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Projects/Programs

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Microstructure-Property Tools for Structure-Property Design

Ongoing
Materials Digital Twins for AM Current methodologies for designing digital twins in additive manufacturing (AM) exhibit two main approaches: one involves AI models. that establish a direct correlation between input and output properties, overlooking materials structure and characterization, while

Neuromorphic Device Measurements

Ongoing
One type of device that is emerging as an attractive artificial synapse is the resistive switch, or memristor. These devices, which usually consist of a thin layer of oxide between two electrodes, have conductivity that depends on their history of applied voltage, and thus have highly nonlinear

NIST Automated Vehicles Program

Ongoing
Measurement science and standards are needed to support the safe and predictable operation of future automated vehicles (AVs), which have great potential to significantly impact our daily lives and improve the competitiveness of our economy. A FY22 NIST Strategic and Emerging Research Initiatives

NIST LabCAS: Data Driven Science Architecture and Resource

Ongoing
Biological data lie at the heart of innovation and artificial intelligence (AI) advances in the emerging biotechnology sector and serve as key strategic resources for achieving major breakthroughs in biomanufacturing, as summarized by the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology's

NIST Living Measurement Systems Foundry

Ongoing
To enable the production of high-throughput, high-quality data that meets the rapidly evolving needs of current and future stakeholders, NIST has established an automation facility for the growth, manipulation, sample preparation, and measurement of engineered microbes. The core of the facility

Physics and Hardware for Intelligence

Ongoing
Our work in this area can be separated into two categories: conceptual and experimental. Please read our publications linked below for more information. Experimental: Our latest generation of synaptic circuits are described in a 2024 paper published in APL Machine Learning. These circuits are our

Polymer Analytics

Ongoing
This project focuses on a variety of activities to achieve the aforementioned goal of accelerating the discovery of new polymer physics. Enhanced machine learning Two major hurdles to applying machine learning to polymer science is a lack of large datasets and a need to understand the model

AI self-quality assurance using learning curves in feedback loops

Ongoing
One application of artificial intelligence (AI) in materials is the acceleration of materials innovation, which is the mission of the Materials Genome Initiative. However, to decrease the cost and time-to-market, we must continuously assess the quality of models with new facts. AI quality assurance

Semi-Automatic Curation

Ongoing
Scientific literature is undeniably an important source of scientific data for research but the review and curation of data from literature is both tedious and time consuming. Investigators must sort through many articles to review and extract relevant information. For many areas of research

Spintronics for Neuromorphic Computing

Ongoing
Magnetic tunnel junctions (see Fig. 1) consist of two thin films of ferromagnetic material separated by a few atomic layers of an insulating material. The insulator is so thin that electrons can tunnel quantum mechanically through it. The rate at which the electrons tunnel is affected by the

Stem Cell Metrology: WSDOM

Ongoing
Stem cells are critical starting materials for advanced therapies and diagnostic devices. The most commonly used are induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) which can be created with any individual’s skin cells, and then can be coaxed to become cells for any tissue of the body. Therapies and

Subspace-Informed Deep Learning Solutions for Nanoscale Microscopy

Ongoing
Cutting-edge nanoscale microscopy techniques such as near-field scanning microwave microscopy (NSMM) and atom probe tomography (APT) enable a multi-dimensional virtual representation of an artifact to be constructed from a set of experimental measurements. These imaging techniques, which are

Synthetic Biology

Ongoing
New measurement methods and tools are required for biology to emerge fully as an enabling, practical platform for engineering. The Cellular Engineering Group works to provide a foundation of measurement assurance to support the control and rational design of biological function. Through state of the

Teaching Liquid State Theory to an Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

Ongoing
Scientific questions: Can an ANN allow us to predict the structure of fluids that are impossible to predict numerically via liquid-state theory? Can we learn something about liquid-state theory itself by the nature of the trained ANN? What features do the hidden layers capture?

Temporal Computing

Ongoing
In standard integrated circuits, information that is coded as ones and zeros is implemented by voltages on wires being high or low. The circuits consume energy during transitions between these voltages. Binary numbers have a voltage per bit so there are a lot of transitions each time a number

Training and optimization of hardware neural networks

Ongoing
The goal of this project is to develop a general method that can train many different types of neural networks, and to demonstrate and evaluate their performance on new emerging hardware. We aim to develop and demonstrate training on diverse hardware platforms, and in the presence of realistic noise

Trustworthy Intelligent Networks

Ongoing
Our current research efforts include: The application of AI/ML techniques to detect abuse of the Domain Name System (DNS). The development of measurement techniques to characterize the robustness of AI/ML approaches to botnet detection. The application of AI/ML techniques to detect anomalies in the

AI User Trust

Ongoing
The Visualization and Usability Group’s AI User Trust project provided foundational work for our new AI User Trust Measurement research, and continues to inform our larger Human-Centered AI program. Please read more about our current work on those pages. The information that follows is maintained

Using AI to Determine Structure-Property Relations in Materials

Ongoing
The Material Measurement Lab at NIST employs artificial intelligence for the prediction and discovery of materials characteristics. Our applications of artificial intelligence (AI) accelerate materials research as well as help the community learn about AI's capabilities and gain confidence in

Validating A.I. Pipelines for Analysis of Live Cell Image Data

Ongoing
We are exploring methods for very high-speed cell image data collection, which is enabling the repeated sampling of thousands of cells every 2 minutes. Rapid sampling allow us to observe dynamic processes in cells (such as cell division) on a relevant time scale. Such rates of sampling allows us to

Wireless Coexistence

Ongoing
What is Wireless Coexistence? Wireless coexistence is the capability of multiple wireless devices and services in the same geographical area to access the same RF spectrum band simultaneously without causing harmful interference to each other. In other words, can they all operate successfully and
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