Current and Former Group Members


Mo Li (Principal Investigator) Ph.D., Applied Physics, Caltech, 1994
    Research Interests: Nano-crystalline and nano-scaled materials, fracture and deformation in amorphous materials, glass transition, magnetic properties and phase transitions, phase separation and pattern formation in multicomponent systems, phase transitions and mechanical and transport properties in polymeric systems, biomaterials, computational methods, statistical physics, and non-equilibrium thermodynamics
Tao Xu (Postdoc) Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology 2010
    Research Interests: Nanocrystalline and polycrystalline materials, digital microstructures
Kun Ok Chang (Postdoc) Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University 2011
    Research Interests: Deformation and fracture in mesoscales, microstructure, phase transitions
Yu-zheng Guo (Graduate Student - Materials Science Department) B.S., Physics, Peking University, 2007
    Research Interests: Materials physics
Jie Feng (Graduate Student - Materials Science) B.S., Physics, Peking University, 2007
    Research Interests: Computational materials science and materials theory
Xueqian Wang (Graduate Student - Materials Science) B.S., Materials Physics, University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2007
    Research Interests: Computational materials science
Yongbo Guo (Graduate Student - Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Mechanical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, 2007
    Research Interests: Computational mechanics
Shangduan Wu (Graduate Student - Materials Science) B.S., Physics, University of Science and Technology China, 2008
    Research Interests: Computational physics
Xu Ha (Graduate Student - Mechanical Engineering) B.S., Materials Sciecne and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2011
    Research Interests: Computational mechanics


Guang-Ping Zheng, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University 2001; Postdoc Fellow, Georgia Tech 2002-2004
Thesis Title: Breakdown Processes in Disordered Media (2001), Johns Hopkins University
    Research Interests: Phase transitions, glass transition , spinodal decomposition and phase separation in multicomponent systems, nano-crystalline materials, computational materials science and physics, statistical physics. [Publications]
Currently Assistant Professor, Hong Kong University

Xian-Ming Bai, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology 2006
Thesis Title: Theoretical and Computational Study of Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Supercooling and Superheating (2006), Georgia Institute of Technology
    Research Interests: Thermodynamics and liquids, glass and crystals, melting, interfaces, computational methods.[Publications]
Currently a staff scientist at the Idaho National Lab

Tao Xu, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
Thesis Title: Atomistic Modeling of Nanocrystalline Materials (2009), Georgia Institute of Technology
    Research Interests: Thermodynamics and liquids, glass and crystals, melting, interfa ces, computational methods.[Publications]
Currently a postdoc fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology

Huaming Li, Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
Thesis Title: Theory of Phase Transitions in Disordered Systems (2009), Georgia Institute of Technology
    Research Interests: Mesoscopic model and modeling, instability, and flow [Publications]
Currently a postdoc fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology

Hao Wang , Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology 2010
Thesis Title: Theory and Ab initio Calculations of Mechsnical Stability of Solids (2010), Georgia Institute of Technology
    Research Interests: Theory of stability and elasticity, ab initio calculation, nanoscale materials, excited state DFT. [Publications]
Currently a postdoc fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology

Ken Beyerlein , Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology 2011
Simulation and Modeling of the Powder Diffraction Pattern from Nanoparticles: Studying the Influence of Surface Strain (2011), Georgia Institute of Technology
    Research Interests: Diffraction, nanoscale systems, atomistic simulations. [Publications]
Currently a postdoc fellow in Hamburg, Germany

Ming Zhao (Graduate Student - Materials Science Department) Ph.D., Mechanics, Peking University, 2007
Constitutive relations in metallic glasses (2011), Peking University
    Research Interests: Constitutive relations, finite element modeling, material mechanics [Publications]
Currently a technical staff at Schlumberger

Qi-Kai Li Postdoctoral fellow, Georgia Tech, 2002-2005
    Research Interests: Fracture and deformation, molecular dynamics simulation, defects and defect related phenomena. [Publications]
Currently a faculty member at Tsinghua University, China

Payman Jalali, Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech, 2002-2004
    Research Interests: Stress Localization, glass transition, Hard-Sphere systems, and granular materials. [Publications]
Currently a faculty member of Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Mustafa Uludogan Postdoctoral Fellow, Georgia Tech, 2002-2004
Postdoc Fellow, Texas A&M University
    Research Interests: The first-principle calculation of liquids and solids, the glass transition, and statistical physics.[Publications]
Currently a postdoc fellow at Texa A&M.

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