Rohini Priya Sankaran profile

Rohini Priya Sankaran

Materials Scientist

PLS / Msd / Materials Science Division

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Biography

Research Interests

Physical metallurgist and Transmission Electron Microscopist (TEM) with specialization in advanced characterization techniques and analysis, including

  • 4D-STEM strain mapping and automated crystallographic orientation mapping (ACOM)
  • in-situ TEM nanomechnical testing
  • computational electron microscopy
    • multislice electron microscopy simulations
    • contributing to open source electron microscopy python packages (py4DSTEM)
    • custom TEM-EDS quantification
  • advanced image and data analysis
    • custom computer vision (CV) algorithms for high-throughput analysis
    • integration of ML into acquisition and analysis workflows along with conventional CV

Career Path
4 years at Intel Corp. as a Physical Failure R&D Analyst. Received an Innovator Award (2018) and awarded two invention disclosures on 3DXP technology.
3 years at LLNL as a staff scientist in the metallurgy and advanced microscopy group, LLNL

Subject Matter Expertise: Uranium and Titanium alloys, Transmission Electron Microscopy; advanced data analysis and code development utilizing computer vision in MATLAB/python.

Education

  • Ph.D. Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2015
  • M.S .Materials Science and Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, 2012
  • B.S. Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, 2008

Publications

Awards

  • WPD Award, LLNL (2023)

  • Outstanding Reviewer Award,Acta Materialia (2018)