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Nathan Fox

What I do:Nathan Fox is an AI Scientist at MIDAS, specializing in developing and applying AI tools to help scientists analyze complex environmental datasets. His work focuses on making machine learning, computer vision, and geospatial analysis accessible for biodiversity monitoring, conservation, and ecosystem research. Who I am:Before joining MIDAS, Nathan was a Schmidt AI in ...

Jamila Taaki

In data from telescopes, exoplanet signals are masked by complex instrumental and astrophysical noise sources of apriori unknown form. Conventional exoplanet-detection pipelines perform sequential data processing to mitigate noise, relying on incomplete signal models at each step, which can lower overall detection performance. My research analyzes the statistical properties of exoplanet data-processing architectures to design ...

Xiaofeng Liu

Freshwater ecosystems are experiencing increasing water quality degradation globally due to climate, environmental factors, and human activities. My research focuses on developing cutting-edge, interdisciplinary tools to better understand, predict, and mitigate these impacts on freshwater quality and ecosystem health. By integrating diverse data sources and methods, including in situ measurements, satellite observations, process-based models, statistical ...

Madeline Peters

Madeline is a proud Pittsburgher and Torontonian with training in mathematical and computational biology, particularly the ecology and evolution of malaria. Madeline’s current research interests focus on developing our quantitative understanding of basic biological processes that underly within-host infection dynamics. She is working towards a new approach for developing compact, predictive models of within-host infection ...

Xin Wei

Xin’s research interests include risk, reliability, and resilience analysis of natural hazards under climate change, leveraging interdisciplinary approaches such as remote sensing, geospatial modeling, data-driven and physics-based models. Before joining the University of Michigan, he earned his PhD in Civil Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University under the supervision of Prof. Lulu Zhang. He was ...

Zheng Guo

Zheng is interested in applying AI-based program synthesis tools to automate the craft of engineering simulation programs and redesign data structures and algorithms to optimize performance. This will not solely significantly expedite the advancement of engineering simulation software but also redefine the approach of developers within these systems, fostering increased efficiency. The aspiration is for ...

Haotian Chen

Haotian received his D.Phil. from University of Oxford in 2022, and BSc from University of California, San Diego in 2019. With a background in chemistry, his research interest lies at the intersection of AI and Electrochemistry. Specifically, he pioneered Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) for electrochemistry simulation and has 16 first authored publication to date. At ...

Xinyu Liu

Xinyu (Cindy) Liu holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Georgia Tech, with a doctoral minor in Transportation Systems and Engineering. Xinyu’s research interest is to develop stochastic optimization and models, data-driven methods, and computational tools to inform the design and operations of emerging mobility services, systems, infrastructures, and facilities. With the Schmidt AI in ...

Eunjae Shim

Biocatalysis bears great potential to accelerate the synthesis of functional organic molecules by leveraging the ability of enzymes to catalyze reactions remarkably selectively. To facilitate its application, we aim to predict suitable enzymes for new substrates by viewing biocatalysis as a heterogeneous enzyme-substrate network. The models will be prospectively applied toward preparing pharmaceutically relevant molecules ...