People

Title

Associate Professor

Degree

PhD (Mech Engg), UC Berkeley
BS (Hons) in Mech Engg, Purdue University

Research Interests

Assoc. Prof. Hippalgaonkar’s interests are in designing functional materials, especially for energy applications. He has fundamental knowledge in solid state physics, 1D (nanowires), 2D (TMDCs) as well as inorganic-organic (hybrid) materials. His approach to materials by design is built on creating and utilizing materials data by high-performance computing and high-throughput experiments to synthesize and characterize materials for optical and electronic properties. Specifically, he is leading projects on the application of high-throughput experimentation, optimization and machine learning on industry and academic projects on batteries, thermoelectrics and catalysis. In addition, he is interested in the use of material descriptors, machine learning and data science for materials discovery. His background is in transport properties of materials specifically in understanding their thermal, optical and thermoelectric properties. He is keen on developing tools such as process optimization, design of experiments and materials and process fingerprinting from materials development to device applications.

Office Location

Nanyang Technological University, School of Materials Science and Engineering 50 Nanyang Avenue, Block N4.1, Singapore 639798 Office: N4.1-02-01 Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, Agency for Science Technology and Research 08-03, 2 Fusionopolis Way, Innovis Singapore 138634

Biography

Assoc. Prof. Kedar Hippalgaonkar is a joint appointee with the Materials Science and Engineering Department at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and as a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) at the Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR). He is leading the Accelerated Materials Development for Manufacturing (AMDM) program from 2018-2023 focusing on the development of new materials, processes and optimization using Machine Learning, AI and high-throughput computations and experiments in electronic and plasmonic materials and polymers. He is also leading the Pharos Program on Hybrid (inorganic-organic) thermoelectrics for ambient applications from 2016-2020.

He has published over 50 research papers, and was nominated as a Journal of Materials Chemistry Emerging Investigator in 2019. He was recognized as a Science and Technology for Society Young Leader in Kyoto in 2015. For his outstanding graduate research, he was awarded the Materials Research Society Silver Medal in 2014. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Distinction) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University in 2003 and obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley in 2014. While pursuing his doctoral studies, he conducted research on fundamentals of heat, charge and light in solid state materials.

Selected Publications

• Hippalgaonkar K, All-weather thermal regulation coatings, Joule. 6, 2, 286-288, 2022.
• Bash D, et al, Accelerated automated screening of viscous graphene suspensions with various surfactants for optimal electrical conductivity, Digital Discovery, 2022.
• Ren Z, et al, An invertible crystallographic representation for general inverse design of inorganic crystals with targeted properties, Matter, 5, 1, 314-335, 2022.
• Madhavkrishnan L, et al, Comparing data driven and physics inspired models for hopping transport in organic field effect transistors, Scientific Reports, 11, 23621, 2021.
• Lim YF, et al, Extrapolative Bayesian Optimization with Gaussian Process and Neural Network Ensemble Surrogate Models, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2100101, 2021.
• Yang B, et al, Organic materials as photocatalysts for water splitting, Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 9, 16222, 2021.
• Deng T, et al, Electronic transport descriptors for the rapid screening of thermoelectric materials, Materials Horizons, 8, 2463-2474, 2021.
• Lai Z, et al, Metastable 1T′-phase group VIB transition metal dichalcogenide crystals, Nature Materials, 20, 1113–1120, 2021.
• Abutaha A, et al, Correlating charge and thermoelectric transport to paracrystallinity in conducting polymers, Nature Communications, 11, 1737, 2020.
• Recatala-Gomez J, et al, Thermoelectric Properties of Substoichiometric Electron Beam Patterned Bismuth Sulfide, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 12, 30, 33647–33655, 2020.
• Recatala-Gomez J, et al, Toward Accelerated Thermoelectric Materials and Process Discovery, ACS Applied Energy Materials, 3, 3, 2240-2257, 2020.
• Shi W, et al, Unprecedented Enhancement of Thermoelectric Power Factor Induced by Pressure in Small‐Molecule Organic Semiconductors, Advanced Materials, 31, 26, 1901956, 2019.
• Urban JJ, et al, New horizons in thermoelectric materials: Correlated electrons, organic transport, machine learning, and more, Journal of Applied Physics, 125, 180902, 2019.
• Ng HK, et al, Effects Of Structural Phase Transition On Thermoelectric Performance in Lithium-Intercalated Molybdenum Disulfide (LixMoS2), ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 11, 13, 12184–12189, 2019.
• Deng T, et al, 2D Single‐Layer π‐Conjugated Nickel Bis (dithiolene) Complex: A Good‐Electron‐Poor‐Phonon Thermoelectric Material, Advanced Electronic Materials, 5, 4, 1800892, 2019.