The Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute (HEMI) was proud to host its inaugural HEMI Day, a new annual tradition celebrating the research achievements and community of HEMI graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. This symposium provided a forum to share ground-breaking research in extreme materials behavior and materials in extreme environments and to build connections across disciplines.
HEMI collaborators and the JHU community at large were welcome to attend and learn more about HEMI’s exciting research.
Events included poster and podium presentations, an invited keynote address, and poster and art competitions. Click the Event Program button below for the full collection of HEMI Day abstracts, gallery entries, and more.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Daniel Cole, ARO Program Manager, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Army Research Office
Dr. Cole oversees the Mechanical Behavior of Materials program at the Army Research Office, shaping and supporting basic research efforts focused on extreme mechanical behaviors and active mechanical response of next generation structural materials. This program focuses on basic research investigations that enable unprecedented mechanical properties in advanced structural materials in order to ensure high performance under a variety of extreme and highly variable operational conditions. The program’s current focus areas are Extreme Thermomechanical Behavior and Disruptive Mechanical Responsiveness.
Competition Results
- Best Poster (Experimental) – Faizan Hijazi, “Deformation Mechanisms in Wire-Arc Additively Manufactured Nickel–Aluminum Bronze: Insights from In-Situ SEM Study”
- Best Poster (Computational) – Indrashish Saha, “Numerical and data-driven modeling of spall failure in polycrystalline ductile materials”
- Best Poster (AI/ML) – TIE
- Meer Mehran Rashid, “On Combining Neural Operators and Denoising Diffusion Models to Predict Hyperelastic Material Response”
- Mohd Zaki, “Agentic approach for materials discovery”
- Best Poster (Overall) – Syed I. A. Jalali, “One-Test Yield Surface via a Topology Optimized Multi-stress Specimen”
- Gallery Competition – Jake Diamond, “X-t’s of a PhD”
Podium Presenters
- Megan Bokhoor, “Tailoring High-Performance Al-Based Powders for Efficient Combustion via Combinatorial Sputtering”
- Yangyuanchen Liu, “Virtual Damage Sensing Digital Twin for Piezocomposites Integrating Neural Operator with Parametrically Upscaled Constitutive Damage Model”
- Daniel Magnuson, “Temperature-dependent Deformation Mechanisms in Single-crystalline RMPEAs”
- Kumar Miskin, “Dynamics of Energetic Particle Impact on Metal Halide Perovskites and the Ability to Self-Heal Defects: Simulation of Damage in Space”
- Mostafa Omar, “Acoustic Emission Signatures of Dislocation Avalanches: Linking Microscale Plasticity to Seismic Phenomena”
- Shachi Singh, “Insights from high-velocity impacts on geomaterials”
