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Experience

2015-present
Principal Engineer - Machine Learning LeapYear Technologies, Berkeley, CA
2013-2015

Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Physics, UC Davis

2014-2015

Research Competition Participant Kaggle.com

2007-2013

Graduate Student Researcher Department of Physics, UC Davis

2010-2012

Associate Instructor Department of Physics, UC Davis

2005-2012

Teaching Assistant Department of Physics, UC Davis

2008-2009

Assistant Public Relations Officer Graduate Student Association, UC Davis

Education

2013

Ph. D., Physics The University of California, Davis, CA, USA

Thesis title: Theoretical Models of Spintronic Materials

Supervisor: C. Y. Fong

2006
M. S., Physics The University of California, Davis, CA, USA
2004

B. S., Physics California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

Minor: Mathematics

Monographs

2015
Recent Progress in Silicon–based Spintronic Materials L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong and L. H. Yang, World Scientific, ISBN 978-981-4635-99-8.

Publications in refereed journals

2017
Two prospective Li-based half-Heusler alloys for spintronic applications based on structural stability and spin–orbit effect R. L. Zhang, L. Damewood, Y. J. Zeng, H. Z. Xing, C. Y. Fong, L. H. Yang, R. W. Peng and C. Felser, submitted.
2015
Stabilizing and increasing the magnetic moment of half-metals: The role of Li in half-Heusler LiMnZ (Z = N, P, Si) L. Damewood, B. Busemeyer, M. Shaughnessy, C. Y. Fong, L. H. Yang and C. Felser, Phys. Rev. B 91 064409.

Spintronic properties of Li1.5Mn0.5Z (Z=As, Sb) compounds in the Cu2Sb structure L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong, B. M. Klein, L. H. Yang and C. Felser, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 377, 411.

Structural and electronic properties of half-Heusler alloys PtXBi (with X=Mn, Fe, Co and Ni) calculated from first principles W. Huang, X. Wang, X. Chen, W. Lu, L. Damewood and C. Y. Fong, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 377, 252.

2013
Electronic and magnetic properties of Li1.5Mn0.5As alloys in the Cu2Sb structure C. Y. Fong, L. Damewood, L. H. Yang, and C. Felser, Advanced Materials Research 702, 231.

Structuaral variants and the modified Slater-Pauling curve for transition-metal-based half-Heusler alloys M. Shaughnessy, L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong, L. H. Yang, and C. Felser, Journal of Applied Physics 113, 043709.

Half-metallic Hole-doped Mn/Si Trilayers L. H. Yang, M. Shaughnessy, L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong, and K. Liu, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 46, 165502.

Theory, Experiment and Computation of Half Metals for Spintronics: Recent Progress in Si-based Materials C. Y. Fong, M. Shaughnessy, L. Damewood, L. H. Yang, Nanoscale Systems MMTA 2012 0001.

2011
Local field effects in half-metals: A GW study of zincblende CrAs, MnAs, and MnC L. Damewood and C. Y. Fong, Phys. Rev. B 83 113102.

Memory and Spin Injection Devices Involving Half Metals M. Shaughnessy, R. Snow, L. Damewood, and C. Y. Fong, Journal of Nanomaterials 2011, 140805.

Other publications

2004
Rotationally invariant random Hamiltonians L. Damewood. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA.

Presentations

2013
Bonding, magnetic properties and stability of the half-Heusler alloys LiMnZ (Z=N, P, Si) L. Damewood, B. Busemeyer, C. Y. Fong, M. Shaughnessy, American Physical Society, APS March Meeting, Baltimore, MD.
2010
GW study of the local field effect in half-metallic CrAs L. Damewood, C. Y. Fong, American Physical Society, APS March Meeting, Portland, OR.
2009
GW study of the half-metallic band gap of zinc-blende CrAs L. Damewood, CA Section of the American Physics Society, Annual Meeting of the CA Section of the APS, Monterey, CA.

Awards and Memberships

2012-2013
The Ryan Coach Memorial Fund recipient, UC Davis, CA
2007-2008
Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellowship recipient, U. S. Department of Education
2005
Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (AGEP) summer
research program scholarship, UC Davis, CA

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