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MRC 114
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shiy2@rpi.edu
About
B.E., in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2000
M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, 2006
Postdoc, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 2006-2008
Professor Shi was selected as one of the inaugural Gordon S. Fulcher Distinguished Researchers by Corning Inc, where he spent sabbatical in 2015. Dr. Shi currently serves as the Graduate Program Director for the Materials Science and Engineering Department at RPI.
Research
Professor Shi aims to understand complex material behaviors and design better materials using simulation and modeling. His research include many material systems: metallic/silica/polymeric glasses/composites, biomemetic polymer (silk), ferroelectric material, nanostructured carbon, on material behaviors such as fracture, self-assembly, wetting and friction/wear.
Primary research tools are atomic-level simulations including molecular dynamics as well as density-functional theory calculations, combined with advanced machine-learning algorithms, and recently new quantum optimization algorithm applied in materials design problems.
Publications
The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Yunfeng Shi has 117 indexed publications in the subjects of Materials Science, Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy.