Principal Investigator:

Bing Lv


Associate Professor at Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Dallas, 2021 - Now (CV)

Assistant Professor, at Department of Physics
The University of Texas at Dallas, 2015 - 2020

Research Assistant Professor, TcSUH, 2012-2015

Postdoc, TcSUH, 2009-2011

Ph.D University of Houston, 2009

Postdocs & Visiting Scientists:

Wenhao Liu


Research Scientist
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, 2024 - now

Postdoc Fellow
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, 2020 - 2023

PH.D in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Nanjing University, China, 2018

Graduate Students:

Pawan Koirala


PH.D Candidate, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas
2019 - now

Master in Physics, UT El Paso
2015- 2018

Nikhil Dhale


PH.D Candidate, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas
2019 - now

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
2018

Aswin Kondusamy


PH.D Candidate(co-advised with Prof. William Vandenberghe at MSE), Dept. of Mater. Sci. Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Dallas
2020 - now

Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore
2017

Zixin Zhai


PH.D Candidate, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas
2023 - now

B.S. in Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
2019- 2023

Connor Smith


PH.D Candidate(co-advised with Prof. William Vandenberghe at MSE), Dept. of Mater. Sci. Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Dallas
2023 - now

Process Engineer, 2021- 2023

B.S. in Physics, Colorado School of Mines, 2017- 2021

Priti Yadav


PH.D Candidate, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas
2024 - now

M.S. in Physics, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
2023

Mahammed Patel


PH.D Candidate, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas
2024 - now

M.S. in Physics, Institute of Nano Science and Technology (INST), India
2023

Undergraduates:

David L. Scherm


David is an undergraduate student major in Physics, and Recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award. He is minoring in secondary education with the UTeach Dallas Program


Ben Boden


Ben is an undergraduate student major in Physics.He is minoring in secondary education with the UTeach Dallas Program


Xiaoyue Xia


Xiaoyue is an undergraduate student major in Physics.


Mitch Carter


Mitch is an undergraduate student majoring in physics with a minor in computer science.


Group Pictures:

Group Alumni:

Lingmin Yu

11/2018 - 11/2019


Visiting scholar. Currently a professor at Xi'an Technological University.


Huifei Zhai

11/2017 - 6/2019


Postdoc. Currently an associate professor at Northwest University, China


Xiaoyuan Liu


PHD 2020

currently research scientist at Intelligent Epitaxy Technology (Intelli EPI)

Sheng Li


Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, 04/2016 - 04/2021

Currently professor at Southeast University in Nanjing, China

Hanlin Wu


PHD 2022

Currently Assistant professor at Nanjing Technological University, China

Davis Zackaria (undergraduate student)


Currently a graduate student in physics at UC Davis. Recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award and one publication with the group.


Gareth Ofenstein (undergraduate student)


Currently a graduate student in physics at Texas Tech. Recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award and Two publications with the group.


Rashad Kadado(undergraduate student)


Currently a graduate student in physics at UC Davis. Recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award and One publication with the group.


Daniel Peirano Petit (undergraduate student)


Currently a graduate student in physics at U. Oklahoma. Recipient of UTD Undergraduate Student Research Award and two publications with the group.


Elisabeth Mantle

06/2019 - 8/2019


Elisabeth is a Clark Scholar who worked with us during summer of 2019.


Pablo Rosas

06/2019 - 8/2019


Pablo is a REU student from Louisiana State University who worked with us during summer of 2019.


Varun Anand

05/2016 - 12/2018


Varun has co-authored with two publications with us, and presented one conference poster. He has received Undergraduate Student Research award at UTD in 2017, and is the Undergraduate Research Scholar Poster Contest Semifinalist in 2017. Currently works at Texas Instruments


Logan Stuart

05/2018 - 08/2018


Logan is a REU student from Grinnell College who worked with us during summer of 2018.


Thang Tran

08/2016 - 09/2017


Thang is a recipient of Undergraduate Student Research Award at UTD in 2016.


High School Interns:

Dante Herrera

06/2017 - 08/2017, West Plano Senior High School

Naonoexplorers Program, currently study at Texas A&M University