Participants

Listed alphabetically; last updated 8/15/2025

Majid Al Busaidi, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Poster: Panoramic view of amorphous carbon nanomechanics with ReaxFF molecular dynamics

Ashley Bucsek, University of Michigan

Imaging twin and phase interfaces using in-situ dark-field x-ray microscopy

Maria Chan, Argonne National Laboratory

Ian Chesser, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Poster: Unraveling twin boundary dynamics in tetragonal beta-Sn: an application of machine learning based interatomic potentials

Moon-ki Choi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Poster: Unified prediction of structural and electronic properties in 2D materials via equivariant graph neural network

Joy Datta, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Poster: Generative AI for discovering porous oxide materials for next-generation energy storage

Traian Dumitrica, University of Minnesota

Ashley Foster, University of Florida

Poster: Bypass stress for an 𝜶-Fe edge dislocation through a field of randomly distributed Mn-Ni precipitates via discrete dislocation dynamics

Binxin Fu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Poster: Molecular insight into the thermal effect on friction of calcite single crystals in solution

Gus Greenwood, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Poster: Tunable nanoscale friction on van der Waals heterostructures

Khalid Hattar, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Exploring nanomaterials stability via in-situ TEM

Sazzad Hossain, Michigan Technological University

Poster: Data pruning for machine learning based electronic structure prediction

Pinshane Huang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Imaging 3D reconstructions in 2D moiré bilayers

Himanshu Joshi, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Poster: Equilibrium statistical mechanics of grain boundaries

Abhishek Keripale, Michigan Technological University

Poster: Electronic structure prediction of medium and high entropy alloys across composition space

Inam Lalani, Rutgers University

Poster: Connecting disconnection dynamics with interfacial dynamics

Ying Li, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Machine-learning-assisted molecular design of innovative polymers

Liping Liu, Rutgers University

Coarse graining across scales: a multiscale and multiphysics perspective

Nanshu Lu, The University of Texas at Austin

Bulging and poking of 2D materials

Callan Luetkemeyer, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Poster: Full-field indentation microscopy: redefining what can be learned from a single poke

Matthew Maron, University of Miami

Poster: Unprecedented high-temperature strength of a multiprincipal element refractory superalloy

Enrique Martinez, Clemson University

Activation entropy helps explain anomalous flow stress temperature dependence in copper

Matthew Mehrtens, Iowa State University

Poster: Phase field modeling of aluminum agglomeration in solid composite propellants

Siva Nadimpalli, Michigan State University

Understanding Na+ storage mechanisms and rate capability of hard carbon through in situ stress measurements

Jonathan Oleson, Michigan Technological University

Poster: Manifold learning model for two-dimensional crystalline membranes

Sevim Polat Genlik, The Ohio State University

Poster: The origin of photoplasticity in ZnS

Prajakta Prabhune, Duke University

Poster: Understanding process-property-structure for elastoplastic behavior of polymer nanocomposites with agglomeration anomalies and interfacial property gradients

Nihal Pushkar, Iowa State University

Poster: Statistical mechanics framework for polymer rheology

Weilun Qiu, University of Pennsylvania

Poster: IB-VONNS: a machine-learning strategy for discovering internal variables and thier dynamics

Brandon Runnels, Iowa State University

Multiphysics simulation of nano-aluminum propellant deflagration

Md Sharier Nazim, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Poster: On grain boundary phase transitions accompanying dislocation-grain boundary interactions

Douglas Spearot, University of Florida

Mesoscale model for stress field evolution at a tilt grain boundary implemented into discrete dislocation dynamics simulations

Thomas Swinburne, CNRS

Differentiable and model-agnostic free energy estimation

Ellad Tadmor, University of Minnesota

Abhijith Thoopul Anantharanga, Iowa State University

Poster: Predicting void nucleation in microstructures via machine learning

Nathaniel Trask, University of Pennsylvania

Data-driven particle dynamics: Structure preserving coarse-graining for non-equilibrium multiscale systems

Anton Van der Ven, University of California, Santa Barbara

Connecting the atomic scale to phenomenological theories of phase transformations

Lucas Wagner, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Why electron correlation matters: the effect of non-covalent interactions on corrugation of graphene bilayers

Chenhaoyue Wang, University of California, Los Angeles

Poster: Ab initio investigations of buckled silicon Kagome

Heather White, Northwestern University

Poster: Molecular design strategies for tough and impact-resistant nanomaterials

Ian Winter, Sandia National Laboratories

Structural transitions in grain boundaries and the role of line defects

Juner Zhu, Northeastern University

Modeling the electro-chemo-mechanical failure at the lithium-solid electrolyte interface: void evolution and lithium penetration

Ting Zhu, Georgia Institute of Technology

Multiscale mechanics of heterogeneous materials