Publications.

Papers, preprints, datasets, and software across machine learning, materials science, and physics.

39 works

2026

Explainable machine learning reveals orbital design rules for reversible H2 adsorption on single-atom-doped TiO2 nanoparticles

Mustafa Kurban , Can Polat , Erchin Serpedin , Hasan Kurban · Materials & Design Journal article

Explainable ML over high-throughput electronic-structure calculations for molecular H₂ adsorption on single-atom-doped TiO₂ nanoparticles — 30 dopants across perpendicular and parallel geometries. A three-stage feature selection plus symbolic regression distills an interpretable model governed by H–H activation, dopant–H₂ distance, and π-electron rearrangement, yielding a mechanism-based screening rule that flags Group 4 and 5 transition metals as the most robust dopants for reversible hydrogen storage.

2026

Descriptor-guided thermodynamic screening of H₂ adsorption on single-atom-doped anatase TiO₂ nanoparticles with interpretable machine learning

Mustafa Kurban , Can Polat , Erchin Serpedin , Hasan Kurban · Scientific Reports Journal article

A descriptor-guided thermodynamic screen of H₂ adsorption on single-atom-doped anatase TiO₂ nanoparticles — DFTB + conceptual DFT descriptors + symbolic regression with leave-one-out cross-validation. Identifies a compact electrophilicity-family expression as the most generalizing structure–property law in a small-data regime, and flags Nb and Zr as the best-balanced dopants for reversible hydrogen storage.

2025

QuantumShellNet: Ground-state eigenvalue prediction of materials using electronic shell structures and fermionic properties via convolutions

Can Polat , Hasan Kurban , Mustafa Kurban · Computational Materials Science Journal article

An equivariant convolutional network that predicts ground-state eigenvalues of materials directly from electronic shell structures. Outperforms DFT for the same regime at a fraction of the compute, and beats modern neural-wavefunction baselines like PsiFormer and FermiNet on our benchmark.

2025

xChemAgents: Agentic AI for Explainable Quantum Chemistry

Can Polat , Mehmet Tunçel , Mustafa Kurban , Erchin Serpedin , Hasan Kurban · ICML 2025 — MAS: Multi-Agent Systems in the Era of Foundation Models workshop Conference / workshop

An agentic AI system for explainable quantum chemistry — tools and reasoning glued together so a model can answer chemistry questions with reproducible steps rather than confident guesses.