News

Cem gave a keynote talk in the Innovationstag 2025 event of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (WKÖ), held in the Palais Kaufmännisches Vereinshaus, in Linz.
(3/3/25)
Liang received the prestigious Elie Shaio Memorial Award from MIT’s Office of Graduate Education. Congrats Liang!
(1/22/25)
The Tasan Group bid farewell to two long-time group members, Megan and Onur. We wish them both luck in their future endeavors!
(1/14/25)
Postdoc Kyung-Shik gave a presentation about hydrogen embrittlement at the International Youth Symposium on Mechanical Behavior of Materials under Hydrogen Environment hosted by East China University of Science and Technology.
(1/10/25)
The Tasan Group hosted the Alloy Design Workshop. This year’s workshop focused on antimicrobial metals. Check out more here!
(12/6/24)
Postdoctoral researcher Huang Sheng delivered an invited lecture at WAM 2024 in Istanbul.
(11/21/24)
Abhi and Onur hosted J-WAFS Research Showcase Tour in our lab.
(11/20/24)
Graduate student Abhi Sharda was awarded the 2024 Lemelson-Vest grant for his work with scrap metals. Congratuations Abhi!
(11/15/24)
Cem was featured in an article on the MIT Industrial Liason Program website! Check it out here!
(11/15/24)
Graduate students Abhi and Ekin presented a poster at the Energy and Climate Night at the MIT Museum!
(11/8/24)
Onur Guvenc was selected as a finalist for the Harvard Climate Symposium Pitch Competition at Harvard Business School on November 2, 2024. Congratulations Onur, and good luck!
(10/25/24)
Former intern Sigurd Bjerkhaug received his Masters of Engineering in materials science from Imperial College London. Congrats Sigurd!
(10/16/24)
Congrats Cem for giving a keynote presentation on interlath austenite at MS&T24!
(10/06/24)
Postdoctoral associate Onur Guvenc was featured in a recent MIT News article. Check it out here!
(10/02/24)
Kyung-Shik was awarded an MIT Energy Initiative Seed Grant for his pioneering work on hydrogen desorption, and he just gave a talk at their annual research conference!
(09/25/24)
Cem gave a keynote lecture about TRIP alloys at the 11th International Conference on Multiscale Materials Modeling in Prague!
(09/23/24)
Megan and Cem gave invited talks about titanium alloys and resettable materials at RWTH Aachen.
(09/20/24)
Ekin Senvardarli and Liang Zhao recently joined the Tasan Group! Welcome Liang and Ekin!
(09/01/24)
Shaolou’s fascinating research on <c+a> dislocations in titanium was featured on MIT News!
(07/02/24)
Cem traveled to Oxford to give an invited talk about titanium hydrogen embrittlement!
(06/24/24)
Felicity was awarded the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship at Imperial College London! She is now starting her own lab in the Centre for Nuclear Engineering.
(06/08/24)
Former Tasan Group Graduate Student Jiyun Kang has accepted a faculty position at the University of California Berkeley! Congratulations to Jiyun on this exciting accomplishment!
(06/01/24)
Cem enjoyed watching three former UROPs graduate this spring. Congratulations to Kirmina Monir, Sierra Green, and Rebecca Lizarde! Good luck with your future endeavors!
(05/30/24)
Come find out how hydrogen creates trouble for materials scientists, and how in-situ experiments help them solve these puzzles.
(03/28/24)
The Tasan Group was again represented at TMS with amazing presentations from Cem, Hyunseok, Julian, and Kyung-Shik.
(03/07/24)
Congrats to Cem, Jiyun, Dr. Pottore, and Dr. Zhu as recipients of the prestigious AISI Medal for their paper on in-situ investigations into QP steel!
(03/15/24)
Congratulations to Cem for giving an invited talk at the Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter Colloquium at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign!
(02/05/24)
Our annual Alloy Design Workshop was very successful! Thanks to the event organizers and to the speakers for their wonderful talks on gradient and multi-gradient metals.
(12/01/23)
Excited to share Onur’s patent success in the U.S. and international arena for revolutionizing Sheet Metal Consolidation!
(10/29/23)
Distinguished Excellence: Cem’s Remarkable Achievement as the 2024 Brimacombe Medalist
🌟📚 A new chapter of excellence begins as Prafull becomes a professor at IIT Gandhinagar. Congratulations on this remarkable achievement!
🎓🌟 From student to Stanford lecturer! Congratulations to Haoxue on this incredible achievement.
Cem Tasan, Andrew Whittle and Fabio Duarte (from left to right) received J-WAFS 2023 Solutions Grants: Advancing Water Innovations for a Sustainable Future
Congratulations to the Kyung-shik & Nathaniel team and the Prafull and Keith team for their impressive poster presentations at the MSRP poster presentation event!
Jiyun and Hyunseok representing the Taşan group with wonderful talks in the AIST International Symposium on AHSSS.
Thanks guys!
(06/23/2023)
Embracing life’s surprises: MIT news article with Cem! Check it out here.
(06/11/2023)
Felicity and Megan are representing the Taşan group in the Titanium World Congress in Edinburgh. Special thanks and congrats to Felicity for three successful talks!
(06/15/2023)
Congratulations to Sierra for being accepted to the MCSC Climate and Sustainability Scholars Program! We are very excited to keep having you in our lab!
(06/03/2023)
Embracing Excellence: Congratulations to Michela Geri for receiving Tenure Track faculty position in Duke University’s Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Department!
Doesn’t get any better than the commencement! Proudest moments as we formally celebrate our latest PhDs: Haoxue and Jiyun!
(06/02/2023)
More good news! Felicity has received the Alexander von Humboldt fellowship to work in Dusseldorf & MPIE on hydrogen! Heartfelt congratulations!
(05/31/2023)
Congratulations to Onur for receiving the prestigious J‑WAFS Solutions grant for his work on sustainable steel recycling!
(05/30/2023)
Warm congratulations also to Kirmina who is the recipient of the 2023 Horace A. Lubin Award for Outstanding Service to the DMSE Community. We are all proud of you!
(05/24/2023)
News alert! Julian is the recipient of the 2023 Graduate Student Teaching Award in Teaching a Graduate Subject! Congratulations from all of us!!
(05/22/2023)
Prof. Oh had an invited talk at MRS Spring in San Francisco. Congratulations Hyunseok!
(04/11/2023)
Megan and Julian presented their work at the 2023 Mach conference in Johns Hopkins University! Congrats!
(04/07/2023)
A rainy week did not stop the extended Taşan group to have a fantastic time at TMS2023! It was great catching up with everyone…see you next year!
(03/23/2023)
Berk received the prestigious Acta Undergraduate Scolarship at TMS2023 based on his 6 months internship in the Taşan lab under the supervision of Jiyun and Cem! Congratulations from all of us!
(03/22/2023)
The Taşan group having a very busy week at TMS2023! Great talks from all the group members!
(03/20/2023)
Julian delivered an conference talk on High Strength High-Damping Steels
(01/10/2023)
DMSE alumni visit Cem’s 3.013 (Mechanics of Materials) to talk about how they use what they learned at as undergrads in the workplace
(12/15/2022)
Cem gave invited talks at his PhD alma mater TU/e in the Netherlands, as well as in the M2i Annual Conference.
(12/13/2022)
Talk by Michela on Hydrogen Embrittlement @Alloy and Microstructure Design Workshop –
(12/02/2022)
Alloy and Microstructure Design Workshop 2022: Hydrogen Embrittlement Resistance
(12/02/2022)
Congratulations Michela! for receiving Gallery of Fluid Motion video award from APS Division of Fluid Dynamics! (link)
(11/28/2022)
In Tenure Talk, Cem shares the big challenges and little pleasures of his tenure time at MIT. Check out his lecture! (link)
(10/05/2022)
The Taşan lab has three new graduate students joining us in Fall 2022!
WELCOME: Megan, Mingwei and Parth !!!
(09/2022)
Congratulations to Yash for a very successful 6-weeks-long internship and great final presentation! All the best back at Imperial!
(08/12/2022)
Another amazing defense today from our very own Jiyun who discussed her thesis on “Microscopic Strain Localization and Damage in Multi-Phase Alloys”. Congratulations Dr. Kang!
(08/10/2022)
Heartwarming congratulations to Haxoue who defended her thesis “Beyond embrittlement: In situ explorations of hydrogen effects near boundaries”. Congratulations Dr. Yan!
(07/18/2022)
MIT School of Engineering highlights Cem’s class 3.103 Mechanics of Materials with a video! Check it out! (link)
(06/16/2022)
Celebrating our newly minted PhDs and ScDs at the MIT Advanced Degree Ceremony (we missed you Ben!). Congratulations all!
(05/26/2022)
Great news! Congratulations Cem for getting promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure!!
(05/03/2022)
Welcoming Berk, Kyung-Shik and Felicity with our tradition: competition of the offices! Hobbiton got their first win with the help of some Yellow office members 🙂 But the real winners were our UROPS Lauryn&Jasmine at The Escape Room 🙂
(04/22/2022)
Julian is officially a PhD candidate! Congrats on your succesfull TAE and best of luck for the rest of your PhD journey.
(03/19/2022)
The Taşan delegation team to TMS2022 had a busy week with 19 talks! Well done everyone!
(03/03/2022)
After 4 years of outstanding work, Shaolou successfully defended his thesis on phase transformations in metastable FCC alloys. Congratulations Dr. Wei!
(12/16/2021)
Hyunseok gave an invited talk at the 2nd World Congress on High Entropy Alloys on short-range ordering.
(12/07/2021)
Cem organized the 2nd High Entropy Alloy World Congress in Charlotte, NC! Excellent in-person turn out with 128 attendees and 88 talks over 3 days!
(12/2021)
The 2021 MIT Alloy Design Workshop was a hybrid event this year. Thanks to all that joined, in person and online!
(12/03/2021)
Congratulations Dr. Jiang! Menglei just defended her Thesis on “High-strength transformation-induced plasticity steels with reverted interlath austenite”.
(11/22/2021)
Farewell dinner for Gianluca who is going to Washington to pursue his start-up(s)! All the best and…stay sharp!
(10/2021)
New Dr. in the house! Gianluca defended his ScD Thesis on the “Failure of martensitic sharp edges”. Congratulations Dr. Roscioli!
(10/13/2021)
Jackie successfully defended her PhD thesis on the “Design of Superelastic Secondary Phase Toughened Alloys”. Congratulations Dr. Cho!
(08/30/2021)
All good things must come to an end…so we had to say goodbye to Jinwoo, but we did it in style! Best of luck for your future career at KIST!
(08/2021)
It’s official! Congratulations to Shaolou for winning the 2020 Acta Students Award!
Check out his paper here.
(08/2021)
Congratulations to Hyunseok for winning the Best Oral Award in his symposium at the 2021 MRS Spring!
(06/2021)
Congratulations to Maria and Tim for getting their Masters! We will miss you! Have fun with batteries and submarines!
(05/28/2021)
Tim – here with his favorite slide and his favorite people 😉 – is ready to be an engineering duty officer! Congratulations on completing your MS!
(05/24/2021)
Maria successfully presented her thesis and completed her Master in Material Science with flying colors! Congrats Maria! Time to electrify the world 😉
(04/30/2021)
Speakers announced for the Alloy Design Workshop 2021! More info here.
(03/22/2021)
Dylan wins IOM3 Royal Charter Prize Highly Commended. Read more. Congratulations Dylan!
(02/09/2021)
Farewell Ben! We will miss you!
(01/2021)
Dr. Benjamin Cameron, the coolest Dr in town, finished his Ph.D. today with an excellent thesis and several creative papers. We will miss you Ben! We are sure GeorgiaTech will be just as much fun.
(01/2021)
Thanks to all that joined the 2020 MIT Alloy Design Workshop. Thanks to Zoom, we had eight speakers and over 200 participants from across the globe!
(12/2020)
Cem is the chair of the organization committee of the 2nd World Congress on High Entropy Alloys (HEA2020), which is now accepting abstracts.
(11/2020)
Shaolou’s recent paper on ductile RHEA’s is highlighted in Science! News link.
(10/16/2020)
Shaolou’s recent work on refractory high-entropy alloy was published in Nature Materials! Take a closer look here
(10/2020)
Our alloy design team has just become more orderly: We welcome LT Timothy Fountain and ENS Daniel Moriarty!
(09/2020)
Gianluca’s work is recently published in Science. Check out the coverage on these new findings on MIT News and NPR.
(08/2020)
The Tasan group had a busy week at TMS2020 with 14 talks.
(02/2020)
Shaolou & Jinwoo were great in 2019, not only due to their individual achievements, but also because of their never-ending support to other members of the group. So, they were chosen to represent the Tasan Group at 76’s-Celtics game. Let’s go Celtics!
(02/2020)
The 2019 MIT Alloy Design Workshop was filled with thoughtful insights and discussions. Thanks to all those who joined!
(12/2019)
The Alloy Design Workshop that our group organizes every year was highlighted in the MIT DMSE News LINK
(12/2019)
Cem has received TMS Early Career Fellow Award! Congratulations Cem!
(11/2019)
Haoxue received the MIT Chyn Duog Shiah Memorial Fellowship. Congratulations Haoxue!
(10/2019)
Artificial muscle research that Jinwoo contributed is published in Science. See the MIT News article: LINK
(07/2019)
Sabrina just graduated from MIT. Thanks Sabrina for the stellar UROP project and good luck in California.
(06/2019)
Shao-shi passed his Ph.D thesis defense in Tsinghua University. Congratulations Shaoshi.
(06/2019)
Jinwoo’s research is highlighted in Energy Futures: LINK and MIT News: LINK
(06/2019)
Celebrating Shaolou’s Acta publication.
(02/2019)
Haoxue and Jiyun’s successful TAE’s Celebration.
(02/2019)
Menglei just passed her qualification exams in MechE. Congratulations!
(01/2019)
Tasan group was at MS&T 2018 with 8 talks.
(10/2018)
Cem in the seminar on designing fatigue-resistant steels and resettable alloys for Materials Day at MIT.
(10/2018)
A new BBC article on self-healing materials, with Cem’s comments on self-healing metals: LINK
(09/19/2018)
What are the challenges in making HEAs competitive? A brand new report is out with key insights to manufacturing challenges: LINK Cem was a member of the steering committee that organized this effort.
(09/19/2018)
Cem in EU-talk-tour: Imperial College, Oxford, Thermec…
(2018)
Our group’s work on resettable metals was highlighted in the last issue of Spectrum: LINK
(2018)
Our group’s research is highlighted by a video prepared by Lillie Paquette and DMSE! MOVIE
(06/14/2018)
Shaolou Wei was awarded the “Exceptional 1st Year Performance Award” by MIT DCGS.
(06/2018)
Congratulations Menglei for getting your master degree.
(06/2018)
Matt, congrats on your Bachelor’s degree.
(06/2018)
Mohadeseh’s correspondence just got published online in Nature Communications!
(05/2018)
All three of our 1st year grad students passed their quals.
(05/2018)
Cem was interviewed by KPCC and Bloomberg after the recent engine failure during the Southwest flight, where he discussed the causes and possible solutions.
News from across the Atlantic: Dr M.T. Taşan-Kok (Cem’s sister) has been appointed Full Professor of Urban Governance and Planning at University of Amsterdam, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences. Congratulations!
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On March 15th, 2018, Cem will give an invited lecture in the Materials Science & Engineering Department of University of California, Berkeley.
(03/2018)
Atieh was invited to give a talk in MS&T 2018. “Small-scale Properties of Materials and Length-scale Phenomena”.
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Cem gave an invited lecture in Politecnico Milano on opportunities in metals additive manufacturing.
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Tasan group had four exciting talks at TMS 2018.
(03/2018)
Prof. Tasan won the 2018 Young Investigator Awards, Congrats! See the full list of award winners here!
(2018)
Collaboration with SNCF! Tasan Group and French National Railway Corporation (SNCF) started a new collaboration to develop improved coatings and alloys for railway applications.
(2018)
Haoxue won 1st place in Materials Images Contest at MIT DMSE. Titled: “Every hydrogen has a silver lining”.
(02/2018)
Ben won 3rd place in Materials Images Contest at DMSE. Titled: “Triple chocolate chip cookies under tension”.
(02/2018)
Congrats Jackie for passing the Thesis Area Examination!
(02/2018)
Congratulations Gianluca for passing your TAE!
(02/2018)
Congratulations dear Jackie for getting your master degree.
(06/2017)
Congratulations Ben for passing your qualification exam!
(05/2017)