David L. McDowell
Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin
Institute for Materials, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 404-894-5128; and email david.mcdowell@me.gatech.edu.
McDowell is a Regents’ Professor and Carter N. Paden Jr. Distinguished Chair in Metals Processing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He has also directed the Institute for Materials since 2012. He joined Georgia Tech in 1983. His research interests include constitutive relations and microstructure-sensitive multiscale computational approaches to deformation and damage of heterogeneous materials. McDowell is co-editor of the International Journal of Fatigue, member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Plasticity and Nature Computational Materials, and a Fellow of ASME, ASM, SES, and AAM.
Richard A. LeSar
Guest Editor for this issue of MRS Bulletin
Iowa State University, USA; tel. 515-294-1841; and email lesar@iastate.edu.
LeSar is a professor in materials science and engineering at Iowa State University. Prior to this, he was a staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests include materials theory, modeling, and simulation, dislocation-based plasticity, multiscale design, and microstructural evolution. He currently serves as a principal editor of MRS Communications and associate editor of Annual Reviews of Materials Research. LeSar is the author of the textbook Introduction to Computational Materials Science.
Aleksandr L. Blekh
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 404-385-2709; and email aleksandr.blekh@gatech.edu.
Blekh is a research scientist II in the MINED Research Group at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and leads Georgia Tech’s development of MATIN, an e-collaboration and scientific research platform for materials science innovation. He obtained his PhD degree in information systems from Nova Southeastern University. He has more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry and academic research. Blekh’s research interests include complex sociotechnical systems, knowledge management, data science, software engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Scott Broderick
Department of Materials Design and Innovation, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA; email scottbro@buffalo.edu.
Broderick is a research assistant professor in the newly founded Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He received his PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Iowa State University in 2009. Broderick’s research focuses on the advancement and application of materials informatics techniques for accelerating the design of new materials, and the integration of informatics and data science with atom probe tomography, combinatorial experimentation, and electronic-structure calculations.
David B. Brough
School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 404-894-2000; and email david.brough@gatech.edu.
Brough is a doctoral candidate in the School of Computational Science and Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His current research focuses on creating data science tools and protocols to optimize and learn structure–processing relationships. Brough is also a trainee in the National Science Foundation’s Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship FLAMEL program, and is one of the lead developers of the PyMKS materials informatics toolkit.
Carelyn E. Campbell
Material Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; tel. 301-975-6146; and email carelyn.campbell@nist.gov.
Campbell is a group leader of the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group in the Materials Science and Engineering Division in the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. She earned her PhD degree in materials science and engineering from Northwestern University in 1997. Campbell’s research is focused on diffusion in multicomponent multiphase systems and the development of data and informatics tools for phase-based data.
Ahmet Cecen
School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 267-586-4505; and email ahmetcecen@gatech.edu.
Cecen is a doctoral candidate in computational science and engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at Drexel University. He has been conducting research in the fields of computational materials science and materials informatics for the past seven years. Cecen’s current research focuses on leveraging statistical analysis and machine learning tools to solve big data analytics problems in materials science.
Faical Yannick P. Congo
Material Measurement Laboratory, Materials Science and Engineering Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; tel. 301-975-6146; and email faical.congo@nist.gov.
Congo is an international associate with the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group in the Materials Science and Engineering Division in the Material Measurement Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is also a doctoral candidate in computer science at the Blaise Pascal University, France. His research interests include scientific investigations reproducibility, interoperability between scientific computing environments, and sustainable software engineering.
Marc Geers
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; tel. +31-40-2475076; and email m.g.d.geers@tue.nl.
Geers is a full professor in mechanics of materials at Eindhoven University of Technology’s Department of Mechanical Engineering since 2000. He obtained his MSc degree in Belgium and his PhD degree in The Netherlands. His research interests include the field of micromechanics, multiscale mechanics, and damage mechanics. He has published over 200 journal papers and contributions in proceedings or books. He is an associate editor of the European Journal of Mechanics A/Solids and a member of the Euromech Council. Geers is a Fellow of the European Mechanics Society and the International Association for Computational Mechanics, and received a European Research Council Advanced Grant in 2013.
Surya R. Kalidindi
George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; tel. 404-385-2886; and email surya.kalidindi@me.gatech.edu.
Kalidindi is a professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). He earned a PhD degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992. His research focuses on the fields of crystal plasticity, microstructure design, spherical nanoindentation, and materials informatics. Kalidindi is a Fellow of ASME, ASM International, TMS, and Alpha Sigma Mu.
Shengyen Li
National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; tel. 301-975-6146; and email Shengyen.Li@nist.gov.
Li is a guest researcher in the Thermodynamics and Kinetics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. Li’s research focuses on the integration of computational material engineering infrastructure to support material design.
Bryce Meredig
Citrine Informatics, USA; tel. 919-600-2598; and email bryce@citrine.io.
Meredig is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Citrine Informatics. His goal is to build software that enables every materials researcher to harness the world’s entire corpus of materials data to accelerate their work. He earned a PhD degree in materials science from Northwestern University, a MBA degree from Stanford University, and a BAS degree in materials science and German from Stanford University. In addition to his role at Citrine, he is a consulting assistant professor of materials science at Stanford University.
Kyle Jay Michel
Citrine Informatics, USA; email kyle@citrine.io.
Michel is Chief Technology Officer and a co-founder of Citrine Informatics, where he leads technical development, including schema design and tooling around the physical information file. Prior to working at Citrine, Michel received a PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles and spent several years as a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University.
Krishna Rajan
Department of Materials Design and Innovation, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA; tel. 716-645-1380; and email krajan3@buffalo.edu.
Rajan is the Empire Innovation Professor and the inaugural Eric Bloch Chair of the newly founded Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He received the 2015 Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for his work in pioneering the field of materials informatics linking the fields of data science with materials science. Rajan is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Materials Discovery.
Olga Wodo
Department of Materials Design and Innovation, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, USA; tel. 716-645-1377; and email olgawodo@buffalo.edu.
Wodo is an assistant professor in the Department of Materials Design and Innovation at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Prior to this, she was a postdoctoral fellow at Iowa State University. She received her PhD degree in mechanical engineering in 2008 from Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland. Wodo’s research interests focus on in silico studies of the interfacial and morphological phenomena in engineered and natural heterogeneous systems with application to energy, nanotechnology, and biomedical engineering.
Julien Yvonnet
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée, France; tel. +33160957795; and email julien.yvonnet@univ-paris-est.fr.
Yvonnet is a full professor in mechanics at the Université of Paris-Est since 2010. He received his MSc and PhD degrees from Arts et Métiers ParisTech (formerly École Nationale Supérieure d’Arts et Métiers), France. He is a Fellow at Institut Universitaire de France since 2013. His research interests include multiscale mechanical and multiphysics modeling of heterogeneous complex materials, surface effects, continuum modeling of nanostructures, and crack modeling. Yvonnet has authored approximately 60 journal papers, and is the recipient of the 2014 European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences O.C. Zienkiewicz Award for Young Scientists in Computational Engineering Sciences.
