University of Wisconsin–Madison

People Type: Research Associate

Kawak, Pierre

Biography Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2026–NowPostdoctoral Scholar, University of South Florida, 2022–2025Ph.D., Brigham Young University, 2017–2022M.S., American University of Sharjah, 2015–2017B.S., American University of Sharjah, 2010–2014 Pierre joined the group in April 2026. During his Ph.D., he developed a GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo simulation engine to study polymer crystallization and phase behavior. As a postdoctoral …

Kim, Yulim

Biography Education: Profile Description: She joined the group in September 2025. She received her Ph.D. by developing and applying fragmentation methods within quantum mechanics. She then worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory, where she studied catalytic surface reactions using density functional theory (DFT). Her current research focuses on hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites for solar …

Mahajan, Subhamoy

Biography Research Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2023-NowPostdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta, 2021 – 2023PhD, University of Alberta, 2016 – 2021B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, 2012 – 2016 Subhamoy joined the group in September 2023. During his Ph.D., he developed coarse-graining techniques for polymer-based gene delivery systems. Currently, he is studying saltwater desalination behavior …

Xian, Weikang

Biography Postdoc Research Associate, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025-present Grad. Study, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022-2025Grad. Study, University of Connecticut, 2019-2022Visiting, University of California, Los Angeles, 2017-2018|BS Jilin University, 2013-2017 Weikang joined the group in January 2019. He has been working on projects that aim to understand the viscoelastic properties of silicone copolymer and the structure-property relation …

Xu, Hengyu

Biography Ph.D, University of Science and Technology of China, 2019-2024BE, University of Science and Technology of China, 2015-2019 Hengyu joined the group in July 2024. During this Ph.D., his research focused on the nanoconfined mass transport theory. He developed a liquid-gas two-phase nanoflow model in 2D nanoporous media, and proposed a Grotthuss mechanism-based ion rectification …