Shyue-Ping Ong

Shyue Ping Ong

Profile

Ong is one of the world’s leading experts in materials informatics – the interdisciplinary application of materials science, data science and artificial intelligence to the study and design of materials. His work has led to the discoveries of novel energy storage and energy efficient materials as well as provided deep insights into the fundamental relationships between structure and materials properties. He was a recipient of the Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program Award and the Office of Naval Research’s Young Investigator Program Award. He has published over 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals. Ong is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of NanoEngineering at the University of California, San Diego. He leads the Materials Virtual Lab. He is a founding developer of the Materials Project and the Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen) materials library.

Education

PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2011

Research

Ong’s current research aims to bring about a revolutionary leap in the conduct of materials science through a combination of high-throughput first principles calculations and machine learning. Specifically, his Materials Virtual Lab targets three key bottlenecks in materials science: (1) predicting the properties of materials accurately and efficiently; (2) enabling large-scale, long-time simulations of complex materials and interfaces; and (3) achieving superhuman performance in interpretation of materials characterization. Through the application of AI techniques on large materials datasets, his research has led to the discoveries of novel materials for rechargeable alkali-ion batteries and LED phosphors. Ong is also a firm advocate of open data and software for democratized and reproducible materials science.

Links

Materials Virtual Lab