People

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Faculty

Prof. Wei Cai
Prof. Wei Cai
Principal Investigator
Predicting mechanical strength of materials through theory and simulations of defect microstructures across scales. Developing new atomistic simulation methods for long time-scale processes and applying machine learning to materials research.

Ph.D. Students

Philip DePond
Philip DePond
Ph.D. Student
Researching metallurgical processes and modeling for metal additive manufacturing (3D printing).
Hanfeng Zhai
Hanfeng Zhai
Ph.D. Student
Interests in multiscale computational mechanics, scientific machine learning, and inverse optimization. Focuses on data-driven methods for dislocation dynamics.
Eliana Krakovsky
Eliana Krakovsky
Ph.D. Student
Researching mechanics of materials and microstructural evolution.
Myung Chul Kim
Myung Chul Kim
Ph.D. Student
Researching rare events, accelerated kinetic Monte Carlo simulations, and mechanical behaviors of polymer networks using molecular dynamics.

Alumni

Wurong Jian
Professor @ South China University of Technology
Rasool Ahmad
Scientist @ LLNL
Nicolas Bertin
Research Scientist @ LLNL
Lihua Jin
Professor @ UCLA
Yanming Wang
Professor @ Shanghai Jiaotong University
Ryan Sills
Professor @ Rutgers University
Ill Ryu
Professor @ Seoul National University
Eunseok Lee
Co-Founder & CEO @ HEI
Seokwoo Lee
Professor @ UConn
Seunghwa Ryu
Professor @ KAIST
C. Weinberger
Professor @ Colorado State
Keonwook Kang
Professor @ Yonsei University
Shaswat Mohanty
Applied Materials