“The order I found was the order of disorder.” (William Saroyan, 1952)
“The order I found was the order of disorder.” (William Saroyan, 1952)
Born in Sichuan Province of China and raised in Hefei, Duyu obtained his B.S. in chemistry (chemical physics track) through the Physical Science Honors Bachelor Program at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2012.
Subsequently, he moved to Princeton and earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University in 2018. At Princeton, he was mainly trained as a soft matter theorist, working with Prof. Salvatore Torquato in the Complex Materials Theory Group. His research at Princeton was primarily centered on the use of a variety of theoretical and computational techniques from statistical mechanics, homogenization theory, and theoretical chemistry to inversely design and generate a variety of disordered and ordered soft-matter systems with exotic structural characteristics and desirable physical properties.
After Ph.D., he took a detour, spent two years in Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), obtained a M.S. in Business Technologies, and systematically exposed himself to various state-of-the-art machine learning techniques. During the time he also carried out independent research in collaboration with in particular Prof. Yang Jiao, Prof. Houlong Zhuang at Arizona State University and Prof. Mohan Chen at Peking University (the series of research are centered around a new concept called "disordered hyperuniform quantum materials" that they introduced). He has joined University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) since July, 2020 as a Postdoctoral Research Scientist in Prof. Glenn H. Fredrickson's group.
He has published 30 research articles in peer-reviewed journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Advanced Materials, Acta Materialia, Macromolecules, to name a few. He has also served as an independent referee for over 10 journals, including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Nature Communications, Nature Computational Science, Acta Materialia, Soft Matter, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Physical Review E, APL Photonics, among others. Additionally, he is an editorial board member of Materials Today Communications. He is open to new ideas, excited about new challenges and enjoys collaborations. Feel free to contact him (duyu@alumni.princeton.edu) if you find what he is doing is of interest to you.