Huafan Zhang is currently an international visiting student at Photonics Laboratory in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CENSE) at King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST). She is an undergraduate student at University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC). During this period at UESTC, she worked as a team member in Prof. Xiaobin Niu group and focus on theoretical simulation on epitaxial growth of semiconductors using finite element method (FEM). Currently her research area focuses on nanostructured GaN-based semiconductor materials and photoelectrochemical water splitting.