This year's Erich Bloch Symposium will be held virtually, June 7-8, 2021. Renowned leaders and experts from a wide variety of areas will share their approach to developing data-driven discoveries and innovation in different disciplines.

Our faculty and scholars focus on cutting-edge research and innovative educational strategies to identify and accelerate solutions that address a broad range of societal issues.

By harnessing information and data science tools to advance knowledge discovery, our interdisciplinary team is establishing a new paradigm for materials science research.

Our unique educational programs, the only degrees of their kind, take materials science to the next level. We provide students with a data intensive perspective of materials science and engineering that is integrated with a strong foundation in informatics.

We forge critical partnerships with community groups and non-governmental organizations to ensure our research and educational activities have the greatest impact on a broad range of areas such as health, climate change, and energy sustainability.

Our department is working across diverse disciplines to address a broad range of social problems, bringing data science methods to bear on materials science questions.

Learn more about our Data-driven Materials Design REU, where undergraduate students work with our faculty to integrate data-driven science techniques with the design of novel materials.