2006–2011	2011–2015	2015–2018	2018–Present

Bio

Hello! My name is Changning Niu (pronunciation). I am the Engineering Manager at QuesTek Innovations LLC, a small business focused on computational materials design, located in Northern Chicagoland. You can also find me on LinkedIn.

Appointments

2018–Present	QuesTek Innovations LLC, Evanston, IL, USA
	- Engineering Manager (Feb 2024–Present)
	- Team Lead of Digital Tools (Jan 2022–Feb 2024)
	- Senior Materials Design Engineer (Oct 2019–Feb 2024)
	- Materials Design Engineer (Apr 2018–Oct 2019)
2015–2018	Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
	- Post Doctoral Researcher, Advisor: Maryam Ghazisaeidi

Education

2011–2015	Ph.D., North Carolina State University (NCSU), Raleigh, NC, USA
	Materials Science and Engineering, Advisor: Douglas Irving
2006–2011	B.Sc., University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), Beijing, China
	Materials Physics, minor in Information and Computational Science

Research

My peer-reviewed publication list is available at Google Scholar Profile.