News

  • 09/2024: Congrats to Sara Tobla on taking a new position as a computational scientist and research facilitator at NDSU CCAST! 
  • 07/2024: Dr. Xia, along with other NSF CAREER Award recipients from ISU, was featured by Iowa State Research! [Link]
  • 05/2024: Congrats to Liujing on winning the Poster Award at The 5th Nano@IAState Meeting! 
  • 05/2024: Congrats to Liujing Wang on winning the Teaching Excellence (TEX) Award from ISU Graduate College! 
  • 04/2024: Congrats to Sara Tolba on receiving the CyberInfrastructure (CI) Assistantship Award! 
  • 04/2024: Congrats to Wenjian Nie on successfully defending his final doctoral dissertation!
  • 03/2024: Congrats to Sarah Ghazanfari on taking her new professional faculty position as a Computation Scientist at Virginia Tech! [Link] Wish her the best for her future endeavors!
  • 02/2024: Our group launched the new research website! More updates and information will be posted!
  • 01/2024: Welcome new members Liujing, ZW, and Raghu joining our group!

2023

  • 12/2023: We are excited to start a new collaborative project on "AI/ML Design of Functional Coatings" ($5M) funded by the Office of Naval Research. Congrats to the project team!
  • 10/2023: Congrats to Sarah on successfully defending her final doctoral dissertation!
  • 10/2023: Our new collaborative paper was published on Advanced Materials as a front cover article in the "Rising Stars" collection. Congrats to Zhaofan and Sara on being the co-first authors of the work along with Dr. Xiaodan Gu's group!
  • 09/2023: Our group is excited to kick off the new "DREAM" project ($1M) funded by DOE in collaboration with Dr. Xiaodan Gu from USM!
  • 08/2023: Dr. Xia received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award! Congrats! (See the news reports by Iowa State U, Northwestern!)
  • 08/2023: Dr. Xia joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Iowa State University as a tenured Associate Professor!
  • 05/2023: Congrats to Zhaofan and Yangchao on successfully defending their final doctoral dissertations!
  • 04/2023: Dr. Xia has been recognized as the RSC MSDE Emerging Investigator. See our featured work.
  • 04/2023: Congrats to Yangchao Liao on winning the COE Graduate Research Assistant of the Year Award!
  • 03/2023: Our new paper “Crumpling Defective Graphene Sheets” was published in Nano Letters as a cover article! Congrats to Yangchao, the first author of the work!
  • 03/2023: Dr. Xia has received the ACS PMSE Young Investigator Award! Congrats!
  • 02/2023: Dr. Xia has received the Innovation in Teaching Award! Congrats!
  • 01/2023: Congrats to Anas on successfully finishing his final dissertation defense! A great accomplishment!

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