78th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology Portland, Maine October 2006
Happy faces from left to right - Pouyan E. Boukany ( PhD student), Sham Sundar ( PhD student), Dr. Shi-Qing Wang (advisor)，Yangyang Wang (PhD student）
Eight graduate students from a variety of backgrounds and countries are currently working on diverse but interrelated fields. Each of the students brings a unique perspective to the projects currently being carried out.
Polymer Rheology and Mechanics of Polymer Glasses Group
Group Advisor:
Dr. Shi-Qing Wang
Summer 2021:
(L-R) Zehao Fan, Travis Smith, Dr. Shi-Qing Wang, Chaitanya Gupta and Caleb Carr (REU Summer Student from University of Cincinatti, OH)
2019 Summer
From left to to right:
Elizabeth Amory(REU summer student from Rowan University, NJ), Ruchao Yuan(visiting student from Donghua University, China), Travis Smith, Da Huang, Dr. Shi-Qing Wang, Yexin Zheng, Xinyang Zhao(summer student from Shanghai Jiaotong University, China), Masoud Razavi, Shufan Zhang
2016 Summer in front of Department Building
From left to right:
First row: Yue Zhao, Jianning Liu, Dr Shi-Qing Wang (Advisor), Yexin Zheng
Second row: Dr. Xiaogang Li (Visiting scholar), Zhichen Zhao, Dr. Panpan Lin,Xiaoxiao Li, Sirui Ge
Group Thanksgiving Dinner at Dr. Wang's House, 2015
From left to right: Zhuonan Liu (collaborator from Dr. Mesfin Tsige's group), Xiaoxiao Li, Yue Zhao, Panpan Lin, Sirui Ge, Jianning Liu, Dr. Shi-Qing Wang (Advisor), Zhichen Zhao, Yexin Zheng
86th Annual Society of Rheology Meeting, Philadelphia, 2014
Happy faces (Left to right): Jianning Liu, Panpan Lin, Xiaoxiao Li, Mengchen Wang, Dr. Pouyan Boukany, Dr. Shi-Qing Wang (Advisor), Gengxin Liu, Dr.Yangyang Wang
83rd Annual Society of Rheology Meeting, Cleveland, 2011
Group member (Left to right)--Xiangyang Zhu, Greg Zartman, Panpan Lin, Hao Sun, Dr. Pouyan Boukany, Shiwang Cheng, Dr. Shi-Qing Wang (Advisor), Dr. Yangyang Wang, Gengxin Liu
Dr. Wang's Group - The Society of Rheology: 81st Annual Meeting, Madison Wisconsin, Oct 2009
From left: Xin Li, Shiwang Cheng, Greg Zartman, Xiangyang Zhu, Yangyang Wang, Dr.Pouyan Boukany, Dr. Shi-Qing Wang
XVth International Congress on Rheology, August 2008, Monterey CA.
Dr. Wang's Group (from left to right) - Dr. Wang (Advisor), Dr. Pouyan E. Boukany, Sham Sundar Ravindranath, Yangyang Wang, Xin Li
79th Annual Meeting of The Society of Rheology Salt Lake City, Utah October 2007
Dr. Wang's Group - From left to right - Sham Sundar Ravindranath,Pouyan E. Boukany, Yangyang Wang，Dr.Wang (Advisor)
Group Advisor:
December 2011–present: Kumho Professor, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron
September 2000–November 2011: Professor, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron
Current Students
Starting Fall 2014
B.S., Sichuan University, China
Starting Fall 2016
M.S., University of Tehran, Iran
B.S., University of Tehran, Iran
Starting Fall 2018
B.S., California Polytechnic State University, CA
B.S., Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China
B.S., Lanzhou University, China
Starting Fall 2019
Chaitanya Ramanand Gupta
B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
Previous Students
Dr. Justin Robert Barone (1997-2000)
Associate Professor in Virginia Tech,
http://www.bse.vt.edu/people/tenure-track/barone-justin.html
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Dr. Rohit Bhargava (1996-2000)
Professor in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
http://beckman.illinois.edu/directory/person/rxb
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Dr. Shanfeng Wang (2000-2003)
Professor in Sun Yat-sen University, China
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Dr. Pouyan Esmailzadeh Boukany (2004-2008)
Assistant Professor in Delft University of Technology
http://cheme.nl/ppe/people/boukany.shtml
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Dr. Sham Sundar Ravindranath (2005-2010)
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, India
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Dr. Yangyang Wang (2006-2010)
R&D staff scientist at Oak Ridge National Lab (TN)
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Dr. Xin Li (2006-2011)
Research Physicist at Milliken & Company (SC), now in BASF
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Dr. Greg Zartman (2008-2012)
Goodyear (OH)
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Dr. Xiangyang Zhu (2008-2012)
Senior Scientist in Tiorco (CO), Now R&D manager at Renolit, Beijing, China
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Dr. Shiwang Cheng (2009-2013)
Post-doc at Oak Ridge National Lab (TN), now
https://www.egr.msu.edu/people/profile/chengsh9
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Dr. Hao Sun(2010-2014)
Group Leader in PPG Industries (PA)
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Mengchen Wang(2013-2015)
CSR Corporation Limited in China
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Dr. Gengxin Liu (2010-2015)
Post-doc in Dr. Stephen Z.D. Cheng's group, Department of Polymer Science, University of Akron (OH)
sites.google.com/site/
Now assistant professor at Donghua University, Shanghai, China
https://www.x-mol.com/groups/rheo(Chinese)
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Dr. Panpan Lin (2011-2016)
R&D Engineer in 3M, Shanghai, China
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Sirui Ge (2014-2016)
Ph.D. Student in Department of MSE, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)
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Yue Zhao (2014-2016)
Ph.D. Student in Department of Chemistry, Temple University (PA)
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Dr. Xiaoxiao Li (2013-2018)
Polymer Scientist at Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport (TN)
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Yi Feng(2016-2018)
Ph. D. Student in Department of Chemical Engineering & Materials Science, stevens institute of technology(NJ)
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Yue Lu(2016-2018)
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Dr. Jianning Liu(2013-2018)
Application Research Scientist at Eastman Chemical Company, Kingsport (TN)
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Dr. Zhichen Zhao(2015-2019)
Polymer Scientist at L&L Products, Romeo(MI)
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Mingyu Yuan(2017-2019)
Ph.D. student in Department of Chemistry, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University(VA)