EDUCATION

Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Ph.D. in Computational Quantum Physics, July 2012

Dissertation: Complex Oxides as Novel Transparent Conductors

Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

M.S. in Engineering Management, May 2011

Emphasis: Global project management and financial engineering

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Materials Informatics & Machine Learning, Big Data Analytics for Materials Research
• 2D materials and their heterostructures for energy applications and devices
• Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells
• Quantum electron transport in nanoscale sensors and devices
• Density functional theory, molecular dynamics, non-equilibrium Green’s function method
• Electronic, optical, structural, and transport properties of novel materials from first-principles
• Defects and defect complexes in multicomponent transparent conducting oxides
• High-performance and high-throughput computing, scientific programming and data analysis
• Technological innovations, project management, financial engineering, numerical methods

WORK/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

• DARPA – Wafer Scale Infrared Detectors (WIRED) project
• Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Alloys
• Machine Learning & Materials Informatics in Materials Science

• Quantum electron transport in nanoscale sensors and devices
• Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite solar cells
• Novel two-dimensional materials for energy applications and devices
• Transport properties of tunable molecular diodes and junctions
• High-performance computing, data analysis

• Support the group with the utilization of Supercomputers (Blue Gene & Cray XC40) and Linux Clusters
• Systems administration of high-end Linux workstations for research computing
• Assist compilation and installation of scientific codes and applications on workstations and supercomputers
• Manage and ensure routine storage, backup, and restoration of research data
• Oversee and manage group computing assets, maintain database, and administer group website

• Novel transparent conductors for practical energy applications and technologies
• Structural, electronic, and optical properties of complex multicomponent oxides such as InGaZnO4
• Extrinsic and native defects in complex transparent conducting oxides
• State-of-the-art ab-initio computational methods based on density functional theory
• Simulations on massively parallel high-performance XSEDE supercomputers

• Project management plans,  Complex case studies, Global project management
• Financial engineering, Theory and practice of investment, Financial markets, Investment banking
• Researched on Fortune 500 companies,  Managing technological innovations,  New ventures

• Electronic properties of strained ZnS/CdS superlattices
• Dynamic phases of low-temperature low-current driven vortex matter in superconductors
• Tight-binding method, Molecular dynamics simulations

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

COMPUTATIONAL SKILLS

• Ab-initio Computational Methods: FLAPW, VASP, LMTO, Dmol3, Quantum ESPRESSO and SIESTA
• High-performance Supercomputers: Shaheen at KAUST; Ranger, Lonestar and Kraken at  XSEDE
• Operating systems: Linux, Unix, Windows, Mac OSX
• Programming languages: Fortran, Python, Shell, Java, LaTeX
• Materials Visualization: CrystalMaker, Xmgrace, Xcrysden, JMOL, VESTA, Materials Studio
• Scientific Computing: MATLAB, Mathematica, MathCad and OriginPro
• Web and Graphics: Php5, MySQL, HTML, All Adobe CS 5.5 packages
• Microsoft Software: MS Office Suite, MS Project

AWARDS & GRANTS

• Awarded highly competitive participation grant – Materials for Energy Applications: Experiment, Modeling and Simulations Conference, Los Angeles, CA. USA (2011)
• Awarded competitive travel grant – 15th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods, Trieste, Italy (2011)
• Schearer Prize for Graduate Research – Missouri S&T, Department of Physics (2008)
• Graduate Research Poster Award – Missouri S&T, Department of Physics (2008)
• UAE President’s Gold Medal Award – UAE University (2007)
• Outstanding academic performance award – UAE University (2003-2005)
• Mongolian President’s Scholarship Award – UAE University (2002-2007)

PUBLICATIONS

Altynbek Murat, Masahiko Matsubara, Binh-Minh Nguyen, and Enrico Bellotti

Electronic Properties of Low-Σ Grain Boundaries in InAs

Physical Review Materials, 2, 123604 (2018)

Chieh-Szu Huang, Altynbek Murat, Vasudeo Babar, Enrique Montes, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Adsorption of the Gas Molecules NH₃, NO, NO₂, and CO on Borophene

 J. Phys. Chem. C. 122, 26, 14665 (2018)

Joshua Obodo, Altynbek Murat, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Quantum transport through tunable molecular diodes

Scientific Reports 7, 7324 (2017)

Altynbek Murat, Ivan Rungger, Stefano Sanvito, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Mechanism of H2O induced conductance changes in AuCl4 functionalized CNTs

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 119, 9568-9573 (2015)

Altynbek Murat, Ivan Rungger, Chengjun Jin, Stefano Sanvito, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Origin of the p-Type Character of AuCl3 Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 118, 3319-3323 (2014)

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

Native point defects in multicomponent transparent conducting oxides

MRS Proc, 1633, 37-42  (2014)

Altynbek Murat, Alexander U. Adler, Thomas O. Mason, and Julia E. Medvedeva

Carrier generation in multicomponent wide-bandgap oxides: InGaZnO4

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135, 5685-5692 (2013)

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

Composition-dependent oxygen vacancy formation in multicomponent wide-band-gap oxides

Physical Review B, 86, 085123 (2012).

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

Electronic properties of layered multicomponent wide-band-gap oxides: A combinatorial approach

Physical Review  B,  85, 155101 (2012)

Nacir Tit and Altynbek Murat

Strain-Induced Band-Mixing Effects in ZnS/CdS (001) Superlattices

International Journal of Modern Physics B., 22 1997-2008 (2008)

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & POSTERS

Altynbek Murat, Masahiko Matsubara, and Enrico Bellotti

First-principles Investigation of Grain Boundaries in InAs

MRS Fall Meeting 2017. Boston, MA, USA (Nov 29, 2017)

Altynbek Murat, Masahiko Matsubara, Binh-Minh Nguyen, and Enrico Bellotti

Modeling of Grain Boundaries in InAs

The II-VI Workshop, Chicago, IL, USA (Nov 1, 2017)

Altynbek Murat and Udo Schwingenschlögl

The Effect of Water on the Conductivity of Gas Sensors

KAUST-NSF International Conference, KAUST, KSA (March 16, 2016)

Altynbek Murat, Ivan Rungger, Stefano Sanvito, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Mechanism of H2O induced conductance changes in AuCl4functionalized CNTs

Psi-k 2015 Conference, San Sebastian, Spain (September 6-10, 2015)

Altynbek Murat, Ivan Rungger, Stefano Sanvito, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Mechanism of H2O induced conductance changes in AuCl4functionalized CNTs

APS March Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA (March 2-6, 2015)

Altynbek Murat and Udo Schwingenschlögl

First-principles investigations of lead-free formamidinium based hybrid perovskites

APS March Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA (March 2-6, 2015)

Altynbek Murat, Ivan Rungger, Stefano Sanvito, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

AuCl4functionalized carbon nanotubes: origin of the p-type doping

APS March Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA (March 2-6, 2015)

Tobechukwu Joshua, Altynbek Murat, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

A single diblock molecular diode

APS March Meeting, San Antonio, TX, USA (March 2-6, 2015)

Altynbek Murat and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Mechanism of H2O adsorption on the conductance of functionalized CNTs

Applied Functional Materials Chemistry Conference, KAUST, KSA (October 27, 2014)

Altynbek Murat

Carrier Generation in Complex Transparent Conductors: First-Principles Investigations (invited talk)

International Workshop on Nanomaterials and Advanced Energy Storage Systems

Nazarbayev University, Astana, KZ (Sept 9, 2014)

Altynbek Murat and Udo Schwingenschlögl

First-principles investigations of nanoscale sensors based on functionalized carbon nanotubes

4th Annual KICP Research Symposium, KAUST, KSA. April 29, 2014

Altynbek Murat, I. Rungger, S. Sanvito, and U. Schwingenschlögl

Transport calculations for functionalized carbon nanotubes.

MRS Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA, USA. April 24, 2014

Altynbek Murat, I. Rungger, S. Sanvito, and U. Schwingenschlögl

Origin of the p-type character of AuCl3functionalized CNTs

MRS Spring Meeting. San Francisco, CA, USA. April 22, 2014

Altynbek Murat, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Functionalized carbon nanotubes: Origin of p-type doping

KAUST-Sydney Conference. KAUST, KSA. April 12, 2014

Altynbek Murat, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

Functionalized carbon nanotubes: a first-principles perspective

Global Collaborative Research (GCR) Symposium. KAUST, KSA. March 27, 2014

Altynbek Murat, and Udo Schwingenschlögl

P-type conductivity of AuCl3functionalized CNTs

KAUST-NSF Conference on Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems for Sustainable Future.

KAUST, KSA. Feb 8-10, 2014

Julia E. Medvedeva and Altynbek Murat

Carrier Generation and Stability of Multicomponent Wide-Bandgap Oxides.

MRS Fall Meeting, Boston, MA, USA. 2013

Altynbek Murat

Complex oxides as novel transparent conductors (invited talk)

UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Feb 21, 2013

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

Investigation of defects in complex transparent conducting oxides

Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO, USA. 2012

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

First-principles investigations of transparent conducting oxides with tunable properties

Materials for Energy Applications: Experiment, Modeling and Simulations, Los Angeles, CA. USA. 2011

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

Ab-initio investigations of complex oxides

APS March Meeting, Dallas, TX. USA. 2011

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

Systematic first-principles investigations of multicomponent main group metal oxides

MRS Fall Meeting. Boston, MA. USA. 2010

Altynbek Murat and Julia E. Medvedeva

Ab- initio study on structural, optical, and electronic properties of fluorine doped oxides

Missouri S&T. Rolla, MO. USA. 2008

WORKSHOPS & TRAININGS ATTENDED

• KSL Workshop Towards High Efficiency Computing with Allinea, KAUST, KSA, October 4, 2015
• XSEDE HPC Workshop: MPI, Remotely Hosted,  September 3-4, 2015
• Shaheen II Cray XC40 High Performance Supercomputing Workshop, KAUST, KSA, June 7-11, 2015
• Intel High Performance Computing Workshop, KAUST, KSA, March 24, 2015
• Workshop on Functional Nanomaterials: Design, Synthesis and Applications (Nano 2015), KAUST, KSA, March 15-17, 2015
• The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) & MEDEA Workshop, KAUST, KSA, March 11-12, 2015
• Workshop on Functional Materials, KAUST, KSA, March 4-5, 2015
• International Workshop on Spin-Orbit Torque 2015, KAUST, KSA, February 26-28, 2015
• Second KAUST-NVIDIA Workshop on Accelerating Scientific Applications Using GPUs, KAUST, KSA, February 17, 2015
• KAUST-NSF Research Conference on Electronic Materials, Devices and Systems for A Sustainable Future, KAUST, KSA, February 14-16, 2015
• KAUST Solar Future 2014 Meeting, KAUST, KSA, November 7-11, 2014
• Introduction to Maya 3D Software Workshop, Visualization Core Lab, KAUST, KSA, Mar 18,-20, 2014
• International Colloquium on Flexible Electronics and Photovoltaics, KAUST, KSA. November 3-5, 2013
• 1st International Workshop on Spin-Orbit Induced Torque, KAUST, KSA, February 24-27, 2013
• Winter Enrichment Program, KAUST, Thuwal, KSA, January 12-30, 2013
• Saudi Arabian High Performance Computing User’s Group Conference, KAUST, KSA, December 1-3, 2013
• 15th International Workshop on Computational Physics and Materials Science: Total Energy and Force Methods. Trieste, Italy (2011)
• Student Leadership Conference. Rolla, MO, USA (2008)
• UM-System Research Conference. Missouri S&T, Rolla, MO, USA (2008)
• First International Biological and Medical Physics Conference. Al-Ain, UAE (2005)
• NASA-ESA International Heliophysical Year Conference. Abu Dhabi, UAE (2005)

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• American Physical Society
• Materials Research Society
• American Society for Engineering Management
• Mendeley University Advisor

COURSEWORK