1. Mark Swihart
Executive Director New York State Center of Excellence in Materials Informatics

2. CoE in Materials Informatics
University at Buffalo
NYSTAR
Faculty expertise in computational materials R&D and product design and analysis
Education, training and outreach related to materials informatics
Funding opportunities including CMI Applied Research Grant program, UB SBIA, UB I-CON, UB CAT, etc.
Programming: I-Corps, Bright Buffalo Niagara, etc.
Over 80 materials scientists, chemists, physicists, and engineers with growing strength in materials informatics R&D
Nanomaterials: quantum dots, plasmonic nanostructures, graphene, 2D materials, nanocomposites, and upconverting nanoparticles
Additive manufacturing
Clean energy technologies such as LED materials, energy conservation, photovoltaics, fuel cells, water-to-hydrogen nanomaterials, and batteries
Coatings for optical, medical, and industrial applications
Gas processing, purification, separation, air handling and filtration
First-principles modeling, molecular simulation of materials, computational fluid dynamics, coupled multiphysics modeling including electromagnetism
Optics, photonics, lasers, semiconductors and electronics, novel electronic materials

3. Shared Equipment & Instrumentation
Advanced Optical, Scanning Probe, and Electron Microscopy
Optical Spectroscopy/Mass Spectrometry
Atom Probe Tomography
Thermal Processing & Analysis
Semiconductor fabrication cleanroom (etching, deposition, lithography, etc.)
Dual-Beam Focused Ion Beam/Scanning Electron Microscopy & Lithography
X-ray Scattering, Diffraction & Fluorescence

4. Biological & Biomedical Materials & Devices
Continuum & Multiscale Modeling
Data Analytics & Machine Learning
Design, Digital & Additive Manufacturing
Inorganic Materials Synthesis & Processing
Materials Characterization & Spectroscopy
Photonic & Electronic Devices
Polymeric & Macromolecular Materials Synthesis & Processing
Quantum, Atomistic & Molecular Modeling

5. The company has raised $1.35M to date and growing fast!
November, 2013 Vader Systems contacts UB
March, 2013 National Grid High-Tech Entrepreneurship Opportunity Program grant
May, 2014 TCIE SPIR grant with Prof. E. Furlani and UB CCR for multiphysics modeling
March, 2015 UB CAT grant to develop on-demand aluminum filters and x-ray phantoms
March, 2015 Vader Systems presents at UB-hosted regional conference on Additive Manufacturing
November, 2015 CMI funds Professor Chi Zhou to investigate process-structure-properties-performance relationships, establish optimization approaches and devise online monitoring & a closed loop control system
October, 2016 Vader Systems entered the Start-Up NY Program.
October, 2016 Rochester Institute of Technology AMPrint Center to acquire the first liquid metal 3D-printing system
January, 2017 Vader Systems receives a CMI-funded intern (Spring, 2017) through the UB CMI AMCEP
March, 2017 Vader Systems indicated they have hired five UB graduate engineers to date
March, 2017 Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul visits Vader Systems at their new headquarters in Getzville, NY
The company has raised $1.35M to date and growing fast!