Kristin A. Persson
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
The Era of Data-Driven Materials Innovation and Design
Fueled by our ability to compute properties and characteristics orders of magnitude faster than they can be measured and recent advancements in harnessing literature data, the materials science field is entering the era of the fourth paradigm of science: data-driven materials design. As part of the Materials Genome Initiative, the Materials Project was founded in 2010 at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory to accelerate materials design using supercomputing and a sophisticated software infrastructure together with state-of-the-art quantum mechanical theory. The Project effort has delivered on its promise, as today - it delivers millions of computed materials data records every day to an increasingly data-hungry community. Highly curated, tested, and provenanced data is rare in the materials world, and the Materials Project has become the world-leading free resource for machine learning and accelerated materials design. This talk will outline the rise of data-driven materials design, showcase successes as well as comment on current pitfalls and future directions.
Kristin Persson is the Daniel M. Teller Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Director of the Molecular Foundry, a user facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. She is the Director
and founder of the Materials Project, a world-leading resource for materials data and design. She received the DOE Secretary of Energy’s Achievement Award
twice, the TMS Cyril Stanley Smith Award, the TMS Faculty Early Career Award, the Falling Walls Science and Innovation Management Award, the LBNL Director’s award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement and she is an AAAS Fellow and an APS Fellow.
She holds several patents in the clean energy space and has co-authored more than 270 peer-reviewed publications.