Mathieu Bauchy

Mathieu Bauchy is an Associate Professor in the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he runs the Physics of AmoRphous and Inorganic Solids Laboratory (PARISlab). He received his undergraduate education in Physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure (France) before pursuing a Ph.D. in Condensed Matter at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France). He then joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate.

Bauchy’s research focuses on decoding the physics governing the behavior of materials by means of simulations and artificial intelligence. He received the Norbert J. Kreidl Award by the American Ceramics Society, the MDPI’s Materials Young Investigator, and the Elsevier’s Rising Star in Computational Materials Science Award. He has delivered more than 150 presentations and published more than 180 papers.

Presentation title:  Discovering the glasses of the future using artificial intelligence

Abstract: Although glass has already enabled several world-changing discoveries (telescope, microscope, optical fibers, etc.), it must be admitted that we have only scratched the surface of this unique material. Indeed, out of the 1052 glasses that are theoretically possible, only an infinitesimal fraction (about 106) has been synthesized since the dawn of time. As such, glass features a vast, largely untapped potential to enable future mankind’s greatest inventions and one can anticipate many surprises in the coming years. However, based on the human brain’s inability to cope with the astronomical number of possible glasses, it is likely that the glasses of the future will be discovered by an artificial intelligence (AI). Here, I will discuss the exciting opportunities offered by big data, AI, and machine learning to assist material scientists and drastically accelerate the pace at which we discover new glasses with surprising properties and functionalities.