College of Engineering News • Iowa State University

Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering chosen for Alexander von Humboldt Research Award

Rajan’s research in big data earns international recognition Krishna Rajan has pioneered the new and emerging field of materials informatics, which involves the application of statistical learning and informatics techniques to a broad range of materials science problems. Rajan, who holds joint appointments in the materials science department and the bioinformatics and computational biology program, …Continue reading “Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering chosen for Alexander von Humboldt Research Award”

Researcher urges new approach for discovering materials

Krishna Rajan of Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory thinks there’s more to materials informatics than plotting a thick cloud of colorful data points. As he sees it, managing computing tools to discover new materials involves harnessing the key characteristics of data: volume, velocity, variety and veracity (the four V’s). Lately, though, “the focus …Continue reading “Researcher urges new approach for discovering materials”

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