User:DerekE9831/Trevor David Rhone

Trevor David Rhone is a Jamaican-born physicist and researcher, who is currently an Assistant Professor of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute School of Science. He is known for his research into the discovery of novel two-dimensional magnetic materials by leveraging artificial intelligence.

Early life and education
Rhone was born in Kingston, Jamaica to the actor and playwright of the same name, Trevor Rhone and his wife Camella King. King was Rhone's proponent of education in Jamaica's female-dominated academic community. His sister is the filmmaker Traci Rhone.

Rhone completed his undergraduate studies at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He received his Ph.D from Columbia University. He credits his passion and interest in physics to his time in high school, at Campion College in Jamaica.

Career
Rhone spent several years conducting research in Japan at the NTT Basic Research Laboratories. While working at Japan's National Institute for Materials Science, he transitioned to the field of material informatics research. He continued his efforts in this field during a brief stint as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University.

Rhone has specialized in creating variations of chromium telluride in high magnetic fields. He accelerated the experimental process of creating new material by training artificial intelligence to simulate materials and structures, through the use of the laboratory AI assistant, Atoma. Through this process he is able to quickly screen materials for different applications. This has resulted in new applications for 2D materials.

His research in this field has led to the discovery of novel materials which can potentially be used to enhance several technologies, including quantum computing. Nature recognized his paper on two-dimensional magnetic materials as being one of the top 100 downloaded papers in the field of material science in 2020.

In 2024 Rhone was selected by the Research Corporation for Scientific Advancement to be a Scialog Fellow as a part of the Automating Chemical Laboratories section.

Awards and achievements
As announced by U.S. Congressman Paul D. Tonko, Rhone was award an NSF CAREER Award in 2021 from the U.S. National Science Foundation to support his research into Van der Waals materials.

The Joseph A. Johnson award for excellence which celebrates ingenuity and mentorship was awarded to Rhone in 2022 by the AIP and NSPB.

He received a BRL Director Award for his research at NTT Laboratories in Japan.

Selected publications

 * COMBO: An efficient Bayesian optimization library for materials science
 * Systematic search for two-dimensional ferromagnetic materials
 * Observation of magnetophonon resonance of Dirac fermions in graphite
 * Rapid collapse of spin waves in nonuniform phases of the second Landau level
 * NMR profiling of quantum electron solids in high magnetic fields
 * Data-driven studies of magnetic two-dimensional materials
 * Artificial Intelligence Guided Studies of van der Waals Magnets