Projects

Bounce House — CLI audio analysis tool that tells you what's wrong with your mix — and what to do about it.

qq — Quick question bash autocompletion.

Emmabee — A CLI tool for searching and retrieving documents from The Anarchist Library.

Pyedgeon — A Python library for creating perceptual illusion UI elements.

Langton's Ant — A cellular automaton implementation in Python.

Timescreen — A time display utility.

News Summarizer — A news article summarizer.

Note: I've changed my career trajectory to Data Science in industry. I still enjoy keeping up with the electronic structure theory calculations, and I've taken a budding interest in category theory.

Publications

• 2016: Nonlinear elastic response of strong solids: First-principles calculations of the third-order elastic constants of diamond (J. M. Winey, A. Hmiel, Y. M. Gupta, M. P. Desjarlais)
• 2016: Third-order elastic constants of diamond determined from experimental data (J. M. Winey, A. Hmiel, Y. M. Gupta)
• 2014: First-Principles Study of the Electric Field Effect on the Water-Adsorbed Rutile Titanium Dioxide Surface (Ph.D. Thesis)
• 2012: Quantum confinement and surface relaxation effects in rutile TiO2 nanowires (A. Hmiel, Y. Xue)
• 2011: Water monomer interaction with H-passivated Si nanowires from density functional theory with dispersion correction (A. Hmiel, Y. Xue)
• 2009: Shape-tunable electronic properties of monohydride and trihydride [112]-oriented Si nanowires (A. Hmiel, Y. Xue)
• 2008: Atomic, electronic, and transport properties of quasi-one-dimensional nanostructures (Y. Xue, A. Hmiel, C. Stiles)
• 2006: Spitzer Observations of Two TW Hydrae Association Brown Dwarfs (B. Riaz, J. Gizis, A. Hmiel)

Conference Talks & Posters

• 2017 — NNSA Stockpile Stewardship, Naperville, IL: Ab-Initio Molecular Dynamics Investigation of the High-Pressure High-Temperature Raman Spectra of Liquid Nitrogen
• 2016 — NNSA Stockpile Stewardship, Bethesda, MD: First-Principles Calculation of the Third-Order Elastic Constants of Diamond
• 2013 — APS March Meeting, Boston: Quantum confinement and surface relaxation in rutile TiO2 nanowires
• 2012 — APS March Meeting, Boston: Quantum confinement and surface relaxation in rutile TiO2 nanowires
• 2011 — APS March Meeting, Dallas: Water monomer interaction with H-passivated Si nanowires from density functional theory
• 2011 — Physical Electronics Conference, CNSE: First-principles study of electronic structure and water-wetting energetics of semiconducting and metal oxide nanostructures
• 2010 — APS March Meeting, Portland, OR: Shape-tunable electronic properties of H-passivated silicon nanowires
• 2010 — Nanowires 2010, Heraklion, Greece (invited): First-principles investigations on the surface processes of silicon nanowires
• 2009 — Interconnect Focus Center Meeting, Atlanta: Observation of shape-tunable electronic effect in hydrogen-passivated silicon nanowires from density functional theory
• 2009 — APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh: Shape-induced tunable electronic effect in small-diameter silicon nanowires
• 2008 — Interconnect Focus Center Meeting, Atlanta: Density functional theory simulation of hydrogen-passivated and unpassivated silicon nanowires

Awards

2010: Katherine Belz Groves Graduate Fellowship in Nanoscience

Miscellaneous

A cellular automata model for the growth of physarum polycephalum — Honors capstone, University of Delaware (2006). (A. Hmiel, E. Brooking, M. Thies)