{"id":11063,"date":"2024-06-21T13:35:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T20:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/zhuang\/?page_id=11063"},"modified":"2026-06-01T02:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:55:14","slug":"people","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.engineering.asu.edu\/zhuang\/","title":{"rendered":"People"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Zhuang is an associate professor in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy at ASU. He received his doctorate in materials science and engineering at Cornell University. Prior to ASU, Dr. Zhuang was a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University. Dr. Zhuang\u2019s current research interests are quantum simulations, machine learning, and quantum computing. Dr. Zhuang is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, Interstellar Initiative Early Career Investigator Award from The New York Academy of Sciences and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED), American Chemical Society (ACS) Cadence\/Openeye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, Materials Today Rising Star Award, Talman Scholar Award of the 62nd Sanibel Symposium, and an invited participant of the 9th Arab-American Frontiers and the 4th U.S.-Africa Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine organized by the National Academy of Sciences. He is also a Scialog Fellow for Negative Emissions Science and a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Current students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

PhD students: <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Fares AlAmri<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yagnik Bandyopadhyay<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Master students: <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sanjivan Manicka<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Undergraduate students: <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Former group members<\/h2>\n\n\n\n


Sanjivan Manicka (Barrett Honors Thesis student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Luke Houtz (FURI student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brianna Ashcroft (FURI student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dylan Serrao (FURI student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biplove Baral (FURI student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cristo Lopez (FURI student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emi Sohi (FURI student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anmol Verma (Master student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deep Patel <\/a>(Master student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Ryan<\/a> (Undergraduate student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harshil Avlani (SCENE student; currently an undergraduate student at MIT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophia Lin (SCENE student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prisha Shroff (SCENE student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Pardhe (SCENE <\/a>student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Naomi Martinez Sinohui (SCENE <\/a>student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Coutinho (MORE student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parin Travedi (FURI student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Payden Brown<\/a> (Master student; First position: PhD student at MIT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shengyinghao Chen (PhD student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yu Liu (visiting student from Peking University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Xinyu Jiang<\/a> (co-advised with Dr. Qiong Nian<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Arvind Ramachandran<\/a> (PhD student; co-advised with Dr. Klaus Lackner<\/a>; First position: Scientific Software Developer at OpenEye Scientific)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Lei Liu<\/a> (PhD student; Dean\u2019s Dissertation Award recipient; First position: Research Scientist at Facebook)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Duo Wang <\/a>(PhD student; First position: Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nikhitha Poornabodha<\/a> (PhD student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leah Repa<\/a> (Physics Rotation PhD student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Wasserbeck<\/a> (Master student; co-advised with Dr. Christina Birkel<\/a>; First position: Process Engineer at Intel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anirudh Dabir<\/a> (Master student; First position: Product Support Engineer at ASM America)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sneha Lakamsani (SCENE <\/a>student; U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize recipient; Hamilton High School, Chandler, AZ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Zhang (SCENE <\/a>student; Basis Peoria; currently an undergraduate student at UCSD)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meghana Tripuraneni (SCENE <\/a>student; Basha High School, Chandler, AZ)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Junxin Wang<\/a> (visiting research assistant; currently a PhD student at Ohio State University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wenjiang Huang<\/a> (MORE<\/a> student; currently a PhD student at Virginia Tech)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chance Price<\/a> (FURI<\/a> student; currently an undergraduate student at ASU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erik Eshima <\/a>(currently an undergraduate student at ASU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Eugene Agravante <\/a>(FURI<\/a> student)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neha Basu (SCENE <\/a>student; BASIS Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ; currently an undergraduate student at MIT)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sritanay Vedartham (SCENE <\/a>student; BASIS Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ; currently an undergraduate student at Cornell)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joel Joseph (SCENE <\/a>student; Mesquite High School, Gilbert, AZ; currently an undergraduate student at ASU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sreeharsha Lakamsani <\/a>(SCENE<\/a> student; Hamilton High School, Chandler, AZ; currently an undergraduate student at ASU)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sameer Vij (SCENE <\/a>student; Corona Del Sol High School, Tempe, AZ; currently an undergraduate stduent at Georgia Tech)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immanuella Kankam <\/a>(FURI<\/a> and MORE<\/a> student; currently a Process Engineer at Intel Corporation)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pedro Martin <\/a>(FURI <\/a>student; currently a PhD student at the UC Irvine)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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