Group for AI in Materials Modeling and Analytics (GAMMA)
The University of Texas at Austin · Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
Graduate application deadlines
Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering
PhD in Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 1, 2026
Source: me.utexas.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026MS in Mechanical Engineering
Fall 2027Application deadline
Dec 1, 2026
Source: me.utexas.eduChecked Nov 2, 2026
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Prof. Zhantao Chen at The University of Texas at Austin Walker Department of Mechanical Engineering lists Computational materials science, AI for science, Agentic AI for scientific discovery, Neutron and x-ray scattering, Inverse problems as their registered research area.
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Recent papers
- Multi-resolution enhancement for full-spectrum neural representationsNature Machine Intelligence · Aug 24
- AIMS: an AI experimentalist turns uncertainty into quantum matter discoveryPreprintarXiv (Cornell University) · Jul 17
- An agentic artificially intelligent X-ray scientistNature Machine Intelligence · Jul 1
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