Caltech Ph.D. work
Pai Buabthong completed a Ph.D. in materials science at the California Institute of Technology in June 2021, with a minor in computer science, and an M.S. in materials science there in June 2018. From September 2015 to June 2021, Pai was a Ph.D. research assistant at Caltech.
One line of work, with Prof. Nathan S. Lewis, was on surface energetics and defects of protective coatings for photoelectrochemical solar fuel devices. It covered ALD TiO2 and corrosion of GaAs, InP, and Si.
The other line, with Prof. Zachary Ross, was synthetic broadband seismic wave generation using generative adversarial networks (GANs), including a GAN model for generating broadband seismic waveforms for earthquake engineering.