Thomas O'connor
Assistant Professor Of Materials Science And Engineering
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolThomas O'Connor is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University who leverages molecular dynamics and mesh-free computational fluid dynamics to decode atomic-scale mechanisms in soft molecular solids like polymer liquids, gels, and foams. With a PhD in Physics from Johns Hopkins and a decade of research experience including a Harry S. Truman Fellowship at Sandia National Laboratories, he builds predictive, process-aware models for polymer processing techniques such as fiber spinning and 3D printing. His work bridges fundamental physics and applied materials engineering to design nanostructured materials whose mechanical properties depend on molecular arrangement, temperature, and history. Notably, he studies anisotropic polymer fibers across quasistatic and high-rate regimes, revealing elastic instabilities that inform both theory and industrial processing.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Physics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (10)
system-identification9
dynamical-systems8
nonlinear-dynamics7
nonlinear7
sparse7
structural-engineering6
machine-learning5
petsc4
lammps4
parallel-computing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ThomasCOConnor/AIREBO-M
Feb 2016 - Mar 2016
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
OConnor-Lab/RHEO_PoF_2024
Jan 2025 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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