Welcome!

Welcome to our group’s page! Feel free to take a look around. The site is still under construction; so check back for new content soon!

ACME?!?

ACME stands for Accelerated Computation of Materials for Energy. The word “acme” also refers to “the point at which someone or something is best, perfect, or most successful,” (per the OED) reminding us of what we can strive for in our work every day.

And finally, the ACME Corporation from Looney Tunes reminds us that while we set high standards for our research, we can’t take ourselves too seriously all the time, and we always remember to find joy and laughter in work and life.

You can read more about our group’s culture here.

Our Work

We are a computational materials science group in the Materials Science Department in the Carnegie Mellon School of Engineering, led by Prof. Rachel Kurchin. We focus on simulation and data-driven methods that can accelerate development and understanding of materials for a variety of clean energy applications, with a particular focus on ways we can use computation to maximize what we learn from experiments. Check out the research page for more!