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Jan 6, 2025 Our recent work exploring the use of fundamental microscopic properties as predictors of large-scale quantities of interest has been accepted for publication in Acta Materialia! You can find the article here.
Jan 4, 2025 I’m excited to announce that our recent work exploring cross-scale covariance for material property prediction has been published in npj Computational Materials. This work is the result of a wonderful collaboration between the University of Minnesota (Ilia Nikiforov, Ellad Tadmor), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (Amit Samanta, Fei Zhou, Vincenzo Lordi, and Vasily Bulatov), and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. You can find all the details in our article, here.
May 28, 2024 If you are heading to EMI/PMC 2024 in Chicago this week, please stop by the Buckingham Room on Wednesday, May 29 at 11:30am. I will be presenting our recent work, as seen in MRS Advances. As a part of the talk, I will describe how we transitioned our dual neural network topology optimization algorithm to aid in fitting interatomic potentials. This initial proof-of-concept work could eventually be used to aid in efficiently fitting an interatomic potential for large scale properties of interest, e.g. grain boundary energy and plastic flow strength.
Apr 4, 2024 I’m excited to share our recent article, which extends our neural-network based optimization framework to interatomic potentials. You can find the article, which was recently published in MRS-Advances, here
Mar 8, 2024 Our recent work with Michael Wood was highlighted in the Sandia National Laboratories Collaboration Report for 2022-2023. You can see the article here, pg 58-59. I have truly enjoyed being a part of this great collaboration!
Dec 9, 2023 I’m excited to share our work using neural networks to perform topology optimization. You can find the article, which was recently published in Computer-Aided Design, here
Jul 28, 2023 Thank you to the organizers at USNCCM17, where I just presented our topology optimization work. It was great to meet everyone and hear about all of your research. I’m looking forward to USNCCM18 in Chicago!
Jul 10, 2023 I’m excited to be included as a Mavis Future Faculty Fellow for 2023-2024: MechSE announcement