Principal Investigator

Dr. Yan Yao
Cullen College of Engineering Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Principal Investigator of Texas Center for Superconductor
& Materials Science and Engineering Program
University of Houston
yyao4@uh.edu
Research Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Material physics and chemistry
Nankai University, 2012
Energy storage and conversion materials
yliang7@central.uh.edu

Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering 2020
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
lzhao26@central.uh.edu


M.S. Business
University of Texas at Austin, 2012
Optimization of porosity in solid oxide fuel cell electrode structures
bjemley@UH.edu



M.S. in Materials Science and NanoEngineering 2019
Rice University
zchen48@central.uh.edu


B.S. Electrical Engineering
University of Houston, Class 2021

B.S. Electrical Engineering
University of Houston, Class 2022
Alumni
Karun K. Rao | Ph.D. student | 2016-2020 | Postdoc, Stanford University |
Hao Fang | Ph.D. student | 2015-2019 | Postdoc, General Motors R&D |
Hui Dong | Ph.D. student | 2015-2019 | Postdoc, UT Austin |
Saman Gheytani | Ph.D. student | 2013-2017 | Lam Research |
Yan Jing | Ph.D. student | 2013-2017 | Harvard, Boston |
Yifei Li | Ph.D. student | 2012-2016 | Ningbo FC-Nano, China |
Kuan Yi Lee | M.S. student | 2015-2017 | Angstron Materials, USA |
Shiyang Zhao | M.S student | 2013-2015 | Envision Energy, Houston |
Jibo Zhang | Postdoc | 2018-2020 | |
Yi Shi | Postdoc | 2017-2018 | Professor, Sun Yat-sen University |
Xiaowei Chi | Postdoc | 2016-2018 | Professor, Institute of Ceramics CAS |
Qing Ji | Postdoc | 2016 | Engineer, SPIC Yuanda Environment Protection, China |
Pu Hu | Postdoc | 2016-2017 | Postdoc, University of Florida |
Wenwen Deng | Postdoc | 2016-2017 | Suzhou University of Science and Technology |
Swaminathan Venkatesan | Postdoc | 2015-2016 | MKS Instruments, USA |
Qingyou An | Postdoc | 2014-2105 | Associate Professor, Wuhan 
Institute of Technology, China |
Hyun Deog Yoo | Postdoc | 2013-2015 | Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Pusan National University, Korea |
Zelang Jian | Postdoc | 2013-2014 | Postdoc at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab |
Xiaojun Wang | Visiting Postdoc | 2019-2020 | Shenzhen University |
Hongzhi Zheng | Visiting Postdoc | 2019-2020 | SUSTech |
Xinpeng Han | Visiting Student | 2019-2020 | Tianjin University |
Yang Chen | Visiting Student | 2018-2019 | Fudan University |
Rui Guo | Visiting Student | 2016 | Florida International University |
Xiangyue Meng | Visiting Student | 2014-2015 | Associate Professor, Beijing University of Chemical Technology |
Xiaoxue Zhang | Visiting Student | 2014 | Toyo Engineering Corporation, Japan |
Xiaoxia Wang | Visiting Scholar | 2019-2020 | Professor, Qingdao University, China |
Qiang Ru | Visiting Scholar | 2014-2015 | Professor, South China Normal University, China |
Yufeng Zhao | Visiting Scholar | 2014-2015 | Professor, Lanzhou University of Technology, China |
Zhixuan Meng | Visting Scholar | 2014 | Optimum Nano, China |
Audrey Wang | Undergraduate | 2019 | ABB |
Yu Xing | Undergraduate | 2018 | Carnegie Mellon University |
Stephanie Roohi | Undergraduate | 2017 | HX5 LLC |
Troy A. Pena | Undergraduate | 2017 | University of Houston |
Steve Guzman | Undergraduate | 2016 | University of Houston |
Raymond McCoy | Undergraduate | 2016 | Houston Community College |
Juyoung Kim | Undergraduate | 2015 | University of St. Thomas |
Lateefat Alab | Undergraduate | 2015 | Google Cloud |
Sarah Sieman | Undergraduate | 2015 | Rice |
Kayshewa Chamupathi | Undergraduate | 2017 | ExxonMobil |
Harrison Graham | Undergraduate | 2014 | CAID Industries Inc, USA |
Matthew Patton | Undergraduate | 2014 | University of Houston |
David Pineda | Undergraduate | 2013 | Aurora Technical Sevices, LLC, Houston |
Joseph Whitehouse | Undergraduate | 2013 | NXP Semiconductors,Austin,TX |
August 2017 (Front) Yan Jing, Pu, Yan Yao, Saman, (Back) Yanliang, Hui, Ye, Xiaowei, Fang, Karun
July 2014 (left to right): Sam, Yanliang, Zhixuan, Saman, Yan Yao, Yan Jing, Shiyang, Yufeng, Xiaoxue, Zelang, Yifei
May 2014 (left to right): Yanliang, Jeff, Yan Yao, Yifei, Sam, Zhixuan, Xiaoxue, Yan Jing, Shiyang, Saman, Zelang, Yufeng
Jun. 2013 (left to right): Jin Yan, Yifei Li, Len Liang, Jamie Bassett, Kyle Affeldt, Tiffany Au, David Pineda, Yan Yao
Jan. 2013 (left to right): Jin Yan, Jing Shuai, Yan Yao, Yifei Li, Len Liang