Dr. Xia’s research focuses on understanding the complex behaviors of hierarchical materials via bottomup multiscale modeling and data-driven approaches for the design and prediction of their performance in structure/infrastructure, aerospace, energy, and bioengineering applications. Dr. Xia and his group have developed multiscale modeling tools and established innovative materials-by-design frameworks for highperformance multifunctional materials by integrating fundamental theories, multiscale modeling, computation, and experiments