Hui Yang

Assistant Professor

PhD. Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

hui.yang@sc.edu

Dr. Yang received her Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science. During her graduate study, she developed a series of conductive 2D molecular materials as anode materials for Li-ion batteries. She had her postdoc training at West Virginia University and University of Massachusetts of Amherst, working with Prof. Nianqiang Wu in Materials Science and Engineering. Her research centers around the fundamental understandings of charge transfer and electrochemical reaction mechanisms, and develop high performance materials at atomistic and molecular level to enable safe, high energy density solid-state batteries. She had worked on thin film solid-state batteries in industry till 2025 before she join USC. She has published 11 first-author papers and co-authored another 10; she is also co-inventor of a US patent on fast charging solid-state batteries and a Chinese patent on Li-ion batteries. 

Buke Wu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

PhD Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech, China)

bukewu0212@outlook.com

PhD Student  

MS Chemical Engineering (National University of Sciences & Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan)

B.Sc Chemical Engineering (University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore)

aslamm@email.sc.edu

Thomas George

Undergraduate Researcher 

B.S. Chemical Engineering, University of South Carolina (2024-2028)

TWGEORGE@email.sc.edu

 Sarah Godwin 

Visiting Undergraduate Researcher 

REU with USC Chemical Engineering (Summer 2026)

B.S. Chemical Engineering, North Carolina State University