Computational materials science

Siya Zhu, Ph.D.

I study alloy thermodynamics, phase stability, metallic glasses, defects, and impurity behavior in complex materials using first-principles calculations, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo simulations, CALPHAD, and machine-learning interatomic potentials.

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Modeling how complex alloys choose their structures and phases.

My research connects atomistic simulations, thermodynamic modeling, and machine learning to understand phase diagrams, mechanical stability, shear localization in bulk metallic glasses, and interstitial behavior in high-entropy alloy systems.

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Open-source Research Tools

MAST

Metallic Amorphous Structures Toolkit for generating Special Glass Structures.

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PhaseForge

High-throughput alloy phase diagram prediction using machine-learning potentials.

GitHub

PAIPAI

Alloy interstitial prediction with Monte Carlo sampling and machine-learning potentials.

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