October Event – Driving Materials Innovation with Data: The MDS-Rely Center

Schedule

Thu Oct 16 2025 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Benedum Hall | Pittsburgh, PA

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PyData Pittsburgh is excited to host our October event – Driving Materials Innovation with Data: The MDS-Rely Center for Industry-Academic Partnerships. Join us on Thursday, October 16th, as Satish Iyengar, MDS-Rely Co-PI and Professor and Associate Chair of Statistics at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses how data scientists, engineers, and statisticians are working together across institutions to bridge theory and practice, using real-world datasets to push the boundaries of what’s possible in materials reliability and degradation research.

Times:
6pm – Doors Open
6:30pm – Talk, Driving Materials Innovation with Data: The MDS-Rely Center for Industry-Academic Partnerships

About the talk:

The Materials Data Science for Reliability and Degradation (MDS-Rely) Center(https://mds-rely.org/) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) Industry-University Cooperative Research Center led by the University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, and Carnegie Mellon University. MDS-Rely brings together industry, government, and academic partners to conduct pre-competitive research that leverages data science to enhance materials performance, reliability, and service life.

From predictive models for battery degradation to data-driven optimization in additive manufacturing and advanced coatings, MDS-Rely tackles real-world industrial challenges with cutting-edge analytics and experimentation. This talk will provide an overview of the Center’s research focus areas, industry engagement opportunities, and how companies can benefit from and shape this collaborative innovation ecosystem.

MDS-Rely homepage: https://mds-rely.org/
MDS-Rely on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/mds-rely
Photo – MDS-Rely Directors, L to R:
John Kitchin (CMU), Laura Bruckman (Case Western) and Paul Leu (Pitt), with a student.

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