News

2024

  • December: Yi-Ting is featured in the CEMS newsletter for her work with Hokkaido University on sulfide cathodes for Li-ion batteries
  • November: The DMC lab welcomes new PhD students Zichen Huang (Chemical Engineering) and Chris Akiki (Chemical Enginering)!
  • October: Prof. Bartel quoted in MIT Technology Review story, discussing recent work from Meta on massive, open materials datasets for machine learning interatomic potential training
  • September: Yi-Ting's work with Hokkaido University on thiophosphate cathode materials for Li-ion batteries published in Chemistry of Materials
  • September: The DMC lab joins MRSEC IRG-1 to study electrolyte-gated metal oxides
  • September: Prof. Bartel and colleagues at UMN awarded an NSF Research Traineeship grant to train students on interdisciplinary research at the intersection of data science, atomistic simulations, and systems engineering
  • September: The DMC lab welcomes new undergrad member Jingyi Fang!
  • August: Prof. Bartel quoted in MRS Bulletin story, discussing recent work from U Michigan / Samsung on self-driving labs for materials discovery.
  • May: The DMC lab visits Spring Lake Park High School to talk about our research and our paths to becoming scientists!
  • May: The DMC lab welcomes new undergrad member Talia Glinberg!
  • May: Sean graduates with a B.S. in Chemical Engineering!
  • May: Prof. Bartel presents on AI for Science at the Midwest Machine Learning Symposium
  • April: Kyle, Nathan, and Jane present posters at the Stahl Forum
  • April: Prof. Bartel visits 3M as the keynote speaker for the 2024 Computational Technology Symposium
  • April: Prof. Bartel and Yi-Ting present at MRS
  • April: Yi-Ting passes her prelim exam to advance to PhD candidacy!
  • April: Kyle passes his prelim exam to advance to PhD candidacy!
  • March: Prof. Bartel is named as a Scialog Fellow in Sustainable Minerals, Materials, and Metals 
  • March: The DMC lab welcomes new postdoc Nathan Szymanski!
  • March: Kyle receives an NDSEG fellowship
  • March: Kyle and Yi-Ting present at the APS March Meeting
  • March: Kyle is published in Nanoscale as first author
  • January: The DMC lab welcomes new undergrad member Jerry Kappuzha!

2023

  • December: Jane passes her prelim exam to advance to PhD candidacy!
  • November: Prof. Bartel quoted in MIT Technology Review article on work from Google DeepMind on AI for materials discovery.
  • November: Paper co-authored by Prof. Bartel on autonomous labs for inorganic synthesis published in Nature (featured in WIRED, Berkeley Engineering News, Science News)
  • November: Prof. Bartel is named as a Scialog Fellow in Negative Emissions Science
  • November: The DMC lab welcomes new PhD student members Adelina Carr (Chemical Engineering) and Armand Lannerd (Materials Science)!
  • September: The DMC lab attends workshop applying data science to materials research
  • September: Collaborator Prof. Akira Miura visits the DMC lab, coming all the way from Hokkaido, Japan
  • September: The DMC lab welcomes new undergrad members Simon Hjalatson and Jacob Nelson!
  • August: Kyle and Jane receive fellowships from the University of Minnesota Data Science Initiative
  • July: Fun teaching and learning machine learning for molecular science at the i-COMSE Summer School at UMN
  • March: The DMC Lab enjoys meeting with industry to discuss data science in ChemE/Mat Sci at the innaugural Peter O. Stahl Advanced Design Forum
  • February: Madhulika Mazumder joins the group as a postdoc after completing her PhD in Chemical Sciences at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research
  • February: Prof. Bartel presents a webinar as part of the TRYST, IIT Delhi technology conference. More details available here.
  • January: Sean is awarded a UROP fellowship to support his UG research

2022