AI Assisted Design and Discovery of Advanced Materials
A talk covering recent activities concerning the development of a suite of interoperable tools that allow the identification of novel materials and routes to making them. Including:
• AI for Materials Discovery - tools that aim to accelerate materials discovery by using in-silico, machine-aided processes;
• AI for Data Extraction - methods capable of processing large quantities of disparate and inconsistently-structured data;
• AI for Data Generation – mitigating data holes and gaps derived from unstructured sources creating a lack of features for prediction of novel compounds/molecules;
• AI for Characterisation - methods that are capable of characterising energetic materials from lab-scale samples;
• AI for Synthesis - accelerating the search for synthetic routes capable of taking theoretical molecular predictions and turning them into a reality within the laboratory.
Prof. Charles Footer is the Head of Advanced Services and Products (Including Advanced Materials, Electrification and IP) at QinetiQ. He manages research and development from TRLs 1-9 across several high impact and disruptive technology areas including artificial intelligence, digital engineering, quantum materials and devices, power drive technologies, extreme environments, energy storage/harvesting systems, functional/stealth materials and coatings among a number of others. He has led the management of programmes of c. £100m including provision of a number of critical UK programmes. He has a proven track record of developing low TRL concepts into valuable and exploitable IP and future research with significant success including experience in startup, spin-out, venture capital and technology industries with a specialism for energy, defence, security and space markets. He has held the role of principle investigator on technical programmes of values totalling multiple millions of pounds across delivery teams in several countries. He supervises a number of PhD students across several disciplines, holds a PhD from University College London regarding the materials discovery of magnetodieletric materials and is a Visiting Professor at Cranfield University.
Online and in-person.
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