Yue Qi

Professional Appointment:

• 2018-present, Associate Dean for Inclusion & Diversity,College of Engineering, Michigan State University
• 2018-present, Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University
• 2013-2018, Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University
• 2001-2013, Senior & Staff Research Scientist, General Motors R&D
• 2009-2013, Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Windsor

Honors: 

• 2017 TMS Brimacombe Medal (mid-career award)
• 2013 TMS EMPMD Young Leader Professional Development Award
• 2009 GM Campbell Award for Fundamentals of Interfacial Tribology
• 2009 GM Campbell Award for Multi-scale Modeling of High-temperature Deformation in Aluminum
• 2009 Reported in APS 'Profiles in Versatilitys - The Auto Industry is a Deal for Physicists.'
• 2006 GM Campbell Award for Advances in Nano-scale Plasticity
• 1999 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology for Theoretical Work

Research Interests: Computational Materials Science 

• Material failure, Ion transport and electrical-chemical-mechanical coupling in battery and fuel cell materials;
• Interface science and grain boundary engineering for hard coatings and light weight materials;
• Meso-scale modeling of morphology, mechanical and transport properties of fuel cell membranes;
• Growth, structure and mechanical properties of nano-structured materials;
• Multi-scale modeling: Density Functional Theory, Large Scale Molecular Dynamics, Reactive Force Field development, Parallel computing, Phase field model, Mesodyn, Coarse Graining Schemes, Finite Element Method  

CV (updated 2018 July)

Research Group: Materials Simulation for Clean Energy (MSCE) Lab