Ph.D. 2025, Texas A&M
Research Interests: Thermal Energy Storage, Phase Change Materials, and Phase Stability and Transformations. Engineering Education
Ph.D., 2008, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Ceramics, Biomaterials, Nanomaterials, Materials Processing, Polymeric Materials
Lab Website: Andrew Research Group
Ph.D., 2017, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Machine Learning and AI; energy storage materials, functional and electronic materials, lithium-ion batteries, structure-property relationships, X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, local structure, amorphous and disordered materials
Lab Website: Butala Research Group
Ph.D., 2019, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Polymeric Materials, Materials Processing, Nanomaterials, Biomaterials
Ph.D., 2000, Washington University in St. Louis
Research interests: Machine Learning and AI, Computational Modeling and Simulation, Energy Materials, Electronic Materials, Engineering Education, Nanomaterials; AI-driven and ab initio materials science; deep learning and generative models for materials prediction and inverse design; interpretable machine-learning force fields; quantum and superconducting materials; molecular magnetic qubits and spin coherence; electronic-structure and phonon-based modeling of electron–phonon coupling; electrochemical and solid–liquid interfaces; and open computational frameworks linking predictive AI, first-principles simulation, and experiment.…
Ph.D., 2006, University of Florida
Research Interests: Electronic Materials, Materials Processing, Advanced Materials Characterization, Energy Materials
Ph.D., 1987, University of California-Berkeley
Research Interests: Electronic materials, semiconductor processing and characterization, ion implantation, transmission electron microscopy.
Lab Website: Swamp Group
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Ph.D., 2015, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Machine Learning and AI, Energy Materials, Nanomaterials; Advanced electron microscopy techniques, Quantitative analysis of electron microscopy data, Digital image processing, Understanding materials properties at the atomic scale, Functional oxides and semiconductors
Lab Website: Kim Electron Microscopy Group
Ph.D., 2019, University of Akron
Research Interests: Polymeric Materials, Biomaterials, Engineering Education, Nanomaterials, Machine Learning and AI; Enzyme Catalysis, High-Throughput Data-Driven Techniques
Ph.D., 2017, University of Minnesota
Research Interests: Polymeric Materials; structure and phase behavior of charged polymer blends and solutions; small-angle scattering; rheology and additive manufacturing
Ph. D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Ceramics, Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Machine Learning and AI, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Nuclear Security and Detection, Materials Processing
Lab Website: Nino Research Group (NRG)
Ph. D., 1989, Louisiana State University
Research Interests: Electronic Materials; electronic, photonic, and magnetic thin-film materials; electronic oxide materials; thin-film deposition
Research Interests: Biomaterials, Polymeric Materials; hydrogels, cell-material interactions, bioinspired materials, peptide materials, mechanical properties.
Ph.D., 2021, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Research Interests: Nanomaterials for sensing and wastewater treatment applications, thermally resistant materials for extreme environments, and the structure-property relationships of semiconductor nanomaterials, transmission electron microscopy
Ph.D., 1985, University of Florida
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Energy Materials, Metallurgy, Ceramics
Lab Website: Phillpot Research Group
Ph.D., 2003, Tulane University
Research Interests: Engineering Education; characterization techniques, surface physics, solid-state devices, dye-sensitized solar cells.
Ph.D., 1992, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany
Research Interests: Semiconductor oxides for energy harvesting and storage, photocatalysis and photolysis, electrodes for secondary batteries, barrier coatings, nanostructures in surface science and, biomedical applications of nanoparticles
Lab Website: Sigmund’s Group
Ph.D., 2008, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Ceramics, Electronic Materials, Energy Materials, Machine Learning and AI, Materials Processing, Metallurgy, Nanomaterials, Nuclear Security and Detection, Radiochemistry
Lab Website: Tonks Research Group
Research Interests: Computational Modeling and Simulation, Nuclear Fusion, Machine Learning and AI, Quantum Computing, Atomic and Molecular Scattering
Ph.D., 2005, Princeton University
Research Interests: Nanostructured electronic materials, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, surfaces and interfaces, energy materials, photovoltaic cells, light-emitting diodes and other optoelectronic devices
Lab Website: Xue Research Group
Ph.D., 2018, KU Leuven, Belgium
Research Interests: microstructure modeling using the phase-field method and machine learning-based approaches





