Principal Investigator
Zi Chen, Ph.D.
Education
Ph.D., 2012. Mechanical&Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, NJ (with Dr. David J. Srolovitz and Dr. Mikko P. Haataja).
M.A. 2008. Mechanical&Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University.
M.E., 2005. School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China.
B.S., 2003. Computer Science and Applications, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China.
B.S., 2002. Materials Science and Engineering, Shanghai JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China.
Professional Experiences
07/01/2015-: Tenure-track Assistant Professor, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH.
09/01/2014-06/30/2015: Research Scientist (with Dr. Keith Paulsen). Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; Visiting Research Scientist (with Dr. David A. Weitz), Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
04/2013-08/31/2014: Research Scientist, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University, St. Louis, MO.
10/2012- : Society in Science – Branco Weiss Fellow.
11/2011-4/2013: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (with Dr. Larry A. Taber).
6/2011-11/2011: Visiting scholar Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University (with Dr. Clifford Brangwynne).
Administrative Assistant
Karen Thurston.
(603) 646-3276. karen.thurston@dartmouth.edu.
Postdoctoral Scientists
Dr. Lin Dong. Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering. Stevens Institute of Technology, 2017 (co-supervised with Dr. John Zhang).
Dr. Zhe Xu. Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas, Dallas , 2016 (co-supervised with Dr. John Zhang).
Graduate Students
Guangchao Wan. PhD student (BS in Engineering Mechanics, Peking University).
Congran Jin. 2nd year PhD student (BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, RPI), co-supervised with John Zhang.
Undergraduate Students
Richard Yang (’19)
Mary E. Tobin (’20) First Year Research Fellow in Engineering
Junhwi Kim (’20) First Year Research Fellow in Engineering
Kevin Yang (’20)
Visiting Research Assistants
Xue Hou. Visiting researcher (Hainan University).
Alumni
Dr. Nan. Hu, Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering, Ohio State University
Dr. Xin Yi. Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering (under Professor Huajian Gao). Brown University, 2014. Professor at Peking University, 1000 Young Talents awardee.
Dr. Xu Hou. Ph.D. (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China, 2011). Visiting Research Scientist. Professor at Xiamen University, 1000 Young Talents awardee. Website: http://xuhougroup.xmu.edu.cn/
Dr. Xing Guo. Professor at Southwest Jiaotong University.
Dr. Dung Trung Nguyen. Ph.D. Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Seattle Pacific University.
Dr. Lin Wang. Associate Professor at Sichuan University.
Dr. Dong Wang. Ph.D. Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Dr. Jinhua Zhang. Ph.D. Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong University.
Dr. Shan Zhao. Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering. Michigan Technological University, 2017.
Dr. Lina Zhang. Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University.
Dr. Yin Liu. Ph.D. Dalian University of Science and Technology, 2016. Now at KAUST.
Xiaomin Han. Ph.D. 2019.
Shicheng Huang. Ph.D., 2019. Now software engineer at Google.
Ian Trase. PhD, 2020 (BS in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University). Jointly supervised with Prof. John Zhang. Now working at Aptima.
Hao (John) Zhang. PhD student, University of Virginia.
Catalina-Paula Spatarelu. PhD student (MS in Chemical Engineering, Polytechniq Inst. of Bucharest).
Ziqian Wu (BS and MS in Biomedical Engineering, Southwest University).
Xinyue Han. (BS in Biological Sciences, Zhejiang University, M.ENG., Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth).
Jim Merlin Manoo Klutta. Visiting student (Helmut Schmidt University).
Yongchao Mou, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow at University of Illinois at Chicago.
Nicholas Forsch, PhD student in BME at University of California, San Diego.
Dong Wang, PhD. Postdoctoral fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Qiaohang Guo, PhD. Lecturer in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Fujian Institute of Technology, China.
Lu Wang, graduate student in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Washington University in St. Louis.
Eric Dai, PhD student in BME at University of Pennsylvania.
Benjamin B. Conley, PhD student in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University.
Matthew Abate (’17). PhD student at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Sihao Chen, PhD student in BME at Washington University in St. Louis.
Seong Hwan (Mike) Kim, biomedical engineer at Santec.
Stephen Xie, PhD student in MSE at University of Florida
Ankita A. Gumaste, undergraduate student at Emory University.
Yuxin Liu, undergraduate student at Rutgers University.
Alana C. Tucker, undergraduate student at Dartmouth College.
Eldred Lee, MEM student at Dartmouth College.
Yijie Cai, Lecturer, School of Mechanical Engineering, Hubei University of Technology.
Muqing Ren, graduate student in Chemistry at University of Science and Technology.
Xiaojiao Yu, Ph.D., Data Scientist at Fintech startup.
Zhe Zhao, undergraduate student at Fudan University.
Quang Dang, Ph.D., undergraduate student at Dartmouth.
Sunju (Julie) Lee, undergraduate student at Dartmouth.
Walker L. Chieffe, undergraduate student at Dartmouth.
Rachelle A. Louie, undergraduate student at Dartmouth.
Eric Chao, Software Engineering at Uber.
Muqing Ren, graduate student in Chemistry at University of Science and Technology.