Archie Mingze Yao, Ph.D. 姚铭泽

• I got my Ph.D. from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, advised by Prof. Venkat Viswanathan.
• I got my B.Eng. degree with honor from Tsien-Excellence in Engineering Program (钱学森班), Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. My major was Chemical Biology in freshman year. I got Third Prize in Chinese Physics Olympiad, and First Prize in Chemistry Olympiad (Anhui Province, China) in high school.
• I was a visiting student researcher at Prof. Liwei Lin's lab @ Department of Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley from Sept. 2019 to Jan. 2020.

Education

• Ph.D.,Mechanical Engineering,University of Michigan, 2025
• M.S.,Mechanical Engineering,Carnegie Mellon University, 2023
• B.Eng. (Hons), Engineering Mechanics (Tsien-Excellence in Engineering Program), Tsinghua University, 2020
  

Research Interests

• Multiscale Modeling of Solid-State Batteries
• Thermodynamics
• Next-generation Battery Materials
• Scientific Machine Learning

Publications

Previously published as Mingze Yao. Abbreviated as M. Yao, A. M. Yao or A. Yao

See my Google Scholar profile at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=tJbx868AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao for full publication list

1. A. M. Yao, V. Viswanathan, “Open-Circuit Voltage Models Should Be Thermodynamically Consistent”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 15, 4, 1143–1151 (2024) [Most read papers of the journal after 2 weeks of publication]
2. M. Yao, L. Ai, Y. Zhou, J. Ma and M. Chen, “Structural Damage of Few-layer Silicene in Vertical and Parallel Lithiations”, Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 166 (14) A3394-A3400 (2019) [Published in my senior year during my undergraduate study]

Miscellaneous

• I enjoy teaching and mentoring. I mentored 4 junior PhD students in our group during year 3-5. I participated in the Preparing Future Faculty Program at University of Michigan during Summer 2024. I gave a lot of lectures for group training purpose on various topics. See this lecture notes on Multi-Species Multi-Reaction Model , slides for introduction to CALPHAD (CALculation of PHAse Diagram), and brief introduction to Phase field simulations as examples.
• Before joining in the PhD program, I taught high-school physics in China as a part-time job and as a hobby. I found that for some top high-school students, they are able to understand the concept of derivatives (which is not usually taught in high school in China) if they have an excellent teacher (like me!) who teaches them with care. Once having a deep understanding in derivatives, dynamics becomes very easy for them. Here's a sample material of my high-school-physics assignment (in Chinese).