Prof. Zeeshan Ahmad

Former Postdoctoral Research Scholar

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2020); Advisor: Venkat Viswanathan
• M.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University (2020);
• B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (2015)

Areas of Interest

• Hybrid organic-inorganic semiconductors for energy and computing
• Lithium-ion Batteries
• Machine Learning for the Physical Sciences

Experience

• 2020-Present: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago
• 2015-2020: Graduate Research Assistant, Carnegie Mellon University

Publications

• Zeeshan Ahmad, Victor Venturi, Shashank Sripad, and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Chemomechanics: friend or foe of the 'AND problem' of solid-state batteries?
  arXiv:2108.10150 (2021)
• Zhengjie Huang, Shai R. Vardeny, Tonghui Wang, Zeeshan Ahmad, Ashish Chanana, Eric Vetter, Shijia Yang, Xiaojie Liu, Giulia Galli, Aram Amassian, Z. Valy Vardeny, and Dali Sun
  Observation of Spatially-Resolved Rashba States on the Surface of CH3NH3PbBr3 Single Crystals
  Appl. Phys. Rev. 8, 031408 (2021)
• Yasir Ali Farrukh, Irfan Khan, Zeeshan Ahmad, and Rajvikram Madurai Elavarasan
  A Sequential Supervised Machine Learning Approach for Cyber Attack Detection in a Smart Grid System
  arXiv:2108.00476 (2021)
• Zeeshan Ahmad, Victor Venturi, Hasnain Hafiz, and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Interfaces in Solid Electrolyte Interphase: Implications for Lithium-Ion Batteries
  J. Phys. Chem. C, 125, 11301 (2021)
• Zeeshan Ahmad, Zijian Hong, and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Design rules for liquid crystalline electrolytes for enabling dendrite-free lithium metal batteries
  PNAS, 117 (43) 26672-26680 (2020)
• Zijian Hong, Zeeshan Ahmad, and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Design Principles for Dendrite Suppression with Porous Polymer/Aqueous Solution Hybrid Electrolyte for Zn Metal Anodes
  ACS Energy Lett., 5, 8, 2466–2474 (2020)
• Victor Venturi, Holden L Parks, Zeeshan Ahmad, and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Machine learning enabled discovery of application dependent design principles for two-dimensional materials
  Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol., 1, 035015 (2020)
• C. Fu, V. Venturi, J. Kim, Zeeshan Ahmad, A. W. Ells, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, B. A. Helms
  Universal Chemomechanical Design Rules for Solid-Ion Conductors to Prevent Dendrite Formation in Lithium Metal Batteries
  Nat. Mater., 19, 758 (2020)
• Zeeshan Ahmad, T. Xie, C. Maheshwari, J. C. Grossman and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Machine Learning Enabled Computational Screening of Inorganic Solid Electrolytes for Suppression of Dendrite Formation in Lithium Metal Anodes
  ACS Cent. Sci. 4, 996 (2018)
• Zeeshan Ahmad and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Role of anisotropy in determining stability of electrodeposition at solid-solid interfaces
  Phys. Rev. Materials 1, 055403 (2017)
• Luke Klosterman, Zeeshan Ahmad, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, and Christopher Bettinger
  Synthesis and Measurement of Cohesive Mechanics in Polydopamine Nanomembranes
  Advanced Materials Interfaces, 4, 10, 1700041 (2017)
• Zeeshan Ahmad and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Stability of electrodeposition at solid-solid interfaces and implications for metal anodes
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 056401 (2017)
• C. Xu, Zeeshan Ahmad, A. Aryanfar, Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, and J. R. Greer.
  Enhanced strength and temperature dependence of mechanical properties of Li at small length scales and its implications for Li metal anodes
  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 114, 57 (2017)
• Zeeshan Ahmad and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan
  Quantification of uncertainty in first-principles predicted mechanical properties of solids: Application to solid ion conductors
  Phys. Rev. B, 94, 064105 (2016)