Current DRL Members
POSTDOCTORS AND RESEARCH STAFF
Peng Deng
pdeng1988@gmail.com
Google scholar
Peng Deng is a postdoctoral researcher in DRL. He is working on MBE growth.
Di Wu
opticalwudi@gmail.com
Google Scholar
Di Wu joined DRL in Jan. 2019 as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his Ph. D degree in physics from Fudan University in 2017. From 2015.11 to 2016.08, He joined DRL as a visiting student. From 2017.08 to 2018.05, he joined SMIC (Shanghai) as a process integration engineer for developing 14-nm node COMS technique for FEOL and MOEL. His research interests include the potential applications (new memories and devices) based on voltage controlled magnetic anisotropy (VCMA) effect.
Christopher Eckberg
eckbergc@terpmail.umd.edu
Google Scholar
Chris Eckberg joined DRL in July 2019 after receiving his PhD in physics from the University of Maryland. His research focus is the study of superconducting and magnetic proximity effects in topological insulators.
Sukong Chong
sukong.chong@utah.edu
Google Scholar
Su Kong Chong is a condensed matter experimentalist who is searching for exotic quantum phenomena existing in topological matters. He is currently working on transport in hybrid topological, magnetic, and superconducting materials at DRL.
Gang Qiu
gqiu@g.ucla.edu
Google Scholar
Gang Qiu joined DRL in Jan 2020 as a postdoc researcher. He received his PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in Dec. 2019. His current research involves exploring exotic physical phenomena in topological matters as well as designing and implementing novel quantum devices and spintronics.
Yang Cheng
cheng991@g.ucla.edu
Google scholar
Personal Site
Yang joined DRL in July 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher. He received his PhD degree in physics from Ohio State University. His current research focuses on spintronics and topological materials.
- Kin Wong
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Quanjun Pan
pqj822@gmail.com
I’m a PhD student in DRL.
Yingying Wu
yingyingwu@ucla.edu
Personal link, Google scholar
Major in Physics for both Bachelor and Master of Philosophy degrees, Yingying now is a PhD candidate in EE department with a research focus on topological and low-dimensional materials, which covers the superconductivity, quantum transport, two-dimensional magnetism and so on.
Peng Zhang
echozp@ucla.edu
Google scholar
Peng Zhang received his Bachelor degree in optical engineering major from Zhejiang University. He joined DRL in 2016, and now working on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) thin films growth with a research interest focused on magnetic proximity effect and so on.
Hao-Yuan Chang
haoyuanchang1@gmail.com
Hao-Yuan is a Ph.D. student in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department. He works in the neuromorphic subgroup, investigating methods for engineering intelligent systems. His research interests includes artificial intelligence, machine learning, dynamical systems, and neuroscience.
Bingqian Dai
daib3321@gmail.com
Bingqian Dai is a Ph.D. student in DRL. He received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from UCLA in 2018. His research interests includes topological matters, low-dimensional materials, spintronics and so on..
Haoran He
hehaoran@ucla.edu
I received my Bachelor degree in Material Science & Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2018. During my undergraduate research, I focus on Spin Hall Magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic/ heavy metal system. My future research area might be spintronics and Spin Orbit Torque.
Lixuan Tai
lixuantai@ucla.edu
Google scholar
Lixuan Tai received a Bachelor in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2018, and joined DRL as a PhD student in 2018 Fall. He is currently working on growth of thin films with molecular beam epitaxy (MBE).
Abdullah Alrasheed
aaalrasheed@ucla.edu
PhD student in material science and engineering at UCLA . Worked as a Research specialist majored in Material Science and Engineering, Graduated from KFUPM. Three years employed by KACST Joint Center Excellence Program (JCEP). His research focuses on the design and fabrication of nanomaterial for electronic, optoelectronic and spintronic devices.
Malcom Jackson
mjackson518@ucla.edu
Joined DRL in Fall 2019 as a PhD student in material science and engineering studying at UCLA. Obtained bachelor’s degree in Physics from CSUN. During my undergraduate research I focus on DFT modeling of magnetic thin film materials with spintronic applications. Future studies will be on the fabrication and design of novel magnetic films, specifically for applications in next generation memory devices.
Hanshen Huang
hanshenhuang@ucla.edu
Hanshen Huang is currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Tianjin University and Master’s degree from UCLA. His research focuses on spin orbit torque and related topics.
VISITING SCHOLARS AND STUDENTS
- Farbod Ebrahimi
- Tian Yu
- Gaili Wang
- Mohammed Amer
- Shuxiang Wu
- Xiaoyang Liu
- Shijie Xu
- Raahul Jagannathan