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NYU, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nikhil Gupta has been appointed as an editorial board member of Scientific Data, a multidisciplinary journal published by Nature for which he will handle manuscripts for peer review.
An open-source journal, Scientific Data provides a framework for data-sharing to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery. “In particular, training AI models requires large datasets,” said Gupta. “So, publications like this are now in great demand,” he added.
“I’m happy to have this role at a journal dedicated to breaking down barriers to interdisciplinary research,” said Gupta. “It’s a responsibility I take very seriously.”
The journal operates on what are known as “FAIR Principles” for scientific data management and stewardship, which state that research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. To be truly reusable, the data must be evaluated to assure that it was obtained in an academically rigorous, verifiable way, and that’s where editorial board members, each a domain expert, come in.
While the journal includes datasets from all areas of natural sciences, medicine, engineering and social sciences, Gupta — whose own research has encompassed ways to make additive manufacturing processes easier to monitor and biomedical hydrogels more clinically effective, among other projects — will be focused on those related to materials science, working to ensure that any submissions adhere to high scientific standards.
Prof. Nikhil Gupta joined the NYU-Tandon School of Engineering faculty in 2004 and currently serves as Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is also affiliated with the Department of Civil and Urban Engineering and Center for Cybersecurity.
Prof. Gupta is an elected Fellow of ASM International and American Society for Composites and a Senior Member of IEEE. He is also an elected senior member of the National Academy of Inventors.
Prof. Gupta served as the Chair of the Composites Materials Committee of TMS (2016-2018) and Membership Secretary of American Society for Composites. He is serving on the editorial board of Materials Science and Engineering A and ASTM journal Materials Processing and Characterization and previously served on the editorial board of Composites Part B and Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials.
