Plenary & Keynote Speakers

Dr. Liang Qi

University of Michigan, USA
Plenary Speaker

Dr. Liang Qi is an associate professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. He studied Materials Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University in China and received his bachelor’s degree in 2003. He earned his master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University in 2007 and his doctoral degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 2009. From 2009 to 2012, he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Between 2012 and 2014, he served as an assistant project scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. He joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2015. His research focuses on the mechanical and chemical properties of materials through theoretical and computational methods, including first-principles calculations, atomistic simulations, multiscale modeling, and machine learning, with an emphasis on defects and phase transformation behaviors. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2019 and the 2021 TMS Materials Processing & Manufacturing Division (MPMD) Young Leaders Professional Development Award.

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