Cindy Wang

Cindy is a second-year Applied Physics PhD student in the Extreme Environments Laboratory, joining in 2024. She is originally from Portland, Oregon and majored in Physics (B.S.) at Case Western Reserve University, with a minor in Psychology. At CWRU, she was supervised by Kathleen Kash and studied the growth mechanism and optoelectronic properties of MgSnN2, a heterovalent ternary nitride semiconductor which has a green visible light bandgap. 

Additionally, Cindy made neural networks specifically tailored for quantum physics modeling during her 2021 REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) at Cornell University's High Energy Synchrotron Source, with explorations of the tanh function and singularities. In 2022, she also was a member of the SULI (Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships) program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and worked on plasma sheath modeling for the purpose of optimizing magnetic tokamak fusion.

In Wendy's group here at Stanford, Cindy is currently studying the effects of pulsed laser annealing and heating on the formation of SiVs in nanodiamond precursors, using the high pressure technique of Diamond Anvil Cells (DACs).