{"526091":{"#nid":"526091","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Building an emergent materials informatics community at GT","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMSE Professor Surya Kalidindi has a dream \u2013 to build an emergent materials informatics community at GT as a national model. Working towards this goal, he thought that a series of hackathon type of events (now referred to as data challenges) might be beneficial for building a strong materials informatics community around existing pools of material science, manufacturing science, and data science researchers. It could not only involve Georgia Tech, he thought, but other institutions and organizations as well. The most recent event was held April 9 and was sponsored by the Institute for Materials\u003Csup\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003Eand FLAMEL Traineeship Program.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe idea dovetailed with another of Kalidindi\u2019s priorities, which was building from the ground up a new cyber-ecosystem for materials innovation \u2014IDEAS:MD\u003Csup\u003E3\u003C\/sup\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIDEAS:MD\u003Csup\u003E3\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/sup\u003Eis designed to promote and conduct research, development, and testing in materials data science and informatics that will lead to new and improved methods to accelerate materials design, development, and deployment (MD3) and to disseminate information and knowledge regarding these capabilities through research projects, conferences, workshops and publications. Emphasis is placed on workforce development in materials data science and informatics, and integration within the materials innovation ecosystem.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe are looking at a three-prong collaboration to prepare for this century\u2019s materials for manufacture \u2014 academia, industry and national laboratories,\u201d said Kalidindi. \u201cThere is a niche there that we have the unique expertise to fill. We have the awareness of the tools and methods, the ability to integrate data science with computational modeling (high throughput) and managing and tailoring workflows, among other strengths.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe see these events as taking our abilities beyond the abstract, the pure idea and into the real world, where we solve challenges and find opportunities that others may not see. We believe this is just the beginning.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EShowcasing capabilities to potential industry partners is a key goal where the emphasis is placed on the value of working with Georgia Tech to prepare the 21\u003Csup\u003Est\u003C\/sup\u003E century workforce for accelerated materials design, development and deployment. This includes a vast array of areas including e-collaboration platforms and closer linkage of OEMs and their supply chains to R\u0026amp;D in data science and informatics via data-driven decision support and identifying and organizing important electronic metadata in materials development.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, building on previous and ongoing fruitful collaboration between GT and ASM International, materials informatics-focused data challenges would be a good opportunity for both GT and ASM to market their expertise and resources. This data challenge revolved around SMDDP \u2013 one of ASM\u2019s materials open databases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProblem formulation and documentation was led by Kalidindi and Professor David L. McDowell, as well as Jud Ready, Brooke Beckert, Andrew Medford, Soumya Mohan and Aleksandr Blekh.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJudges were Larry Berardinis and Afina Lupulescu (ASM) and Beverly Wright (Business Analytics Center at GT Sheller College of Business). Mentors included Andrew Medford, Dipen Patel, Ali Khosravani, Noah Paulson, Fred Hohman, Alicia Rossi and Tony Fast.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event self-organized into the following teams The Iron Dragons (Axel-Jose Munoz, Christine Palmer and David Freiberg: \u003Cem\u003EDrexel University\u003C\/em\u003E); JAM (Jenna Kwon, Almambet Iskakov, Marie Dekou: \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E); and The Yellow Jackets (David Montes, Andrew Castillo, Xinyi Gong: \u003Cem\u003EGeorgia Tech\u003C\/em\u003E)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGrand Prize Winner for the challenge was The Iron Dragons. Special Mention categories and winners included:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EAccuracy of the solution\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003Euse of material science domain knowledge\u003C\/em\u003E: The Iron Dragons\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003EComprehensiveness of the solution\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003Ecreativity of the idea\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;and \u003Cem\u003Eeconomical aspect\u003C\/em\u003E: JAM\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETeamwork\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003Epresentation quality\u003C\/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003Euse of big data\u003C\/em\u003E: Yellow Jackets\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThis event was a true community-building experience, which has sparked many discussions amongst teams, mentors, industry, professional society people alike,\u201d said Blekh, a research scientist with ME and one of two lead organizers of the challenge. \u201cSuch events have a significant potential of higher success in context of community building, if streamlined, scaled and expanded to include more people from various universities and organizations.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMohan, a ME Postdoctoral Fellow and organizer, added, \u201cWe hope events such as this challenge can foster more discussion in regard to the materials informatics field among the students, faculty and industry experts.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Data Challenge showcases capabilities and opportunities"}],"field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Surya Kalidindi wants to build an emergent materials informatics community at Georia Tech"}],"uid":"32022","created_gmt":"2016-04-18 10:36:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:21:21","author":"Farlenthia Walker","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2016-04-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"526041":{"id":"526041","type":"image","title":"Building an emergent materials informatics community at GT","body":null,"created":"1461074400","gmt_created":"2016-04-19 14:00:00","changed":"1475895298","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:58","alt":"Building an emergent materials informatics community at GT","file":{"fid":"205509","name":"ideas-april_2016_hackathon.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ideas-april_2016_hackathon.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ideas-april_2016_hackathon.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":86157,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ideas-april_2016_hackathon.jpg?itok=FYTFyQdC"}}},"media_ids":["526041"],"groups":[{"id":"217141","name":"Georgia Tech Materials Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"133","name":"Special Events and Guest Speakers"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"}],"keywords":[],"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\u003EKelly B. 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