Join the Physics Department for our seminar series. Please use SRTC's front door (entry at SW 10th & SW Montgomery), which will be opened before the seminar. Coffee, tea, and snacks will be provided.
This week, we're joined by Yi Xia, an assistant professor in PSU's Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering. His talk is titled, "Phonon Dynamics and Heat Transfer in Energy Materials: Advanced Theory, Materials Discovery, and Machine Learning."
Dr. Yi Xia is a faculty member in the Department of Mechanical & Materials Engineering at the Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science, Portland State University, since 2022. He specializes in first-principles simulations of dynamical and transport properties of phonons and electrons, leveraging high-throughput computing and machine learning to address complex materials science problems. He is the recipient of the NSF LEAPS-MPS Award 2023. Dr. Xia earned his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering in 2016 from the University of California, Los Angeles, under the mentorship of Prof. Vidvuds Ozolins, and his B.S. in condensed matter physics in 2011 from the University of Science and Technology of China. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral research with Prof. Chris Wolverton at Northwestern University and Dr. Maria Chan at Argonne National Laboratory.