Tutorials & Code

Demo Video For Machine Learning Classifier and Energy Landscapes Describing Metal-Insulator Transition Compounds

Welcome to the demo video for the tools I presented at the US-Africa Electronic Structure Workshop 2021. You can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM2GlkXMvjk

My intro video is here: https://youtu.be/OE-kAUXarA8

You can find the resources and papers discussed in this introduction here.

1) Our group's page: https://mtd.mccormick.northwestern.edu/

2) Our machine learning and metal-insulator transition (MIT) compounds paper: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00905

3) MIT Materials Database: https://mtd.mccormick.northwestern.edu/mit-classification-dataset/

4) Online MIT Classifier; please wait for it to load the first time: https://tinyurl.com/mit-classifiers

5) A model to disentangle electron and lattice contributions to a phase transition: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2105.02271.pdf

Videos on applying for faculty positions

General advice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhMPseZMMS0

How I structured my research seminar/job talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXZlJ2PQ6jI

Proposal talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR5iIsGusUw

Some advice on the faculty search

Here is the video.

Many people see applying for a faculty position as the culmination of their early academic careers. In many ways, it is, and it’s also the step where chances are usually not really in people’s favor – statistically, it’s the most difficult step to take. But, many people do make it every year. How do you prove you are good enough to do something you haven’t really done before? I felt like my perspective – which isn’t that of a person who ‘made it’ on the first try, but who went through 3 rounds, and 2 postdocs (which some bad advice on the internet suggests one should never do), including interviews in Chemistry, Materials Science, and Physics may be useful. I may also add another video soon on how to make the best out of being a Ph.D student and a postdoc.