Atomic architect. Wrangler of neural nets. Geometry junkie. blondegeek.

Associate Professor
MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Principal Investigator, Atomic Architects
MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics

Upcoming Travel and Talks

• MIT Sports Summit, March 4, 2026
• APS March Meeting, Denver, Colorado, March 15-20, 2026
  • Atomic Architects group talks:
    • Tess Smidt — Data Science For Physicists Tutorial II, Sun 3/15 3pm, Room 601/603
    • Jigyasa Nigam — Reconstructing atomic geometries from concise local representations, Mon 3/16, 9:12am, Bluebird 3G
    • Adriana Ladera — Stabilizing Structural Transitional States between 1- and 2-D Topologies via H-Bond Crystal Engineering, Mon 3/16, 10:36am, Room 406
    • Elyssa Hofgard — Using Equivariant Neural Networks to Learn Multipolar Order Parameters, Mon 3/16, 5:54pm, Room 503
    • Tess Smidt — Context, Culture, and Craft in Effective AI for Physics (invited), Tue 3/17, 1:12pm, Bellco Theatre 1-2
    • Emily Oliphant — Bringing physical insight into ML through COGITO-based architectures, Thu 3/19, 9:00am, Room 601
  • Collaborator talks:
    • Chuin Wei Tan (Harvard, Kozinsky group) — Methodological and Performance Advances in NequIP and Allegro, Mon 3/16, 8:36am, Room 605
    • Morten Eskildsen (University of Notre Dame) — Critical depinning and collective dynamics of magnetic skyrmion lattices, Mon 3/16, 9:12am, Room 505
• CMU-UPitt CPCB Seminar, March 27, 2026
• Keller Colloquium Talk at Caltech, April 20, 2026
• CECAM, June 1-3, 2026, Cornell Tech
• 2026 Computational Chemistry GRC, Castelldefels, Spain, July 19–24, 2026
• TYC 20th Anniversary Symposium, London, UK, December 14-15, 2026