News and Achievements
News
- Nature Communications publishes "Direct observation of surface local chemical ordering in CoCrFeMnNi high-entropy alloys," by Lauren Kim*, Prince Sharma, Che-Wei Tsai, E-Wen Huang, Peter K. Liaw, Jien-Wei Yeh, Ganesh Balasubramanian & TeYu Chien*, 2026.
- Recognised as Exceptional Reviewer by Materials, MDPI. - 08/2025
- Appointed to the Extended Advisory Board of Carbon Journal. - 08/2025
- Appointed to the Early Career Editorial Board of Condensed Matter Journal. - 08/2025
- Received "Special Mention" distinction in the 2025 Carbon Journal Prize for research in 2D MXene based materials. - 22/07/2025
- Acta Materialia publishes "Influence of Isoelectronic Mass Modulation on Phonon Decay and Transport in Layered Pnictogen-Carbon Systems," a study by Sharma, Singh and Balasubramanian, on 14/06/2025.
Media
Invited Talks
- Examining Phonon Transport in High Entropy Oxides: An Advanced Thermal Barrier Coating Material, Host: Prof. Sandip Kumar Saha, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.
Achievements
- Appointed to the Extended Advisory Board of Carbon Journal.
- Received "Special Mention" distinction in the 2025 Carbon Journal Prize for research in 2D MXene based materials.
- STLE Philadelphia Scholarship 2023 Award for research in two-dimensional materials.
- Doctoral Travel Grants for Global Opportunities Award from Lehigh University for international travel.
- DFT Workshop - "Moving ions with VASP" Selected in top 100 candidates to participate.
- Lehigh University Fellowship for PhD studies.
- Rossin Doctoral Fellow 2022-2023 for PhD studies.
- Kanai and Bibha Mukherjee Fund for travel to United States.
- Nominated for UNESCO-POLAND Co-Sponsored Engineering Fellowship 2020.
- JENESYS Scholarship Award 2019, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Government of Japan.
- All India Rank-53, Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering 2018.
- Winner, Inter School Chess Championship 2009.