Curriculum Vitae
Table of Contents
This version of the CV is quite verbose, so a ToC is included below:
- Education
- Skills
- Research Experience
- Publications
- Teaching Experience
- Talks
- Awards
- Service and Leadership
- Languages
Education
- Ph.D in Mechincal Engineering, University of Kansas, 2025
- B.S. in Mechnical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2019
Skills
- Programming Languages
- C/C++
- MATLAB/Octave
- Python
- LaTeX
- Bash
- Software & Tools
- OpenFOAM
- SolidWorks
- ANSYS
- StarCCM+
- Mathematica/Maple
- ImageJ/Fiji
- ParaView
- Parallel Programming
- GPU
- CPU
- MATLAB Parallel Computing Toolbox
Research experience
- Founding R&D Engineer, A.S.K. Research LLC, IA (Jan 2026 - Present)
- Commercial CFD simulations for industry partners.
- Characterization of the design space for triply-periodic minimal surfaces.
- Transitioning porous media research to industry.
- Graduate Research at Oak Ridge (GRO), Oak Ridge National Lab, TN (Jan - Nov 2025)
- Characterization of morphology and transport phenomena in energy-related materials.
- Novel modeling on composite cathode depletion and recharge in All-Solid-State Batteries.
- Dimensionality reduction and clustering analysis for automatic data-processing.
- Graduate Research Assistant, University of Kansas, KS (2020 - 2025)
- Computational research in reconstruction, characterization, and optimization of heterogeneous materials.
- Leveraging state-of-the-art parallel computing techniques in CPU and GPU to accelerate characterization and optimization in materials science.
- Computer-vision based physics informed ML models for microstructure optimization.
- Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Pesquisa Tecnica (IPT), Sao Paulo, Brazil (May - August 2018)
- Optimization algorithm for custom truss design.
- Solutions for heavy debris containment in hydroelectric power plant.
- Independent Research, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2015 - 2019)
- Data collection and analysis on asteroid photometry (published in Minor Planet Bulletin).
- Research on time/space resolution effect on simulations of stress-wave propagation.
- Design of tabletop cheap Laser Doppler Velocimetry for basic use and teaching purposes.
- Designed and built SuperSID interferometer for studying solar weather via Sudden Ionospheric Disturbances.
Publications
More details can be found under the “Publications” tab.
Adam, A., Kim, C., Li, Y., Zhang, Y., Bilheux, J.-C., Li, X., Cheng, L., Bilheux, H., & Yang, G. (2026). Operando neutron radiography validates a parameter-free transport–kinetics model for thick solid-state battery cathodes. Materials Horizons. https://doi.org/10.1039/D6MH00464D
Stallard, S., Adam, A., Yang, G., Bergman, T. L., & Li, X. (2026). Categorization of congruent TPMS by geometric features using manifold learning and clustering. Computational Materials Science, 268, 114667. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.commatsci.2026.114667
Li, X., Adam, A. (2026, March 11). Reconstructed 3D Li-O2 Battery Electrodes [Dataset]. Digital Porous Media Portal. https://www.doi.org/10.17612/6w2a-ew85
Kim, C., Li, Y., Adam, A., Wu, W., Parker, G., Jang, I., Ahn, Y., Su, Y.-F., Meyer, H. M., III, Yu, X.-Y., Nanda, J., & Yang, G. (2026). Self-generated phosphate/oxysulfide passivation from dry-processed single-crystal NMC811 stabilizes argyrodite sulfide interfaces. Energy Storage Materials, 105009. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2026.105009
Adam, A., Stallard, S.L., Fang, H. et al. A General Framework for Predicting Permeability in Porous Structures Using Convolutional Neural Networks with Error Estimation. Transp Porous Med 152, 100 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11242-025-02239-4
A. Adam, H. Fang, G. Yang, X. Li (2025). ED-cPSD: Fast Phase-Size Distribution Via Sequential Erosion-Dilation. SoftwareX
Li, Y., Kim, C., Wu, W., Adam, A., Hasan, F., Zawodzinski, T., Nanda, J., & Yang, G. (2025). Binder Effects on Processing, Mechanical Properties, and Performance of Thin Sulfide Solid‐State Electrolytes. Batteries & Supercaps. https://doi.org/10.1002/batt.202500192
Adam, Andre; Stallard, Silven; Fang, Huazhen; Li, Xianglin (2024), “Permeability Prediction in 2D: Dataset and Trained Convolutional Neural Networks”, Mendeley Data, V1, doi: 10.17632/576dvrrsdx.1
Sarabandi, A., Adam, A., & Li, X. (2024). Influence of Electrolyte Saturation on the Performance of Li–O2 Batteries. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 16(45), 62902–62913. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c12168
Andre Adam, Huazhen Fang, Xianglin Li, Effective thermal conductivity estimation using a convolutional neural network and its application in topology optimization, Energy and AI, Volume 15, 2024, 100310, ISSN 2666-5468, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egyai.2023.100310.
Adam A, Wang F, Li X. Efficient reconstruction and validation of heterogeneous microstructures for energy applications. Int J Energy Res. 2022; 46(15): 22757-22771. doi:10.1002/er.8578
Adam, Andre; Li, Xianglin; Fang, Huazhen (2023), “2D Binary Images and Effective Thermal Conductivity CFD Results”, Mendeley Data, V2, doi: 10.17632/454dsrmdyf.2
Ditteon, R., “Lightcurve Analysis of Minor Planets Observed at the Oakley Southern Sky Observatory: 2016 October - 2017 March”, Minor Planet Bulletin, vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 13–16, 2018.
Teaching Experience
- Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Kansas, KS (Spring 2024)
- Private Tutoring, Sao Paulo (2019 - 2020)
- Sophomore Resident Tutor, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, IN (2017 - 2019)
- Homework Hotline (Ask Rose), Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, IN (2015 - 2018)
Talks
December 16, 2025
PhD Defense at University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA
August 19, 2025
Conference at Hall C - Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C., USA
February 03, 2025
Talk at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA
November 06, 2022
Seminar at University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Awards
- PhD Defense with Honors (2025)
- GRO Fellow at Oak Ridge National Lab (2025)
- Computational Awards MAT210007, MAT210014, and MAT230071 (2021-2025)
- KU Summer Research Grant (2024)
- Perry Family Award for service to the Oakley Observatory at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology (2019)
Service and leadership
- Active peer-reviewer for diverse academic journals (2022 - Present)
- RHIT Astronomical Society, President (2017 - 2019)
- RHIT Astronomical Society, Treasurer (2016 - 2017)
- ACS, member - active
- ASME, member - inactive
Languages
- Portuguese
- English
- Greek
- Spanish