Personnel

Lauren Illa

Lauren is currently an undergraduate student in Stanford's Materials Science and Engineering Department. She is interested in using density functional theory (DFT) to study the lithium K-edge spectra of lithium compounds commonly found in battery materials.

Brandi Ransom

Brandi is currently a Ph.D. student at Stanford. Her current project focuses on the use of high-throughput ab initio calculations for materials discovery across biopolymer and Li-ion ceramic materials.

Eder Lomeli

Eder is a PhD student in the Materials Science and Engineering department at Stanford. He uses DFT-based and statistical methods to study the stability of solid-state electrolytes, as well as cathode chemistry, in Li-ion batteries.

Malhar Kute

Malhar is a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford. He is interested in using computational methods to study atomistic and quantum problems in energy and battery materials.

Emma Cuddy

Emma is currently a Ph.D. student in Stanford's Materials Science and Engineering Department. She is interested in using computational methods to study energy storage materials, particularly cathode battery materials.

Yi Hu

Yi Hu is currently a Ph.D. student at Stanford. He is interested in oxygen redox reactions in cathode, lithium-ion battery anode and cathode materials, and computational techniques.

Vladimir Calvera

Vladimir is currently a PhD student in Stanford’s Physics Department co-advised by Steven Kivelson. He is interested in using analytical and numerical methods to study strongly correlated systems. He is currently using determinant Quantum Monte Carlo to study Hubbard-like models.

Sijia Zhao

Sijia is currently a PhD student in Stanford’s Applied Physics Department, co-advised by Steven Kivelson, with interest in using analytical and numerical methods to study strongly correlated systems, including the use of Monte Carlo methods to study Hubbard-like models.

Sean Hsu

Sean is a PhD student in Stanford’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, using density functional theory (DFT) and ab initio methods to investigate Sodium/Lithium ion battery cathode material properties.

Katherine Ding

Katherine Ding is currently a Ph.D. student in Applied Physics at Stanford University. Her current project involves using determinant quantum Monte Carlo simulations to study transport properties of correlated electron systems.

Fangze Liu

Fangze is currently a Ph.D. student at Stanford. She is studying numerical methods, such as determinant quantum Monte Carlo, to understand the physics of strongly correlated quantum systems.

Wen Wang

Wen is currently a Ph.D student at Stanford. Her research interests are in numerical methods like determinant quantum Monte Carlo, and strongly correlated systems in condensed matter theory.

Ta Tang

Ta is a Ph.D. student in the Applied Physics Department. He is generally interested in condensed matter theory and computation. Currently he is studying photon induced superconductivity by ED.

Emily Been

Emily is currently a Ph.D. student at Stanford. Her current project focuses on the use of electronic structure methods for understanding the composition and dynamics of energy storage materials, including charge and discharge structural and electronic dynamics of Li-ion battery anode and cathode compounds.

Jacob Marks

Jacob is a PhD student in Stanford's Physics Department. His current research applies time dependent Density Matrix Renormalization Group (tDMRG) and other numerical techniques to gain insight into behavior of strongly correlated quantum systems. More generally, he is interested in condensed matter theory and simulations, and connections to quantum computing.

Tianyi Liu

Tianyi is currently a Ph.D. student at Stanford. He is interested in numerical methods applied to strongly correlated systems in condensed matter theory.

Xuxin Huang

Xuxin is currently a Ph.D. student at Stanford. She is studying sign-problem free variants of determinant quantum Monte Carlo for specific models, including those related to the formation and dynamics of excitons and exciton condensates in bilayer systems. Her interests are in numerical methods and strongly correlated systems in condensed matter theory.

Luhang Yang

Luhang is currently a postdoc at Stanford. She is interested in using numerical and analytical methods to study the physics in strongly correlated systems and quantum matter.

Zoe Zhu

Zoe is a Stanford Science Fellow. Her research focuses on studying strongly correlated states in layered van der Waals heterostructures by combining multiscale models and numerical techniques such as determinant quantum Monte Carlo. She is also broadly interested in the intersection between classical fluid systems and condensed matter physics.

Daniel Jost

Daniel is currently a post-doc at Stanford and a Feodor-Lynen Research Fellow of the Humboldt Foundation. An experimentalist by training, his research focus lies on the investigation of correlated electron systems using different spectroscopies, such as inelastic light and x-ray scattering.

Cheng Peng

Cheng is currently a postdoc at Stanford. Her research interests mainly focus on developing numerical methods and applying them to study quantum magnetism in condensed matter materials, especially frustrated spin systems. She recently began focusing on the computational complexity of density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) methods in two-dimensional spin systems using entanglement entropy scaling theory.

Yoni Schattner

Yoni is currently a postdoc at Stanford. His interests are in correlated systems and quantum criticality in condensed matter theory.

Chunjing Jia

Chunjing is an Associate Staff Scientist at SLAC jointly appointed between TIMES, SSRL and LCLS. Her research interests mainly lie in the computational study of strongly correlated materials and materials for energy storage, combining ab initio methods and exact diagonalization techniques to simulate light scattering spectroscopies with materials specificity.

Hongchen Jiang

Hongchen is a Staff Scientist at SLAC in the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES). Hongchen's primary focus is the study of correlated materials and topological phases of matter using the density matrix renormalization group (DMRG) numerical technique.

Brian Moritz

Brian is a Staff Scientist at SLAC in the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES). Brian uses a variety of numerical techniques, including quantum Monte Carlo and exact diagonalization, to study models for strongly correlated materials. Using efficient, parallel algorithms to perform numerical simulations, results can be compared to data from angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) and other X-ray spectroscopies (primarily XAS, XES, and RIXS). His recent focus includes understanding the nonequilibrium physics revealed by various types of pump-probe experiments, including those performed at the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS).

Thomas P. Devereaux

Professor Devereaux is a Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University, Professor in the Photon Science Faculty at SLAC and Stanford University, and the former Director of the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES, the Materials Science Division at SLAC). His main research interests lie in the areas of theoretical condensed matter physics and computational physics. His research efforts focus on using the tools of computational physics to understand quantum materials and how spectroscopies can be used to fingerprint the influence of multiple degrees of freedom, interactions, and phases that lead to technologically relevant materials properties.

"As the speed and cost of computing continues to improve, we are poised to tackle heretofore unaddressed problems, with the goal of understanding electron dynamics via a combination of analytical theory and numerical simulations to provide insight into materials of relevance to energy science."

Area: Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
Politecnico di Milano

Area: Raman Scattering
Walther-Meissner-Institut

Area: Condensed Matter Theory
University of Florida

Area: Theory for Correlated Electrons
Hubei and Beijing Computational Science Research Center, China

Area: Condensed Matter Theory
Universität Augsburg

Area: FEFF and Theory of Spectroscopy
University of Washington

Area: Condensed Matter Theory
University of California, Santa Barbara

Area: Theories of Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering
IFW, Dresden

Area: Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics
Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden

Sri Chaitanya Das Pemmaraju

Formerly: Staff Scientist
Current: Scientific Staff, IBM

Iwnetim (Tim) Iwnetu Abate

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Miller and Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California-Berkeley

Michael Schüler

Formerly: Research Assocaite
Current: Research Scientist, Paul Scherrer Institute

Yifan Jiang

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Assistant Professor, Shanghai Tech University

Idris Boukahil

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Graduate Student, Stanford University

Ilkyu Lee

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Graduate Student, Stanford University

Ben Nosarzewski

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Software Engineer, Bay Area Start-up

Yuan Chen

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Software Engineer, Facebook

Edwin Huang

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Ting Cao

Formerly: GLAM Fellow
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Washington

Rongyang Sun

Formerly: Visiting Student
Current: Graduate Student, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University

Harrison Ruiz

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Software Engineer, Google

Lavi Blumberg

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Senior Software Engineer, SEI Novus

Ryan Sheppard

Formerly: Undergraduate Student
Current: Software Engineer, PennyMac

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Novelist

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Assistant Professor, Clemson University, Clemson, SC

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Prof. of Informatics, Technische Universität München

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Data Scientist, Quantifind

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Private Industry

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Software Engineer, Facebook

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Formerly: Visiting Diploma Student, EPFL
Current: Consultant, Chez EY

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Assistant Professor, New York University, New York, NY

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Hamburg, Germany

Formerly: Visiting Scientist, SIMES
Current: Assistant Professor, College of Aerospace and Civil Engineering, Harbin Engineering University

Formerly: Visiting Student
Current: Post-Doc, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Formerly: Visiting Scientist
Current: Post-Doc, University of Queensland, Australia

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Assistant Professor, UC-Merced

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Associate Professor, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama - Birmingham, Birmingham, AL

Formerly: Post-Doc
Current: Principal Scientist, Exponent Failure Analysis Associates

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN

Formerly: Research Associate
Current: Staff Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Graduate Student, Stanford University

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Data Scientist, Apple

Formerly: Post-Doc
Current: Professeur des Universités au département GIM de l'IUT de l'UPVD, Universite de Perpignan

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Research Engineer, University of Waterloo.
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Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Professor, Quantum Information Theory, Applied Mathematics, Hanyang University

Formerly: Post-Doc
Current: Professor, Department of Physics, Southern Connecticut State University

Formerly: Post-Doc
Current: Senior Staff Device Application Engineer, Infineon Technologies

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Vice President, Corporate Investments Quantitative Finance Analyst, Bank of America

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Professor, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland

Formerly: Graduate Student
Current: Head of Continuing Education, ZHAW School of Life Sciences, Switzerland