Zecheng Gan
Assistant Professor, Advanced Materials Thrust at HKUST(GZ), with a joint affiliation in the Department of Mathematics at HKUST.
People
Research Group & Mentoring
Principal investigator
Postdoctoral researchers
Yue Fang
Jointly supervised postdoctoral researcher. PhD in Chemical & Biological Engineering from HKUST, joined since 2026.
Research direction: modeling and simulations for phase separation in polymer networks.
Doctoral students
In addition to the group members listed below, I co-supervise numerous PhD candidates through collaborative projects, who are not individually listed here.
Shiyi Bai
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Jiaxing Yuan, since 2025. MPhil completed at HKUST(GZ); current PhD student.
Research direction: DFT, MD and continuum models for electrolytes and their material applications.
Kaiwen Jin
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Jin-Guo Liu, since 2024.
Research direction: scientific computing, numerical analysis, with applications in water waves and quantum computing.
Xuanyan Chen
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Chang Yan, since 2024.
Research direction: AI, DFT and field-based models with applications in solar cells.
Qian Serena Hou
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Jun Wang, since 2024.
Research direction: Operator learning, with applications in PDEs and transition path computations.
Weitao Lan
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Ruiting Zuo, since 2023.
Research direction: high-dimensional kernel computations, enhanced sampling.
Undergraduate researchers
The undergraduate researchers listed below are supported through the X-program at HKUST(GZ).
Chencheng Long
X Program undergraduate researcher, since 2026.
Research direction: Numerical study of chemical-field-mediated dynamics in chiral active particles.
Xingyang Lin
X Program undergraduate researcher, since 2026.
Research direction: Modeling and simulation of collective behavior in dielectrically confined charged systems.
Xinjie Shi
X Program undergraduate researcher, since 2025.
Research direction: Efficient kernel approximation: algorithms and scientific applications.
Alumni
Lingchuan Tan
Co-supervised MPhil student with Huachen Cui, 2024-2026.
MPhil completed (Now a PhD student at HKUST(GZ))
Gexin Wang
Co-supervised MPhil student with Jun Wang, 2026.
MPhil completed
Yanyu Duan
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Xiaoxiao Wu, 2022-2026.
PhD completed (Now postdoc in the department of physics, Nankai University)
Tianhao Hu
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Yang Xiang, 2022-2026.
PhD completed (Now postdoc in the department of mechanics, Peking University)
Zheng Yang
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Rui Zhang, 2021-2026.
PhD completed
Xuanzhao Gao
Primary supervisor, co-supervised with Jin-Guo Liu and Yang Xiang, 2021-2025.
PhD completed (Now postdoc at CCM, Flatiron Institute, New York)
Pengxiao Bao
Co-supervised MPhil student with Tong-Yi Zhang, 2025.
MPhil completed (Founder of a startup company)
Jiayi Wang
Co-supervisor with Ping Gao, 2020-2024.
PhD completed (Now at Huawei, Shanghai)
Wing Chun (Kyle) CHAN
Co-supervised MPhil student with Rui Zhang, 2021-2023.
MPhil completed (Now a PhD student at Kyoto University)