Kiran Vaddi

Autonomous MatSci companies are coming up thick and fast. Not too long ago, it felt likely a lonely academic world in this space.

Happening too fast? Too late? Hard to tell…

Then I read the reviews which were just citation farming of poorly written papers.

Should be doing better than that @digital-discovery.rsc.org .

The reviews have at least one paper that was asked to cite but was completely irrelevant to what’s in this amazing paper.

One of the neatly thought out, executed, and written papers I have read in the recent past. It took me a while to understand the core concept of this paper.

In the times where every notebook in BoTorch packages is a new paper (just stamp a new materials data), this is very refreshing.

Incredible! Congrats.

papers/pluronic-phasemaps at main · pozzo-research-group/papers Collection of codes for reproducibility from published research - pozzo-research-group/papers

Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but here’s a bunch of SAXS data with varying concentrations and temperatures of block copolymers. The accompanying paper should have the exact experimental details and the bcp architectures github.com/pozzo-resear...

I wish more faculty search committees followed DTU level clear communication.

I applied for a AI4Materials position with a May 7th deadline and received an update (rejection) on June 1st with clear detail that they’ve made first round selection. No one in the US and India are even remotely close.

University of Washington campus is spoilt with these stunning views from a normal class/seminar room.

This was from this afternoon at the undergraduate research symposium.

Spring in Pacific Northwest…So So Good!

View from Hurricane Ridge, Olympic NP.

Great piece! Loved it.

Seattle turned the rain back on exclusively for #S25MRS

Love this quote:

“I think it matters, having your own personal cheerleader. I think everyone deserves to know, Here is someone who believes in me. Here’s someone who believes I can do great things, and who will never, ever quit rooting for me”

70% through this book and could relate to so much: immigrant scientist in the US, spouse stuck abroad on visa issues, lack of opportunities at every step of the way… and out of no where I see a mention on Buffalo,NY and University of Washington on the same page.

Feels like a cinematic universe.

NIH Cuts Hit Young Scientists the Hardest - TimmermanReport.com [Editor’s note: David Baker gave this speech to Seattle community leaders Mar. 10, at a celebration of his 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.] Let me just briefly tell you how innovation arises in biomedi...

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Assembly of proteins forming a tube

New preprint from Pozzo group demonstrating SAXS analysis of very large multi-protein assemblies using Monte Carlo sampling.

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Autonomous Phase Mapping of Gold Nanoparticles Synthesis with Differentiable Models of Spectral Shape Autonomous experimentation, or self-driving labs as they are popularly known, is a novel way of experimental planning and scheduling to systematically integrate automated material synthesis, character...

New preprint from our lab, led by postdoc @imvaddi.bsky.social. A fully differentiable phase-mapping algorithm for autonomous experimentation integrating active sampling and generative methods for functional data (i.e. spectroscopy, scattering, or any function). 1/3

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