Shunda Chen

A scientist exploring the fearful symmetry and amazing ordering on a small blue planet full of life, chaos, diversity, and entropy. Let there be light.

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

Achieving DFT accuracy at EAM-like speed for simulating 100M atoms is now a reality! Using just 8 A100 GPUs, UNEP-v1 (scalable neuroevolution potential) marks a major step toward a universal MLP across the periodic table. Open codes/models: https://t.co/eXRaaxjvQl @NatureComms

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

New paper on arXiv: Anisotropic short-range order emerges in wurtzite ScAlN alloys and modulates ferroelectric switching barriers, establishing local chemical order as a new degree of freedom for materials design in ferroelectric semiconductors.
https://t.co/UKZ9lBAaU6

[Entropy MDPI @Entropy_MDPI]

🙌New #SpecialIssue "Thermal Transport in Nanoscale Systems" edited by Dr. Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen , is Open for Submission
➡️Submit to the Special Issue: https://t.co/LLgRUkY1Xm
📅Submission deadline: 31 August 2026

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

A new paper published in Science: Short-range order in semiconductors has been directly confirmed, offering a new way to engineer electronic properties for advanced microelectronics & quantum devices. https://t.co/c4ETHiXzzJ @ScienceMagazine @BerkeleyLab @gwuengineering #EFRC

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

Water is the most anomalous liquid and extremely hard to model. We made a breakthrough with a machine-learning framework (NEP-MB-pol) that captures water’s quantum nature and simultaneously predicts its structural, thermodynamic, and transport properties. https://t.co/O8XKBfWE5a

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

Why does graphite sometimes form instead of diamond, even when diamond should win? Our recent @NatureComms study uses machine-learning MD simulations to uncover carbon’s surprising crystallization behavior. 🔗https://t.co/v2sUj4smOR #NEP #GPUMD #AI #MachineLearning #MLP #Diamond

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

NEP89 is a foundation model based on the neuroevolution potential (NEP) architecture, delivering empirical-potential-like speed and near-DFT accuracy for large-scale atomistic simulations of inorganic and organic systems across 89 chemical elements. https://t.co/RvslTTZqnb 🚀

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

NEP89: Universal neuroevolution potential for inorganic and organic materials across 89 elements https://t.co/RvslTTZqnb

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

Our paper "Enabling Type I Lattice-Matched Heterostructures in SiGeSn Alloys Through Engineering Composition and Short-Range Order: A First-Principles Perspective" is selected for the front cover of IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics!
https://t.co/KfsLO9baae

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

Excited to share our latest work on Semiconductor-Compatible Topological Digital Alloys, just published in Materials Today! Get 50 days of free access here: https://t.co/tM5BSqD9kO

[National Mall NPS @NationalMallNPS]

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Plan your visit: https://t.co/h04Gu0ksc1
#CherryBlossom #BloomWatch #WashingtonDC

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

Honored to receive the Outstanding Reviewer Award 2024 from @IOPPublishing
Thanks to the editorial teams for this recognition! https://t.co/ynYoXMwfLm

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

📢 Entropy Special Issues: Open for Submissions!
🔬Exploring Complexity: Short-Range Order in Medium & High-Entropy Materials 🔗https://t.co/eGfp0mKxKB
🚀Advances in Molecular Dynamics Simulations
🔗https://t.co/2X4qYqDi44 @Entropy_MDPI #Entropy #MD #HEA #SRO #ComplexSystems

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

Our GPU-accelerated NEP-PIMD approach offers an accessible, accurate, and scalable way to capture nuclear quantum effects in diverse materials. 🚀 Now in @AIP_Publishing J. Chem. Phys. 162, 064109 (2025) https://t.co/8OMDDFEq3z #NEP #GPUMD #PIMD #RPMD #TRPMD #MachineLearning #AI

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

The simulations provide new and interesting insights: grain boundaries, along with asymmetric interatomic interactions and nearly integrable dynamics, may play a crucial role in thermal transport in low-dimensional momentum-conserving systems. Fascinating! A lot of fun!

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

🚀 Million-atom heat transport simulations of polycrystalline graphene approaching first-principles accuracy on @nvidia gaming GPUs! 💻 Enabled by Neuroevolution Potential (NEP) in GPUMD. Now in J. Appl. Phys. @AIP_Publishing: https://t.co/OfYQmmprEJ #MachineLearning #NEP #MD #AI

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

🚀 Million-atom heat transport simulations of polycrystalline graphene approaching first-principles accuracy on @nvidia gaming GPUs! 💻 Enabled by Neuroevolution Potential (NEP) in GPUMD. Now in J. Appl. Phys. @AIP_Publishing: https://t.co/OfYQmmprEJ #MachineLearning #NEP #MD #AI

[Stephan Roche @StephanSroche]

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[MIT Physics @MIT_Physics]

Physicists measure quantum geometry for first time https://t.co/PfMqAlORAN @ScienceMIT

[Davide Donadio @nanophononics]

I am super happy about it! This honor is shared with my amazing advisors and all the postdocs, students, and collaborators with whom I was lucky to work in the course of my research journey!

[Davide Donadio @nanophononics]

Dylan's first research paper outlines a workflow to calculate thermal conductivity and elastic moduli at finite temperatures with nuclear quantum effects and ML potentials. @ZNanotheory @flokno_phys @GiuseppeQuantum
#OpenAccess in JAP @AIP_Publishing

[Shunda Chen @Shunda_Chen]

What a wonderful memory! Grateful to my supervisor @nanophononics and to @UCDChem and @ucdavis for all the support!

[Davide Donadio @nanophononics]

So happy for Shunda's postdoctoral research award. It is a well deserved prize for all his hard work at @UCDChem in the past 3 years.