Group Alumni

Anikeya joined the Ping Group on August 27, 2018. After working with the group for a year as a junior specialist, Anikeya was accepted into the PhD program in the Material Science department at University of Southern California. Contact: aaditya AT ucsc.edu

Zihao joined the Ping Group on Nov 10, 2023. He graduated from Jilin University with a B.S. in Physics and is now working on his Ph.D in Chemistry at UW-Madison.

Mingpeng joined the Ping Group on January 17, 2018. He graduated from Tianjin University with a B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering. He is currently working on his Ph.D in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCSC and is primarily advised by Professor Yat Li. He has since began work as a Software Engineer at Microsoft.

Remi joined the Ping Group on June 15, 2018. After working with the group for a year as a junior specialist, Remi was accepted into the PhD program in the Chemistry & Chemical Biology department at UC Merced. Contact: rleano AT berkeley.edu

Kejun joined the Ping Group on October 4, 2019. He previously obtained his M.S. in Applied Physics from the University of Tsukuba and his B.S. in Material Physics from the University of Science and Technology Beijing. He obtained his Ph.D in Physics from UCSC July 25th 2024 and is currently an engineer at Applied Optoelectronics Inc.

Bingzhang joined the Ping Group on October 1, 2016. He will graduate with a Ph.D in Chemistry at UCSC in the winter of 2020. He will begin postdoctoral work in January 2021, when he will begin researching at Northwestern University with Prof. Linsey Seitz.

Zack joined the Ping Group on April 20, 2018. He graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry from UCSC in the spring of 2019. Zack moved on to become an R&D chemist at AnaSpec.

Tyler joined the Ping Group on August 8, 2016. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Physics in June 2021. He has since began work as a Software Engineer at Intel.

Dr. Hiroyuki Takenaka joined the Ping Group on July 31, 2020 as an Assistant Project Scientist. He has a wealth of postdoctoral experience including positions at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Carnegie Institution for Science, University of Pennsylvania, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He previously graduated with a PhD from the School of Science and Engineering at Meiji University.

Dr. Rafi Ullah joined the Ping Group on February 01, 2023. He has spent the past two years as a faculty member in the Department of Physics, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan, and previously graduated with a PhD from University of the Basque Country, Donostia-San Sebastain, Spain. Currently Rafi is a Staff Scientist in the Materials Science and Engineering department at UW-Madison.