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2025
May 20, 2025
The group held a gathering at Professor Jaafar’s residence, offering a great opportunity to connect and unwind. Many thanks to Professor Jaafar for graciously hosting.
March 29, 2025
Jaafar’s research group proudly participated in TMS 2025, contributing to the scientific discourse with a series of exciting presentations.
The group also had the pleasure of reconnecting with former member Madison, marking a meaningful reunion that underscored the lasting bonds formed through collaborative research.
Congratulations to all on a successful and engaging conference.
March 20, 2025
We’re delighted to announce that PhD candidates Junjie Yang and Mostafa Omar have successfully completed all requirements and officially graduated! Their dedication and hard work—culminating in rigorous dissertation defenses—have made significant contributions to our research community. Please join us in congratulating Junjie and Mostafa on this milestone achievement and wishing them every success in the next chapter of their careers!
2024
August 22, 2024
Please welcome our 3 new PhD students Xiangchen, Ahamed, and Sahar to our group!
August 20, 2024
We’re excited to highlight Teni’s impressive final presentation on her summer research project! Teni joined our team as a summer intern through the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP). Under Jing’s mentorship, she explored the microstructures of materials, focusing on dislocation density in FCC polycrystals.
April 24, 2024
Our D.Eng student, Austin DiOrio successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations on your achievement!
2023
October 18, 2023
Our undergraduate student Madison Morrison attends her first MS&T conference ever and presents a posted some of her work on automated surface evolution tracking for in-situ experiments. Congrats Madison on your hard work!
September 1st, 2023
We would like to welcome our newest PhD student, Ruidong Mei who finished his undergraduate studies at Sichuan University in China. Ruidong will be working on predicting the plastic behaviors of advanced alloys through computational techniques.
July 1st, 2023
Prof. El-Awady named the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute interim director.
March 28th, 2023
Prof. El-Awady gives an invited talk titled “Pushing Computations to the Extremes: Modeling the Evolution of Dislocation Structures Under High Thermo-Mechanical Conditions During Additive Manufacturing” at the IPAM Workshop on “Increasing the Length, Time, and Accuracy of Materials Modeling Using Exascale Computing” at UCLA.