iChem Therefore iAm. Founding Director, Institute for Strategic AI (ISA) | Visiting Researcher @MSFTResearch | Professor of Computational & Materials Chemistry
We launch the Institute for Strategic AI (ISA) at @UniNewEngland.
We link Generative AI and Agentic Workflows directly to physical robotic labs to engineer autonomous discovery loops, accelerating R&D cycle times.
https://t.co/FTZPgBP24T
#AI#AutonomousSystems#Robotics
@Lab_initio@MSFTResearch Finally, a reference dataset large enough to train ML potentials properly. 73k W1-F12 points change what I can model in materials.
“The newly-launched Institute for Strategic AI [UNE] has been using the tech to automate the discovery and testing of potential solvents that can isolate components of the silicon wafers efficiently.”
The MSR-ACC/TAE25 database of 73,000 W1-F12 CCSD(T)/CBS atomization energies is now published in Scientific Data! A tremendous collaboration with the @MSFTResearch#AI4Science Team!
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#CompChem#DeepLearning#DFT#QuantumChemistry
We're proud to be part of the beta release of @nvidia's ALCHEMI Toolkit.
This toolkit is a unified environment for building custom atomistic simulation workflows, built on the same work that powered speedups to Orb-v3, the latest version of our simulation model Orb.
Recap from March’s Orb-v3 update: Up to 1.7x faster inference on large systems (up to 100,000 atoms) and up to 33x faster inference on batched small systems with TorchSim support.
Our forthcoming OrbMol-v2 model will leverage components from the toolkit including:
→ PME electrostatics for periodic Coulomb interactions
→ The MTK integrator for batched constant-pressure molecular dynamics
The result: materially lower inference time.
Very proud of my PhD student @HengZ_921 and joint work with @nagyrpeter and @TCPUniLu: delivering unprecedented DFT accuracy for charged environments (e.g., metalloenzymes). Now in Science Advances:
https://t.co/KRHN8i5ALG
@unifrChemistry
Skala is now clearly the best DFT functional in the widely accepted community benchmark GMTKN55, and is faster than other high-accuracy functionals.
If you're generating DFT data today, go ahead and use it! @MSFTResearch#AI#Science#MachineLearning
Does AlphaFold’s latent space encode only the native state or something like a distribution over conformations? We begin to answer this question with ConforNets, a mechanism for producing diverse states, or very specific ones, via inference-time adaption of OF3p’s latent space👇
Thanks to Prime Minister @AlboMP for the warm welcome today.
We are making our largest investment in Australia to date, committing A$25 billion to expand AI and cloud capacity, strengthen cybersecurity, and help people and organizations across the country build digital skills.
Exciting new update of Skala. This table should speak for itself: Skala is now the leading density functional in main-group chemistry surpassing previous SOTA hybrid functional at a cheaper, semi-local cost.
#compchem#ai4science
I'm thrilled that the new #deeplearning#DFT Skala-1.1 functional is out! https://t.co/IcC7DNaJMM
Skala-1.1 breaks the longstanding accuracy-to-cost trade-off of Jacob's Ladder.
Amazing collaboration with @paolagorigiorgi and the entire @MSFTResearch AI4Science team!
#CompChem
Today we're sharing a major Skala update: new paper and model release. Skala is a deep-learned XC functional for DFT: 2.8 kcal/mol on GMTKN55, wins 32/55 subsets & surpasses SOTA hybrids in accuracy at semi-local cost.
Paper: https://t.co/UEyLSM42TI
Code: https://t.co/6KLFciAkNy
🎶 If you like it - put a ring on it! 🎵
But... where?? 🤔
Alex's (@awahab_pg) new paper maps the rules of the game for pyrene-based systems! 🥳
From Rings to Properties: Understanding the Effect of Annelation on Pyrene https://t.co/ibCmPH17ph
#CompChem + Experiment driving real-world impact! Collaborating with @Joshinano & Nobel Laureate Kostya Novoselov using @NCInews supercomputer, we found calcium ions + graphene oxide can boost atmospheric water harvesting 3×!💧⚙️
https://t.co/duo0ChUY8R
https://t.co/5FqaQC086k
The largest snowfall in recorded history really made the @UniNewEngland campus look like Narnia.
More photos from the day: https://t.co/01iAGzKBqU
#UNE#Armidale#Snow#Australia
Yesterday's historic snowfall turned the @UniNewEngland campus into a true winter wonderland. Here are some photos from the incredible day: https://t.co/01iAGzKBqU
#UNE#Armidale#Snow#Australia
Thrilled to receive the 2025 Research Collaboration Leadership Award from @UniNewEngland
A huge thank you to all my incredible #CompChem and experimental collaborators — this award is for you! 🙏
Grateful to #UNE for fostering an environment of high-impact research partnerships