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Full list on Google Scholar. H. Zheng denotes the author of this page.

2025
1
AskHPC: A ChatBot for High Performance Computing User Support
A. Bondapalli, H. Zheng, O. T. Ajayi, M. Keceli, et al.
SC’25 Workshops, 2025 📚 1
An LLM-powered chatbot built on RAG over ALCF documentation answers HPC user queries about system usage, job scheduling, and software debugging with high accuracy.
2
AERIS: Argonne Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions
V. Hatanpää, E. Ku, J. Stock, M. Emani, S. Foreman, H. Zheng, et al.
arXiv:2509.13523, 2025 📚 8
AERIS is an AI-augmented earth system model trained on Aurora that delivers skillful climate predictions by combining physics-based simulation with large-scale deep learning.
3
Aurora: Architecting Argonne's First Exascale Supercomputer for Accelerated Scientific Discovery
B. S. Allen, J. Anchell, V. Anisimov, T. Applencourt, H. Zheng, et al.
arXiv:2509.08207, 2025 📚 8
A comprehensive architecture description of Aurora, Argonne's Intel-GPU exascale system, covering the hardware design, software stack, and early science results across multiple domains.
4
Large language models for batteries
W. Zuo, H. Zheng, T. He, V. Vishwanath, M. K. Y. Chan, R. L. Stevens, K. Amine, et al.
Joule 9(8), 2025 📚 20
LLMs can reason over electrochemical literature to autonomously propose, evaluate, and prioritize battery material hypotheses, suggesting a new role for AI in accelerating energy storage research.
5
HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for Scientific Insights
O. Gokdemir, C. Siebenschuh, A. Brace, A. Wells, H. Zheng, et al.
PASC Conference, pp. 1–13, 2025 📚 19
HiPerRAG achieves high-throughput scientific document retrieval by co-designing the retrieval pipeline with HPC storage, enabling exascale-grade RAG for large scientific corpora.
6
HDF5 in the exascale era: Delivering efficient and scalable parallel I/O for exascale applications
M. S. Breitenfeld, H. Tang, H. Zheng, J. Henderson, S. Byna
International Journal of HPC Applications 39(1), 2025 📚 6
A survey of HDF5 advancements — async I/O, Cache VOL, subfiling, and new VOL plugins — that collectively deliver efficient, scalable parallel I/O for the exascale era.
2024
7
Copper: Cooperative Caching Layer for Scalable Data Loading in Exascale Supercomputers
N. Lewis, K. Velusamy, K. Harms, H. Zheng
SC24-W Workshops, 2024 📚 3
Copper coordinates node-local storage caching across all nodes of an exascale job to eliminate redundant data loads and saturate GPU compute with training data.
8
MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization
G. Dharuman, K. Hippe, A. Brace, S. Foreman, H. Zheng, et al.
SC24, 2024 📚 17
We scale multimodal protein design beyond ExaFLOPS by combining Direct Preference Optimization with efficient data pipelines on the Frontier supercomputer.
9
DFTracer: An Analysis-Friendly Data Flow Tracer for AI-Driven Workflows
H. Devarajan, L. Pottier, K. Velusamy, H. Zheng, et al.
SC24, 2024 📚 12
DFTracer captures I/O and compute events across the full AI training stack with near-zero overhead, enabling detailed bottleneck diagnosis in complex multi-node workflows.
10
Physics-inspired spatiotemporal-graph AI ensemble for detection of higher order wave mode signals of spinning binary black hole mergers
M. Tian, E. A. Huerta, H. Zheng, P. Kumar
Machine Learning: Science and Technology 5(2):025056, 2024 📚 7
A physics-informed graph neural network ensemble detects higher-order gravitational wave modes from spinning black hole mergers, extending sensitivity beyond what standard matched filtering achieves.
11
h5bench: A unified benchmark suite for evaluating HDF5 I/O performance on pre-exascale platforms
J. L. Bez, H. Tang, S. Breitenfeld, H. Zheng, W. K. Liao, et al.
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, e8046, 2024 📚 6
h5bench provides a flexible, reproducible suite of HDF5 I/O micro-benchmarks covering a wide range of access patterns and VOL configurations for pre-exascale and exascale evaluation.
2023
12
Imaging 3D Chemistry at 1 nm Resolution with Fused Multi-Modal Electron Tomography
J. Schwartz, Z. W. Di, Y. Jiang, J. Manassa, H. Zheng, et al.
arXiv:2304.12259, 2023 📚 27
Fusing complementary electron tomography modalities yields 3D chemical maps at 1 nm resolution, opening new pathways for understanding catalysts, batteries, and nanostructured materials.
13
Physics-inspired spatiotemporal-graph AI ensemble for gravitational wave detection
M. Tian, E. A. Huerta, H. Zheng
arXiv:2306.15728, 2023 📚 4
A graph AI ensemble incorporating physical priors achieves real-time gravitational wave detection competitive with Bayesian matched filtering at a fraction of the computational cost.
2022
14
Real-time 3D analysis during electron tomography using tomviz
J. Schwartz, R. Harris, J. Pietryga, H. Zheng, P. Kumar, A. Visheratina, et al.
Nature Communications 13, 4458, 2022 📚 67
Real-time 3D tomographic reconstruction during live electron microscopy enables mid-experiment decision-making at near-atomic resolution, fundamentally changing how materials experiments are conducted.
15
HDF5 Cache VOL: Efficient and Scalable Parallel I/O through Caching Data on Node-local Storage
H. Zheng, V. Vishwanath, Q. Koziol, H. Tang, J. Ravi, J. Mainzer, S. Byna
IEEE CCGrid, 2022 📚 21
A transparent HDF5 plugin stages writes and prefetches reads on node-local NVMe SSDs, delivering up to 10× I/O speedup for checkpoint-intensive applications with zero code changes.
16
Inference-optimized AI and high performance computing for gravitational wave detection at scale
P. Chaturvedi, A. Khan, M. Tian, E. A. Huerta, H. Zheng
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence 5:828672, 2022 📚 39
Inference-optimized deep learning on HPC systems achieves real-time gravitational wave detection throughput, enabling continuous monitoring of LIGO data at production scale.
17
Interpretable AI forecasting for numerical relativity waveforms of quasi-circular, spinning, non-precessing binary black hole mergers
A. Khan, E. A. Huerta, H. Zheng
Physical Review D 105:024024, 2022 📚 27
An interpretable deep learning model accurately predicts numerical relativity waveforms for spinning binary black holes, providing both high fidelity and physical insight into which features matter most.
18
Stimulus: Accelerate Data Management for Scientific AI Applications in HPC
H. Devarajan, A. Kougkas, H. Zheng, V. Vishwanath, X. H. Sun
IEEE CCGrid, 2022 📚 7
Stimulus co-designs data staging and prefetching with the HPC storage hierarchy to eliminate I/O bottlenecks in multi-stage scientific AI pipelines.
2021
19
DLIO: A Data-Centric Benchmark for Scientific Deep Learning Applications
H. Devarajan, H. Zheng, A. Kougkas, X. H. Sun, V. Vishwanath
IEEE/ACM CCGrid, 2021 📚 54
DLIO faithfully reproduces the I/O patterns of scientific deep learning workloads, giving storage vendors and HPC centers a reproducible, configurable tool for measuring AI storage performance.
2020
20
Dynamic compressed sensing for real-time tomographic reconstruction
J. Schwartz, H. Zheng, M. Hanwell, Z. H. Jiang, R. Hovden
Ultramicroscopy 219:113122, 2020 📚 12
Dynamic compressed sensing adapts the measurement basis during a live electron tomography experiment, achieving accurate 3D reconstruction from far fewer projections than conventional methods.
21
Performance Portability Evaluation of OpenCL Benchmarks across Intel and NVIDIA Platforms
M. Bertoni, J. Kwack, T. Applencourt, Y. Ghadar, B. Homerding, J. Knight, H. Zheng, et al.
IEEE IPDPS Workshops, 2020 📚 32
A systematic OpenCL portability evaluation across Intel and NVIDIA GPU architectures reveals which benchmark categories achieve near-native performance and where vendor-specific tuning remains necessary.
2019
22
Dielectric dependent hybrid functionals for heterogeneous materials
H. Zheng, M. Govoni, G. Galli
Physical Review Materials 3:073803, 2019 📚 80
A position-dependent hybrid functional adapts exchange mixing to the local dielectric environment in heterogeneous systems, achieving GW-level band-gap accuracy at DFT computational cost.
23
Deep learning at scale for the construction of galaxy catalogs in the Dark Energy Survey
A. Khan, E. A. Huerta, S. Wang, R. Gruendl, E. Jennings, H. Zheng
Physics Letters B 795:248–258, 2019 📚 66
Deep learning galaxy classification scales to 2,048 GPUs on Blue Waters, enabling petabyte-scale Dark Energy Survey catalog construction without expensive human labeling.
24
Roofline-based Performance Efficiency of HPC Benchmarks and Applications on Current Generation Processor Architectures
J. Kwack, T. Applencourt, M. Bertoni, Y. Ghadar, H. Zheng, J. Knight, et al.
Cray User Group Workshop, 2019 📚 8
Roofline analysis of leading HPC benchmarks across KNL and GPU architectures identifies which applications are memory-bound vs. compute-bound and guides optimization priorities.
2018
25
From real materials to model Hamiltonians with density matrix downfolding
H. Zheng, H. J. Changlani, K. T. Williams, B. Busemeyer, L. K. Wagner
Frontiers in Physics 6:43, 2018 📚 53
Density matrix downfolding extracts effective low-energy model Hamiltonians directly from QMC wavefunctions, bridging ab initio many-body theory and model Hamiltonian physics.
26
Erratum: Computation of the Correlated Metal-Insulator Transition in Vanadium Dioxide from First Principles
H. Zheng, L. K. Wagner
Physical Review Letters 120:059901, 2018 📚 3
2017
27
Importance of sigma-bonding electrons for the accurate description of electron correlation in graphene
H. Zheng, C. K. Gan, P. Abbamonte, L. K. Wagner
Physical Review Letters 119:166402, 2017 📚 10
QMC calculations reveal that σ-bonding electrons make a critical and previously underestimated contribution to electron correlation energy in graphene, with implications for low-energy effective theories.
2015
28
Computation of the correlated metal-insulator transition in vanadium dioxide from first principles
H. Zheng, L. K. Wagner
Physical Review Letters 114:176401, 2015 📚 180
Quantum Monte Carlo resolves the longstanding debate on the VO₂ metal-insulator transition, showing that strong correlation — not structural distortion alone — drives the phase change.
29
Density-matrix based determination of low-energy model Hamiltonians from ab initio wavefunctions
H. J. Changlani, H. Zheng, L. K. Wagner
Journal of Chemical Physics 143(10), 2015 📚 48
A systematic density-matrix downfolding framework extracts effective model Hamiltonians from ab initio many-body wavefunctions, providing a rigorous route from first-principles to correlated lattice models.
2011
30
Dirac cones induced by accidental degeneracy in photonic crystals and zero-refractive-index materials ⭐ Highly Cited
X. Huang, Y. Lai, Z. H. Hang, H. Zheng, C. T. Chan
Nature Materials 10:582–586, 2011 📚 1,160
Dirac cones can be engineered in 2D photonic crystals through accidental degeneracy, enabling near-zero-refractive-index materials with cone-shaped dispersion analogous to graphene.
31
Sizable electromagnetic forces in parallel-plate metallic cavity
J. Wang, M. K. Ng, J. Liu, H. Zheng, Z. H. Hang, C. T. Chan
Physical Review B 84:075114, 2011 📚 37
Engineered electromagnetic modes in a metallic cavity produce macroscopically sizable forces between plates, demonstrating a pathway to optomechanical actuation at microwave frequencies.
32
Metamaterial slab as a lens, a cloak, or an intermediate
J. F. Dong, H. Zheng, Y. Lai, J. Wang, C. T. Chan
Physical Review B 83:115124, 2011 📚 33
A unified framework shows that a metamaterial slab can continuously transition between perfect-lens imaging and electromagnetic cloaking by tuning its constitutive parameters.
2010
33
Exterior optical cloaking and illusions by using active sources: A boundary element perspective
H. Zheng, J. Xiao, Y. Lai, C. T. Chan
Physical Review B 81:195116, 2010 📚 61
Active exterior cloaking devices designed via boundary element methods can hide objects from external electromagnetic observation while the objects remain freely accessible, unlike passive shell cloaks.
34
Manipulating sources using transformation optics with 'folded geometry'
Y. Lai, H. Zheng, Z. Q. Zhang, C. T. Chan
Journal of Optics 13:024009, 2010 📚 24
Folded-geometry transformation optics provides a general strategy for relocating, multiplying, or illusion-converting electromagnetic sources using anisotropic metamaterial shells.

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