
Liping Huang
Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
RM 202, Materials Research Center (MRC)
110 8th Street, Troy, New York, 12180
Phone: (518) 276-2174 (office)
Fax: (518) 276-8554 (office)
Email: huangl5@rpi.edu
URL: http://www.eng.rpi.edu/mse/people.cfm
CV: pdf
Ph.D., Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 2004
M.S., Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 1999
B.E., Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, China, 1996
Courses:
Spring 2009: MTLE 6060 Advanced Kinetics
Fall 2009: MTLE 6500 Modeling of Materials
Spring 2010: MTLE 6060 Advanced Kinetics
Fall 2010: ENGR-1600 Materials Science for Engineers
Opportunities:
Research assistant position(s) available. Please contact Dr. Liping Huang (huangl5@rpi.edu) directly if you are interested in joining our group.
Group Members

【Contact Information】
Name: Fenglin Yuan
Position: Graduate Student
Office: MRC 269A
Email: yuanf4@rpi.edu
Web: http://www.rpi.edu/~yuanf4
Research: MD simulation of amorphous materials
CV: pdf
【Educational Background】
2008-Present Graduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
2004-2008 B.S., Physics, Wuhan University, China

【Contact Information】
Name: Michael Guerette
Position: Graduate Student
Office: MRC 269A
Email: guerem@rpi.edu
Research: High temperature and/or high pressure light scattering study of glasses
【Educational Background】
2010-Present: Graduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
May 2008, Bachelor of Arts in Physics, Minor in Mathematics, University of Southern Maine

【Contact Information】
Name: Kisung Chae
Position: Graduate Student
Office: MRC 269A
Email: chaek@rpi.edu
Research: Modeling chemical reactions with diffusion
【Educational Background】
2010-Present: Graduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
2008-2010, M.S., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
2005-2008, B.S., Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea

【Contact Information】
Name: Garth Scannell
Position: Graduate Student
Email: scanng@rpi.edu
Research: Less brittle glasses
Former Members
Patrick Flanagan Jr.: currently in the Chemical and Biological Engineering Department at RPI.

【Contact Information】
Name: Junwei Wang
Position: Postdoc
Email: jwang666@gmail.com
Research: TiO2 thermal sensor materials
CV: pdf
【Educational Background】
2010-2011, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
2007-2009, Postdoc, Materials Science and Engineering Depatment, North Carolina State Univeristy, Raleigh, NC
2005-2007 Postdoc, Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
1999-2004 Ph.D., Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China
1994-1999 B.Sc. , Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

【Contact Information】
Name: Qing Zhao
Position: Graduate Student / 2010 RPI CSSA President
Email: silentwings2008@gmail.com
Research: Mechanical properties of less brittle glass
Current Position: Materials Analyst at Nanolab Technologies, Inc.
【Educational Background】
2007-2011 Graduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
2005-2007 M.S., Materials Science & Engineering, Zhejiang University, China
2001-2005 B.S., Materials Science & Engineering, Jiangsu University, China

【Contact Information】
Name: Magdalene Pride
Position: Graduate Student
Office: MRC 269A
Email: pridem@rpi.edu
Research: Computational and experimental study of less brittle glasses
【Educational Background】
2010-Present: Graduate Student, Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
2006-2010, Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science in Forensic Science, Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry, COLUMBIA COLLEGE, Columbia, MO

【Contact Information】
Name: Kelly Costa
Position: Undergraduate Student
Email: costak@rpi.edu
Research: Oxide nanoparticle synthesis and characterization
Honorable Members

Name: Yunfeng Shi
Position: Assistant Professor
Office: MRC 114
Email: shiy2@rpi.edu
Web: http://eng.rpi.edu/mse/faculty_details.cfm?facultyID=shiy2
Research: MD simulation of nanomaterials

Name: Vincent Shi
Position: Son of Prof. Liping Huang & Prof. Yunfeng Shi
Office: Work @ home
Email: Not yet
Web: Not yet
Research: Not yet