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Brian DeCost (Fed)

Brian DeCost is a materials research engineer in the Data and AI Driven Materials Science Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He earned a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Brian’s research focuses on developing and applying scientific machine learning methods and automation tools to address fundamental and applied problems in microstructure science and alloy design, with a particular focus on active learning for autonomous experiment planning and execution.

 

postdoctoral opportunity: Scientific machine learning methods for trustable accelerated materials characterization and design

Publications

Accelerating Defect Predictions in Semiconductors Using Graph Neural Networks

Author(s)
Md. Habibur Rahman, Prince Gollapalli, Panayotis Manganaris, Satyesh Kumar Yadav, Ghanshyam Pilania, Arun Kumar Mannodi-Kanakkithodi, Brian DeCost, Kamal Choudhary
First principles computations reliably predict the energetics of point defects in semiconductors, but are constrained by the expense of using large supercells
Created September 12, 2019, Updated April 11, 2024