Education / Experience
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2022- Present |
Staff Scientist, CHESS, Cornell University |
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2021-2022 |
Assistant Professor, College of Engineering and Technology, Western Carolina University, NC, USA |
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2018-2021 |
Post-doctoral Researcher, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, CA, USA |
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Sep-Nov, 2017 |
Post-doctoral Researcher, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim, Germany |
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2013-2017 |
Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, USA |
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2008-2013 |
Assistant Manager, Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd, India |
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2004-2008 |
B.E, Bengal Engineering and Science University, India |
Research Interests:
- Developing Machine-learning algorithms for material discovery
- Developing hardware and software capabilities for high-throughput experimentation at synchrotron beamline
Selected Publications:
On-the-fly closed-loop materials discovery via Bayesian active learning
A. G. Kusne, H. Yu, C. Wu, H. Zhang, J. Hattrick-Simpers, B. DeCost, S. Sarker, C. Oses, C. Toher, S. Curtarolo, A. V Davydov, R. Agarwal, L. A Bendersky, M. Li, A. Mehta, I. Takeuchi, Nature Communication 11, 5966 (2020), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19597-w
YbV3Sb4 and EuV3Sb4, vanadium-based kagome metals with Yb2+ and Eu2+ zig-zag chain
B. R. Ortiz, G. Pokharel, M. Gundayao, H. Li, F. Kaboudvand, L. Kautzsch, S. Sarker, J. P. C. Ruff, T. Hogan, S. J. Gomez Alvarado, P. M. Sarte, G. Wu, T. Braden, R. Seshadri, E. S. Toberer, I. Zeljkovic, and S. D. Wilson, Physical Review Materials 7 (6), 064201 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.7.064201.
Machine learned synthesizability predictions aided by density functional theory
A Lee, S Sarker, JE Saal, L Ward, C Borg, A Mehta, Communications Materials, 3, 73 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-022-00295-7
Towards automated design of corrosion resistant alloy coatings with an autonomous scanning droplet cell
B. DeCost, H. Joress, S. Sarker, A. Mehta, J. Hattrick-Simpers, "", JOM. 74, 2941–2950 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-022-05367-0
Discovering exceptionally hard and wear-resistant metallic glasses by combining Machine Learning with High throughput experimentation
S. Sarker, R. Tang-Kong, R. Schoeppner, L. Ward, N. Al Hasan, D. G Van Campen, I. Takeuchi, J. Hattrick-Simpers, A. Zakutayev, C. E Packard, A. Mehta, Applied Physics Reviews 9, 011403 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0068207
Mapping Thermoelectric Transport in a Multicomponent Alloy Space
R Gurunathan, S Sarker, CKH Borg, J Saal, L Ward, A Mehta, GJ Snyder, Advanced Electronic Materials 8, 10, 2200327, 2022 https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202200327