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Current & Former Huang Lab Members present at February 2026 Gordon Electron Microscopy Conference

Current (Anna Li, Rahim Raja) and former (Dr. Yichao Zhang, Dr. Chia-Hao Lee) members presented at the February 2026 Gordon Conference for electron microscopy.

UIUC Conference Attendees

Physics World’s Top 10 breakthrough list features Huang lab research

In 2025, Physics World recognized work led by Huang Lab Post Doc (now Assistant Professor at University of Maryland) Yichao Zhang that featured the highest resolution images ever collected of individual atoms. Yichao leveraged electron ptychography to image twisted bilayer tungsten diselenide.…

MSA Burton Medal awarded to Pinshane Huang

The Microscopy Society of America (MSA) has named Professor and Racheff Faculty Scholar Pinshane Huang as the 2026 recipient of the Burton Medal in Physical Sciences — one of the field’s most coveted early-career honors.

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Anna named ‘2026 M&M Student Scholar’

Anna wins student scholar award at 2026 Microscopy and Microanalysis Conference.

(Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Pinshane interviewed for local news

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Group picnic to celebrate Priti’s graduation!

Group picnic at Meadowbrook park in Urbana, IL in May 2025 to celebrate Priti’s graduation!

Rahim named ‘2025 M&M Student Scholar’

Huang group takes on M&M 2024 in Cleveland, Ohio

Gillian, Justin, Jeff, Yichao (invited), and Pinshane (invited) presented talks at M&M 2024. Patrick presented a poster talk at M&M 2024.

Jeff attends Coherence conference in June 2024

Jeff attended the Coherence conference in June 2024 hosted in Helsingborg, Sweden. …

Gillian named ‘2023 M&M Student Scholar’