PI: Thomas D Swinburne

Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan
External researcher, CNRS Physique
Associate Editor, Computational Materials Science
CV / Google Scholar / GitHub

Current Members

Marvin Poul
2026-: Research Fellow, Differentiable phase diagrams
University of Michigan

Richard Meng
2026-: Incoming PhD & MICDE Fellow, Machine learning potentials
University of Michigan, with Prof V Gavani

Jack Jiang 2026: MSc, Uncertainty quantification for ODEs
University of Michigan

George Simmonds
2025-: PhD, Bayesian inverse problems in atomic simulation
University of Warwick, with Prof J Kermode and Prof T Hudson

Guillaume Commelin
2025-: PhD, analysis of dislocation plasticity (ANR DAPREDIS)
Sorbonne Paris Nord, with Prof S Queyreau

Léonard Morachini
2025-: PhD, UQ for atomic simulations of rare events
IFPEN, Paris, with Drs T Pidgeon, M Menz & MC Marinica

Emna Frikha
2024-: PhD, He retention in plasma-facing W (ANR HEBERTUNE)
Sorbonne Paris Nord, with Prof J Mougenot.

Ivan Maliyov
Postdoc, automatic differentiation in materials science
Now: Research Scientist, Microsoft Quantum

Raynol Dsouza
PhD + SALTO scholar, with Prof J Neugebauer (MPIE)
Now: Postdoc, IRSN Caderache

Petr Grigorev
Postdoc, Machine learning assisted DFT methods
Now: Permanent CNRS Researcher, Lyon

Clovis Lapointe
PhD, ML for defect entropics (with Dr MC Marinica, CEA)
Now: Staff scientist, CEA Saclay

Deepti Kannan
MSc, reducing Markov Chains (with Prof DJ Wales, Cam.)
Now: PhD candidate, MIT