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Penghao Xiao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science at Dalhousie University. He specializes in long-time scale dynamics, density functional theory, battery materials, electrochemical catalysis, and alloy oxidation/corrosion. Dr. Xiao conducts research focused on atomistic kinetics, materials energy sustainability, synthesis, operation, and degradation. His work involves methodology development, particularly in saddle point search algorithms, off-lattice models, density function theory (DFT)-informed kinetic Monte Carlo methods, and lattice models. He employs machine learning techniques to accelerate existing data analysis. With a strong educational background, he earned his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin and has postdoctoral experience at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.