Research Interests: Computational Materials Science Material failure, Ion transport and electrical-chemical-mechanical coupling in battery and fuel cell materials; Interface science and grain boundary engineering for hard coatings and light weight materials; Meso-scale modeling of morphology, mechanical and transport properties of fuel cell membranes; Growth, structure and mechanical properties of nano-structured materials; Multi-scale modeling: Density Functional Theory, Large Scale Molecular Dynamics, Reactive Force Field development, Parallel computing, Phase field model, Mesodyn, Coarse Graining Schemes, Finite Element Method