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I am an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Houston.

I worked as a postdoc scholar at Berkeley Lab with Prof. Kristin Persson on the Materials Project and on developing machine learning models for battery materials.

I obtained my Ph.D. in Solid Mechanics from the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics at the University of Minnesota. Supervised by Prof. Ellad Tadmor, I worked on developing both physics-based and machine learning interatomic potentials for 2D materials (e.g. graphene and MoS2) and applied them to study the structural, mechanical, and thermal properties of 2D materials.