Cheng Zeng
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Contact
- c.zeng@northeastern.edu
- The Roux Institute
100 Fore Street
Portland, ME 04101
Office
- 4013966668
Research Focus
Data Science; Computational Materials Science; Additive Manufacturing; Corrosion and Protection
About
Cheng Zeng is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Roux Institute of Northeastern Unversity. His research here focuses on data-enabled science and engineering for additive manufacturing.
He obtained a PhD in Engineering from Brown University. He also holds a M.Sc. degree in Data Science and a M.Eng. degree in Materials Science and Engineering. His previous works span in many areas, including computational materials science, machine learning inter-atomic potentials, atomistic physical/mechanical models for rational catalyst design, high-throughput computing, corrosion and protection, and materials surface characterization.
Education
- PhD in Engineering, Brown University
- M.Sc. in Data Science, Brown University
- M.Sc. in Engineering, Brown University
- M.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
- B.Eng. in Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
Honors & Awards
- 2020, Kaggle competitions master (one gold and two silver machine learning competition medals)
- 2019, Open graduate education fellow (around ten PhD students selected to pursue a secondary’s master’s degree outside their PhD program)
- 2017, Presidential fellow (the most outstanding applicants for PhD programs)
- 2016, Beijing outstanding master graduate
Research Overview
Data Science; Computational Materials Science; Additive Manufacturing; Corrosion and Protection