Yi Xia is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Portland State University. Dr. Xia received his Ph.D. in Materials Science & Engineering from University of California, Los Angeles. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Postdoc Fellow at Argonne National Laboratory; from 2018 to 2022, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University.
Dr. Xia's area of research is focused on development and implementation of first-principles-based methods and machine learning approaches to simulate dynamics of phonons and electrons, and application of such to solve materials problems. Research topics include heat/charge transport phenomena, anharmonic lattice dynamics, electron-phonon interactions, and structural phase transition in thermal management, energy storage and converting materials, covering high-entropy alloys, thermoelectrics, and lithium-ion batteries.
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