Ji-Cheng Zhao
Ji-Cheng Zhao
Dean Of The College Of Engineering; Professor Of Materials Science And Engineering, UConn College Of Engineering
Elected to the Academy in 2025

Education

Central South University, Hunan, China, 1985, BS, Materials Science and Engineering; 1988, MS, Materials Science and Engineering; Lehigh University, 1995, PhD, Materials Science and Engineering

Professional Areas

Accelerated materials design and deployment with particular emphasis on alloys and coatings; additive manufacturing; computational thermodynamics and kinetics; micrometer-resolution measurement of materials properties; holistic integration of computational and experimental approaches; efficient and systematic measurement of phase diagrams and diffusion coefficients; ultrahigh-temperature synthesis and processing of materials.

Citation

For contributions to computational alloy design, integrated computational materials engineering, and high-throughput methods leading to accelerated design and deployment of materials.