UNC Physics and Astronomy: CMT Candidate Research Chalk Talk

Topics for Discussion: Future Research and Teaching Plans; Funding Prospects

Speaker: Mengen Wang, The State University of New York at Binghamton

*Please note that these talks are open to faculty members only

Bio: Mengen Wang is an Assistant Professor from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Binghamton University. Mengen received her Ph.D. in 2019 in Materials Science and Chemical Engineering from Stony Brook University, where she worked at Brookhaven National Laboratory, focusing on applying first-principles computation for heterogeneous catalysis. From 2019 to 2022, she worked as a postdoc in the Materials Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, focusing on first-principles computation of the growth and defects in wide-bandgap semiconductors for power electronics and quantum information science applications. Her current research is focused on combining first-principles approaches with machine learning to design semiconductor materials for optoelectronic and quantum information applications.