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2025 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit
Graduate Student Awards Special Talk Session 2
Tuesday, April 8
12:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Hyatt, Level 5, Room 507, Sauk
The MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high level of excellence and distinction. Join the events to support our Graduate Student Award Finalists as they highlight their research.
| Time | GSA Finalist | Institution | Abstract Title |
| 12:15 | Ryotaro Okabe * | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Structural Constraint Integration in Generative Model for Discovery of Quantum Material Candidates |
| 12:30 | Ziqi Guo * | Purdue University | ML-assisted Acceleration of Phonon Scattering Simulation: Methods and Applications |
| 12:45 | Wenzheng Heng * | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) | A Smart Mask for Breath Condensate Harvesting and Molecular Detection |
| 1:00 | Lillian Hughes * | University of California, Santa Barbara | Creating Strongly Interacting Dipolar Spin Ensembles in Diamond for Quantum Technologies |
| 1:15 | Jiahui Li * | University of Illinois Urbana Champaign | Phonon Mapping of Self-Assembled Nanoparticle-Based Honeycomb Metamaterials by Liquid-Phase Electron Microscopy |
| 1:30 BREAK | |||
| 1:45 | Shunran Li * | Yale University | Spontaneous Formation of Single-Crystalline Spherulites in a Chiral 2D Hybrid Perovskite |
| 2:00 | Julian Feijoo * | University of California, Berkeley | Operando X-ray Based Studies of Evolving Copper Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction |
| 2:15 | Weichen Wang * | Stanford University | Neuromorphic Sensorimotor Loop Embodied by Monolithically Integrated, Low-Voltage, Soft e-Skin |
| 2:30 | Dawei Xi * | Harvard University | Aqueous Redox Active Molecular Materials Mediating Proton-Coupled-Electron-Transfer for Sustainable Energy Applications |
*Nowick Contender