Building on Georgia Tech’s Leadership in Materials Innovation Infrastructure, MD3 will facilitate exploration of open source and commercial data science methods within the materials innovation ecosystem based on 3 key pillars.

Data Analytics

  • Filtering
  • Data fusion
  • Uncertainty analyses
  • Statistical analyses
  • Dimensionality reduction
  • Pattern recognition
  • Regression analysis
  • Machine learning
  • Statistical learning

Data Management

  • Capture
  • Storage
  • Aggregation
  • Sharing Protocols
  • Knowledge databases

E-Collaboration

  • Utilize open source and open access data/code repositories
  • Facilitate cross-disciplinary team discussions and annotations of intermediate results
  • Manage workflows and identify best practices
  • Decision support for future investments with high ROI
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MD3 Goals

R&D in data science and informatics via:

  • Integrated projects making use of existing and emergent state-of-the-art best practices and methods, tailored to your needs
  • Methods to accelerate process development with data-driven decision support
  • Strategies to identify and organize important materials data and accumulated knowledge, including important electronic metadata in materials development
  • Accelerated qualification procedures for vendors and the supply chain

 

Preparing the 21st century workforce for accelerated materials design, development and deployment through:

  • Low entry cost opportunity to familiarize and train your current employees in MD3
  • Increased exposure of your organization to modern data science tools and e-collaboration platforms for materials discovery and development
  • Networking with domain experts at the nexus of materials science, manufacturing, data science, and high throughput methods, including commercial data services vendors; closer linkage of OEMs and their supply chains

MD3 Projects

Accelerated Materials Discovery

Wired Brain

Projects related to preliminary data and design of materials accelerated via data informatics.

 

Data-Driven Discovery of Polymeric Material for 3D Printing

Architects: H. Jerry Qi, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering​; Rampi Ramprasad, School of Material Science and Engineering

High-throughput Computational Catalyst Screening

Architects: Andrew J. Medford, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Materials Informatics & Machine Learning

Architects: Rampi Ramprasad, School of Material Science and Engineering

 

Accelerated Materials Development & Deployment

 

Projects related to real-world deployment of specialized materials accelerated via data informatics.
 

Data CenterEstablishing Processing-Structure-Properties (PSP) Linkages Using Tensor Analysis

Architects: Richard W. Neu, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering; Kamran Paynabar, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Expert-Guided MD3 Systems

Architects: J. C. Lu, Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Elsa Reichmanis, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Martha Grover, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Sequential Experimental Design

Architects:J. C. Lu, Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Martha Grover, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Dennis Hess, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Multi-Physics Multi-Scale Model to Predict Corrosion Behavior of Dissimilar Material Joints

Architects: Preet M. Singh, School of Materials Science and Engineering

Autonomous Explorations in Materials Innovations

Architects: Surya R. Kalidindi, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering​; Ali Khosravani, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering 

ELA: Experiments and Laboratory Automation Platform

Architects: Surya R. Kalidindi, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering​; ​Ali Khosravani, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering

High-Throughput Rapid Screening of Materials Design Space

 

Projects related to testing life-cycle resiliency homogeneous production of specialized materials accelerated via data informatics.

MetamaterialAdaptive Catalyst Testing and Optimization

Architects: Andrew J. Medford, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Autonomous Functionalization of Natural Fibers for Advanced Materials

Architects: Carson Meredith, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Coupled Machine Learning and High Throughput Development of Polymer Blends

Architects: Carson Meredith, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Elsa Reichmanis, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering; Martha Grover, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

High Throughput Electrochemical Tests for General and Localized Corrosion

Architects: Preet M. Singh, School of Materials Science and Engineering

High-Throughput Experimental Assays to Assess Creep Properties

Architects: Richard W. Neu, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering; Surya R. Kalidindi, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering

High-Throughput Experimental Assays for High Cycle Fatigue

Architects: Richard W. Neu, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Materials Science and Engineering

High-Throughput Melt-Based Polymer Screening

Architects: Carson Meredith, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

High Throughput Experimental Assays for Structural Materials

Architects: Surya R. Kalidindi, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering, School of Computational Science and Engineering​; Rick Neu, GWW School of Mechanical Engineering