Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦

Building SDL @UUtah with @taylordsparks
Ex-Surface Analysis Engineer @MicronTech 🔬
Indie Gesamtkunstwerk Artist 🎨
Affiliate Alum @MIT
Alum @UAlberta

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

Not all materials knowledge is portable.

What works in simulation may fail in experiment.
What helps you search may fail at giving the exact answer.

PEGKi is my attempt to make that transfer problem measurable.

New preprint by yours truely,
https://t.co/v2t01ee4vQ

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

Presenting my poster at Accelerated Conference 2025 (@acceleration_c ) in Toronto next week! I’ll be sharing PEGKi – a framework for gamified fidelity measurement & policy assignment in SDLs.

🧪 Poster 56 – Day 2 (Aug 12)

#AI #SelfDrivingLabs #MachineLearning #Accelerated2025

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@ProfBuehlerMIT @taylordsparks

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@Robert_Palgrave Saw that paper back in December—already had red flags lol. I'm worried it��s just one of many frauds slipping into the literature and corrupting datasets used in materials informatics data mining.

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

Thrilled to share our latest tools for self-driving labs & autonomous experiments at #TMS2025 with Sparks Group! We'll cover many topics from hardware to software, and more. Join us in Vegas, Mar 24–27! #AI #MaterialsScience #Research #SDL

@taylordsparks

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

🚀 Excited to present at #MaRDA2025's poster session! We're scaling fidelity assignments via gamified learning for self-driving labs & autonomous materials science.

🖥️ Join online!
📅 Feb 18, 2025 | ⏰ 2:20–3:20 PM ET

#AI #OpenScience #SDL
@taylordsparks @MaRDA_alliance

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

Happy New Year!🎉Grateful & determined as I recover from leukopenia, excited for 2025: my academic debut sharing research on self-driving labs & autonomous research systems transforming materials discovery. Huge thanks to @taylordsparks for the mentorship. Here’s to innovation!🚀

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@taylordsparks @XirtamEsrevni @SterlingBaird1 @johnkitchin @MaximZiatdinov In practice, the learning and deployment parts are integrated separately to avoid the overhead loading of I/O of analytics on top of operations, given the budget. I might start off to see if anything can be divide-and-conquer.

[Peyman Milanfar @docmilanfar]

publishing in AI

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@taylordsparks @Sergei_Imaging Just like my parents who walked uphill both ways to school and back home 🙃

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

I call this a personal attack.

[terminally onλine εngineer @tekbog]

software engineer getting into ML and checking the data science's team repos full of jupyter notebooks

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@Robert_Palgrave Sometimes reading a professor's twitter makes learning better than reading 10 papers 🫡

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@taylordsparks 🙏 Hope you feel better soon

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@CoryMSimon

[The Struggling Scientists @TheStrugglingS4]

Can you blame him?
That salary is looking mighty fine 👀

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@taylordsparks

[Taylor Sparks @taylordsparks]

🚨I have several materials science PhD positions immediately available!🚨
LLMs(NSF), generative models (DoD), and composites (industry). If you have talented students, especially those that enjoy the outdoors, send them my way! Starting fall 2023 or Spring 2024!

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@SterlingBaird1 @KardexRemstar If cross-contamination is not a concern and samples are solid/in containers, this is pretty good as a product in my opinion.

[Kinston Ackölf 🇨🇦 @KinstonWithoutG]

@taylordsparks That means your talk is so good that it will be alarming. 😎