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New paper published in Metals
Tungsten (W) and W-based alloys are considered promising candidates for plasma-facing materials in future fusion energy devices. However,...
Oct 21, 2024


Shashwat Maharjan, Aasif Majeed, and Kritika Thakur join the M4L Lab.
Shashwat Maharjan, Aasif Majeed, and Kritika Thakur, join the M4L Lab as PhD students. Welcome, Shashwat, Aasif, and Kritika!
Aug 19, 2024


David received two teaching awards
Dr. Cereceda received the Junior Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching , which is presented to a faculty member who has developed...
May 18, 2024


Daniel Wagner joins the M4L Lab
Daniel Wagner, master student, joins the M4L Lab. He will be investigating the predictive factors in gait analysis for youth with...
Aug 21, 2023


David is co-PI on a four-year multi-institutional DOE SciDAC award
Dr. David Cereceda is co-PI on a four-year, multi-institutional DOE SciDAC grant. Titled “ Integrated Thermomechanical Model of...
Aug 15, 2023

New paper published in Journal of Nuclear Materials
In this work, we present a computational approach that combines inventory codes and first-principles DFT electronic structure...
Apr 1, 2023


Jie Peng joins the M4L Lab
Jie Peng, postdoc, joins the M4L Lab. He will be studying the local changes in the chemical composition and the temperature effects of...
Nov 10, 2022


Md Rajib Khan Musa joins the M4L Lab
Md Rajib Khan Musa, postdoc, joins the M4L Lab. He will be studying the surface effects on tungsten-based plasma-facing materials through...
Sep 2, 2022

David receives DOE 2022 Early Career Award
Prof. David Cereceda is the recipient of one of the 2022 U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Office of Science Early Career Research...
Jun 7, 2022

David is awarded an NSF LEAPS-MPS grant
Dr. David Cereceda has been awarded a two-year, $250K National Science Foundation grant. Titled “Unraveling the Surface Effects on...
Apr 25, 2022


David is awarded the William F. Farrell Award of teaching
Dr. Cereceda received the William F. Farrell Award during the recent Dean's Awards dinner on April 21, 2022. This award is given by the...
Apr 21, 2022

New paper published in Materials Science and Engineering: A
This work shows how to efficiently employ two data-driven approaches, spectral clustering and K-nearest neighbor classification (KNN), to...
Feb 4, 2022


Trevor Collins joins the M4L Lab.
Trevor Collins, a ME student pursuing her Bachellor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mechatronics joins the M4L Lab....
Jan 28, 2022


Daniella Tagliaferri and Jessica Hoover join the M4L Lab.
Daniella Tagliaferri and Jessica Hoover, ME students pursuing their Bachellor degree at Villanova, join the M4L Lab. They will be working...
Sep 1, 2021

New paper published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
This work shows how ab initio materials modeling can predict the mechanical properties of transmuting tungsten under fusion power-plant...
Jul 12, 2021

Yichen is selected to participate in the 2021 CCMS at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Yichen has been selected for the 2021 CCMS Summer Institute Program at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. That same program brought...
Mar 25, 2021


Luigi Siligato is the winner of the CoE Graduate Student competition
Luigi Siligato, MSME, is the winner for Technical Excellence in the 4th Annual Graduate Student Poster Competition from the College of...
Feb 23, 2021


David is awarded an XSEDE Research grant
Dr. Cereceda received a new XSEDE Research Grant with an estimated value of $194,615.52. This XSEDE grant will give the group access to...
Dec 15, 2020
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