News

Publications, student achievements, and research support.

Publication news includes Xiongye Xiao's work with collaborators at USC and other institutions.

2026

  • Congratulations to James on his selection for a UTK Scholarly Development Grant - Research Assistantship (SDG-RA)!

  • GeoWind2Plan has been accepted as a Spotlight at NeurIPS 2026. Congratulations to Shaoxiang, Yucheng, and our collaborators!

  • Our collaborative review of complex nanoparticle systems, from synthesis and self-assembly to graph theory and applications, is published in Chemical Reviews.

  • Toward a Structure-to-Function Science of Foundation Models is accepted as a visionary paper at the ACM AI Leadership Summit 2026. Congratulations to Yucheng and Shaoxiang!

  • Our collaborative study, Predicting slip transmission pathways using graph neural networks, is published in npj Computational Materials.

  • AI Tennessee supports our research on AI for materials.

  • Our group receives support from NSF COMPASS, with Xiongye Xiao leading the research at UTK as Principal Investigator.

2025