Shuya Yamazaki

Shuya Yamazaki is a second-year PhD student at MSE at NTU, working in the Materials by Design Lab led by Prof. Kedar Hippalgaonkar. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning, materials science, and agentic systems, with the aim of accelerating the discovery of functional inorganic materials and advancing the science of solid-state synthesis. More broadly, his work contributes to the growing field of AI for Science.

Prior to his PhD, he conducted research at the NUS Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials (I-FIM) under Prof. Sir Kostya S. Novoselov & Prof. Andrey Ustyuzhanin as well as at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), A*STAR. He graduated early with a B.Eng. (Hons) in Materials Engineering with a specialization in Materials and AI at NTU, where he received the Best Thesis Award for his undergraduate research.

Outside academia, he is a former All-Japan National Karate Champion and Junior Olympic swimmer, and he maintains his passion through Muay Thai today.