Liang Tian
IT Technical Specialist V at The University of Alabama
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolLiang Tian is an IT Technical Specialist V and Ph.D. materials scientist with 8 years of experience blending computational materials modeling, scientific software development, and research computing operations. He has built scalable simulation and data-pipeline tools—from a C++ 3D Monte Carlo phonon transport solver to a parallelized Python ART_data_analyzer—that connect first-principles inputs to mesoscale kinetics and automate large-scale atomistic analysis. With deep expertise in DFT, molecular dynamics, phase-field, cluster expansion, Monte Carlo methods and emerging ML workflows, he has published 20 journal articles and delivered multiple conference talks. At The University of Alabama he now supports high-performance research computing, cluster administration and vendor partnerships while continuing to push algorithmic advances in materials thermodynamics and kinetics. Curious and interdisciplinary, his work fuses high-performance computing with philosophy and psychology influences visible in his public commentary and GitHub projects.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science and Engineering, 3.77/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Materials Science and Engineering, 3.77/4.0 at Iowa State UniversityBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Materials Science and Engineering, 3.5/4.0, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Materials Science and Engineering, 3.5/4.0 at Central South University
Github Skills (15)
data-analysis9
python9
machine-learning9
statistics9
forecast8
r8
scikit8
scikit-learn8
data-science8
forecasting-models7
forecasting7
forecasts7
voronoi6
time-series4
triangulation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
liangtianumich/ART_data_analyzer
Mar 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:5 releases, 219 commits, 194 pushes in 1 year 4 months
joe-jordan/pyvoro
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
2D and 3D Voronoi tessellations: a python entry point for the voro++ library
Contributions:5 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 10 months
tessellationspythonvoronoipointtriangulation
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