Lab Members¶

Director & Principal Investigator¶

Dr. Wei Xiong
William Kepler Whiteford Associate Professor
Email: weixiong(a)pitt.edu
Address: 636 Benedum Hall,
3700 O'Hara St.,
Pittsburgh, PA 15261

Graduate Students¶

Luis Fernando Ladinos Pizano
Ph.D. Candidate
Research Interests:
Additive Manufacturing, Materials Design, Machine Learning
PhD program started since Jan 2022

Daozheng Li
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests:
Materials Design, CALPHAD, ICME
PhD program started since Aug 2023

Marcia Myung Hye Ahn
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests:
Advanced Characterization, Experimental Design
PhD program started since May 2024

Batuhan Tak
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests:
Materials Design, Advanced Characterization
PhD program started since Aug 2025

Melih Ustalar
Ph.D. Student
Research Interests:
CALPHAD, ICME, High-temperature Materials
PhD program started since Aug 2025

Isha Paresh Bhagwat
Master Student
Research Interests:
Materials Design, Advanced Characterization
Joined Lab for research since May 2025

Yuchen (Max) Liu
Master Student
Research Interests:
Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Characterization
Joined Lab for research since Dec 2024

Postdoc Researchers¶

Dr. Liyi (Joseph) Wang
Ph.D.: Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Research Interests:
Additive Manufacturing, Advanced Characterization
Started since Oct 2023

Visiting Scholar¶

Dr. Gülşah Aktaş Çelik
Assistant Professor, Kocaeli Üniversitesi
Research Interests:
High entropy refractory alloy design, CALPHAD, ICME
Started since Feb 2025