The Cheng Research Group

Group Leader 

Yingwen Cheng, Ph.D. Postdoc, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2013-2017 Ph.D., Duke University, 2013 B.S., B. Eng., Shandong University, 2008 Google Scholar; Curriculum Vitae

Graduate Students 

	Bomin Li PhD Student, UT Knoxville, 2023-current Graduate Student, Northern Illinois University, 2019-2023 Visiting Student, Argonne National Laboratory, 2020-2022 M.S. East China University of Science and Technology Google Scholar
	Jacob Kaelin Ph.D. candidate, Northern Illinois University Visiting Student, Argonne National Laboratory, 2021-current B.S. Northern Illinois University
	Fan Xia Ph.D. student, Northern Illinois University, 2021-current Visiting Student, Argonne National Laboratory, 2022-current B.S. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2020 Google Scholar
	Bowen An Ph.D. student, UT Knoxville, 2023-current M.S. University of California, Los Angeles
	Dhilip Kanna Ashok Kumar Ph.D. student, UT Knoxville, 2023-current
	Paranjothi Murugan Ph.D. student, UT Knoxville, 2023-current

Undergraduate Students 

Alumni

Postdoc Alumni

Dr. Ke LuCurrent position: Professor at Anhui University Google Scholar

Graduate Student Alumni

	Dr. Olusola John Dahunsi 2nd PhD from the Cheng group (2019-2023) Current Position: Scientist at EOS Energy Storage in New Jersey Google Scholar; Linkedin
	Dr. Siyuan Gao 1st PhD from the Cheng group (2018-2023) Current Position: Research Chemist at Microvast in Florida Google Scholar; Linkedin
	Sarat Alabidun 1st MS from the Cheng Group (2019-2021) Current position: PhD student, Imperial College London, UK
	Dr. Zhida Wang Visiting graduate student in the Cheng group (2019-2021) Current position: graduate student at Harbin Institute of Technology
	Dr. Hong Zhang Visiting graduate student in the Cheng group (2020-2021) Current position: Postdoc at Anhui University
	Elijah Openiyi current position: graduate student at Purdue University

Undergraduate Alumni

1. Stephen Harcar
2. Brendon Storms
3. Peter Johnson (Currently at Advocate Aurora Health)
4. Ziyi Liang (currently at University of Illinois at Chicago)
5. Jose Flores (NIU undergraduate, currently at Hydrox Laboratories)
6. Christopher Herbig (NIU Research Rookies)
7. Jacob Kaelin (NIU undergraduate, Jacob is staying with us for Ph.D. studies)
8. Karina Villarreal (NIU undergraduate)
9. Daniel Coliz (NIU undergraduate, currently R&D Stability Chemist at Sigan)
10. Colten Nickel (NIU undergraduate)
11. Robert J. Dick (undergradaute from Trine University, now at University of Texas at Austin)
12. Zain Sattar (Bartlett High School, now attending University of Illinois at Chicago)