Principal Investigator
Dr. Peichen Zhong
zhongpc[AT]nus.edu.sg
Peichen grew up in Sichuan (the birthplace of pandas with a lot of spicy food). He received a BSc in Physics from USTC (2018) and a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley (2023), advised by Prof. Gerbrand Ceder. He then completed the postdoctoral work at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP), co-advised by Profs. Kristin A. Persson, Bingqing Cheng and Aditi Krishnapriyan. He joined NUS MSE as an Assistant Professor under the Presidential Young Professorship from July 2025. He enjoys traveling, hot pot, and writing with LaTeX. [LinkedIn, Google Scholar]
Research Fellows
Dr. Junmin Chen
PhD in Materials Science, Tsinghua University
Junmin will be joining the group as a postdoctoral research fellow from September 2025. [LinkedIn]
Dr. Zihan Zhang
PhD in Physics, Jilin University
Zihan will be joining the group as a postdoctoral research fellow from October 2025. [Google Scholar]
Graduate Students
Yicheng Chen
PhD student (2025-), BSc/MSc from Fudan University
Yicheng is a PhD student with a background in quantum chemistry and machine learning. He previously worked on using graph neural networks to predict molecular and material properties and was a research intern at Microsoft AI4Science (2024). Now, he is exploring how ML can be used in electrochemical and energy storage systems. Outside of research, he enjoys playing video games - especially RPGs.
Visiting Scholars
Yubai Shi
Visiting PhD student from UCAS (2025-2026)
Yubai is a PhD candidate at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS). He is interested in ferroelectrics, and he prefers using computational methods to investigate the real microscopic physical process and properties of matter, such as machine learning assisted molecular dynamics. In his spare time, he is pursuing his goal of becoming a bodybuilder. He is not only inspired by the most novel and interesting research findings in the lab, but also motivated by the larger muscles in the gym!