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)
