Information-directed approaches to Materials Discovery
Turab Lookman
AiMaterials Research LLC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA 87501
ABSTRACT: There has been considerable interest in the use of methods from data science as applied to the discovery of materials. The Materials Genome Initiative dates back to 2011, and my own research in this area started in 2012-2013 when I led a LANL research effort focused on studying how well we could employ information directed approaches towards finding new materials with targeted properties. Many of the advances over the last eight years in this field have been surveyed by multiple authors in numerous reviews. I will therefore here focus on the motivation of some my own work performed with my collaborators, and review some of the recent advances in the literature and discuss future challenges.
Turab Lookman obtained his Ph.D. from Kings College, University of London, and held university appointments at Western University and the University of Toronto in Canada until 1999. He was until recently a Laboratory Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory and currently runs his own company. His interests and expertise lie in hard and soft materials science and condensed matter physics, applied mathematics, and computational methods.