Professor Kenneth S. Vecchio

Research Activities:

  • Machine Learning for Materials Discovery and Autonomous Materials Characterization

  • Metal and Ceramic Laser Additive Manufacturing

  • High Entropy Materials, particularly high entropy ceramics and high entropy metallic alloys

  • Metallic-Intermetallic Laminate (MIL) Composites

  • Heterogeneous lamella structured materials

  • Dynamic Deformation of Materials

  • Bulk Metallic Glasses

  • Superelastic Alloys

Professor of NanoEngineering Department, UCSD

Office: Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) Building, Rm. 245A

Phone: (858) 822-7922, e-mail: kvecchio@eng.ucsd.edu

ORCID: 0000-0003-0217-6803

Laboratories: SME Bldg., Rm. 001 and 001A

Director: NE-MRC Shared User Facility - SME Basement, Rms. 002, 004, 006, 008, 010.

Legacy Background:

Founding Chair, Department of NanoEngineering, UC San Diego

Founding Member: Materials Science and Engineering Program, UC San Diego

Co-Founder: Scoperta, Inc., now Oerlikon-Scoperta, a Computational Materials Discovery Company

Academic Background:

Carnegie-Mellon University, Metallurgical Eng. & Materials Science, B.S. 1983

Lehigh University, Metallurgy and Materials Science, M.S. 1985

Lehigh University, Materials Science and Engineering, PhD. 1988

Academic Appointments:

2007-present - Professor, Department of NanoEngineering, Director of the NanoEngineering Materials Research Center (NE-MRC)

2007-2014 - Founding Chair, Department of NanoEngineering

1999-2007 - Full Professor of Materials Science, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego.

1988–1999 - Assistant, then Associate, Professor of Materials Science and Director of the Electron Optics and Microanalysis Facility for the School of Engineering, Department of Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences, University of California, San Diego.

1988 - Lecturer, Laboratory Instructor, Lehigh University Electron Microscopy Short Courses.