Group | Laboratory for Computational Research in Science and Technology (CRSTLab)

Present Members

Peter W. Chung (pchung15 at umd dot edu) Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prof. Chung is also the Group Lead for Energetics in the Center for Engineering Concepts Development.

Graduate Students

Sangeeth Balakrishnan (sbalakri at umd dot edu) is a Ph.D. student working on applying machine learning for molecular and material science, with particular research interests in the prediction and optimization of mechanical properties of materials.

Carl Fortna (cfortna at umd dot edu) is an MS student researching machine learning approaches to multiphysics waves in solids.

Allen Garcia (allenga at umd dot edu) is a PhD student researching applications of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP). Particular focus of NLP research is on information extraction, relational semantics, and statistical methods. Current work is in the discovery of semantic learning in the framework of energetic materials.

Kevin Hayes (khayes1 at umd dot edu) is an Ph.D. student researching applications of machine learning and natural language processing (NLP).

Jesse Hearn (jhearn11 at umd dot edu) is a Ph.D. student researching the application of machine learning techniques to the de novo design of polymer molecules.

Zhiyu Liu (zliu555 at umd dot edu) is a PhD student working on the computation of phonon properties of crystalline solids.

Connor O’Ryan (coryan at umd dot edu) is a PhD student researching machine learning and natural language processing (NLP).

Undergraduates & Interns

Prospective students are welcome to inquire about openings in the group. Potential graduate students should review the admissions requirements for the department before doing so.

Former Members

Post-Docs