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JD presented his research at the 2024 undergraduate expo

April 5, 2024

JD was among the only five engineering and math undergraduate students who orally presented their research at the 2024 undergraduate expo! He delivered an outstanding presentation!

Griffin and Ayoub presented their posters at the 2024 Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Symposium

February 21, 2024

Griffin and Ayoub presented their posters at the 2024 Stewardship Science Academic Programs (SSAP) Symposium!

Machine learning sifts through vast data from X-ray diffraction techniques to find new materials

December 23, 2023

Our newest paper on developing machine learning models for analyzing large XRD data in collaboration with Professor Xu and his team has just been published at npj Computational Materials.

Ali defended his PhD and moved to JHU

January 25, 2023

Ali just defended his PhD with great success! Kudos to Ali! We will miss him in the lab but wish him luck in his new Postdoc role at JHU!

Jerardo, Ali, and Niaz presented 3 talks at mmm10

October 11, 2022

Jerardo, Ali, and Niaz presented 3 talks at mmm10 conference in Baltimore! Ali and Jerardo both received the travel award to attend the conference and delivered great talks! Congratulations to both of them!

We received funding from NSF

September 18, 2022

Niaz Received funds of $287K from NSF to study phase transformation mechanisms of bicontinuous materials

Ali published in PNAS!

July 7, 2022

Ali's paper on mixed phases of water is now published in PNAS! Great work Ali!

Niaz received funding from NNSA and NSF CDS&E

July 7, 2022

Niaz Received funds of $574K from NNSA and $375K from CDS&E as the PI (in collaboration with Prof. Xu from computer science) to develop deep learning methods for analysis of large XRD data

Linh Vu received the Discover grant for summer research

April 18, 2022

Linh Vu received the Discover grant sponsored by the Schwartz Undergraduate Research Fund to continue her research on phase transformation mechanisms in metallic nanomaterials during the summer of 2023! Congratulations Linh!

Undergraduate students presented posters

April 15, 2022

Linh, Zheming, and Ogi presented posters at the undergraduate research symposium at University of Rochester!

Niaz and Ali presented 6 talks at TMS

March 3, 2022

Together Niaz and Ali presented six talks at TMS 2022 in Anaheim California!

Gus successfully defended his PhD

June 15, 2021

Gus successfully defended his PhD. He is starting a career as a postdoc at Boston University. Congratulations Gus!

Niaz received University Research Award

June 5, 2021

Niaz received University Research Award for "Capturing nanoscale lattice variations by applying AI-powered computer vision techniques on synthetic x-ray diffraction data" with Chenliang Xu from CS.

Ogi received a new award

June 1, 2021

Congratulations to Ogi for receiving The Richard Eisenberg Engineering Award — which recognizes hard-working undergraduates with an interest in metallurgy

Zheming Guo, Zhaotang Du, and Linh Vu joined the team

May 31, 2021

 A warm welcome to our newest members; Zheming Guo, Zhaotang Du, and Linh Vu.

Haomin successfully defended her PhD

December 21, 2020

Haomin successfully defended her PhD. She is the first PhD student graduated from ACMML! She is starting a career as a machine learning data scientist at Roblox. Congratulations Haomin!

Ali presented his research at CIRC symposium

February 20, 2020

Ali successfully presented his recent work on nanoporous membranes at the Center for Integrated Research Computing symposium. Great job Ali!

Alumni Article Featured on Cover of Journal of Applied Physics

July 3, 2019

Anupam’s article on shock compression of single crystal and core-shell Cu@Ni nanoporous metals has been featured on the cover of Journal of Applied Physics. Well done Anupam!

Students Deliver Talks at TMS 2019

March 12, 2019

Haomin, Lijie, and ALi delivered three talks and one poster presentation on the mechanics of nanoporous Cu, composite intertwined Cu/Mo, and SiN nanomembranes at TMS 2019 in San Antonio. Kudos to all three of them!

Haomin Presents Model at Symposium

February 20, 2019

Haomin successfully presented her multiscale model of the mechanics of nanoporous materials in Third International Symposium on Nanoporous Materials by Alloy Corrosion in Philadelphia.

February 14, 2019

Lejie’s paper on structural phase transformation in bicontiunous intertwined composites just got published in ACS Applied Nano Materials. Well done Lejie!

Student Paper Published in Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

August 15, 2018

Haomin’s first paper on deformation behaviors of nanowires and connecting nodes in nanoporous materials just got published in Modeling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering. Well done Haomin!

Exploring Nanotechnology Workshop

July 16, 2018

Haomin, Gus, and Ali are preparing for their ‘Exploring Nanotechnology’ workshop for highschool students.

Student Paper Accepted to Materialia

May 9, 2018

Anupam’s paper on strengthening behavior of irradiated Cu is accpeted to Materialia. Congrats Anupam!

Muhammad Awarded Emil L. Kuichling Prize

May 9, 2018

Muhammad was recently awarded the Emil L. Kuichling Prize, awarded annually to the student in the junior class in mechanics who has shown the greatest proficiency in the work of the course. Great job Muhammad! He is also accepted into the DAAD-Rise program, and will be spending his summer in Hamburg, Germany, at the Hamburg University of Technology, researching nonlinear controls of flexible robots. Well done!

Student Paper Accepted for Publication

April 18, 2018

Lijie’s first paper just got accpeted for publication in Computational Materials Science journal. Congrats Lijie!

Niaz Receives 2018 Young Leaders Professional Development Award

December 23, 2017

Niaz has been awarded a 2018 Young Leaders Professional Development Award from the Functional Materials Division of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society.

Student to Present at MRS 2017

November 22, 2017

Haomin will present her work on nanowires at MRS 2017 in Boston.

Neoji Joins ACMML

July 10, 2017

Anupam Neogi joined the group. Welcome Anupam!

Neogi Joins ACMML

June 1, 2017

Muhammad Hadi just joined the group. He recieved XEROX fellowship to do research on computational modeling of nanoporous materials in summer 2017. Welcome Muhammad!

Student Poster Presentation at ICME Conference

May 30, 2017

Gus received the second place for his poster presentation on nanoporous metals at the ICME conference in Michigan in May. Well done Gus!

Display Week 2017 'Women in Tech'

May 30, 2017

Niaz was one of the panelists of ‘Women in Tech’ forum at Display Week 2017 in May.

Ben Defends MS

May 16, 2017

Ben successfully defended his MS. Congratulations Ben!

Jimmy Defends MS

April 10, 2017

Jimmy successfully defended his MS. Congratulations Jimmy!

ACMML Presented at MRS

March 25, 2017

Haomin, Gus, and Niaz presented ACMML at MRS chapter at UR.

Caulin to Present at NCUR 2017

March 11, 2017

Caulin will present his work on melting behavior of core-shell nanoparticles in NCUR 2017 in Memphis in April.

Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics Symposium

March 10, 2017

Niaz organzied the symposuim ‘Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics’ in TMS 2017 in San Diego. She also gave an invited talk on Nanoporous metals.

Invited Talk at RIT

February 16, 2017

Niaz just gave an invited talk at Rochester Institute of Technology. The title of talk was ‘Deformation mechanisms of nanoporous materials’

International Conference on Plasticity

January 15, 2017

Niaz gave an invited talk in International Conference on Plasticity in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The talk was based on Gus, Haomin, Jimmy’s research results!

Fall 2016 ACMML Group

September 20, 2016

2nd PhD Student Joins ACMML

August 26, 2016

Haomin Liu is the second PhD to join the group. Welcome Haomin!

PhD Student Joins ACMML

August 17, 2016

Lijie (Gus) He joins the group as the first PhD student. Welcome Gus!

Abdolrahim Receives NSF Grant

July 19, 2016

Professor Abdolrahim recieves grant from NSF to investigate the deformation behaviors of nanoporous metals.

New Graduate Researcher Joins ACMML

June 30, 2016

Benjamin Smilen joins the Group as a graduate researcher. Welcome, Ben!

New Undergraduate Researcher Joins ACMML

June 23, 2016

Caulin Nelson-Angelsea joins the Group as an undergraduate researcher. Welcome, Caulin!

Niaz Paper Highlighted as Editor's Choice

March 13, 2016

Niaz recent paper “Determining coherent reference states of general semicoherent interfaces” just got highlighted as the editor’s choice of the Computational Materials Science. See the link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09270256

CIRC Poster Session

March 4, 2016

Bin (Jimmy) presented his work on atomistic modeling of nanoporous materials at the Center for Integrated Research Computing annual poster session. Good job Jimmy!

Niaz to Chair TMS 2017

March 3, 2016

Niaz will chair the Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics symposium at TMS 2017 in San Diego.