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There is an exciting activity underway today and tomorrow at the National Science Foundation! I, along with my co-chairs James Warren (NIST), Benji Maruyama (AFRL), and Charles Yang (DOE), and guidance and support by Lisa E. Friedersdorf , am excited to host 80+ participants across academia, industry, and over 15 Federal Agencies for the “Accelerating Materials Solutions to Meet National and Global Challenges” Workshop in support of the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) 2021 Strategic Plan. Over the first decade of the MGI, significant attention has been paid to the ever-increasing predictive power of materials models and their role in accelerating materials design. Now, profound changes are being realized to accelerate materials experimentation (both synthesis and characterization) through human-enhanced artificial intelligence and application of robotics (autonomous experimentation) that can test and verify these models. Building on a series of prior federal government-sponsored workshops, this workshop will focus on the current infrastructure landscape for accelerated materials experimentation within the context of the broader Materials Innovation Infrastructure (MII). Over the next two days, the community will: - Inventory the existing national Autonomous Materials Innovation Infrastructure (AMII). - Identify transformative opportunities and targets within the framing of National and Global Challenges and match the existing AMII capable of addressing these challenges. - Identify gaps in the AMII that must be filled to achieve the goals and targets. I am looking forward to robust engagement by our many participants! And helping enable accelerated materials discovery and translation through autonomous experimentation ensuring we remain at the forefront of materials research! #MGI

The positive impact of the Black Female Academics’ Network and our community on the Black female postgraduate experience. 🎉🤖✨ The Black Female Academics’ Network is deeply grateful to be featured and mentioned in Nikita Greenidge's recent paper, “The Cold Truth about Robotics Research in the United Kingdom as a Caribbean Woman”, in Science Robotics. “Their unwavering commitment to fostering inclusion and collaboration has been instrumental in my journey.”  You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/ecz7gJXe The paper is incredibly insightful. Most people without these lived experiences admit that they haven't yet encountered some of these issues outlined by Nikita, or perhaps they haven't yet recognised certain microaggressions that someone who has grown up here would immediately spot, but they are real. Reading experiences like this is truly eye-opening. Nikita Greenidge congratulations on the upcoming 𝗨𝗪𝗜-𝗟𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗼𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 programme at the STORM Lab. at the STORM Lab. 🙌🏽👏🏽 BFAN celebrates the power of community (blackinrobotics, Black Female Academics' Network, With Insight Education .

Machine learning + Materials development 🚀 It was an exciting week at Ljubljana! Autonomous laboratories, material discovery, and manufacturing optimization. It is hard to describe every amazing thing I saw at @Machine Learning Modalities for Materials Science (ML4MS 2024)! 💎 During the conference, I had an amazing opportunity to present my work on the atomic-scale simulations of #alloys. Specifically, my research covers metallic glasses – both challenging and application-promising materials. I am excited that I can leverage the power of digital tools💻to boost materials development 📈! I could not achieve those results without the support of the team from NOMATEN (Silvia Bonfanti, Anshul D. S. Parmar, and Mikko Alava), and Warsaw University of Technology (Jan S. Wróbel). Thanks to Jozef Stefan Institute for hosting such an amazing event, and DAEMON COST for providing me the opportunity to make this trip 🌍. I am looking forward to more such amazing events ✨ #MachineLearning #MaterialsScience #AI #RnD #Research #Innovation #MetallicGlasses

Kudos to Principal Investigator Cecilia Alm and Co-Principal Investigators Reynold Bailey, Alex Ororbia, and Pengcheng Shi, who along with Professor Thomas Pederson and a team of faculty researchers at University West in Sweden, were awarded a new National Science Foundation grant that will allow 18 RIT students to travel to Sweden and conduct artificial intelligence research that enhances the industrial workplace. The grant, called US-Swedish Research Experiences on AI in Production Technology and Work-Integrated Learning (AI-PROWIL), will fund research projects that will advance fundamental scientific research on AI-enhanced automation, AI-enhanced automatic control, and AI-enhanced management. “AI is transforming how industrial organizations operate, including on global scales,” said Alm, a professor affiliated with RIT’s Department of Psychology and School of Information and director of the AWARE-AI program. “AI plays a prominent role in Industry 5.0—where robots, smart systems, and humans are teaming up.” Read more at RIT News > https://brnw.ch/21wPoHi

🌟 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗮 𝗠𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆’𝘀 𝗺𝗲𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆 — 𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗶𝗲𝗰𝗲 🎨✨ Exploring the marvellous AI-enabled reconstruction of Gustav Klimt’s boundary-pushing artwork “Die Medizin” 🩺💡, commissioned and created around ~1900 for the Medical University of Vienna, never installed due to resistance against the image, stolen by the Nazi regime, and destroyed during a fire in 1945 🔥, reminds us how art and science intersect to provoke thought and inspire innovation. 🚀 Klimt’s portrayal of the “stream of life” 🌊, centered around Hygia 🐍⚕️ and symbols of medicine, birth, life, and death ⚖️, whose typical Klimt-coloring is beautifully restored in this AI rendition 🤖🎨 of a long-lost masterpiece, challenges us to look beyond conventional boundaries while remaining humble and respectful vis-a-vis the beauty of life, just as we do in our professional journeys. Medicine 🩺, technology 🤖, science 🧬, and life 🌍, illuminated and represented in its mere beauty and co-existence, as seen by Klimt. A timeless reminder that creativity fuels innovation! 🌟 A timeless reminder that technology augments creativity and vice versa — for progress in medicine, and for the benefit of humanity. 🌎💙 M-B-V-C 🦄 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝗺-𝗯-𝘃-𝗰.𝗰𝗼𝗺/ 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗴𝘆 & 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 #HelpingVenturesTakeFlight 🚀🌟 #GustavKlimt #AIArt #MedicalInnovation #ArtAndScience #KlimtReconstruction #MedicalHistory #CreativityAndTechnology #Innovation #MedicineAndHumanity #StreamOfLife #ViennaMedicalUniversity #ArtInspiration #TechnologyForGood #TimelessArt #Innovation #Ventures #Consulting

What's up, Prof? I think most people have just a rough idea of what a professor 👨🏫 does all day. That's why I've decided to post about what my week looks like from time to time this semester. Here we go for week 46: ⚡ Flashback: The final work on our test vehicles has been completed, so we can start recording the first data this week. I'm looking forward to it! 📅 Monday: Meetings to discuss the test vehicle 🚗 status, meeting on how to fuse LiDAR points clouds from a drone with our vehicles. Lectures in Advanced Computer Vision and Applied Deep Learning. AImotion Bavarian Anniversary 🎉. More details later in this post. 📅 Tuesday: Lectures in ACV and ADL again, faculty meetings, and meetings with thesis students 📅 Wednesday: Writing a research proposal's work package plan, schedule, and milestone plan. Preparing lectures. 📅 Thursday: Meetings with PhD students, institute meetings, planning meeting for our institute Christmas party 🎄. 📅 Friday: FeldSchau.ai meeting, getting some work done 💡 Highlight of the week: Bruno Souza arrives from Brazil and will be joining my research group as a guest PhD for 6 months. 🍬 Bonus: AImotion anniversary party tonight! You can still register, see the image below 👇 #whatsupprof #professor #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #lecture #research Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt

Exciting news!! 📌 #UK and #Switzerland update #science and #research partnership to focus on some of today’s most pressing challenges, from #healthcare to green energy 📌 £16 million joint funding includes backing to support UK-Swiss #clinicaltrials that could help unlock new treatments and diagnoses for a range of diseases 📌 Funding also supports UK-Swiss work on novel joint replacements that resist infections, quantum sensors, and more Read more: https://lnkd.in/eD6bGSPq Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency #pharma #medtech #biotech #pharmanews #medtechnews #biotechnews

Interested in the intersection of humanity and robotics? It’s a hot topic, to say the least! Meet Dr. Aslan Miriyev, who is head of the Physical AI Lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. As Dr. Miriyev explains: “Physical Artificial Intelligence (PAI) refers to the theory and practice of (physically) synthesizing lifelike robots. The Physical AI Lab focuses on unveiling the scientific fundamentals of creating future symbiotic and sustainable human-robot-nature ecosystems. We conduct research at the nexus of disciplines to develop synthetic and bio-hybrid soft intelligent systems with characteristics typically belonging to living organisms.” If this fascinating field interests you, you should know that Aslan has positions available for international postdocs! You can find his information in the link to our Supervisor Database (see the link below) or if you have a different area of research, simply use the database to find a supervisor who is an expert in your field. Either way, you can find your postdoc in Israel today! #postdoc #internationalpostdoc

When perception meets numerical cognition (and viceversa)… Excited to share the publication of  'The radial–tangential anisotropy of numerosity perception” (https://lnkd.in/d3_WmeuW). In short, we show that a specific spatial configuration of a set of objects can lead to underestimation. The next chapter of a wonderful collaboration with Miao Li and Bilge Sayim in light of a global partnership grant between KU Leuven Campus Kulak Kortrijk and Université de Lille.

The Knut and Alice Foundation has just granted SEK 70 million to the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program (WASP) for an innovative new initiative. With the new initiative, WASP takes on the mission to coordinate AI for Science efforts in Sweden. 🚀   “This initiative builds on the needs and the successful collaborations between WASP and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation’s programs on sustainable materials and life science,” says Anders Ynnerman, WASP Program Director. “One of the goals is to bridge the gap between the latest AI research and other areas of science to enable breakthroughs.”   A key asset of the AI for Science initiative is the AI supercomputer Berzelius, funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, which has enabled breakthroughs in a range of disciplines. To support both current and new user communities, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation has allocated SEK 125 million for an upgrade to the latest GPU architecture in fall 2024. Read more about Berzelius at LiU.se (in Swedish) 👉https://lnkd.in/dDFzymEn Press release in Swedish 👉https://lnkd.in/dq2YmVWB Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse #WASP #AI #Science #Research #Innovation #berzelius