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Ismaila Dabo is a Professor at CMU-Africa and the Director of Strategic Graduate Initiatives at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a Ph.D. in Materials Science Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and both B.S. and M.S. degrees from École Polytechnique in France. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, he was a tenured Associate Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Department of Physics at Penn State University, where he held joint appointments in the Penn State Institutes of Energy and the Environment and the Penn State Materials Research Institute. His research focuses on developing and applying predictive computational models and machine-learning methods to maximize the performance of materials for energy conversion and storage. His work stands at the frontier of materials science, condensed matter physics, applied mathematics, and computer science, with the ultimate goal of addressing the complexities of materials problems to guide the development of energy technologies. Dabo has received several awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Wilson Teaching Excellence Award, the Montgomery-Mitchell Teaching Innovation Award, and the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Award.
Admission is extremely competitive with no strict GPA cut-offs; holistic review is used.