- Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
- Joint Appointment, Physics and Astronomy
- AZZ Inc. Fellow
- Affiliated Faculty, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Phone: 979-458-9843
- FAX: 979-862-6835
- Email: feng@tamu.edu
- Office: RDMC 224
- Website: Research Website
Educational Background
- Ph.D., Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 2008
- B.S., Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China - 2001
Research Interests
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- Materials theory, discovery, and design for energy applications and device design aided by high-throughput computing
- Two-dimensional materials and their coupled multi-physical properties and novel device concepts
- Electronic, thermal, and ionic transport in energy materials and electronic and optical devices
- First-principles methodology development towards efficient and accurate prediction of ground-state and excited-state properties of materials
- Multiscale materials modeling of complex physical and chemical processes
Awards & Honors
- Dean of Engineering Excellence Award, Texas A&M University – 2024
- Engineering Genesis Award for Multidisciplinary Research, Texas A&M University – 2024
- AZZ Faculty Fellow Award, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University – 2021
- Young Faculty Fellow Award, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), Texas A&M University – 2021
- Materials Today Rising Star Award in Quantum Materials – 2020
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation - 2018
- Manson Benedict Fellowship, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – 2006
Selected Publications
- Keqiang Yan, Montgomery Bohde, Andrii Kryvenko, Ziyu Xiang, Kaiji Zhao, Siya Zhu, Saagar Kolachina, Doğuhan Sarıtürk, Jianwen Xie, Raymundo Arroyave, Xiaoning Qian, Xiaofeng Qian, and Shuiwang Ji. A Materials Foundation Model via Hybrid Invariant-Equivariant Architectures. arXiv Preprint:2503.05771 (2025)
- Zizhong Li, Apoorv Jindal, Alex Strasser, Yangchen He, Wenkai Zheng, David Graf, Takashi Taniguchi, Kenji Watanabe, Luis Balicas, Cory R. Dean, Xiaofeng Qian, Abhay N. Pasupathy, and Daniel A. Rhodes. Twofold Anisotropic Superconductivity in Bilayer Td-MoTe2. Physical Review Letters 133, 216002 (2024)
- Haiyang Yu, Zhao Xu, Xiaofeng Qian, Xiaoning Qian, and Shuiwang Ji. Efficient and Equivariant Graph Networks for Predicting Quantum Hamiltonian. Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Machine Learning, PMLR 202, 40412-40424 (2023)
- Hua Wang, Xiuyu Tang, Haowei Xu, Ju Li, and Xiaofeng Qian. Generalized Wilson loop method for nonlinear light-matter interaction. npj Quantum Materials 7, 61 (2022)
- Alex Strasser, Hua Wang, and Xiaofeng Qian. Nonlinear Optical and Photocurrent Responses in Janus MoSSe Monolayer and MoS2–MoSSe van der Waals Heterostructure. Nano Letters 22, 4145–4152 (2022)
- Baiyu Zhang and Xiaofeng Qian. Competing Superior Electronic Structure and Complex Defect Chemistry in Quasi-One-Dimensional Antimony Chalcogenide Photovoltaic Absorbers. ACS Applied Energy Materials 5, 492-502 (2022)
- Hua Wang and Xiaofeng Qian. Electrically and magnetically switchable nonlinear photocurrent in РТ-symmetric magnetic topological quantum materials. npj Computational Materials 6, 199 (2020)
- Jun Xiao, Ying Wang, Hua Wang, C. D. Pemmaraju, Siqi Wang, Philipp Muscher, Edbert J. Sie, Clara M. Nyby, Thomas P. Devereaux, Xiaofeng Qian, Xiang Zhang, and Aaron M. Lindenberg. Berry curvature memory through electrically driven stacking transitions. Nature Physics 16, 1028-1034 (2020)
- Hua Wang and Xiaofeng Qian. Ferroelectric nonlinear anomalous Hall effect in few- layer WTe2. npj Computational Materials 5, 119 (2019)
- Xiaofeng Qian, Junwei Liu, Liang Fu, and Ju Li. Quantum spin Hall effect in two- dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. Science 346, 1344-1347 (2014)