News

2025

  • September: Prof. Bartel is awarded a DoD grant through the Defense Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (DEPSCoR) for work on Interfacial Control of Thin Film Growth During Molecular Beam Epitaxy.
  • September: Prof. Bartel is featured in the Materials Horizons Emerging Investigator Series, recognizing the group's work in computational materials science.
  • September: The DMC lab welcomes a new undergraduate member Eliana Scheele, a sophomore in Material Science!
  • August: Prof. Bartel teaches "Informatics for Chemistry and Materials Science I - Data-Driven Materials Design and Genomics" at Hokkaido University in Japan.
  • August: Adelina and Talia's work on Origins of chalcogenide perovskite instability is published in Journal of Materials Chemistry C! Prof. Bartel is also named an Emerging Investigator by JMCC in conjunction with this paper.
  • July: The DMC Lab attends NASSCC: North American Solid State Chemistry Conference. Nathan, Yi-Ting, and Adelina presented posters on electron density prediction, electrochemical redox, and chalcogenide perovskites. Prof. Bartel gave a talk on generative models for materials discovery.
  • July: Prof. Bartel is awarded an ENRTF grant for work on the thermodynamics of water splitting and storage in collaboration with Dauenhauer, Leighton, and Frisbie groups.
  • July: Nathan’s work on establishing baselines for generative discovery of inorganic crystals is published in Materials Horizons!
  • July: The DMC Lab attends CECAM: ML Advances for Molecular and Materials Property Prediction. Nathan presents a poster on topological descriptors for electron density and Prof. Bartel gives a talk on baselines for generative discovery of inorganic materials.
  • June: Jane presents at the Graduate Student Research Symposium for 3rd year chemistry students
  • June: Talia and Simon begin REUs at Caltech and UW Madison
  • June: The DMC lab welcomes new undergraduate members Zoe Lipschultz, an REU student through MRSEC, and Alec Bennyhoff, a rising senior in Chemical Engineering
  • June: Prof. Bartel is awarded a NSF grant through the Computer Enabled Science and Discovery program for work on constrained deep learning for property prediction in collaboration with the Sun group
  • June: AJ receives an NSF GRFP fellowship
  • June: The DMC Lab attends MTSM! Nathan spoke on physics-driven materials discovery, and Adelina, Talia, and Simon presented posters. Simon was awarded first prize in the poster competition!
  • May: Nathan’s work on topological descriptors for the electron density of inorganic solids is published in ACS Materials Letters.
  • April: Yi-Ting and Kyle receive first and second prize for their posters at the UMN Research Computing Exhibition
  • April: The DMC Lab attends the 3rd annual Stahl forum co-organized by Prof. Bartel. Nathan, Kyle, and Jane presented posters and Prof. Bartel gave a highlight of CEMS data science research alongside talks from industry leaders
  • March: Prof. Bartel is awarded an NSF grant through the Solid-State and Materials Chemistry program for work on chalcogenide semiconductors in collaboration with the Neilson group
  • January: Kyle and Nathan's work with the Jalan group on characterizing the growth of rutile Sn(1-x)GexO2 through oxygen-plasma assisted hMBE is published in Nano Letters
  • January: Kyle's work in collaboration with the Dauenhauer group on predicting the behavior of programmable catalytic systems is published in Digital Discovery

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