Group Leader

Dr. Haixuan Xu
Research Interests:
Defect Interaction and Radiation Effects
Deformation Mechanism and Electronic/Magnetic effects in Structural Alloys
Electromagnetic Coupling and Flexoelectric Effects
Materials for Neuromorphic Computing
Mesoscale Computational Methods, such as Self-Evolving Atomistic Kinetic Monte Carlo
Education:
Doctorate of Philosophy in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Master's in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Florida
Bachelor's in Metallic Materials Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China
E-mail : xhx@utk.edu
Office: JIAM 331 & Ferris 336
Post-Doc Research Associates

Dr. Sho Hayakawa
Research interest:
Modeling of microstructural evolution in materials using computational approaches, such as molecular dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo, and first-principle calculations
Coupling Self-Evolving Atomistic Kinetic Monte Carlo with machine learning technique to improve saddle point sampling
Developing an interactive parallel algorithm to do saddle point searches and determine the energy landscape
Education:
Doctorate of Philosophy in Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
Master’s in Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
Bachelor’s in Engineering, University of Tokyo, Japan
E-mail : hayakawa@race.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Office : JIAM 273
Graduate Research Associates

Liubin Xu
Research Interests:
My research interests include: growth mechanisms and mechanical properties of low-dimensional materials and alloys, van der Waals heterostructure. Currently, I am working on the development of seakmc method as well as interlayer orientations of vdw epitaxy systems.
Education:
Bachelor's of Science in Applied Physics, University of Science and Technology of China
E-mail : lxu20@vols.utk.edu
Office: JIAM 273

Ziang Yu
Research Interests:
My research interest is the interaction of defects with dislocations in fcc structure by computational methods, mainly with SEAKMC.
Education:
Master's in Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University
Bachelor's in Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University
E-mail : zyu15@vols.utk.edu
Office: JIAM 273

Jaswanth Bommidi
Research Interests:
My research interest is deformation behavior of materials in FCC and multicomponent alloys using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Education:
Bachelor's and Master's in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
E-mail : jbommidi@vols.utk.edu
Office: JIAM 273

Dylan Windsor
Research Interests:
Density Functional Theory, and other computational methods in materials science. Right now, the electronic structure of materials and it’s effect on bulk properties.
Education:
Bachelor’s Degree from University of Wisconsin-River Falls in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics
E-mail : dwindso1@vols.utk.edu
Office: JIAM 273

Juntan Li
Research Interests:
To be decided.
Education:
Master's in Materials Science and Engineering, Stony Brook University
Bachelor's in Materials Science and Engineering, Nankai University
E-mail : jli139@vols.utk.edu
Office: JIAM 273
Visiting Scholars & Students
Undergraduate Research Associates
Previous Group Members
Postdoctoral Researcher:
Dr. Zizhe Lu (2016-2018, now Research Scientist at TCL)
Dr. Lipeng Zhang(2014-2016, now Faculty at Beijing University of Chemical Technology)
Dr. Rong Li (2018-2020)
Graduate Student:
Dr. Luis Casillas (Ph.D. 2012-2017, now at Universtiy of Linköping at Sweden)
Andrew Lubimtsev (M.S. 2016-)
Xianzhe Wu (M.S 2014-2015)
Eli Barlow (M.S with Prof. Rawn,2013-2014)
Andrew Ervin (M.S. 2017-2018)
Undergraduate Student:
Christopher Walker (2015-2018, now graduate student at Texas A&M University)
Dylan Dozier (2015-2017)
Austin Plymil (2014-2016, now graduate student at Northwestern University)
Musico Vincenzo (2018-2019)
Visiting Students and Scholars:
Shiyao Qin (Beihang University, China)
Sho Hayakawa (Tokyo University, Japan)
Fredric Granberg (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Dr. Yong Ma (Hefei Institute of Technology, China)
Jiannan Hao (Beihang University, China)
Jun Chai (Beihang University, China)