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Austin McDannald (Fed)
Materials Research Engineer
Dr. McDannald is a staff material scientist at NIST. He received his B.S. in Physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2010 and Ph.D in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2016. At NIST he works on developing autonomous experimental material science systems. His particular interest is on encoding physics into the machine learning algorithms used to drive autonomous experiments.