The NSF nanomanufacturing (nanoMFG) node, hosted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, presents its 1st workshop exploring the potential opportunities for an emerging area at the intersection of data science and nanomanufacturing. This workshop brought together experts in nanomanufacturing, data science, and cyberinfrastructure. The workshop will center on the opportunities to leverage the following 3 themes in nanomanufacturing:

1. Data opportunities and challenges in nanomanufacturing processes, characterization, and metrology
2. Data infrastructure: real-time collection, storage, and sharing
3. Data-enabled modeling, large-scale computing, and machine intelligence

Topics that were discussed include the following:

• Data infrastructure for nanomanufacturing
• Unique aspects of data-driven nanomanufacturing [real-time, large combinatorial domain, multiprocess integration, large span of potential applications (multi time and spatial scales)]
• Using nanomanufacturing process data to improve the process
• Leverage data to increase productivity and yield
• Using machine intelligence to tackle process optimization
• Structuring, formatting and archiving process data 
• Tension between data ownership and sharing
• Data-enabled modeling and large-scale computing of nanomanufacturing processes
• Storing nanomanufacturing, metrology and characterization data

An outcome of this workshop will be a forthcoming position paper on data-driven nanomanufacturing.

National Science Foundatation, Nanoscale Manufacturing at The University of Illinois

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

• Kimani C Toussaint, ST H Tawfick, Chenhui Shao, Narayan Aluru, Placid M. Ferreira, Elif Ertekin, Taylor, Hayden, Jay R Roloff (2019), "1st nanoMFG Node Workshop on Data-Science ENabled Advances in Nanomanufacturing (DSEAN)," https://nanohub.org/resources/30180.

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1. advanced manufacturing
2. cyberinfrastructure
3. data-driven science
4. nanomanufacturing
5. nanoMFG Node
6. processing