Shyue Ping Ong

Shyue Ping Ong is a Singaporean scientist, who is a professor at the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is known for his research in materials informatics., a field that integrates materials science with data science and artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery and design of novel materials. His research group, the Materials Virtual Lab, focuses on the development of computational tools and machine learning techniques to predict materials properties and accelerate materials design. He is the founder and lead developer of Python Materials Genomics (pymatgen), an open-source materials analysis code. He is also one of the developers of the Materials Project, a public database of ab initio calculated material properties.