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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. 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