At the 2025 TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition at Las Vegas, NV, Prof. Paulo S. Branicio delivered two presentations. He was an invited speaker at the MPMD Symposium in honor of Prof. Diana Farkas, where he presented atomistic insights into microstructural engineering of high-entropy and Ni-based superalloy thin films. He also presented work on the formation and thermodynamic properties of CuZr metallic glass nanoparticles in the Symposium on Structure and Dynamics of Metallic Glasses.
Group members Aoyan Liang and Hadi Yazdani also gave talks at the MPMD Symposium. Aoyan’s presentation focused on twin boundary engineering in Ni-based superalloy thin films
, while Hadi discussed stacking fault energies and microstructure formation in Ni-Cr-Fe alloys using molecular statics and dynamics simulations.
In the student poster session, Emily Gurniak presented her work applying graph neural networks to classify unique glassy structures in CuZr metallic glasses. Her models achieved over 80% accuracy, demonstrating the promise of machine learning for structural analysis of disordered materials
