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Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) 2026

AIMS Workshop 2026
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As part of the JARVIS workshop series, the 7th Artificial Intelligence for Materials Science (AIMS) is a workshop aimed at getting together experts from industry, academia, and government to facilitate highly technical dialogue on the intersection of AI and materials science. Some of the key research areas for materials AI that will be discussed at the meeting are: developing well-curated and diverse datasets, choosing effective representations for materials, inverse materials design, integrating autonomous experiments and theory, challenges and advantages of self-driving laboratories, merging physics-based models with AI models, and choosing appropriate algorithms/workflows. Lastly, uncertainty quantification in AI-based predictions for material properties and issues related to building infrastructure for disseminating AI knowledge are of immense importance for making AI-based materials investigation successful. This workshop is intended to cover all of these challenges.

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Day 1: June 16

Session I: 9:00-12:00

TimeSpeakerTitle
9:00-9:10Kathryn BeersOpening remarks
9:10-9:25Francesca TavazzaOverview and Logistics
9:25-9:45Boris KozinskyPhysics based learning of foundation models of microscopic interactions
9:45-10:05Samarjeet PrasadAccelerating Chemistry and Materials Innovation with NVIDIA ALCHEMI
10:05-10:25Michael TaylorBringing AI to f-element Chemistry
10:25-10:45Danish KhanTo Be Determined
10:45-11:05Break: Group Picture 
11:05-11:25Stefano FallettaMachine Learning Material Response to Electric Fields
11:25-11:45Sanjeev RajaGenerative Models as Flexible Priors for Accelerating Long Timescale Molecular Simulation

Lunch: 12:00-1:00

Session 2: 1:00-3:20

1:00-1:20Peter BeaucageTo Be Determined
1:20-1:40Jie XuPolymer Innovation Through AI-driven Autonomous Labs
1:40-2:00Keith TaskData Analytics in Research at BASF: Guiding Decision Making Through Efficient Experiments, Optimization, and ML & AI
2:00-2:20Break 
2:20-2:40David ElbertUnlocking Autonomy: Event Driven Linked Data for Scientific Workflows
2:40-3:00Linda HungAddressing the Crystal Structure Bottleneck in Materials Models
3:00-3:20Tyler MartinIntegrating Physics, Chemistry, and Formulation Intuition into the Autonomous Formulation Lab

Poster Session 3:30-5:00

Day 2: June 17

Session 3: 8:45-12:00

TimeSpeakerTitle
8:45-9:05Dung-Yi WuApplications of materials informatics to Aerospace-Relevant Problems
9:05-9:25Jason Hattrick-SimpersSmall Smart Data Big Dumb Data and Models Don’t Extrapolate
9:25-9:45William RatcliffAttention is Not All You Need: For Powder Diffraction
9:45-10:05Derek AhnemanBuilding datasets and ML models to predict stepwise organic reactivity
10:05-10:25Break 
10:25-10:45Nina AndrejevicDecoding Materials Dynamics with Physics-Aware Machine Learning
10:45-11:05Wesley ReinhartTowards Human-on-the-Loop Materials Discovery at the 2DCC and Beyond
11:05-11:25Akshay TalekarData-Centric AI for Materials Discovery: Infrastructure, Integration, and Iteration at Scale
11:25-11:45Fei ZhouScaling materials modeling beyond machine-learned potentials

Lunch: 12:00-1:00

Session 4: 1:00-3:20

1:00-1:20Catherine BrinsonFrom Data to Discovery: accelerated materials data curation and interpretable AI for metamaterials
1:20-1:40Jeffery TingChainSpace: Searching Synthetically Accessible Sequence Space
1:40-2:00Deyu LuPhysics-Informed AI Pipeline for Real-Time Interpretation of X-ray Absorption Spectra
2:00-2:20Break 
2:20-2:40Joshua SchrierLarge language models for materials synthesis and extraction
2:40-3:00Remi DingrevilleShortening the learning curve: Schooling machine learning to power materials digital twins and predictions
3:00-3:20Mitra TaheriTo Be Determined

NCNR Tour: 3:30pm

 

poster session information 

June 16, 2026 | 3:30 - 5:00pm

Poster number

Name

Title

1

Abhishek SoseTo Be Determined

2

Alexander K LandauerUncertainty Estimate Mapping for Digital Image Correlation via Convolutional Neural Networks

3

Alexandru Bogdan GeorgescuQuantum Materials with Novel Quantum Building Blocks

4

Andy ShuferIdentifying the Mental Models of Scientists for the Use of AI in Accelerating Research

5

Bahador BahmaniTo Be Determined

6

Chowdhury Mohammad Abid RahmanSupervised Pretraining for Material Property Prediction

7

Derek JubaUncertainty Quantification for Texture Directionality

8

Eva NatinskyMachine-learning image reconstruction overcomes data scarcity in atomic force microscopy with domain specific image corruption

9

Feng ZhangTo Be Determined

10

Frank AbelDeveloping Methods, Models, and Datasets for a Self-Driving Magnetic Nanomaterials Laboratory: Application for Thermal Magnetic Particle Imaging

11

Haochen YangRobotic Automation Discovery of Biodegradable Electronics via Multimodal Active Learning and AI-Guided Design

12

Jacob HornePredicting semicrystalline polymer properties with physics-informed machine learning models

13

Jaehyung LeeSlakoNet DB: A Unified Tight-Binding Database for Electronic Structure and Bandgaps

14

John HeadLibrary of Geopolymer Chemistry & Applications

15

Joshua YoungNavigating High Entropy Alloy Compositional Space for Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia with a Universal Machine Learning Potential

16

Ju SunAccelerating Materials Discovery via Physics-Informed Constraints

17

Kai Wagoner-oshimaHigh-throughput search for topological materials for interconnects using first-principles transport calculations and machine learning

18

Katarina GoodgeSupporting rapid, reliable fiber identification

19

Katelyn JonesUsing NexusLIMs to Create Benchmark Datasets and Pretrained Microscopy Models

20

Lian XiangMachine learning-enabled multiplex biosensing using 2D materials

21

Ming-Chiang ChangEvaluating Vision Transformer Architectures for High-Throughput X-Ray Diffraction Analysis

22

Mohamed SalemMetPFN: The Metrological Prior Fitted Network

23

Noah FrancisA Two-Scale Finite Element Coupling Using a Machine Learning Accelerated Stochastic Micromechanics Solver for Thermal Conductivity

24

Qingjie LiTo Be Determined

25

Quinn GallagherImproving Machine Learning Extrapolation for Molecular Discovery

26

Ricardo Mathison FuenmayorA case study in the development of improved promoted Pt catalysts for propane dehydrogenation through Bayesian optimization with uncertainty quantification

27

Rosa Diaz RivasBuilding Quantitative Descriptors for Heterogeneous Semiconductor Interfaces

28

Sarala PadiSTAMP: Species- and Topic-aware Representation Learning for Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery

29

Shuaijun LiPredicting Properties from Near-Infrared Spectra with Machine Learning for Improved Polyolefin Differentiation

30

Snehi ShresthaMachine Intelligence Accelerated Design of Conductive MXene Aerogels with Programmable Properties

31

Wonseok JeongAtomistic Dynamics as Sequential Decision-Making: Toward Experiment-Realistic Simulation

32

Yuhao ZhongUncertainty-Aware Explainable AI for Process-Structure-Property Discovery
Speakers
NameAffiliation
Akshay TalekarUL
Boris KozinskyHarvard
Catherine BrinsonDuke
Danish KhanCaltech
David ElbertJohns Hopkins
Derek AhnemanIBM
Deyu LuBrookhaven
Dung-Yi WuGE
Fei ZhouLLNL
Jason Hattrick-SimpersUniversity of Toronto
Jeffery TingNanite
Jie XuArgonne
Joshua SchrierFordham
Samarjeet PrasadNVIDIA
Keith TaskBASF
Linda HungToyota Research Institute
Michael TaylorLANL
Mitra TaheriJohns Hopkins
Nina AndrejevicArgonne
Peter BeaucageLila
Remi DingrevilleSandia
Sanjeev RajaBerkeley
Stefano FallettaHarvard
Tyler MartinNIST
Wesley ReinhartPenn State
William RatcliffNIST
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Created February 26, 2026, Updated June 15, 2026
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