Current Courses
Spring 2025
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MSE 5050-016
Special Topics -
MSE 5540-002
Materials Informatics -
MSE 6590-007
Special Projects -
MSE 6640-002
Materials Informatics
Fall 2024
Summer 2024
Entrepreneurial Experience
- Materialism Podcast LLC. 01/01/2019 - present. Employees: 4.
- Electrochrome LLC. 02/01/2016 - present. Employees: 4.
- Utah Materials Research. 08/01/2015 - present. Employees: 5.
Professional Organizations
- Royal Society of Chemistry. 09/01/2022 - present. Position : Member.
- American Ceramic Society. 04/09/2014 - present. Position : Member.
- The Minerals Metals and Materials Society . 04/09/2014 - present. Position : Member.
- Materials Research Society. 07/01/2013 - present. Position : Member.
- International Thermoelectric Society. 09/09/2009 - 07/01/2015. Position : Member.
Small Group Teaching
- Dr. Sparks co-presents with Dr. Celine Varvenne a module on Fundamental Theory and Computational Modelling as part of the TMS High Entropy Alloys: Fundamentals, Alloy Design, Properties, and Potential Applications! More info at https://www.tms.org/HEAcourse2022. 11/08/2022 - 11/10/2022
- Taught a course entitled "Machine learning best practices and fundamentals for materials science" for the CMS3 Summer School on Computational Materials Science Across Scales event hosted by Texas A&M University, 8 hours per Day. 08/01/2022 - 08/05/2022
- Taught a course entitled "Machine learning best practices and fundamentals for materials science" for the CMS3 Summer School on Computational Materials Science Across Scales event hosted by Texas A&M University. 08/01/2021 - 08/05/2021
- Taught a short course entitled "Tools for Visualizing and Understanding the Structure of Crystalline Ceramics" for the American Ceramic Society. 04/01/2021 - 04/04/2021
- Taught two workshop sessions for the TMS Learning Pathways: Advanced Materials Manufacturing. The sessions are "Overview of ML, tools, frameworks, application to materials science" and "Knowledge extraction, feature engineering, best practices." . 12/01/2020 - present
- "How to effectively communicate science" University of Utah ACCESS Program. Taught every semester since Spring 2019 (2 times a year). 03/15/2019 - present
- "Machine Learning Boot Camp" University of California, Santa Barbara, Materials Research Laboratory. 02/07/2019 - 02/08/2019
- "How to create an effective scientific research poster" Office of Undergraduate Research Seminar Series. 01/17/2018 - 01/17/2018