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              <h3>May 1st - M.S. Thesis Defense</h3>
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                On May 1, I defended my M.S. thesis at CSUN. The work connects ML-accelerated materials discovery,
                high-pressure superhydrides, and 2D electrides through quasi-atom chemistry.
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                I am grateful to Dr. Maosheng Miao, the Miao Lab, and the CSUN Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
                for their support.
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              <h3>APS Global Physics Summit 2026 - March 20</h3>
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                I presented our work at APS in Denver on predicting electron localization functions from superposed atomic
                densities with a 3D CNN, aiming to recover chemical-bonding information without a full DFT calculation.
                My wife also presented a talk, and we made time to explore Colorado together.
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              <h3>Chem/Biochem Journal Club - February 20</h3>
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                I am excited to lead this semester's first Chem/Biochem Journal Club meeting on February 20. We will
                discuss
                <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5c02578" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
                  <em>Metallic Oxides and the Overlooked Role of Bandwidth</em>
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                an engaging <em>Chemistry of Materials</em> paper connecting solid-state chemistry with electronic-structure
                concepts. If you are curious and want to attend, please
                <a href="mailto:austin.ellis813@gmail.com">reach out by email</a>.
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              <p>Thank you to the UCSB team for such a fascinating piece of research.</p>
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              <h3>DCOMP Travel Award - Global Physics Summit 2026</h3>
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                I received a DCOMP travel award to attend the Global Physics Summit 2026 in Denver, Colorado. I will be
                presenting my electron localization function (ELF) work that I first shared at NeurIPS AI4Mat.
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              <h3>GRC: Multifunctional Materials and Structures</h3>
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                In late January, I attended the Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures in
                Ventura, California. I presented two posters: one on machine-learning-guided discovery of complex metal
                superhydrides and one on symmetry-aware deep-learning prediction of electron localization functions. It was a
                great chance to exchange ideas across disciplines and build new research connections.
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              <h3>CSUN Department News</h3>
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                Our lab's two most recent publications were featured on the CSUN Department of Science and Mathematics news
                site: one highlighting our machine-learning-guided materials discovery work
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                  href="https://news.csun.edu/college-of-science-and-mathematics/the-latest-manuscript-on-machine-learning-to-design-new-materials-has-been-published-by-the-miao-lab/"
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                and another covering pressure-induced redox reversal of iron in deep-Earth conditions
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                  href="https://news.csun.edu/college-of-science-and-mathematics/study-by-dr-miao-upends-our-understanding-of-what-happens-to-iron-at-earths-core/"
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              <h3>NeurIPS AI4Mat 2025</h3>
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                I received a travel grant to attend NeurIPS AI4Mat 2025 and presented two posters there. One shares our JACS
                study on batch discovery of complex metal superhydrides and how template-guided ML accelerates the search for
                high-pressure materials (<a href="77_ML_Batched_SHydrides.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF</a>).
                The other covers an in-progress symmetry-aware 3D-UNet that predicts electron localization functions from
                superposed atomic density grids with promising early accuracy
                (<a href="82_Symmetry_Aware_Prediction.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">PDF</a>).
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              <h3>CSUN Newsroom Feature</h3>
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                Our group's work on pressure-driven redox reversal of iron and its role in element distribution deep in Earth
                was featured by CSUN Newsroom. The piece highlights how computational evidence for iron's redox reversal
                points to new bonding pathways for p-block elements under extreme pressure and can reshape models of core
                formation and evolution.
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