Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering

PhD 2018, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Contact Information

• Office POST 207A
• Phone (808) 956-3679
• E-mail  xiyudu@hawaii.edu
• Research Website https://xiyudu.github.io/

Research Interests

• Soft Materials
• Molecular Dynamics
• Statistical Mechanics
• Collective Behaviors
• Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design

Education

• Research Associate, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
  University, 2021-2022
• Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
  University, 2018-2021
• Ph.D., Physics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2018
• Bachelor of Arts in Physics and Mathematics, Beloit College, 2012

Selected Publications

• CX. Du, HA. Zhang, T. Pearson, J. Ng, P. L. McEuen, I. Cohen, M. P. Brenner,
  “Programming Interactions in Magnetic Handshake Materials”, Soft Matter 18
  (34), 6404‐6410 (2022). DOI: 10.1039/D2SM00604A
• R. Niu, CX. Du, E. Esposito, J. Ng, M. Brenner, P. McEuen, I. Cohen, “Magnetic
  handshake materials: a new platform for scale invariant programmed
  self‐assembly”, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, 49,
  24402‐24407 (2019). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1910332116
• CX. Du, G. van Anders, R. Newman, S. C. Glotzer, Shape‐driven solid–solid
  transitions in colloids, “Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences”, vol. 114,
  20, E3892‐E3899 (2017). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1621348114

Full list of publications available at the following:
Google Scholar
(https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=nb-603QAAAAJ)

Courses Offered

• ME360 Computer Methods in Engineering, Spring2023