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Takeuchi, Ichiro

Takeuchi, Ichiro

Department Chair
Minta Martin Professor
Fellow, MRS
Fellow, APS
Fellow, Japan Society of Applied Physics
Materials Science and Engineering
Maryland Energy Innovation Institute
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Maryland Quantum Materials Center
1242 Jeong H. Kim Engineering Building

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park, 1996 

B.S., Caltech, 1987

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • NIST Distinguished Associate Accolade, Materials Measurement Laboratory (2021)
  • Elected International Fellow, Japan Society of Applied Physics (2020)
  • Distinguished Scholar - Teacher, University of Maryland (2018)
  • Senior Faculty Research Achievement Award, School of Engineering, University of Maryland (2018)
  • Elected APS Fellow (2011)
  • Invention of the Year Award, Physical Sciences Category, University of Maryland (2011)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan (4/2007—8/2007)
  • Fellow by Special Appointment, Japan Science and Technology Agency (2007)
  • Visiting Associate Professor, Applied Ceramics Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan (6/2004—3/2005)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2001)
  • Office of Naval Research, Young Investigator Program Award (2000)
  • Oak Ridge Associated Universities Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (2000)
  • General Research Board Semester Research Award, University of Maryland (2000)
  • Associated Western Universities Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (1996-1999)
  • National Center for Electron Microscopy Visiting Scientist Fellowship, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1999)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Physical Society
  • Materials Research Society
  • TMS

 

ENMA 460/PHYS 431 Introduction to Solid State Physics

ENMA 437/637 Machine Learning for Materials Science

ENMA 481 Electronic and Optical Materials

ENMA 465 Microprocessing

UMD Hosts Teachers for a Summer of Sustainable Cooling Research

From data centers to dehumidifiers, two local educators research cooling technologies with the help of UMD students.

Engineering safer, more sustainable AI for all

We are equally focused on what AI can achieve and the infrastructure required to achieve it.

UMD Breakthrough Named Amongst Physics World’s Top 10 of the Year

Yichao Zhang's highest-resolution atomic imaging technique selected for the honor. 

Wachsman named Materials Research Society Fellow

MRS honors lifetime contribution to energy technologies

UMD Researchers Develop New Performance Metric to Optimize Elastocaloric Cooling Systems

Thermal utilization ratio could accelerate research in this groundbreaking solid-state cooling technology.

UMD-Led Team Wins Major NSF Grant to Pioneer “High-Entropy” Quantum Materials

Four-year, $2 million project brings together multiple institutions to investigate high-entropy materials.

UMD Provides "Cool" Research Experience for Two School Teachers

During a steamy summer, two educators collaborate with UMD researchers on new dehumidification technologies.

Ichiro Takeuchi Named Chair of Materials Science and Engineering

The professor will oversee the #24 MSE undergraduate program in the nation with $26.6 million in research expenditures.

Maryland Engineers Design Photonic Hardware for Next-Generation Data Storage

MSE researchers leverage phase-change materials to build a photonic memory device published in Nature Communications.

Eminent Scholar in Metallurgy To Join Clark School as Distinguished Chair

The new faculty member will join Materials Science and Engineering in 2025.

Maryland Engineering and Partners Win $26M to Develop Better HVACR Systems and Fight Climate Change

Clark School faculty and partners join prestigious U.S. National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center.

Maryland Public Television Highlights UMD Research on Groundbreaking Cooling Technology

Researchers are developing an innovative, climate-friendly solution

Elastocalorics named 1 of 10 emerging technologies addressing global challenges

The World Economic Forum lists most impactful technologies

Ichiro Takeuchi Elected Fellow of the Materials Research Society

The professor becomes the second in the department to earn this lifetime distinction.

LEGOLAS participates at U.S. Senate Robotics Showcase on Capitol Hill

UMD engineers demonstrate their autonomous robot science kit

Reflecting on 20 Years of Excellence and Innovation

Materials Science and Engineering celebrated its anniversary on November 7, 2023.

Crank Up the AC, Not Global Warming

Maryland engineers advance heating and cooling technology to push for a greener future

Ten Maryland MSE Faculty Members Ranked in Top 2% of World Scientists

Elsevier releases updated science-wide database

UMD and NIST develop LEGO-based robots for teaching artificial intelligence

LEGOLAS kit offers autonomous experimentation and learning

Materials, physics, and systems for multicaloric cooling

UMD’s Ichiro Takeuchi published in Nature Reviews Materials

10 Maryland MSE Faculty Members Ranked in Top 2% of World Scientists

Report prepared by Stanford University experts.

ARL to Fund $30M in Equipment Innovations for Service Members

UMD announces with the U.S. Army Research Lab agreements in additive manufacturing and battery research.

Ichiro Takeuchi Named Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics

The JSAP Fellow International Award recognizes significant contributions of scientists who reside outside of Japan.

MSE Ph.D. Candidate Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

Dylan Kirsch, on track to complete his Ph.D. in 2022, is focused on high-performing thermoelectrics.

UMD receives two new DOE Building Technologies awards

Takeuchi and Aute to lead projects 

MSE Ranked #23 by U.S. News and World Report

UMD’s Materials Science and Engineering Department hits #23 in U.S. graduate school rankings – its highest ranking yet.

Additive Manufacturing and Ni-Ti Metal Bolster Cooling Technology

UMD’s Ichiro Takeuchi and team published in Science.

UMD Hosts 4th Annual Machine Learning Bootcamp and Workshop

Hosted by the Clark School in the Kim Engineering Building August 5 - 9, 2019.

Perfect Quantum Portal Emerges at Exotic Interface

A junction between an ordinary metal and a special kind of superconductor has provided a robust platform to observe Klein tunneling.

Algorithms and Autonomous Discovery

Professor Ichiro Takeuchi uses machine learning to help develop new magnetic materials.

UMD Research Team Develops Compact Solid State Cooling Technology

Device will have broad application, from cooling laptops to treating epilepsy.

New Fuel Cell has Exceptional Power Density and Stability

Discovery presents a significant step toward lower fuel cell costs and more sustainable energy.

Catalini and Leininger win 2017 GDF-Suez Chuck Edwards Memorial Fellowships

Fellowships of $25,000 each help fund the students’ research.

UMD has Largest University Showing at 2016 ARPA-E Summit

UMD researchers showcase transformative energy research at ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

UMERC Researchers Came Out in Force at the ARPA-E Summit

UMERC Faculty promoted their transformative energy research last week at the ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit

DOE Report Considers Potential of Thermoelastic Cooling

Technology developed in the Clark School could power more efficient air conditioning.

Save the Date: NanoDay, June 11 -- Poster Session, Plenaries, EM Workshops and More

Registration and poster abstract submission will open soon

NanoCenter Members Present Papers at Upcoming APS Meeting in Baltimore

Largest physics meeting hosts more than twenty NanoCenter presentations  

University of Maryland Wins ARPA-E Grant for Groundbreaking Energy Research

Professor Takeuchi and Wuttig received a $500,000 grant from DOE.

Takeuchi, Multi-University Group Lead Materials Research

Departments of Defense, Energy fund $15M "combi" studies on superconductors, magnets.

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