• Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Dr. Wei Gao

Educational Background

  • Ph.D., Engineering Mechanics, University of Texas at Austin — 2014
  • MS, Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Irvine — 2007
  • MS, Solid Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China — 2006
  • BS, Engineering Mechanics, Sichuan University, China — 2003

Research Interests

    • Mechanics of materials
    • Multiscale materials modeling
    • Surface and Interface
    • Mechanochemistry and mechanobiology
    • AI and Machine learning
    • 2D materials, metallic materials, soft materials, biomaterials

Awards & Honors

  • 2021 NSF CAREER Award
  • 2017 GREAT Award, University of Texas at San Antonio
  • 2013 Max L. Williams Endowed Graduate Fellowship, UT Austin
  • 2010 NSF Fellowship for Workshop on Multiscale Modeling
  • 2001 – 2003, First Class Scholarship, Sichuan University

Selected Publications

  • A. Ghasemi, W. Gao, A Method to Apply Piola-Kirchhoff Stress in Molecular Statics Simulation, Computational Materials Science, 195, 110496, 2021.
  • A. Ghasemi, W. Gao, Atomistic Mechanism of Stress Modulated Phase Transition in Monolayer MoTe2, Extreme Mechanics Letters, 40, 100946, 2020.
  • A. Ghasemi, W. Gao, A Method to Predict Energy Barriers in Stress Modulated Solid-solid Phase Transitions, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 137, 103857, 2020.
  • A. Ghasemi, P. Xiao, W. Gao, Nudged elastic band method for solid-solid transition under finite deformation, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 151, 054110, 2019.
  • W. Gao, R. Huang. Thermomechanics of monolayer graphene: rippling, thermal expansion and elasticity. Journal of Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 66, 42-58, 2014.
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