Our Team
The AI-MI team unites leaders in AI, materials science, and data research, collaborating to transform how new materials are discovered and deployed.
Leadership
Eun-Ah Kim
Director, Cornell University
Expert in the physics of quantum materials and in application of AI to large and complex data from quantum materials.
Peter Frazier
Associate Director, Cornell University
Expert in AI-based experimental design for materials design, including Bayesian optimization, multi-armed bandits, and active learning
Kilian Weinberger
Associate Director, Cornell University
Expert in machine learning and its applications in computer vision, natural language processing, and scientific discovery.
Ala Santos
Managing Director
Administrative Team
Nikki Ferro
Administrative Manager
Brianne Rockefeller
Research & Innovation Post Award Research Administrator
Shelby Montgomery
Sr. Grant & Contract Officer
Jessica Troy-Smith
Research & Innovation Post Award Research Associate
Communications Team
Rick Ryan
Research Communications Manager
Adriana Ferreira Barboza
Communications Specialist
Savan DeSouza
Multimedia Specialist
Faculty Members
Nicholas Abbott
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert in soft functional materials, and the integration of computational and AI methods into soft matter experimentation.
Yoav Artzi
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expect in the training, analysis, and evaluation of LLMs.
B. Andrei Bernevig
Senior Personnel, Princeton
Expert in theoretical condensed matter physics.
Adam Braunschweig
CUNY
Expert in nanotechnology and organic chemistry, with a focus on glycobiology, nanolithography, biomaterials, and mechanochemistry.
Keith Brown
Senior Personnel, Boston University
Expert in hierarchical soft matter, autonomous experimentation, and scanning probe techniques.
Anil Damle
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert in numerical linear algebra, computational quantum chemistry, computational statistics, and fast algorithms.
Carla Gomes
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert in AI, especially, large-scale knowledge representation, reasoning, and machine learning for scientific discovery.
Kin Fai Mak
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert in devices and heterostructures based on 2D quantum materials, and their characterization.
Emilia Morosan
Senior Personnel, Rice University
Expert in design and synthesis of quantum materials with emergent properties.
Darrell Schlom
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert in oxide molecular beam epitaxy based thin film growth. co-Director of Materials Innovation Platform PARADIM.
Leslie Schoop
Co-PI, Princeton
Expert in quantum chemistry and topological materials.
Jennifer Sun
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert in developing computer vision and machine learning methods for workflows that require expert-in-the-loop interactions.
John Thickstun
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert on methods for generative modeling.
Fengqi You
Senior Personnel, Cornell University
Expert in advanced computational models, optimization and machine learning for smart manufacturing, energy systems, and sustainability.
Zhigang Zhu
CUNY
Expert in computer vision, machine learning, human computer interaction, augmented reality, and assistive technology.