Group Leader
Mark Asta
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
Arthur C. and Phyllis G. Oppenheimer Professor
Materials Science Division Director, LBNL
Research Staff and Postdoctoral Associates
David Olmstead
Staff Scientist
Iwnetim Abate
Postdoctoral Researcher
Graduate Students
Lu Jiang
Ph.D. Candidate
Anas Abu-Odeh
Ph.D. Candidate
Flynn Walsh
Ph.D. Candidate
Shivani Srivastava
Ph.D. Candidate
Nicholas Winner
Ph.D. Student
Nathan Bieberdorf
Ph.D. Student
Enze Chen
Ph.D. Student
Buyu Zhang
Ph.D. Student
Madelyn Payne
Ph.D. Student
Andrea Hwang
Ph.D. Student
Wenqing Wang
Ph.D. Student
Undergraduate Students
Bella Crouch
Undergraduate Student
Alumni
| # | Name | Role | Affiliation | Years Active | Current Affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 65 | Sheng Yin | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2018-2021 | Lam Research Corporation |
| 64 | Shahriar Hooshmand | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2019-2021 | General Motors |
| 63 | Luke Langford | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2019-2021 | UC Berkeley |
| 62 | Ji Wei (Jay) Yoon | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2015-2020 | A*STAR |
| 61 | Jun Ding | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2015-2020 | Xi'an Jiaotong University |
| 60 | Maeva Cottura | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2017-2019 | Institut Jean Lamour |
| 59 | Kyle Bystrom | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2015-2019 | Harvard University |
| 58 | Wei Xei | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2015-2019 | Shanghai University |
| 57 | Danny Broberg | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2012-2019 | Bipartisan Policy Center |
| 56 | Yao Cai | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2014-2019 | The Volean Group |
| 55 | Max Poschmann | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2014-2018 | Ontario Tech University |
| 54 | Santiago Miret | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2013-2018 | Intel |
| 53 | Tom Angsten | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2013-2018 | Square |
| 52 | Murali Subramanian | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2016-2017 | UT Austin |
| 51 | Hiroko Okumura | Visiting Scholar | UC Berkeley | 2016-2017 | Osaka University |
| 50 | Rodrigo Freitas | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2013-2017 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 49 | Shah Aditya Jung | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2016-2017 | UC Berkeley |
| 48 | Brian Lam | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2016-2017 | UC Berkeley |
| 47 | Vaibhav Jayaraman | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2016-2017 | UC Berkeley |
| 46 | Rachel Zucker | Miller Fellow | UC Berkeley | 2015-2017 | Cruise |
| 45 | Ankit Gupta | Visiting Student | UC Berkeley | 2016 | Max Planck Institute for Steel Research |
| 44 | Isaac Markus | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2011-2016 | Oracle |
| 43 | Jonathan Solomon | PhD and Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2011-2016 | Center for Naval Analyses |
| 42 | Martin Staadt | Visiting Student | UC Berkeley | 2015 | Ruhr University Bochum |
| 41 | Maarten de Jong | Visiting Scholar and PhD | UC Berkeley | 2010-2015 | SpaceX |
| 40 | Arjun Mukundan | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2014-2015 | UC Berkeley |
| 39 | Ziyi (Lewis) Zhang | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2014-2015 | UC Berkeley |
| 38 | Alexander Guefen | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2013-2015 | UC Berkeley |
| 37 | Sarah Anderson | REU student intern | UC Berkeley | 2015 | University of Santa Clara |
| 36 | Ben Beeler | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2013-2015 | North Carolina State University |
| 35 | Timofey Frolov | Miller Postdoc Fellow | UC Berkeley | 2012-2015 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 34 | Silas Wolff-Goodrich | Undergraduate and MS student | UC Berkeley | 2013-2015 | Simpson Gumpertz & Heger Inc. |
| 33 | Jeff Hoyt | Visiting Professor | UC Berkeley | 2015 | McMaster University |
| 32 | Liang Qi | Research Assistant | UC Berkeley | 2012-2014 | University of Michigan |
| 31 | Hong Ding (Kevin) | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2010-2014 | Intermolecular, Inc. |
| 30 | Siau Dang | Visiting Student | UC Berkeley | 2014 | Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany |
| 29 | Jingchen Ye | Visiting Student | UC Berkeley | 2014 | Rice University |
| 28 | Chang Ni | Visiting Student | UC Berkeley | 2014 | Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry, China |
| 27 | Keith Ray | PhD and Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2010-2014 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 26 | Yang Yang | PhD and Postdoc | UC Davis / UC Berkeley | 2008-2014 | East China Normal University |
| 25 | Shuzhou Li | Visiting Scholar | UC Berkeley | 2014 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
| 24 | Carina Kazmierowicz | Undergraduate Researcher | UC Berkeley | 2014 | Point Loma University |
| 23 | Christian Liebscher | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2012-2014 | Max Planck Institute for Iron Research (MPIE) |
| 22 | Ben Hanken | PhD and Postdoc | UC Davis / UC Berkeley | 2007-2013 | Ideum |
| 21 | Nicole Adelstein | PhD | UC Berkeley | 2010-2012 | San Francisco State University |
| 20 | Colin Ophus | Postdoc | UC Berkeley | 2010-2012 | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 19 | Jessica Burton | Undergraduate | UC Berkeley | 2011-2012 | Cornell University |
| 18 | Vitaly Alexandrov | Postdoc | UC Davis | 2010-2012 | University of Nebraska Lincoln |
| 17 | Nobufumi Ueshima | Visiting Student | UC Berkeley | 2011 | Tohoku University |
| 16 | Tomorr Haxhimali | Postdoc | Northwestern & UC Davis | 2007-2010 | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 15 | Saryu Fensin | PhD | UC Davis | 2006-2010 | Los Alamos National Laboratory |
| 14 | Dorel Buta | Postdoc | Northwestern & UC Davis | 2004-2009 | Intel |
| 13 | Brian Laird | Visiting Professor | UC Davis | 2008 | Dept. of Chemistry, University of Kansas |
| 12 | Chris Retford | Postdoc | UC Davis | 2006-2008 | Janus Henderson Investors |
| 11 | Daniel Worthington | Undergraduate | UC Davis | 2006-2007 | Fujifilm Dimatix, Inc. |
| 10 | Chandler Becker | PhD | Northwestern | 2006 | NIST |
| 9 | Zhe Liu | PhD | Northwestern | 2006 | University of Melbourne |
| 8 | Bo Yang | PhD | Northwestern | 2006 | Deceased |
| 7 | Kristine Kupiecki | PhD | Northwestern | 2005 | East Lansing Community College |
| 6 | Matthew Beck | PhD | Northwestern | 2005 | University of Kentucky |
| 5 | Deyan Sun | Postdoc | Northwestern | 2001-2004 | East China Normal University |
| 4 | Chris Woodward | Visiting Researcher | Northwestern | 2004 | Air Force Research Laboratory |
| 3 | Axel van de Walle | Postdoc & RA | Northwestern | 2000-2003 | Brown University |
| 2 | Harish Ramalingam | Masters | Northwestern | 2003 | McDonald's Corporation |
| 1 | Brad Krack | Masters | Northwestern | 2002 | Gunderson Dettmer |