About

About me

I am currently working as a senior research scientist in the Center for Intelligent Computing at Zhejiang Lab, after earning my Ph.D. degree working with my advisor Prof. Chris Marianetti on Thermodynamics of Interacting Phonons at Columbia University. Currently, among all the research in intelegent computing, super computing and materials science, we are developing a highly optimized software that executes the methodologies described in the paper we published. It will be released soon. Stay tuned.

My CV can be found here, and my Chinese CV is available here.

Experience

  • Zhejiang Lab, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Jul 2022 - Present

Education

  • Columbia University, New York, New York Jan 2017 - Oct 2021
    Ph.D. in Materials Science Materials Science

    • Advisor: Professor Chris Marianetti
    • Research Focus: Generic first-principle computation on phonons and phonon-phonon interactions
    • Thesis: Thermodynamics of Interacting Phonons

  • Columbia University, New York, New York Aug 2015 – Dec 2016
    Master of Science in Materials Science

    • Cumulative GPA: 3.81/4.00
    • Coursework: Solid State Physics, Computing Electronic Structure of Complex Materials, Theory of Crystalline Materials, Mechanical Behavior of Materials, etc.

  • University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China Aug 2011 – Jun 2015
    Bachelor of Engineering in Materials Physics

    • Cumulative GPA: 3.46/4.00
    • Thesis: Research on the Quantum Transport Properties of Resistive RAM
    • Adviser: Professor Jiao Teng

Research Experience

  • Columbia University, New York, New York

    Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics May 2016 - Oct 2021

    • Project: Thermodynamics of Interacting Phonons
    • Adviser: Professor Chris Marianetti
    • Develop group theoretical approach to extract arbitrary order phonons and their interactions in terms of space group irreducible derivatives.
    • Develop finite difference algorithm which extracts all irreducible derivatives in the smallest possible supercells with the fewest possible calculations.
    • Develop software to compute thermodynamic properties using the extracted phonon interaction data.
    • Perform high-throughput computations on HPC clusters.
    • Manage an in-house cluster of more than 80 nodes.

Publications

  • L. Fu, M. Kornbluth, Z. Cheng, and C. A. Marianetti, Group theoretical approach to computing phonons and their interactions, Phys. Rev. B 100, 014303 (2019). [link] [PDF]
  • X. Ding, T. Yao, L. Fu, Z. Hua, J. Harp, C.A. Marianetti, M. Neupane, M.E. Manley, D. Hurley, and K. Gofryk, Magnetic, transport and thermal properties of 𝛿-phase UZr2, Phil. Mag. Lett., 101(1), 1-11 (2020). [link]
  • M.S. Bryan, L. Fu, K. Rickert, D. Turner, T.A. Prusnick, J.M. Mann, D.L. Abernathy, C.A. Marianetti , and M.E. Manley, Nonlinear Vibrations Beyond the Phonons in Fluorite-Structured Crystals, Nat. Comm. Phys., 3(1), 1-7 (2020). [link]
  • C.A. Dennett, W.R. Deskins, M. Khafizov, Z. Hua, A. Khanolkar, K. Bawane, L. Fu, J.M. Mann, C.A. Marianetti, L. He, D.H. Hurley, A. El-Azab, An Integrated Experimental and Computational Investigation of Defect and Microstructural Effects on Thermal Transport in Thorium Dioxide, Acta Mater., 213, 116934, (2021). [link]
  • E. Xiao, H. Ma, M. S. Bryan, L. Fu, et al. (2022). Validating First-Principles Phonon Lifetimes via Inelastic Neutron Scattering, Phys. Rev. B 106, 014314. [link]
  • M. A. Mathis, A. Khanolkar, L. Fu, et al. (2022). Generalized Quasiharmonic Approximation via Space Group Irreducible Derivatives, Phys. Rev. B 106, 144310. [link]