Timur Bazhirov
| Timur Bazhirov | |
|---|---|
| Born | Timur Tynlybekovich Bazhirov 1986 Kazan, Tatarstan |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology; University of California, Berkeley |
| 💼 Occupation | Physicist, Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Materials informatics; Computational Materials Science |
Timur Bazhirov (born Timur Tynlybekovich Bazhirov) is an American scientist and technology entrepreneur known for his work in computational materials science and materials informatics. He is the founder and chief executive officer of Mat3ra, a cloud platform for materials research and development featured by the Wall Street Journal[1] in 2022, and previously founded Exabyte.io, one of the early players in the industrial applications of materials informatics, per the 2018 report from Lux Research[2].
Early life and education
Bazhirov was born in 1986 in Kazan, Tatarstan, USSR. He earned bachelor's (2006) and master's degrees (2008) in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Bazhirov's early research is in the example library of the LAMMPS molecular dynamics package.[3] In 2013, he completed a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted first-principles computational research under theoretical physicist Marvin L. Cohen.[4]
Career
After completing his doctorate degree, Bazhirov founded Exabyte.io in late 2014–early 2015 through the Alchemist Accelerator.[5] Focused at modernizing the materials R&D practices, the company aimed to accelerate the discovery and development of new materials through modeling and simulations. The company developed cloud-based infrastructure for materials simulations and high-throughput workflows. It announced the funding from Breakout Labs (Thiel Foundation) in 2017 at during the annual "Unboxing" event.[6] A 2018 Lux Research report identified materials informatics as a disruptive technology and cited Exabyte.io as an example of early commercial activity in the field.[2]
Currently, Bazhirov is the CEO of Mat3ra, the successor of Exabyte.io, which raised $3M in seed funding from VC investors including Tim Draper, Serg Bell, and Albert Wenger.[1] During Bazhirov's tenure, Mat3ra has been listed among key participants in the materials informatics sector by multiple market-analysis firms including Precedence Research,[7] IndustryARC,[8] Research and Markets,[9] and Spherical Insights.[10] In 2024, Mat3ra became a member of the AI Alliance led by Meta and IBM.
As principal investigator, Bazhirov has led several projects funded through the U.S. government's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. As of 2025, entities he founded have received seven SBIR awards worth over $3.8M from the U.S. Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and Department of Commerce (NIST), supporting multiscale materials modeling, data standards, and high-performance computing infrastructure.[11]
Research and contributions
Bazhirov’s research covers first-principles physics, electronic structure, and cloud computing for scientific applications. His publications include work on superconductivity, many-body electronic structure, and scalable vibrational-property calculations using cloud resources.[4] As of Nov 2025, Bazhirov had 25 publications with over 620 citations.
Bazhirov's works have as co-authors both highly-cited academic researchers, such as Marvin L. Cohen, Steven G. Louie, and Matthias Scheffler, and industrial researches focused on applied science, such as Sergey V. Barabash (Merck KGaA), Kazuki Mori (ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation) and Jun Koyanagi (Tokyo University of Science).
Notable publications include:
- Bazhirov, Timur; Cohen, Marvin L. (2013). "Effects of charge doping and constrained magnetization on the electronic structure of an FeSe monolayer". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 25 (10): 105506.[12]
- Bazhirov, Timur; Noffsinger, Jesse; Cohen, Marvin L. (2010-11-08). "Superconductivity and electron-phonon coupling in lithium at high pressures". Physical Review B. 82 (18).[13]
- Mohammadi, Mohammad; Bazhirov, Timur (2018-03-15). "Comparative benchmarking of cloud computing vendors with high performance linpack". Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on High Performance Compilation, Computing and Communications. Hong Kong Hong Kong: ACM: 1–5. doi:10.1145/3195612.3195613. ISBN 978-1-4503-6337-2.[14]
- Dean, James; Scheffler, Matthias; Purcell, Thomas A. R.; Barabash, Sergey V.; Bhowmik, Rahul; Bazhirov, Timur (2023-10-28). "Interpretable machine learning for materials design". Journal of Materials Research. 38 (20): 4477–4496. doi:10.1557/s43578-023-01164-w. ISSN 0884-2914.[15]
Public engagement
Bazhirov has spoken at scientific workshops and conferences on materials research and artificial intelligence. In 2024, he was invited to participate in a National Institute of Standards and Technology panel on AI for materials science, alongside researchers from Argonne National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and IBM Research.[16] In 2025, he led a workshop at Supercomputing Asia focused on high-performance computing for materials simulations[17] as well as a presentation at the Global Physics Summit in Los Angeles focused on Rapid Design of 2D Materials and Interfaces for AI/ML applications with mat3ra-made[18].
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Mat3ra Funding Round". The Wall Street Journal. Feb 4, 2022.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kozarsky, Ross (2018). Playing to Win: Strategies for Accelerating Materials Innovation in Turbulent Times (PDF) (Report). Lux Research. p. 36. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ "LAMMPS example movies". Sandia National Laboratories.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Timur Bazhirov — Google Scholar".
- ↑ "Exabyte.io — Alchemist Accelerator Portfolio".
- ↑ Shenton, Renee (2017-10-27). "Breakout Labs Signature Event Unboxes Radical Scientific Innovation". Breakout Ventures. Retrieved 2025-11-24.
- ↑ "Materials Informatics Market".
- ↑ "Materials Informatics Market Report".
- ↑ "Global Materials Informatics Market".
- ↑ "Top 50 Materials Informatics Companies (2025)".
- ↑ "SBIR Portfolio for Awardee 694779".
- ↑ Bazhirov, Timur; Cohen, Marvin L. (2013). "Effects of charge doping and constrained magnetization on the electronic structure of an FeSe monolayer". Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter. 25 (10): 105506. arXiv:1208.2260. Bibcode:2013JPCM...25j5506B. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/25/10/105506. PMID 23395773.
- ↑ Bazhirov, Timur; Noffsinger, Jesse; Cohen, Marvin L. (2010-11-08). "Superconductivity and electron-phonon coupling in lithium at high pressures". Physical Review B. 82 (18): 184509. Bibcode:2010PhRvB..82r4509B. doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.82.184509. ISSN 1098-0121.
- ↑ Mohammadi, Mohammad; Bazhirov, Timur (2018-03-15). "Comparative benchmarking of cloud computing vendors with high performance linpack". Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on High Performance Compilation, Computing and Communications. Hong Kong Hong Kong: ACM. pp. 1–5. arXiv:1702.02968. doi:10.1145/3195612.3195613. ISBN 978-1-4503-6337-2. Search this book on
- ↑ Dean, James; Scheffler, Matthias; Purcell, Thomas A. R.; Barabash, Sergey V.; Bhowmik, Rahul; Bazhirov, Timur (2023-10-28). "Interpretable machine learning for materials design". Journal of Materials Research. 38 (20): 4477–4496. Bibcode:2023JMatR..38.4477D. doi:10.1557/s43578-023-01164-w. ISSN 0884-2914.
- ↑ "NIST Panel: AI for Materials". NIST.gov. 21 August 2024.
- ↑ "Supercomputing Asia 2025 — Programme".
- ↑ Bazhirov, Timur; Biryukov, Vsevolod (Seth) (2025-03-17). "Rapid Design of 2D Materials and Interfaces for AI/ML applications with mat3ra-made". APS Global Physics Summit 2025, Abstracts.
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