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Lai Research Group @ UT Austin

Nanoscale ElectroMagnetic Laboratory

Group members


Principal Investigator

Prof. Keji Lai

Associate Professor of Physics, UT-Austin, 2018 - Present

Assistant Professor of Physics, UT-Austin, 2012 - 2018

Ph.D. Princeton University 2006

B.S. Tsinghua University, China 2001

Email: kejilai (at) physics.utexas.edu



Postdocs and Research Scientists

Hongtao Yan

PhD Chinese Academy of Sciences, China 2022

Email: hongtaoyan (at) utexas.edu

Jungho Kim

PhD Sungkyunkwan University, Korea 2020

Email: jungho.kim (at) austin.utexas.edu



Graduate Students

Dae Hun Lee

B.S. Chung-ang University, Korea 2018

Email: daehunlee (at) utexas.edu

Jia Yu

B.S. Peking University, China 2018

Email: jiayu (at) utexas.edu

Alex Stram

B.S. UC-Santa Cruz 2020

Email: alexander.stram (at) austin.utexas.edu

Shizai Chu

B.S. Nanjing University, China 2021

Email: shizaichu (at) utexas.edu

Shaopeng Feng

B.S. Jiangnan University, China 2018

M.S. Southeast University, China 2021

Email: shaopengfeng (at) utexas.edu

Xiaoru Zhang

B.S. Xi'an Jiaotong University, China 2022

Email: xiaoruzhang (at) utexas.edu

Parth Dave

B.S. University of Texas at Austin 2022

Email: parthdave (at) utexas.edu

Jiaxuan Wen

B.S. Hunan University of Science and Technology, China 2020

M.S. Sun Yat-Sen University, China 2023

Email: wenjx (at) utexas.edu



Undergraduate Students

Aravind Karthigeyan

University of Texas at Austin

Email: aravindkarthigeyan (at) utexas.edu



Visiting Students and Scholars



Group Alumni


Di Wu, Postdoc, 2013 - 2019

Lan Luan, Research Scientist, 2014 - 2017

Yuan Ren, Postdoc, 2012 - 2015


Zhanzhi Jiang, PhD student, 2016 - 2023

Xuejian Ma, PhD student, 2018 - 2023

Ashish V Gangshettiwar, PhD student, 2016 - 2022

Zhaodong Chu, PhD student, 2015 - 2021

Lu Zheng, PhD student, 2014 - 2020

Xiaoyu Wu, PhD student, 2012 - 2018

Zifan Xu, Master student, 2018 - 2021

David Wannlund, Master student, 2016 - 2019

Yingnan Liu, Master student, 2012 - 2015


Shahin Jahanbani, Undergraduate student, UT-Austin, 2018 - 2023

Dishan Abeysinghe, Undergraduate student, UT-Austin, 2018 - 2022

Shawn Isaac Meyer, Undergraduate student, UT-Austin, 2020 - 2022

Kevin Herrera, Undergraduate student, UT-Austin, 2015 - 2018

Vishal Ganesan, Undergraduate student, UT-Austin, 2015 - 2018

Devon Sepeda, Undergraduate student, UT-Austin, 2014


Ryo Noguchi, Visiting student from University of Tokyo, Japan, 2019

Shinichi Nishihaya, Visiting student from University of Tokyo, Japan, 2018

Yen-Lin Huang, Visiting student from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, 2015 - 2017

Zhiran Zhang, Visiting student from Peking University, China, 2016

Zhenqi Hao, Visiting student from Tsinghua University, China, 2016

Weixiong Wu, Visiting student from Tsinghua University, China, 2015

He Liu, Visiting student from Peking University, China, 2014


Tai Mari Lyles, High school student, summer 2018

Janhavi Govande, High school student, summer 2017

Vasanti Varma, High school student, summer 2017

Tatiana Yeung, High school student, summer 2014


Group photos


Group retreat at West Bowling, Jul 2023


Group lunch at County Line on the Hill, Dec 2021


Group lunch at Chosun Galbi, Dec 2019


Group lunch at County Line on the Hill, Dec 2018


Group lunch at County Line at the Lake, Dec 2017


Group lunch at County Line at the Lake, Dec 2017


Group lunch at County Line on the Hill, Dec 2016


Joint (with the Akinwande group) PECASE celebration party, Feb 2016


Group lunch at the Oasis Restaurant, Dec 2015


Group dinner at Prof. Lai's house, Dec 2014


Group picture with the ST-500 system, Dec 2013