Harold Washington Professor, ECE and CS Department, Northwestern University. US.

“Accelerating Materials Discovery and Design using AI“

Abstract

How can AI help accelerate knowledge discoveries and exploration of design spaces. An example of this is learning from data to build predictive models that can enable exploration of scientific questions without relying upon underlying theory or even domain knowledge. Another example is the acceleration of so called the “inverse problems” which explore the design space based on desired properties. For example, can AI learn basic chemistry from data? Or how can AI replace or reduce the need for expensive simulations or experiments to perform discoveries quickly or evaluate a feasible design space? This talk will present some learnings that address some of the questions above using various materials design and discovery examples.

Bio

Dr. Alok Choudhary is Harold Washington Professor in the ECE and CS departments at Northwestern University. He was the founder, chairman and chief scientist of 4C insights, a big data analytics and marketing technology software company (4C was recently acquired by MediaOcean). He received the National Science Foundation’s Young Investigator Award in 1993. He is a fellow of IEEE, ACM and AAAS. He has published more than 400 papers in various journals and conferences and has graduated 45+ PhD students, including more than 10 women PhDs.

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