Principal Investigator Fanglin Che Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 203C, Tel: 978-934-3443
Email: fanglin_che@uml.edu
Dr. Fanglin Che joined in Chemical Engineering department at University of Massachusetts Lowell as an Assistant Professor in September, 2019.
Research Scientists and Postdoctoral Fellows
Qiang Li
Research Scientist
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202D
Email: Qiang_Li@uml.edu
Qiang joined Fanglin’s lab in the spring of 2024. He obtained his PhD in Chemical Science and Technology from the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ). Then he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Dionisios Vlachos’s lab in University of Delaware between 2019 to 2024. His research focuses on heterogeneous catalysis, involving three main areas: (i) studying the mechanisms of biomass catalytic transformations through DFT simulations, (ii) activating small molecules over single-atom catalysts, and (iii) developing and applying machine learning techniques to predict the energetics of surface species under electric fields.
Yilang Liu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202D
Email: yilang_liu@uml.edu
Yilang joined in the summer of 2024. He obtained his PhD in chemical engineering advised by Professor Prashant Deshlahra at Tufts University in 2021. Then he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Dionisios Vlachos’ lab at the University of Delaware from 2021 to 2024. In Fanglin’s lab, he conducts computational research on the project related to machine learning algorithm development for boosting muti-scale and multi-physics simulations of electrocatalysis and PFAS-free textile systems.
Jiaqi Yang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202D
Email: yjq829@gmail.com
Dr. Jiaqi Yang joined Fanglin’s group in the fall of 2024, He obtained his PhD in Materials Engineering from Purdue University. His research focuses on material design using Density Functional Theory (DFT) and Machine Learning, involving electrocatalysis, semiconductors, 2D material and perovskite design. In Fanglin’s lab, Jiaqi is developing active learning and deep learning algorithms for field-enhanced catalysis, plasma catalysis, electrocatalysis, and material discovery.
Ph.D. Students
Saleh Ahmat Ibrahim
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202C
Email: saleh_ahmatibrahim@student.uml.edu
Saleh joined Fanglin’s lab as a PhD student in the Spring of 2022. He earned a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Department from Gazi University in August, 2021, where he worked on the design and characterization of innovative mesoporous catalysts for the steam reforming of acetic acid. Saleh completed his B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering Department from Eskisehir Technical University in May, 2019. He is working on multi-scale and multi-physics simulations of ammonia synthesis using a tunable plasma catalytic reactor.
Yuting Xu
PhD Student
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202D
Email: yuting_xu@student.uml.edu
Yuting joined Fanglin’s lab as a PhD in Fall, 2022. She is expected to earn a M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering and Technology Department from Sun Yat-sen University in June, 2022, where she majored in multi-objective optimization and chemical manufacturing intensification in petroleum industries. Yuting finished her B. Eng. in Chemical Engineering in Dalian University of Technology in June, 2019. She is working on AI-assisted multi-scale simulations for electrocatalyst design.
Runze Zhao
PhD student
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202C
Email: runze_zhao@student.uml.edu
Runze joined Fanglin’s lab as a PhD student in the Fall of 2022. He earned a M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from University of Pittsburgh in April 2022, where he successfully developed “Continuous Flow Synthesis of Zeolite ZSM-5 and Fe-ZSM-5”. Runze completed his B.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology in December 2019 and B. Eng. in Petroleum Engineering from Northeast Petroleum University in June 2020. He is working on the multi-scale simulations the effect of static and dynamic electric fields on catalysis.
Pragyansh Singh
PhD student
Department of Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202B
Email: Pragyansh_Singh@student.uml.edu
Pragyansh joined Fanglin’s lab in the fall of 2023. He completed his M.Sc. (Chemistry) in June of 2022 from IIT Madras. For his master’s thesis, he worked on ab-initio calculation-based modeling of molecular magnets. Thereafter, he joined IISER Kolkata to work on a research project of “Natural transition orbital directed excited state study of molecules in the magnetic field.” His keen interest in working on practical systems with real-world applications has now led him to pursue research in the field of machine learning-based computational electrostatic catalysis.
Undergraduate Students
Jaime L Notarangelo
Immersive Scholar 2021
Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 203
Email: Jaime_Notarangelo@student.uml.edu
Jaime joined UMass Lowell in 2020. She is a chemical engineering major and an athlete on the women’s lacrosse team. Jaime joined in Fanglin research group in 2021 Summer. Jaime is working with the team to study ammonia synthesis at the atomic-scale.
Charles A Milhans
Chemical Engineering
Office: Southwick 202
Email: Charles_Milhans@student.uml.edu
Charles joined in Fanglin’s lab in 2023 Summer. He is a chemical engineering major with a minor in computer science. His interests involve utilizing machine learning algorithms to solve problems in chemical engineering with a special focus on plasma and field-driven catalysis.
Group Alumni
PhD Students:
Mingyu Wan joined Prof. Fanglin Che’s group in the Fall of 2020 and graduated in the May of 2024. He earned an M.Eng. in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and a B.Eng. in Energy Engineering from North University of China. Mingyu Wan’s doctoral training is to perform multi-scale simulation and machine learning to design catalysts for energy sustainability. He received the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering travel award from the AIChE Annual Meeting and the Kokes award from the North American Catalysis Society Meeting in 2022. Mingyu Wan has published five first/co-first author papers in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, JACS, JACS Au, and ChemCatChem during his Ph.D. After graduation, Mingyu Wan will join in Wuhan University of Science and Technology in China as an Assistant Professor in 2024 Sep.
Master Students:
Dilruba Akhter (2020 – 2022)
Nguyen Ngan (2019)
Undergraduate Students:
Roy Hill (2021-2022)
James. Kurriss (2020-2021)
Emily Marget (2020 – 2021)