Team

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Piero Canepa

Associate Professor

Hữu Đức Lương

Visiting Scientist

Yunyeong Choi 최윤영

Research Fellow

Yan Li 李炎

Research Fellow

Abhishek A. Panchal

PhD Student

Harshan Reddy Gopidi

PhD Student

Monal Bhatt

PhD Student

Nafiseh Amiri

PhD Student

Wei-Fan Huang 黃偉帆

PhD Student

Hoa My Nguyễn

Undergraduate Student

Michael Ho

Summer Student

Life in the group

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Four members of the group standing arm in arm in front of a screen reading "Farewell!", one giving a thumbs-up — TcSUH farewell Houston · Oct. 22, 2026

About thirty people gathered in a meeting room around two seated men, in front of a cake, flowers and a screen reading "Farewell!" — TcSUH farewell with Prof. Yan Yao Houston · Oct. 22, 2026

Seven members of the group around a restaurant table laden with dishes, smiling at the camera — Group meal Houston · Sept. 18, 2025

A selfie of the group around a café table with burgers and fries — Group meal with the Deng lab Singapore · March 6, 2025

The group at a table full of dishes in a busy restaurant, smiling at the camera — Group meal with the Deng lab Singapore · Dec. 16, 2024

The group around a long table at a restaurant, smiling at the camera — Group dinner Singapore · July 24, 2024

A student and a graduate student working on laptops beside a small round table with a Raspberry Pi and a network switch, the student smiling at the camera — An ACS SEED summer student with PhD student Harshan Gopidi Houston · June 10, 2024

Two photos side by side, on the left children at a table of fruit wired up with alligator clips, on the right two men in red Energy Day T-shirts standing by the stand — Piero Canepa and Abhishek Panchal at the Energy Day Festival Houston · Oct. 21, 2023

Alumni

Research fellows

Baltej Singh

Research Fellow

Juefan Wang 王珏凡

Research Fellow

Najmeh Honari

Research Fellow

Stephanie C. C. van der Lubbe

Research Fellow

Yuheng Li 李昱亨

Assistant Professor, HKUST (Guangzhou)

Zeyu Deng 邓泽宇

Assistant Professor, NUS

PhD students

Aaron J. K. Tieu

PhD Student

Han Yunlu 韩云路

Visiting PhD Student

Hengning Chen 陈恒宁

PhD Student

Shidong Yu 于世东

PhD Student

Siddharth Krishnakumar

PhD Student

Sumaira Rani

PhD Student

Tara P. Mishra

PhD Student

Weihang Xie 谢维航

PhD Student

Ziliang Wang 王梓良

PhD Student

Ziyi Hu

Visiting PhD Student

Master's students

Chen Chuyang 陈楚阳

Master's Student

Tang Lian 唐莲

Master's Student

Wang Yuxiang 王宇翔

Master's Student

Zhang Jiayu 张嘉予

Master's Student

Zhang Kaixin 张开心

Master's Student

Zhang Ziyi 章子怡

Master's Student

Zhengyu Liu 刘政宇

Master's Student

Undergraduate and summer students

Damien K. J. Lee

Undergraduate E-Scholar

Folasade Adegoju

ACS SEED Summer Student

Niloy Faiyaz

Undergraduate Student

Pengfei Cai 蔡鹏飞

Undergraduate Student

Preston Lim

Undergraduate Student

Vishakha Kapoor

Undergraduate Student

Wang Lu

Undergraduate Student

Yao Kuan

Undergraduate Student

Research staff

Lingyi Liu

Program Director

Timothy D. Pook

Research Engineer