Research
My research focuses on using neutron scattering with machine learning for solving the atomic level structures for various types of functional materials, such as energy storage materials and magnetoelectrics.
Development
My development work focuses on tools for neutron diffraction experimental planning, data processing and data analysis. This includes both the backend engine development and the frontend interface design and implementation.
Collaboration
I have been collaborating with researchers around the world from various backgrounds, trying to tackle the challenging structure solving problems with neutrons. I am alway enjoying working with people, benefiting from each other.
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I am a neutron scattering scientist in the powder diffraction group in the Neutron Scattering Division (NSD) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). My research focuses on the employment of neutron scattering for the atomic level structure studies of functional materials, such as those for energy storage, magnetoelectrics, and among others. I am also applying the state-of-the-art AI/ML method, algorithm and framework in the structure-property link studies, such as the combination of neutron diffraction and machine learning force field (MLFF) for structure model refinement, the combination of exhaustive symmetry search and supervised machine learning for phase transition studies. Meanwhile, I have been actively involved in software development to support the neutron powder diffraction data processing and analysis, such as the ADDIE environment for neutron total scattering data reduction, ADDIE web interface for structure mining and web-based Bragg and pair distribution function (PDF) fitting, RMCProfile package for fitting scattering data based on supercell approach.
I am a member of American Crystallography Association (ACA) and the International Centre for Diffraction Data (ICDD). I am also serving as the guest editor for the Materials journal and I have been serving as reviewers for various peer review journals such as Advanced Science, Angew Chemie, Physical Review B, Physical Review M, etc.
I joined ORNL in 2020 as a staff scientist and prior to that, I was a postdoctoral research assistance in NSD, ORNL. I received my PhD in condensed matter physics from Queen Mary, University of London in the UK, in 2016, and before that, I was receiving the bachelor degree from Beihang University in China.
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