Comprehensive exam โ Next stop, thesis town. ๐ Excited to see where your research takes you next!
CONGRATULATIONS TO BI-CHENG ZHOU (PHD '15) FOR THE PROMOTION TO ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR WITH TENURE
Let's congratulate Bi-Cheng Zhou (PhD 2015) for the promotion to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of Virginia, where he leads the Computational Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group.
Congratulations, John Shimanek, for a successful PhD Thesis defense.
Well done, John! The future is bright, and this is just the beginning.
Cole Britt successfully defended his PhD Thesis!
Heartfelt congratulations, Cole, on your successful PhD thesis defense! Your achievement is a testament to your perseverance and expertise. Hereโs to your continued success!
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congratulations Adam, winner of the Drs. Weiming Huang and Zi-Kui Liu Materials Genome Graduate Award!
In honor and recognition of academic excellence, Adam Krawjewski has been awarded $4,000 from the Drs. Weiming Huang and Zi-Kui Liu Materials Genome Graduate Award. What a tremendous honor to crown his PhD.
Adam received a travel award!
Adam Krajewski will attend the OPTIMADE Meeting and CIMTEC 2024 Conference in Montecatini Terme, Italy with the full cost of the trip reimbursed.
Ricardo Amaral: EME Fuel Science Graduate Award winner!
Congratulations to Ricardo for receiving the 2024 Frank J. Vastola And Ruth J. St. Clair Vastola Graduate Scholarship. Consideration for this award is given to outstanding graduate students enrolled in the Energy and Mineral Engineering (EME) Graduate Program whose research utilizes computational methods in energy or fuel conversion.
Adam Successfully defended his PhD thesis
Congratulations Adam! Hereโs to your hard work and future endeavors.
Iโm certain he would want you to check out his github: https://github.com/amkrajewski
Congratulations to Ricardo on Outstanding TA Award
Congratulations to Ricardo for his achievement of the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award from the Department of Energy and Minerals Engineering at Penn State! Itโs great to have students committed to the mission of sharing knowledge with others.
Congratulations to our alumna Melissa Marshall (BS '00) for McFarland Award
Let us congratulate our alumna Melissa Marshall (BS 2000) on receiving 2024 David Ford McFarland Award Lecture for Achievement in Metallurgy for her extraordinary achievements in the industrial side of our field. She is currently vice president at Westinghouse, accountable for the global internal audit, enterprise risk management, and global financial controls programs.
You can read more about her story in this Penn State news article.
Congratulations to Yu Zhong (PhD '05) for the promotion to Full Professor
Let us congratulate Yu (Michael) Zhong (PhD 2005) for the promotion to Full Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, where he leads the Integrated Materials and Processes Design Group.
Congratulations to Hui for a successful defense!
Huge congrats to Hui for acing their thesis defense! Her hard work and dedication have paid off tremendously. Here's to a bright future ahead!
Group Sushi Friendsgiving
Today, in the spirit of Friendsgiving, we had a nice sushi lunch at Tadashi - a nearby place beloved by many of our members and alumni!
Zentropy Featured by ASM
In a recent news article titled โZentropy and the art of creating new ferroelectric materialsโ by ASM International, you can see how Zentropy applies to the materials discovery process and could change the world.
Congratulations to Alexander
Congratulations to Alexander on passing his Comprehensive Exams today!
Zentropy Featured by Penn State
Our Zentropy approach has recently been featured in Penn Stateโs news article where Dr. Liu discusses how we apply it to parameter-free prediction of ferroelectric to paraelectric transition temperature in PbTiO3 entirely from first-principle computations.
Technical details can be found in our resent publication on the topic 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2023.115480
Congratulations to Adam and Zhening
Congratulations to Adam and Zhening on passing their Comprehensive Exams today.
Adamโs talk was titled: Robust Materials Data Processing towards Materials Discovery Exemplified with High-Entropy Alloys
Zheningโs talk was titles: Design and characterization of functionally graded materials: SS304L to IN625 FGM and Fe- to Cu- alloy FGMs
TMS2023 Symposium in Honor of Dr. Liu
At the 2023 TMS Annual Meeting, TMS held an honorary symposium to recognize the contributions of Dr. Liu. The symposium was designed to applaud the impact of Liu on the fields of computational materials science and materials design on the occasion of his 60th birthday, the 20th anniversary of Liu coining the term โMaterials Genomeโ, and the progress of computational thermodynamics (CALPHAD) in the last 50 years as the foundation of materials design.
Dr. Liu was also named a TMS Fellow in 2022.
Learn more in this recent interview. http://ow.ly/Nqjw50Og0Li
The news has also been featured on materialstoday Twitter page!
Adam, Alexander, Rushi, Hui, and Shuang Received NSF Travel Awards
Adam, Alexander, Rushi, Hui, and Shuang, have all received generous Travel Awards of around $1,500 from National Science Foundation (NSF) which will cover their registration at CALPHAD Conference in Boston, MA this June. Congratulations!