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PI: Professor Yosuke Kanai
Department of Chemistry
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Email : ykanai_at_unc.edu
Yosuke received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemistry from Princeton University after completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He was a BNNI Post-doctoral Scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, and he subsequently worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as a Lawrence Fellow in Condensed Matter and Materials Division prior to joining the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Jianhang Xu (Sr. Post-doctoral Researcher)
Ph.D. Temple University
B.S. University of Science and Technology of China
Chris Shepard (Post-doctoral Researcher)
Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill
B.S. Univ. Richmond
Sampreeti Bhattacharya (PhD Student)
M.S. IIT Kanpur
Ruiyi Zhou (PhD Student)
B.S. Univ. Hong Kong
John Bost (PhD Student)
B.S. Davidson College
Thomas Carney (PhD Student)
B.S. NCSU
Nicholas Boyer (Undergraduate Student)
Expected BS in Chemistry and Computer Science at UNC
Kiichi Ogata (Undergraduate Exchange Student)
Exchange student from Keio University, Japan
Alumni:
Dr. Yi Yao (PhD student, Post-doctoral researcher, Research Scientist 2012-2021, subsequently Research scientist at The NOMAD Laboratory at the FHI-MPG and IRIS-Adlershof of HU, Berlin, Germany)
Dr. Jian Cheng Wong (PhD student, 2015-2022, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences).
Dr. Ruyi Song (Visiting PhD student from Duke, 2019-2023, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Stanford).
Aidan Thomas (REU student, 2023, continuing undergraduate degree at MidAmerican Nazarene Univ.)
Kiran Lucas (REU student, 2022, continuing undergraduate degree at Brown Univ.)
Lily Al-Omari (Undergraduate student, 2020-2021, continuing Chemistry degree at UNC)
Harvey Liu (Undergraduate student, 2020-2021, subsequently MS student in Computer Science at UNC)
Dr. Dillon C. Yost (PhD student, 2013-2019, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at MIT).
Dr. Garnett Liu (Visiting PhD student from Duke, 2017-2019, subsequently Senior researcher at TSMC).
Dr. Lesheng Li (PhD student, 2012-2018, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Princeton University).
Sam Slattery (Researcher, 2017-2018, subsequently PhD student at Virginia Tech.)
Philip Straughn (Undergraduate student, 2015-2017, subsequently employed at UNC Medical School)
Jacob Engel (Visiting Undergrad student from Rice Univ. 2017).
Dr. Kyle Reeves (PhD student, 2011-2016, subsequently Post-doctoral researcher at Paris 6).
Prof. Donghwa Lee (Post-doctoral researcher, 2010-2014, subsequently Assistant professor at Chonnam National University, Korea)
Zoe Watson (Undergraduate student, 2012-2014, subsequently PhD student at UC Berkeley)
Zhenya Hu (Undergraduate student, 2013-2014, subsequently employed at Sanofi Genzyme)
Dr. Shahar Keinan (EFRC staff, 2012-2014, subsequently co-Founder/Chief science officer at CloudPharmaceuticals)
Prof. Andre Schleife (Post-doctoral researcher, 2011-2013, subsequently Assistant professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UIUC)
David Guarino (Undergraduate student, 2012-2013, subsequently Graduate student in financial math at Univ. Chicago)
Matt Dutra (Undergraduate student, 2011-2012, subsequently PhD student at UT Knoxville)