Group Members

Principal Investigators

Avatar

Brenda Rubenstein

Brown University

Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics

Postdoctoral Researchers and Fellows

Avatar

Daniel Nader

Brown University

Fulbright Scholar

Graduate Students

Avatar

Alan Bidart

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Andrew Reynoso

Brown University

Physics

Avatar

Annette Lopez

Brown University

Physics

Avatar

Daniel Staros

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Esther Webber

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Gabriel Monteiro Da Silva

Brown University

Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry

Avatar

Gopal Iyer

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Gustavo Ramirez

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Jiangyong Yu

Brown University

Physics

Avatar

Kenneth Berard

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Octavia Florent

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Prateek Vaish

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Tilas Kabengele

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Xiaohang Jia

Brown University

Chemistry

Avatar

Yaoqi Pang

Brown University

Chemistry

Undergraduate Students

Andy Zhu

Brown Class of 2025

Chemistry

Anvita Bhagavathula

Brown Class of 2023

Physics

Jasper Lincoln

Brown Class of 2025

Chemical Physics

Jeffrey Tejada Peralta

Brown Class of 2025

Chemical Physics

Kevin Rapp

Brown Class of 2025

Chemical Physics

Kyle Lam

Brown Class of 2025

Logan Dooley

Brown Class of 2023

Chemical Physics

Noah Feng

Brown Class of 2023

Chemical Physics

Noah Whelpley

Brown Class of 2024

Chemistry

Winston Li

Brown Class of 2025

Computer Science

Yungeun Kim

Brown Class of 2025

Chemistry

High School Students

Arnav Mehta

Nicholas Burgess

Simon Nirenberg

Munster High School, Indiana

Visiting Students and Scholars

Xinrui Zhai

University of Cambridge

Former Group Members

Former Postdoctoral Researchers and Fellows

Amir Afshar

2020–2022 Group Member

Computational Modeler of SiC Crystallization at Pallidus, Inc

Can Ataca

2016–2017 Group Member

Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland

Eshan Barati

2019–2021 Group Member

Jeong Pil Song

2017–2019 Group Member

University of Arizona

Matthew Church

2019-2021 Group Member

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Ravinda Nanguneri

2017–2020 Group Member

Former Graduate Students

Benjamin Foulon

Brown University

Chemical Engineering

Cancan Huang

2017–2022 Group Member

Research Scientist, Applied Materials

Hongxia Hao

2016–2019 Group Member

Research Scientist, Microsoft Asia

Jordan Yang

2017–2022 Group Member

Analyst, Eight Roads Venture Capital

Leonard Sprague

2016–2020 Group Member

ESL for Scientists Professor, University of Tokyo

Tong Shen

Brown University

Chemistry

Yuan Liu

2016–2020 Group Member

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, North Carolina State University

Former Master’s Students

Benjamin Davis

2017–2019 Group Member

PhD Student in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering, University of Washington

Joseph Fichera

2017–2020 Group Member

PhD Student in Physics at the University of Florida

Lijun Wang

2018–2019 Group Member

Physics

Former Brown Undergraduate Students

Adarsh Narayanan

2016-2017 Group Member

Brown Computer Science-Engineering Concentrator

Microsoft

Batia Friedman-Shaw

2019 Group Member

Brown Physics Concentrator

Master’s Student, Physics, Perimeter Institute

Bunlong Leang

2018-2022 Group Member

Brown Human Biology Concentrator

Dylan Sam

2017-2021 Group Member

Brown Computer Science Concentrator

PhD Student, NSF GRFP Fellow, Machine Learning, Carnegie Mellon University

Hersh Gupta

2017-2020 Group Member

Brown Computational Molecular Biology and Chemistry Concentrator

MD/PhD Student, Mount Sinai

Jungho ("Daniel") Choi

2017–2022 Group Member

Brown Chemical Physics/Mathematics Concentrator

PhD Student, Physics, NYU

Minsik Cho

2016–2022 Group Member

Brown Chemical Physics Concentrator

PhD Student, Chemistry, Presidential Fellow, MIT

Former High School Students

Aneekah Younus

2021–2022 Group Member

Wheeler High School

Brian Nguyen

2022 Group Member

Gatton High School

Casey Lambert

2021 Group Member

Moses Brown High School

Hannah Smith

2022 Group Member

Pilgrim High School (Warwick)

Omar Martinez

2017-2019 Group Member

URI Computer Science

Tahseen Younus

2018–2020 Group Member

UIUC

Vaibhav Duggirala

Brown PLME

Vishwas Duggirala

Brown PLME

Former International Undergraduate Students

Abhikya Tripathy

2022 Group Member

IIT Kharagpur

Carson Cole

2018 Group Member

Weber State University, Chemistry

PhD Rice University Chemistry

Deepak Somani

2021–2023 Group Member

IIT Kharagpur

Purdue University, PhD Chemical Engineering

Hang Zhang

2018 Group Member

PhD Princeton University Chemical Engineering

USTC

Jade Kemp

2021 Group Member

Columbia University, Chemistry

University of Austin, Chemistry

Jenel Fraij

2021 Group Member

UCLA, Applied Mathematics

Jessie Huang

2018 Group Member

Wellesley University, Computer Science and Chemistry

Luke McHale

2019 Group Member

PhD University of Colorado

Montana State University

Shriya Sharma

2022 Group Member

IIT Dehli

Swati Bodh

2018 Group Member

Amity University

Vinit Singh

2020 Group Member

PhD Purdue University, Chemistry

IIT Kharagpur

Xuechen Zheng

2017 Group Member

PhD Johns Hopkins University, Chemistry

USTC

Yang Yu

2019 Group Member

PhD University of Michigan, Physics

USTC

Yuvraj Misra

2021–2022 Group Member

Master's UIUC

IIT Mandi, Engineering

Former Visiting Scholars

Maricris Mayes

2022 Group Member

Professor of Chemistry, UMass Dartmouth