Center for Functional Nanomaterials Seminar

This talk presents new opportunities for accelerating material discovery and design enabled by the synergy of big data and advanced material imaging. Probing the dynamic evolution of materials and material structures in response to physical or chemical stimuli has long been desired to study and design novel materials. Recent progress in high resolution in situ electron microscopy allows direct, high magnification and realtime imaging of material structures in solution phase, capturing their evolution at high imaging speeds. These advanced imaging capabilities promise to expand the frontiers of our understanding of material and biological science as it pertains to nano- and micro-scale materials and events. By their very nature, these imaging strategies generate high resolution images at a high frame rate, streaming out a tremendous amount of image frames, and handling and analyzing big data from the high frame rate process represents a major current bottleneck for advancing fundamental materials science despite the imaging method providing the data. In this talk, I will present novel big data techniques that automate and accelerate the entire process of advanced materials imaging analysis, from raw image analysis to high-level statistical summaries of material evolution.

Dr. Chiwoo Park received B.S. in industrial engineering at Seoul National University and Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering at Texas A&M University in 2011. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering at Florida State University and a principal investigator at High Performance Material Institute. His research is data analytics for science and engineering problems, especially microscopy and manufacturing engineering. His work has been published to industrial engineering, applied statistics and computer science, being supported by the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and DOE National Labs. He recei