Marat I. Latypov
Assistant professor Marat I. Latypov is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Career Award. He received his PhD in materials science and engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology followed by a postdoc at Georgia Tech/CNRS lab in France and the University of California in Santa Barbara. He joined the Materials Science and Engineering Department in 2021 and is a member of the Applied Mathematics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program. Latypov has a wide range of interests in the field of materials science including materials informatics, modeling and simulation, artificial intelligence, alloy design and materials process optimization. He is the author or co-author of over 40 scholarly publications.
Degrees
- PhD: Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea, 2014
- Dipl.-Ing.: Engineering Physics, Ufa State Aviation Technical University, Ufa, Russia, 2011
Work Experience
- August 2021 - present: Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- 2024: ISTI Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM
- 2023: Visiting Scholar, DMSE, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
- 2019-2021: Senior Scientist, Novelis Global Research & Technology Center, Novelis, Kennesaw, GA
- 2017-2019: Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
- 2015-2017: CNRS Postdoctoral Researcher, Georgia Tech Lorraine, Metz, France
Interests
Research Interests
Sustainable structural alloys, materials informatics, computational materials science, mechanics of materials
Teaching Interests
Physics-informed machine learning, thermodynamics, kinetics
Scholarship
Over 40 peer-reviewed publications
Honors & Awards
- 2025: NSF CAREER Award
- 2024: ISTI Distinguished Faculty Scholar (LANL)
- 2021: First prize in Novelis Hackathon on computer vision
- 2018: Outstanding Reviewer (Acta Materialia)
- 2017: Young Researcher Award at NanoSPD7 conference (Sydney, Australia)
- 2013: Editors' Choice paper (Metall. Mater. Trans. A)
- 2013: Go-Jun Sik scholarship (best PhD student) at the MSE Department (POSTECH)