Group

Yuanzhi Tang
Professor, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Director, Center for Critical Mineral Solutions
Co-founder, Georgia Partnership for Essential Minerals
Interim Associate Co-Director of Interdisciplinary Research, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
Initiative Lead on Sustainable Resources, Strategic Energy Institute, Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
Co-Editor-in-Chief: Chemical Geology
Associate Editor: Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Nature npj Materials Sustainability
Email: yuanzhi.tang@eas.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-894-3994
Office: ES&T 3252
Yinghao Wen
Postdoc (2022-present)
Email: ywen94@gatech.edu
PhD (2022) Texas A&M University
Yan Shi
Postdoc (2022-present)
Email: yan.shi@eas.gatech.edu
PhD, Fudan University
Jaeyoung Lee
Postdoc (2023-present)
Email: jlee4222@gatech.edu
PhD, Kyung Hee University
Estefania Garcia
PhD candidate (2020-present)
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Email: egarcia72@gatech.edu
M.S. (2020) Kennesaw State University
Hang Xu
PhD student (2022-present)
Email: hangxu.eas@gatech.edu
M.S. Nanjing University
B.S. Nanjing Agriculture University
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PhD student (2021-present, co-advised with Dr. Hailong Chen)
School of Mechanical Engineering
Email: gzhang337@gatech.edu
M.S. (2018) Peking University

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PhD candidate (2021-present, co-advised with Dr. Crawford Elliott)
Georgia State University
Email: aboxleiter1@student.gsu.edu
Rui Cai
PhD student (2023 Fall – present)
M.S. (2023) Nanjing University
Email: rcai44@gatech.edu
Darsha Krishnamurthi
Undergrad student (2022 Fall-present)
Biochemistry
Emily Tribby
Undergrad student (2023 Spring-present)
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Alumni

Undergrad students
Margot Hultz
REU student (2015 summer)
Johns Hopkins University
Neidra “Bleu” Thomas
REU student (2015 summer)
North Carolina University-Chapel Hill
Olivia BaileyOlivia Bailey
Undergraduate student
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Yaneira Gonzalez ValleYaneira Gonzalez Valle

REU student (2016 Summer)
University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez
Tania Lee Class-Martinez
REU student (2016 Summer)
University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez
Bei (River) Zhang
Undergraduate student
Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Kanaha Shoji
Undergraduate student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Current: PhD student, EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne)
Anna Bass
Undergraduate student
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Kathleen Lugo
ACE REU (2018 summer)
Florida International University
Damilola Lawal
SURE REU (2018 summer)
Columbia University
Dhara Patel
SURE REU (2019 summer)
Georgia State University
Colin Snyder
SENIC REU (2019 summer)
Florida Institute of Technology
Xiangyi (Echo) Zhu
Undergrad student (2019 – present)
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Patrick Daugherty
Undergrad student (2019 – present)
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Eric Mei
Undergrad student (2020 Fall – present)
School of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Paige Wise
Undergrad student (2021-2022)
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Current: PhD student, University of Southern California
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Undergrad student (2021-2022)
School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Current: PhD student, University of Oregon
Marie Lim
EAS REU Student (2022 summer)
Red Rocks Community College
Emily Piwowarski
ACE REU Student (2022 summer)
North Carolina State University
Chloe Berger
ACE REU student (2023 summer)
Community College of Philadelphia

Graduate students
Emily Saad
PhD (2013 – 2017)
Current: Exponent
Ashley Brady
M.Sc. (2015-2017, co-advised with Chris Reinhard)
Current: Chemistry teacher, Duluth High School
Shiliang Zhao
PhD (2013 – 2018)
Current: Industry
Weishi Wang
M.Sc. (2017 – 2018)
Current: PhD student, Colorado School of Mines
Ben Fields
B.S student (2014 – 2019)
Biao Wan
PhD (2016 – 2020)
Current: Postdoc, University of Tuebingen

Pan Liu
PhD (2016-2021)
Current: Meta
Simin Zhao
PhD (2019-2023)
Current: McKinsey

Postdocs
Rixiang (Alex) Huang
Postdoc, Research Scientist (2014 – 2018)
PhD (2018) Baylor University
Current: Assistant Professor, SUNY-Albany
Chiqian Zhang
Postdoc (2018 – 2019, co-advised with Dr. Spyros Pavlostathis)
PhD (2018) University of Missouri-Columbia
Current: Assistant Professor, Arkansas State University
Haesung Jung
Postdoc (2018 – 2020)
PhD (2018) Washington University in St Louis
Current: Assistant Professor, Changwon National University, Korea
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Postdoc (2021-2022)
PhD (2021) New Mexico State University
Current: Project Manager, New Mexico Environmental Department
Qian Wang
Postdoc, Research Scientist (2018-2022)
PhD (2018) University of Wyoming
Current: Research Engineer, New Mexico State University

Visiting scholars
Sahib Zada
Visiting PhD student (2016)
Quaid-i-azam University, Pakistan
Current: Research Fellow, Guangdong Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Chenning Li
Visiting undergrad student (summer 2017)
Tsinghua University
Current: PhD student, Michigan State University
Ci Fang
Visiting PhD student (2016-2017)
China Agricultural University
Xiaoming Xu
Visiting PhD student (2018-2019)
Peking University
Can Shen
Visiting PhD student (2019-2020)
Central South University
Xiangdong Meng
Visiting PhD student (2019-2020)
Zhejiang University