Conference Schedule

Speakers:

• Melanie Woodin | President, University of Toronto
• Leah Cowen | Vice-President, Research and Innovation, and Strategic Initiatives, University of Toronto
• Alan Aspuru-Guzik | Director, Acceleration Consortium

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• Mita Taheri | Johns Hopkins University

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• James Love | Novo Nordisk A/S

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• Wei Yang Tham | Reproducibility and automation in science
• Emily Moore | Bringing sustainability in: Using group model building to integrate social, environmental and economic considerations into sdl research
• Kristina McElheran | The rise of industrial AI in America
• Raviv Murciano-Goroff | The effect of automation technologies in university labs

Presenters:

• Brandon Keith | Automated high throughput screening for vaccine formulation development
• Xiao Li  | Accelerating drug development through laboratory automation and AI
• Andrew Kukor | Developing a self-driving HTE lab for pharmaceutical process development
• Jon Stokes | AI for designing novel synthetically tractable antibiotics

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• Shi Xuan Leong | Accelerating chemistry digitization with vision-language models
• Fang Liu | Detecting thermodynamic phase transition via explainable machine learning of photoemission spectroscopy
• S. Hessam M. Mehr | Bringing back the human touch: Expert-in-the-loop AI in chemistry using probabilistic models
• TBD

Presenters:

• Olivier Fontaine | Battery chemistry meets artificial intelligence
• Tejs Vegge | AI-accelerated computational discovery of molecular, enzymatic and inorganic catalysts for sustainable fuels and chemicals
• Holly Fruehwald | Ai-assisted optimization and accelerated synthesis of 2D conductive MOF CuTHQ
• Simon K. Steensen | FINALES - Developing a general modular data infrastructure for materials acceleration platforms to facilitate data-driven battery research and design
• F. Pelayo García de Arquer | Automated protocol optimization towards reliable active and stable catalysts for water splitting

Presenters:

• Yuchi Zhao | Anyplace: Learning generalized object placement for robot manipulation
• Pablo Quijano Velasco | Qubots: Modular framework for the design of automated tools for materials experimentation
• Süleyman Er  | Simulating self-driving labs: A virtual framework for smarter automation
• Maria Politi | Development of an end-to-end autonomous liquid-liquid extraction platform
• Woosuck Shin | Development of automated system for ceramic powder dispensing and grinding
• Dimitrios Chatzinikolis | Developing a self-driving hte lab for pharmaceutical process development

Join us on the second floor of Eataly Yorkville for an unforgettable evening of Italian cuisine and drinks. Mingle with fellow attendees, celebrate the conference and enjoy live music.