Projects
The PSED cluster fellows were organized into interdisciplinary groups to perform research in complex problems featuring elements from each of their areas of expertise and study. Click the links below to see a poster describing the key components of their year-long team efforts.
2021 - 2022
Data Bias Detection and Mitigation in Materials Databases
Adetoye Adekoya, Whitney Tso, and Hengrui Zhang
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wei Chen, David Seidman, and Jeffrey Snyder
Transferable top-down CGMD parameterization for linear polymers
Chanwook Park, Heather White, and Ruijie Zhu
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Zhengtao Gan and Sinan Keten
Predictive Modeling for Multicomponent Additive Manufacturing Using Convolutional LSTM Networks
Xiaoyu Xie, Zhongsheng Sang, and Putong Kang
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wing Kam Liu, Gregory J Wagner, and Jian Cao
Data-driven Dimensional Analysis for Electrospinning to Discover Dimensionless Numbers and Scaling Laws
Xiaoyu Xie, Yunzhi Xu, and Yaoke Wang
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wing Kam Liu, Ange-Therese Akono, and Ping Guo
2020 - 2021
Process and Bayesian Optimization Modeling to Identify Top-perfirming Metal Organic Frameworks for Flue Gas Separation
Thang Pham and Yigitcan Comlek
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wei Chen and Randall Snurr
Inclusive Modeling and Inverse Design of Manufacturable Free-Form Dielectric Metasurfaces
Ibrahim Tanriover and Doksoo Lee
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wei Chen and Koray Aydin
Machine Learned Interatomic Potentials for Simulating Thermal Transport Across Complex Heterostructures
Sean Koyama and Vishu Gupta
Faculty Advisors: Drs. James Rondinelli and Ankit Agrawal
Data-driven Concrete Autogenous Shrinkage Prediction
Vishu Gupta, Derick Suarez, and Yuhui Lyu
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Gianluca Cusatis, Wing Kam Liu, and Ankit Agrawal
Development of a generative framework for design-based selection of mammalian genetic programs
Kathleen Dreyer and Anh Nguyen
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Joshua Leonard and Niall Mangan
Layer-wise Defect Prediction in Metal Powder Bed Fusion Based on Deep Learning Method Using Thermal Signatures
Yuwei Mao, Hui Lin, and Zhangyuan Gao
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Ankit Agrawal and Jian Cao
2019-2020
Data-driven PSPP Model for Additive Manufacturing through Critical Microstructural Feature
Sourav Saha, Lichao Fang, and Umar Farooq Ghumman
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wing Kam Liu, Greg Wagner, and Wei Chen
In-situ Photometric Stereo-based 3D Reconstruction and Process Control of Incremental Sheet Forming
Ru Yang and Shuheng Liao
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Ping Guo and Jian Cao
Data-driven multiscale modeling and experimental framework to reveal the Process-Structure-Property linkage of filler reinforced polymer composites
Marisa Ravena Bisram and Satyajit Mojumder
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Jian Cao, Kori Ehmann, Wing Kam Liu
Accelerating Materials Design and Discovery for Battery Application using Machine Learning and First-Principal Methods
Cheol Woo Park and Anand Shah
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Chris Wolverton, James Rondinelli, and Wei Chen
Data-driven PSPP Model for Additive Manufacturing through Critical Microstructural Feature
Sourav Saha, Lichao Fang, and Umar Farooq Ghumman
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wing Kam Liu, Greg Wagner, and Wei Chen
Spatially Tunable Subwavelength Light Localization and Surface Acoustic Wave Sensing through Optimization of Plasmonic Metamaterials
Shizhou Jiang
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Oluwaseyi Balogun and Wei Chen
2018-2019
Predicting Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis using Data Mining Method
Hengyang Li and Mahsa Tajdari
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wing Kam Liu and Greg Wagner
Learning Structural Genome of Materials Exhibiting Metal-Insulator Transition for Engineering Design
Raymond Wang and Akshay Iyer
Faculty Advisors: Drs. James Rondinelli and Wei Chen
Model Calibration and Bias Correction of Electroporation
Nibir Pathak and Anton van Beek
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Horacio Espinosa and Wei Chen
Design of a High-Strength Austenitic Trip Steel for Additive Manufacturing
Sam Sorkin and Clay Houser
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Greg Olson and Wing Kam Liu
Integrated Design of Phononic Structures and Flexible Forming Processes
Dohyun Leem and Ziwei Wang
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Jian Cao, Ankit Agrawal and Oluwaseyi Balogun
Predicting Hot Cracking in Laser Powder Fed Fusion through Part Thermal History
Zachary Thompson and Samantha Webster
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Peter Voorhees and Jian Cao
2017-2018
Predicting Avalanches in Granular Materials
Ian Madden, Alice Lucas, and Sara Bahaadini
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Erik Luijten and Aggelos Katsaggelos
Data-Driven Design of Quasi-Periodic Plasmonic Lattice Structure Based on the Desired Optical Band Structure
Jun Guan and Yu-Chin Chan
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Teri Odom and Wei Chen
Linking Additive Manufacturing Process to Microstructure via Statistical-Based Analysis
Zilin Jiang, Dmitriy Kats, and MJ Sarfi
Faculty Advisors: Drs. WingKam Liu, Greg Wagner, and Jian Cao
Multiscale simulation and uncertainty quantification of uni-directional carbon fiber reinforced polymer composite systems
Mahsa Tajdari and Tianyu Huang
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Wing Kam Liu and Wei Chen
Microstructure Characterization and Reconstruction via Deep Learning
Zijiang Yang and Xiaolin Li
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Ankit Agrawal and Wei Chen
Fatigue Life Prediction of Shape Memory Alloys
Karthik Gururangan, Nicolas Huang, and Justin Knobloch
Faculty Advisors: Dr. Greg Olson
2016-2017
Integration of first principles calculations into nucleation theory for design of multi-phase thermoelectric materials
Xia Hua and Jonathan Pfluger
Faculty Advisors: Chris Wolverton, Vinayak Dravid, and Mercouri Kanatzidis
Image based Fatigue Prediction for SMA and AM Materials
Cheng Yu, Chuan Liu, and Kazuhiko Nishioka
Faculty Advisors: Wing Kam Liu and Gregory Olson
Concurrent Coupling of Phase Transformation and Grain Evolution Simulation in LENS Process for 316L Steel
Jiaying Gao, Jiawei Wang, Mani Ramesh, Ming-Chiang Chang
Faculty Advisors: Greg Olson and Wing Kam Liu
A Numerical Woven Composite Material Characterization Method based on the Representative Volume Element
Weizhao Zhang and Ramin Bostanabad (mentor)
Faculty Advisors: Jian Cao and Wei Chen
Integrated Simulation and Process Control for Distributed Manufacturing
Mojtaba Mozaffar and Arindam Paul
Faculty Advisors: Jian Cao and Ankit Agrawal
Design of Stretchable Plasmonic Metasurfaces
Tad Reese & Tucker Kearney
Faculty Advisors: Teri Odom and Wei Chen
2015-2016
Material Genome Prediction Based Analysis and Design of Polymer Nanocomposites
Yixing Wang and Yichi Zhang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Cate Brinson and Wei Chen
Structure-Property Characterization of Grain Structures in Additive Manufacturing
Puikei Cheng, Orion Kafka, Ryan Kulpins, Hui Yang, Cheng Yu, and Xu Zhang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Wing Kam Liu and Greg Olson
Computational Search for New Quaternary Strengthening Precipitates in Alloys
Amar Krishan & Kyoungdoc Kim
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Ankit Agrawal, Peter Voorhees, and Chris Wolverton
Additive Manufacturing: Process to Structure
Jenifer Bennet, Stephen Lin and Fan Meng
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Jian Cao, Greg Wagner, and Greg Olson
Inverse Design of Metal Nanoparticle Metal-Organic Framework for Tunable Adsorption
Tom Zhao and Jingtian Hu
Faculty Advisors: Drs. Teri Odom and Neelesh Patankar
2014-2015
Accumulative Double Sided incremental Forming Process Design based on Prediction and Error Models
Huaqing Ren and Zixuan Zhang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Jian Cao and Wei Chen
Additive Manufacturing Predictive Models and Process Design
Hong-Cin Liou, Sarah Wolff, Fuyao Yan
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Seyi Balogun, Jian Cao, and Greg Olson
Material Genome Prediction Based Analysis and Design of Polymer Nanocomposites
Xiaolin Li and He (Richard) Zhao
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Cate Brinson and Wei Chen
Design of Locally Resonant Phonomic Crystal to Manipulate Surface Acoustic Waves and Lamb Waves
Xiang Chen, Jiadong Deng
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Oluwaseyi Balogun, Cheng Sun, and Wei Chen
Fatigue Behavior Analysis of NiTi Shape Memory Apply
Amit Behera, Ramin Bostanabad, Abhinav Saboo, Quan Xie, and Shan Yang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Greg Olson, Wing Kam Liu, and Wei Chen
2013-2014
Developing Multi-Functional Surfaces in the Micro-rolling Process
Trista NG and Blake Johnson
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Jane Wang and Jian Cao
Computational Design of High Temperature Cast Aluminum For High-Efficiency Engines
Andrew Bobel, Marcia Allen, and Eddie Kao
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Greg Olson and Christopher Wolverton
Design of Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting Meta-materials based on Nonlinear Vibration
Jiadong Deng, Zeliang Liu, and Min Zhang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Wing Kam Liu, Cate Brinson, Cheng Sun, and Wei Chen
Statistical Learning of Microstructure Characteristics in the Design of Materials System
Ruoqian Liu and Hongyi Xu (invited)
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Alok Choudhary and Wei Chen
2012-2013
Vibration Energy Harvesting and Metamaterial Design
Evan Baker and Katherine Rorschach
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Cheng Sun and Wei Chen
Simultaneous Robust Shape and Topology Optimization under Geometric Uncertainty for Optical Metamaterials
Shuangcheng Yu and Chen Wang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Wei Chen and Cheng Sun
Microstructure-Property Relation and Evolution for the Design of Advanced Hierarchical Materials
Jacob Smith, Joseph Schaefer, and Miguel Bessa
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Jian Cao, Issac Daniel, and Wing Kam Liu
Design of Porous Shape Memory Alloys through Predictive Science
Nick Wengrenoivh and Pingping Zhu
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Greg Olson and Cate Brinson
2011-2012
Multiscale Modeling and Design of Shape-Memory Polymers
Brendan Abberton, Luis Ruiz, and Jifeng Zhao
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Wing Kam Liu, Sinan Keten, and Ted Belytschko
Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification of Restrictive Parylene-C Deposition to Enhance Drug Delivery Applications Erik Robinson, Wylie Stroberg, and Zhen Jiang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Dean Ho, Wing Kam Liu, and Wei Chen
Advancement of Shape Memory Alloys for Heart Valve Stents through Predictive Science
Dana Frankel, Ricardo Komai, John Moore, Hongyi Xu
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Greg Olson, Wing Kam Liu, and Wei Chen
Uncertainty Quantification in Transfer Printing
Larry Cheng and Zhen Jiang
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Yonggang Huang and Wei Chen
2010-2011
Metal-Polymer Laminate Composite: Modeling and Design
Yang Li, Ying Li, and Jiayi Yan
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Cate Brinson, Wing Kam Liu, Greg Olson
MD Modeling of Nanodiamond PEI Interaction Towards Delivery of Nucleic Acids
Han Bin Man and Mandar Kulkarni
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Dean Ho and Wing Kam Liu
Modeling Electrical Conductivity in Metallic Crystals using a Lattice-site Model
Pritha Ghosh and James Magargee
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Randy Snurr and Jian Cao
A Classification Model for Rhythmic Behavior in C. elegans
Changhyeok Lee and Peter Winter
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Sanjay Mehrotra and Richard Morimoto
2009-2010
Concurrent Design of Automotive Shape Memory Alloys and Acuators
Tengfei Jiang and Aaron Stebner
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Cate Brinson, David Dunand, Greg Olson
Uncertainty Quantification of the Nanodiamond Drug Diamond System
Michelle Hallikainen and Robert Lam
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Wei Chen, Dean Ho, Wing Kam Liu, Ann Mckenna
Validation and Prediction of Incremental Forming Process
Paul Arendt and Rajiv Malhotra
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Dan Apley, Ted Belytschko, Jian Cao, Wei Chen
Material and Structure Design for Dynamic Energy Dissipation
Ravi S. Bellur Ramaswamy, George Fraley, and Steve Greene
Faculty Advisers: Drs. Wei Chen, Horacio Espinosa, Wing Kam Liu, Greg Olson
