-2025
Postdoc training: University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019 - 2022
Ph.D. Stony Brook University, 2014 - 2019
B.S. Shandong University, China, 2010 - 2014
Email: mewang@unc.edu
Postdoc
Xun Xu (02/2026 - present)
Xun received his Ph.D. degree from the Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China. His research focuses on understanding carrier recombination mechanisms, designing optoelectronic materials based on first-principles calculations, and developing machine learning methods.
Graduate Students
Chris received his B.S. degree from Wake Forest University. His research interest is developing machine learning methods to predict kinetic properties of defects and material surfaces.
Chadawan received her B.S. degree from Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand. Her research interest is employing DFT calculations and machine learning to design materials for energy conversion and heterogeneous catalysis.
Chunyu received his B.S degree from Beijing University of Chemical Technology and M.S degree from Duke University. His research focuses on investigating the surface and interfacial properties of functional materials and developing advanced approaches for materials design.
Jiahao (Simon) Tang (2026 - present)
Simon received his B.S. degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interest is employing DFT calculations and machine learning methods for quantum defects.
Undergraduate Students
Zehang (Carson) Wang, Department of Physics and Astronomy, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Aidan Gillette, Department of Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill.
Undergraduate students with backgrounds in Physics, Chemistry, or a related field are welcome to join us! Please email Mengen with your CV, transcript, and a brief statement of research interest.
Alumni