{"243281":{"#nid":"243281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Georgia Tech Exploits Big Data to Accelerate Materials Design, Manufacture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech has been awarded $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to start a program that will train a new type of data scientist capable of creating advanced materials and bringing them to market at a fraction of the time it now takes, typically 15 to 20 years.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia Tech will develop technologies to accelerate the design and manufacture of high performance materials for applications - ranging from fuel-efficient vehicles to emerging technologies such as 3D printing \u2013 through the new graduate training program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe goal of this program is to employ advances in \u2018big data\u2019 and information technology to significantly reduce the timelines now required for new materials to be created and incorporated into commercial products,\u201d said School of Computational Science and Engineering Chair and Regents\u2019 Professor Richard Fujimoto, the principal investigator for the grant.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe program will be transformational in bringing \u2018big data\u2019 researchers together with materials scientists, engineers, and mathematicians to quantify the microstructures that comprise materials and develop new algorithms and software for their design,\u201d said Fujimoto, who leads Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe new Georgia Tech program includes a focus on entrepreneurship to enable graduate trainees to transform technical innovations into commercial products and services. Called FLAMEL - From Learning, Analytics, and Materials to Entrepreneurship and Leadership, the program references 15\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E-century alchemist Nicolas Flamel, known as the creator of the philosopher\u2019s stone, a substance purported to transform materials into gold.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe hope to boost the United States\u2019 competitiveness in an evolving global marketplace by enabling our engineers and scientists to explore the potential commercialization of their ideas and inventions,\u201d\u0026nbsp;says Terry Blum, a co-investigator of the program and the founding director of Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFLAMEL is aligned with the federal Materials Genome Initiative, focused on cutting the development time for advanced materials in half and reducing their costs. FLAMEL will leverage Georgia Tech\u2019s recent investment in MatIN, a cyberinfrastructure platform designed to enable rapid interdisciplinary collaboration in materials development and manufacture. MatIN is being currently developed as a joint collaboration between Georgia Tech\u2019s Institute for Materials (IMat), Institute for Data and High Performance Computing (IDH), Office of Information Technology (OIT), and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECentral to the program will be an emerging area known as materials informatics, which aims to develop new approaches to materials design and manufacturing using data analytics combined with modeling and simulation, according to Surya Kalidindi, program co-deputy director, and member of the IMat Innovation support team.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOther members of the Georgia Tech team include co-investigator Wendy Newstetter, a learning scientist and leader in the development and use of problem-based learning methods; and co-deputy director Hongyuan Zha, an expert in \u201cbig data\u201d algorithms and software.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWhile the emphasis will be on doctoral students, the program is designed to create a pipeline for workforce development that includes a broadened participation of women and minority students. The five-year program will provide funding for 24 doctoral trainees but is expected to create educational opportunities that will impact hundreds of Georgia Tech students in the years ahead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor application materials or more information about the FLAMEL program, visit flamel.gatech.edu or contact program coordinator Holly Rush at \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:holly@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eholly@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe computationally focused training grant is funded through NSF\u2019s Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) program, award number DGE-1258425. Any opinions or conclusions expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Georgia Tech has been awarded $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation to start a program that will train a new type of data scientist capable of creating advanced materials and bringing them to market at a fraction of the time it now takes."}],"uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2013-10-08 09:28:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:14:53","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-08T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"113131":{"id":"113131","type":"image","title":"Richard Fujimoto","body":null,"created":"1449178226","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:30:26","changed":"1475894731","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:45:31","alt":"Richard Fujimoto","file":{"fid":"194173","name":"fujimoto-headshot-web-04.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fujimoto-headshot-web-04_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/fujimoto-headshot-web-04_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":99581,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/fujimoto-headshot-web-04_0.jpg?itok=5pd-MAnL"}}},"media_ids":["113131"],"groups":[{"id":"1304","name":"High Performance Computing (HPC)"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"}],"keywords":[{"id":"15092","name":"big data"},{"id":"11561","name":"IDH"},{"id":"1692","name":"materials"},{"id":"25461","name":"Richard Fujimoto"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39471","name":"Materials"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoshua Preston\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jpreston@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejpreston@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jpreston@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}