Principal Investigator:
Xinsheng Sean Ling
Professor of Physics
Office: Barus and Holley 710
Email: xinsheng_ling@brown.edu
Graduate Students:
Abdulai Gassama (PhD student, 1st year)
Email: abdulai_gassama@brown.edu
Lihy Buchbinder (PhD student, 2nd year)
Email: lihy_buchbinder@brown.edu
Owen Tower (PhD student, 3rd year)
Email: owen_tower@brown.edu
Nehal Sharma (Master’s student, 2nd year)
Email: nehal_sharma@brown.edu
Undergraduate Students:
Previous Graduate Students:
Alexandros Pertsinidis, Ph.D.’03, “Experimental Studies of Two-Dimensional Colloidal Crystals: Defects, Pinning, and Driven Dynamics” (Position after graduation: postdoc at Stanford. Present position: Professor, Sloan-Kettering Institute)
Sang Ryul Park, Ph.D. ’04, “Neutron Scattering and AC Susceptibility Studies of Vortex Matter in Type-II Superconductors” (Position after graduation: scientist at startup NABsys, Inc. Present position: Staff scientist, Illumina)
Ivo Dimitrov, Ph.D.’07, “Ultrasonic Attenuation, AC Susceptibility and Small Angle Neutron Scattering Studies of Nb and V-Ti Alloys” (Position after graduation: postdoc at Rutgers. Present position: intelligence/national security, confidential)
Nikolaos Daniilidis, Ph.D.’08, “Experimental Studies of Bragg Glass Transition” (Position after graduation: postdoc at UC Berkeley)
Hongbo Peng, Ph.D.’08, “Towards hybridization-assisted nanopore sequencing” (Position after graduation: member of technical staff, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY)
Shanshan Wu, Ph.D.’09, “Fabrication of nanopore systems and their application to DNA manipulation” (Position after graduation: Consultant, McKinsey & Company, Shanghai, China)
Helen Hanson, Ph.D.’12, “The Crystallography of Vortex Matter in a Niobium Crystal”. (Position after graduation: staff engineer, Intel Corporation, Portland, Oregon)
Xi Wang, Ph.D.’12, “3D Neutron Diffraction Studies on the Vortex Lattice” (Position after graduation: postdoc in Harvard Physics)
Sungcheol Kim, Ph.D.’13, “Transport of charged colloids and DNA in microchannels” (Position after graduation: IBM Watson)
Lichao Yu, Ph.D.’15, “Defects in Two Dimensional Colloidal Crystals” (Position after graduation: Associate at Galatea Associates, Boston)
Xu Luo, Ph.D.’15, “Thermodynamic Studies of Phase Transitions and Emerging Orders in Unconventional Superconductors” (Position after graduation: Engineer, Micron Tech)
Wang Miao, Ph.D.’15, “Nonlinear Transport in Solid-State Nanopores” (Position after graduation: Analyst, J.P. Morgan, New York City)
Ankun Dong, Ph.D.’17, “Single-molecule nanoscopy of RNA polymerase II transcription at a single gene in live cells”, joint supervision with Dr. A. Pertsinidis, Sloan-Kettering Institute
Sizhe Cheng, M.S.’21
Qiaochu Wang, Ph.D. candidate, joint supervision with Prof. K.W. Plumb (Currently supervised by Prof. K.W. Plumb)
Previous Undergraduate Students:
Sylvia J. Smullin, Sc.B’98
David Bagdadi, Sc.B.’99
Mark Henle, Sc.B.’00
Rachel Pepper, Sc.B.’02
Bridget McClain, Sc.B.’04
Adam Politzer, Sc.B’05
Angus McMullen, Sc.B.’08
Greg Hebert, Sc.B.’08
Barbara Stekas, Sc.B.’10
Benjamin Mossbarger, Sc.B.’10
Mark Nagy, Sc.B.’12
Jonathan Hess, Sc.B.’20
Jonah Eick, Sc.B.’23