interest in computational and theoretical condensed matter and materials physics. Working under the supervision of Prof. Dallas R. Trinkle, Yang is currently doing research on modeling defects in materials, alloys and magnetism in materials using first- principles tools.Andre Schleife (Assistant Professor) André Schleife is a Blue Waters Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and his degrees in physics are from the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany (Diploma, 2006; Ph.D. 2010). He was a Directorate Postdoctoral Researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (2011–2013). At UIUC, which he joined in 2013, he received the NSF CAREER award, the ONR YIP award, and was an ACS PRF Doctoral