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Journal Articles


Interpreting Earth’s Inner Core Structure via Ultrasonic Scattering Experiments

2025

An experimental study of the scattering of ultrasonic compressional waves in an hcp Zn-Sn alloy, serving as an analog to the Fe alloy in Earth’s inner core to better understand the origin of inner core seismic attenuation.

Recommended citation: Ming Gong, Michael I. Bergman, An experimental ultrasonic method to determine a scattering quality factor, with application to earth's inner core, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 2025, 107456, ISSN 0031-9201, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pepi.2025.107456.
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An Improved Machine Learning Model for Pure Component Property Estimation

2024

A new Gaussian Process-based modeling framework that predicts the physico-chemical properties of chemical species.

Recommended citation: Cao, X., Gong, M., Tula, A., Chen, X., Gani, R., & Venkatasubramanian, V. (2024). An improved machine learning model for pure component property estimation. Engineering, 39, 61–73. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2023.08.024
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Loss Function Evaluation

2025

Accurate tracing of grain boundaries in microscopy images is vital in material science, yet current models need more data and a more accurate loss function. In this report, we present a twofold contribution to improving grain-tracing U-nets.

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