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Oct 2026 - Welcome to Sunny Choudhary, who joins the group as a Research Specialist II.
Oct 2026 - Our study of machine-learned band gaps, two-stage modeling and the effects of data representation and split strategy (E. Solecki and P. Zhu), is published in Computational Materials Science.
Aug 2026 - Dr. Zhu receives an NSF I-Corps award to explore the commercial potential of a rare-earth-free micro-LED lighting platform.
Summer 2026 - Welcome to undergraduate summer researchers Evan Solecki and Berkley Voss.
2026 - Our review on strategies for enhancing external quantum efficiency in all-inorganic perovskite LEDs (Yang Yue and Peifen Zhu) is published in Laser & Photonics Reviews.
Dec 2025 - U.S. provisional patent application filed: "Lead-Free Optical Components for High-Performance Lighting."
May 2025 - Congratulations to Dr. Yang Yue and Dr. Christopher Dzorkpata on completing their Ph.D.s. Yang is named the 2025 College of Engineering Outstanding Ph.D. Student and joins MU Technology Advancement; Christopher joins San Jacinto College as an assistant professor.
2025 - "Near-Unity PLQY of Cs₃Cu₂X₅ for High-Efficiency White LEDs with Exceptional Color Quality" is published in Advanced Materials.
Jan-Feb 2025 - Welcome to high-school researchers Kevin Chen (Jenks High School) and Aihui McLaury (Rock Bridge High School).
Aug 2024 - Welcome to Azmin Islam, who joins the group as a Ph.D. student.
Summer 2024 - Welcome to high-school researcher Joseph Bennett Willmore (Rock Bridge High School).
Apr 2024 - Dr. Zhu receives the EECS Outstanding Junior Faculty Research Award.
Jan 2024 - Prof. Junru Jiang joins the group as a visiting professor for 2024.
Jun 2023 - Welcome to Christopher Dzorkpata, who joins the group.
May 2023 - Yang Yue transfers from the University of Tulsa to continue his Ph.D. at Mizzou.
Fall 2022 - Dr. Zhu joins the University of Missouri. Earlier press coverage:
Shark Tank competition awards faculty research grants (utulsa.edu)
Better lighting for all - Engineering & Natural Sciences (utulsa.edu)
Two STS alumni, separated by 37 years, share a passion for science - Society for Science
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