Yan Group
Quantum Phases and Energy Materials by Computational/Data-Driven Design
Dr. Qimin Yan
Dr. Qimin Yan is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Materials from University of California, Santa Barbara in 2012. From 2013 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California, Berkeley. In 2016, he joined the Department of Physics at Temple University as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include physical principle enhanced machine learning and data-driven discovery of solid-state quantum materials, quantum defects for quantum computing and information technologies, and functional semiconductors for energy conversion. He received the DOE Early Career Award in 2019 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2022.

GROUP MEMBERS
Graduate Student
Research Assistant Professor / Postdoc Researcher
Undergraduate Student

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Debajit Chakroborty
Research Assistant Professor (2021 - )
Debajit's research interests include quantum photonic systems and material design enabled by topological quantum chemistry.
Jeng-Yuan Tsai
PhD student (2018 - )
Jeng-Yuan's research interests include quantum defect design in two-dimensional material systems, materials database creation and data management, and data-driven materials discovery and design.
Weiyi Gong
PhD student (2019 - )
Weiyi's current research is focused on the incorporation of physical principles in deep machine learning architectures for both molecules and solid-state material systems.
Anoj Aryal
PhD student (2020 - )
Anoj's research interests include quantum photonic systems and 2D heterojunction-based quantum and energy materials.
Alex Heilman
PhD student (2021 - )
Alex's research interests include the development of quantum algorithms for quantum computing and quantum machine learning.
Andy Philips
Undergraduate student (2021 - )
Andy's research interest is focused on the development of quantum algorithms for quantum computing.


ALUMNI

Huta Banjade
PhD Student (2016 - 2019)
Postdoc researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University

Jinbo Pan
Postdoc Researcher (2016 - 2019)
Associate Professor at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science

Yan-Fang Zhang
Visiting Scholar (2016 - 2019)
Postdoc Researcher at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science

Liping Yu
Research Assistant Professor (2016 - 2018)
Assistant Professor at the University of Maine
Yu Wang
Undergraduate Student (Chemistry) (2017 - 2020)
PhD student at Princeton University
Lifu Zhang
Visiting PhD Student (2019 - 2020)
PhD student at Nankai University, China


Yijun Tong
Visiting Master Student (MSE, UPenn) (2018 - 2019)
PhD student at University of Washington
Brendan Magdamo
Undergraduate Student (Computer Science) (2020 - 2021)
Data scientist in industry.