What we have been doing
Sheila successfully defends a PhD in Applied Mathematics. Congratulations! 🎉
I-Tzu gives an invited seminar at National Institute of Materials Science.
A new preprint on neural representation of EBSD is now arXiv!
A new preprint on latent representation and its use for microstructure analysis is now on arXiv!
Sheila is selected for 2026 Al Scott Prize and Lecture by Applied Math program at U of A. Congratulations! 🎉
Dr. Seojun Hong from Seoul National University joins us as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!
I-Tzu is selected as the recepient of NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Class of 2026! Congratulations! 🎉
Our thermodynamic assessment of chalcogenide systems has now been published in Calphad journal.
A new preprint on thermodynamic assessment of two chalcogenide systems in now on arXiv!
Zhuocheng, I-Tzu, and Marat present topological acoustics software and environmental sensing at NewFos Stakeholder Meeting.
I-Tzu graduates with a Bachelor of Science in Physics. Congratulations!
Sheila presents microstructure representation with transformers Los Alamos Arizona Days Conference held at LANL.
Ramya Ramachandran from Computer Science joins the group. Welcome!
Marat gives an invited talk at the Materials Informatics session of the MS&T-2025 Conference.
Our manuscript on chord length distribution for description of gradient and other non-uniform microstructures is published in Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A!
Our work on machine learning of impact behavior in cold spray of metals is published in Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation and featured in Editor's video summaries!
Zhuocheng (Leo) Huang joins the group as a PhD student and Herbold Fellow. Welcome!
MIL is part of a new project on enhancing chalcopyrite leaching in copper mining funded by the Grantham Foundation.
Marat presents graph neural networks for polycrystals at the US Congress on Computational Mechanics, USNCCM18.
Thomas attends CODAS-HEP, a summer school on computational and data science for high energy physics at Princeton University.
Our work on microstructure representation with vision transformers is now published in Acta Materialia! The full text is also available on arXiv.
Our group presents at all three events co-located at the TMS Specialty Congress with Sheila's presentation at AIM and Marat's presentations at 3DMS and ICME.
Sheila receives the Herbert E. Carter Travel Award to present at the TMS Specialty Congress.
Thomas' team wins the second prize at the MIT Water, Food, & Agricalture Innovation Competition.
Marat gives a seminar at the Applied Math program on selected problems in materials informatics.
Samiah defends her Master's thesis on eutectic and peritectic equilibria in coherent binary alloys.
Guangyu presents his research on graph neural networks at the MSE Graduate Seminar.
Thomas defends his Master's thesis on accelerated design of sustainable concrete.
Sheila gives an invited seminar at the Materials Informatics Webinar organized by NASA Glenn Research Center.
Guangyu submits a solution "Efficient calculation of anisotropic stiffness of fiber-reinforced composites using computational homogenization and tensor rotation" to an industry problem. The problem is presented as part of the "Innovations in Graduate Education Roundtable and Hackathon" organized by the Applied Math program at U of A.
A new preprint on machine learning of properties with microstructure description using vision transformers is live on arXiv!
Marat receives the NSF CAREER award that will support fundamental research of damage in sustainable aluminum alloys and MGI workforce development.
Sheila passes comprehensive exam in Applied Math GIDP. Congratulations!
Thomas presents his research on accelerated design of sustainable concrete at ACI Concrete Convention in Philadelphia, PA.
Our work on GNNs predicting FIPs in large polycrystals is now published in Scripta Materialia!
We now accept applications from MSE undergrads for 2025 MateriAlZ Winter School!
A new preprint on spatially resolved chord length distribtuions is live on arXiv!
New students: Eric, Hao, Saege, I-Tzu, and Aditya join the group. Welcome!
Thomas is selected for a Sulzer Mines Scholarship. Congratulations!
Dr. Jiayang Wang from Penn State joins us as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome, Jiayang!
Marat joins Los Alamos National Lab for a summer month as an ISTI Distinguished Faculty Scholar.
Our paper on graph neural networks for polycrystals is published in Computational Materials Science.
Sheila gives an oral presentation on modeling microstructure--property relationships of materials with transformers at a CVPR workshop in Seattle, WA.
A new preprint on modeling fatigue indicators parameters with graph neural networks is live on arXiv!
Guangyu presents graph neural networks for polycrystals at the Machine Learning and Simulations seesion of the MRS Spring Meeting in Seattle, WA.