Daniel Schwalbe-Koda

Biography

Daniel Schwalbe-Koda is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at UCLA. Previously, he was a Lawrence Fellow at the Physical and Life Sciences Directorate of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He received a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering (2017) and a M.Sc. in Physics (2018) from the Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil, and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from MIT in 2022. His research focuses on computational materials design, digital synthesis models, high-throughput simulations, and scientific machine learning.

Research

The Digital Synthesis Lab seeks to accelerate materials design by integrating high-performance computing, machine learning (ML), literature data, and atomistic simulations. In particular, the group develops models to bridge the gap between computational predictions and experiments using data-driven synthesis recipes. His interests also include designing new materials for energy applications, creating complex workflows in high-throughput settings, and developing new ML approaches for atomistic simulation.