Award: International ML for Microscopy Hackathon 2025 Our research group recently competed in the International ML for Microscopy Hackathon 2025 and was honored to receive the 2nd Overall Prize, along with the Polaron Sponsor Award, for our work on microscopy autonomy for alloy microstructure characterization using a Materials Spatial Intelligence framework. Our project focused on …
Dhruv Anjaria, a Ph.D. candidate from a research group led by Assistant Professor Jean-Charles Stinville of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has received a 2025 Acta Student Award for his key contributions to the paper, “Plastic deformation delocalization at cryogenic temperatures in a nickel-based superalloy.” The …
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Assistant Professor Jean-Charles Stinville from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, was selected as the inaugural recipient of the Shankari Subramanyam Impact Grant. The honor supports his collaborative research visit to the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in May 2025 Why it matters The SSIG …
A multi-institution team led by Janelle Wharry has received $2.5 million from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to pursue the design of new materials that could make nuclear fusion power plants a reality. The grant is from ARPA-E’s Creating Hardened And Durable fusion first Wall Incorporating Centralized Knowledge (CHADWICK) program, which aims to explore promising alloy design …
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Dr. Stinville received the 2024 Kent D. Peaslee Faculty Award from the Association for Iron and Steel Technology (AIST). This award was established in 2013 in honor and memory of Kent D. Peaslee for his unequaled passion for teaching and promoting the steel industry to students, faculty members, and steel industry personnel. His achievements forged a …
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Our research group, including two of our dedicated students, Rephayah Black and Christopher Bean, has been honored with the 2024 Hetényi Award by the Society for Experimental Mechanics! https://lnkd.in/gYyNpc8u Our paper, “High-Throughput High-Resolution Digital Image Correlation Measurements by Multi-Beam SEM Imaging,” published in Experimental Mechanics (Vol. 63-5, pp. 939-953, 2023), has been recognized as the best research …
UIUC’s Jean-Charles Stinville is part of a team that just won a grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under its recently launched Multiobjective Engineering and Testing of ALloy Structures (METALS) program. The project is being led by Morad Behandish of SRI. DARPA METALS supports work with potential to move beyond today’s one-material-per-part …
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Jean-Charles Stinville is the 2024 recipient of the National Science Foundation‘s Faculty Early Career Development Program – NSF CAREER Award for his work in Fatigue of Metallic Materials. His goal is to Leveraging Plastic Deformation Mechanisms Interactions in Metallic Materials to Access Extraordinary Fatigue Strength. Metallic materials used in structural engineering are vital to a …
Jean-Charles Stinville is the 2023 recipient of the American Chemical Society New Direction Award for his work on Post-instability Induced by Phase Change on Dynamic Fracture in Macroporous Materials Exploration of unconventional reservoirs such as gas and oil shales has become an essential natural gas and oil source in North America. Hydraulic fracturing is the …
Chris Bean has been selected for the Racheff Teaching Fellowship. The fellowship comes with a stipend for excellent Teaching Assistants who assist in providing high-quality instruction to the undergraduate students in the MatSE Departments in the junior and senior year laboratories or courses in the department’s core curriculum. In Fall 2022, Chris was also named …
