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Principal Investigator 

Dr. Yang Jiao

Professor

Materials Science & Engineering

Department of Physics

Office: ERC 387

Phone: 480-965-4560

Fax: 480-965-9973

Email: yang.jiao.2[at]asu.edu


Dr. Yang Jiao obtained his B.S. from Peking University, China in 2005, majoring in engineering mechanics. He got his Ph.D. from the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University in 2010 and stayed at Princeton as a postdoc before joining ASU in 2013. He was mainly trained as a soft matter theorist at Princeton, working with Dr. Salvatore Torquato and Dr. Frank H. Stillinger. Dr. Jiao received the DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2014, the Doctoral New Investigator Award from ACS PRF in 2016, and the Fulton Schools of Engineering Top 5% Faculty Award in 2018, 2022, 2023 and 2024, as well as Professor of Impact Award.

The main focus of Dr. Jiao's research is the understanding of the fundamental physics of a wide range of material systems including composite materials, colloids, polymer gels, granular materials, and biological tissues and cells, using a variety of analytical and computational techniques devised in heterogeneous material theory, statistical mechanics, condensed matter physics and discrete geometry. Such understanding in turn allows him to employ powerful optimization methods to inversely design materials with desired properties for specific applications. 

Group Members

Haorui Peng

Postdoc Researcher

Physics & Geophysics

Dr Peng is a post doc researcher in Utrecht University in the Netherlands (with Dr. Ivan Pires de Vasconcelos) and holds a joint position at ASU. He has a background in physics and geophysics and his research experiences include: simulating seismic wave propagation in complex media with finite-element solvers; seismic data processing; and solving inverse problems with Machine Learning (e.g., seismic image deblurring with the Reccurent Inference Machines)

Sheng Cheng

Ph.D. Student

CIDSE

Email: scheng53[at]asu.edu 


Sheng Cheng (co-advised with Prof. Yi Ren and Prof. Yezhou Yang) is currently a Ph.D student in CIDSE. He obtained his B.S. from Huazhong University Science & Technology and M.Eng. from University of Illinois Urbana, Champaign, majoring in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has rich experience in optimization, machine learning and computer vision. He is interested in active learning, semi-supervised learning and adversarial training.   

Wenlong Shi

Ph.D. Student

Materials Science

Email: wshi20[at]asu.edu 


Wenlong is currently a Ph.D student in MSE. He obtained his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from ASU (Dean's List)  and M.Eng. in Robotics from ASU as well. He has rich experience in optimization, neural graphs, dynamic systems and representation theory. He is interested in material optimization and design of novel hyperuniform materials.   

David Keeney

Ph.D.  Student

Materials Science 

David is currently a Ph.D. in the Materials Science & Engineering program at Arizona State University. He obtained his B.S. in MSE from ASU. His interests are in atomic structures, phase transitions, and material properties. He is currently researching disordered hyperuniformity in low-dimensional systems and associated emergent novel quantum properties. 

Ayush Singhal

Ph.D.  Student

Materials Science 

Ayush is currently a Ph.D. in the Materials Science & Engineering program at Arizona State University. He completed his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Indore (IIT Indore) and his MSc from UCSD, both in material science. He is interested in using state-of-the-art machine learning algorithms to design molecules for specific applications.

Justine Ilyssa Vidallon

Master Student

Materials Science 

Justine is currently M.S. student in MSE. She obtained her B.S. in MSE from ASU. Her research interests include thermodynamics and kinetics, computational materials, and general materials theory. Basically, she is very interested in conceptual/R&D topics compared to applications.

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