Artificial Intelligence for Materials Development and Optimization

Following the Fall 2018 Meeting of the Center for Dielectrics on Saturday, October 13, 2018, from 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Greg Mulholland of Citrine Informatics will give a seminar on the latest technology in artificial intelligence.  The tutorial will take place in the SAS Building on the campus of North Carolina State University in Room, 2229 – 2311 Stinson Drive, Raleigh NC, 27607.

Nearly every field of business and science is hearing about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. In this workshop, Greg Mulholland, CEO of Citrine Informatics, will introduce the current state of the art for Artificial Intelligence in the development of new materials and optimization of known materials and process. Topics covered will include:

• why materials science has different challenges from most AI applications, how those challenges are being addressed today, and how they could be addressed in the future
• how AI can effectively fit into a materials development workflow as a powerful tool alongside traditional and high-throughput experimental and computational methods
• how to create, understand, and critically evaluate AI models on materials and chemicals data
• the role data plays in AI, and how to organize and structure data such that ML can be used most effectively

This workshop is intended to be an interactive introduction to a complicated topic, so a substantial effort will be made to directly address questions and topics of interest raised by attendees.

Greg Mulholland is a co-founder and CEO of Citrine Informatics. He works with partners along the materials value chain to use state of the art data science techniques to identify areas of improvement and optimization in advanced materials discovery and production. He is an internationally recognized materials technology leader with invitations to speak at global conferences on 6 continents, chaired a session entitled “Big Data and AI for Materials Efficiency” at the 2018 World Materials Forum, was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2017, a member of the World Economic Forum Future of Production Working Group, was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2015. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, an MPhil in Materials Science from Cambridge University, and Bachelors of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NC State University where he was a Park Scholar.