Haoran Ni

About Me

Hi there! 👋🏻

I am a Ph.D. student in Materials Science at Carnegie Mellon University under the supervision of Prof. Noa Marom. I earned my Master’s degree in Physics from EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), and my Bachelor’s degree with honors in Physics from Lanzhou University.

Hometown: 📍 Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province, China

Hobbies: 🏴‍☠️ OnePiece, 🎸 Music, ⚽ Soccer, 🏓 Table tennis, 🎱 Pool

Research Interests

• Computational Materials Modeling: molecular interfaces, molecular crystals, DFT
• Machine Learning: machine learning interatomic potentials, reinforcement learning

News

• [ Pinned ]   Check out my (unfinished) notes on machine learning!

• [Mar. 29th 2025]   We (Xuyan Chen and me) ranked the 4th out of 55 teams in CMU Poker AI Competition held by CMU DSC and Jump Trading. Let’s do better next year.

• [Mar. 21st 2025]   I was awarded the Richard King Mellon Foundation Presidential Fellowship in Energy I, I am deeply grateful to the generous supporters and CMU donors behind this fellowship.

• [Dec. 19th 2024]   I will be the TA for Quantum Mechanics of Materials next semester, whether or not I am in my office remains a quantum state until you actually show up during office hours.

• [Dec. 18th 2024]   I passed the ITA language test with the highest certification of Strong Proficiency.

• [Dec. 9th 2024]   I passed my qualification exam!

• [Sep. 12th 2024]   I received an award from TRACE for submitting the 100,000th job, accompanied by a cash prize of 100000 dollars, in binary format though.

• [Jan. 1st 2024]   This website was born.

Publications

Theses

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