Principal Investigator

Ziliang Ye
I received my B.S. from Fudan University, Shanghai, in 2008, and a PhD from UC Berkeley in 2013. After a postdoc, first at Columbia University and then at Stanford University, I joined UBC as an assistant professor in 2018 and became a tenured professor in 2024. I am currently a tier-II Canada Research Chair focusing on the optical property and electronic structure of two-dimensional quantum materials.
Staff
| Sejoon Lim | Postdoctoral Fellow | slim35″at”mail.ubc.ca |
Students
| Yunhuan Xiao | PhD | yhxiao”at”phas.ubc.ca |
| Yuan Xie | PhD | yuanxie”at”phas.ubc.ca |
| Tianxiao (Tony) Niu | PhD | tn2001″at”student.ubc.ca |
| Haodong Hu | PhD | hd200011″at”phas.ubc.ca |
| Andree Coschizza | PhD | acos13″at”student.ubc.ca |
| Maxim Yun | Master | maksyun1″at”student.ubc.ca |
| Frank Fang | Undergrad | xfang18″at”student.ubc.ca |
Former Members
| Sebastian Gitt | Summer technician, 2018 | UBC graduate school |
| Lianghui Peng | Undergraduate intern, 2018 | Yale graduate school |
| Haonan Zhao | Undergraduate volunteer, 2018 | U Michigan graduate school |
| Dong He | Undergraduate intern, 2018 | USTC |
| Stanley Lim | Undergraduate thesis, 2018-2019 | U Ottawa graduate school |
| Quentin Guillet | Undergraduate intern, 2019 | École polytechnique |
| Hirsh Kamakari | Undergraduate intern, 2019 | Caltech graduate school |
| Huiwen Shen | Undergraduate intern, 2019 | Mcgill graduate school |
| Wucheng Zhang | Undergraduate volunteer, 2019 | Princeton graduate school |
| Amritabha Guha | Undergraduate intern, 2019-2020 | UBC |
| Raghav Chaturvedi | Undergraduate volunteer, 2020 | Cornell graduate school |
| Sukhman Claire | Undergraduate intern, 2020 | UBC |
| Teri Siu | Undergraduate intern, 2021 | U Waterloo graduate school |
| Zhengbang Zhou | Undergraduate volunteer, 2021 | U Toronto graduate school |
| Luna Liu | Undergraduate intern, 2021 | Yale graduate school |
| Eddie Ji | Master, 2018-2021 | |
| Sean Raglow | Master, 2020-2021 | U Arizona graduate school |
| Edmond Ng | Undergraduate thesis, 2021-2022 | UBC |
| Vinit Doke | Undergraduate intern, 2022 | IIT Bombay |
| Vedanshi Vala | Undergraduate volunteer, 2020-2022 | UBC |
| Hawk Zhang | Undergraduate intern, 2022, 2023 | UBC |
| Jingda Wu | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2023 | Senior engineer at Analog Photonics |
| Sean Chen | Undergraduate thesis, 2021-2023 | UBC |
| Tobias Faehndrich | Undergraduate intern, 2023 | UBC |
| Victor Bugnion | Undergraduate thesis, 2023 | EPFL |
| Michael Liudeng | Undergraduate intern, 2023 | UBC |
| Debojyoti Biswas | Undergraduate intern, 2023 | UBC |
| Shangyi Guo | Undergraduate intern, 2023 | UT Austin graduate school |
| Guyue Li | Undergraduate thesis, 2023-2024 | UBC |
| Jing Liang | Postdoctoral Fellow, 2021-2024 | Professor at IQASZ |
| Tony Qiao | Undergraduate intern, 2024 | UBC |
| Jasnoor Singh | Undergraduate intern, 2024 | IISC |
| Connor Wong | Undergraduate intern, 2024 | Cambridge Univ. |
| Dongyang Yang | PhD, 2019-2024 | Postdoctoral fellow at Cornell |
| Theo Manev | Undergraduate volunteer, 2024-2025 | UBC |
| Pranav Agrawal | Undergraduate volunteer, 2025 | NYU graduate school |
| Melisa Ozen | Master, 2023-2025 | ETH graduate school |
| David Oh | Undergrad volunteer, 2025-2026 | UBC |
| Suman Chatterjee | Postdoc, 2024-2026 | Postdoc at IISc Bangalore |
| Jerry Dadap | Research Associate, 2021-2026 | APS editor |
| Kevin Chen | Undergraduate intern, 2026 | UBC |
| Jacinthe Rinuy | Undergraduate intern, 2026 | ESPCI Paris |