Excited to welcome Steven Chavez and Aditya Nandy to UCLA! Stay tuned for big things coming from our department!

Please share broadly. My lab UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering will be recruiting up to 3 graduate students to begin in the 2025 academic year. Research topics include heterogeneous catalysis and chemical reaction engineering. See our website (stchavez2.wixsite.com) and attached document for details.

Thrilled to have the brilliant Samanvaya Srivastava give our department’s first seminar to celebrate his promotion to tenure! We are excited to see your continued success!

Thrilled to receive the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award!🚀 This launches a new research area for us to study dynamic processes at electrified interfaces in biology (e.g., ⚡️🧠 during an action potential) using our novel cryo-EM tools developed for #batteries. #NIHHighRisk

4 generations of electrochemical cell design. Stay tuned for generation 5 as we we take CO2 electrolyzers up in scales. UCLA Samueli Engineering UCLA Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Apply for the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship and join a cohort of scholars seeking to advance and accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in the natural sciences and engineering! aiscience.uchicago.edu

We’ve just finished writing the missing 15,616 Wikipedia articles to get complete coverage of all 19,255 human genes. We used PaperQA2, which has higher accuracy than existing human-written Wikipedia articles, as judged by blinded biology PhD students and postdocs. 1/5

Check out our new work taking ideas from active matter and applying them to generative diffusion!

In some cases, adding these ``active" degrees of freedom helps with generative properties

Check out new work by Cal on using Reinforcement Learning to control the dynamics of defects in an active nematic arxiv.org/abs/2411.09588

Congratulations to our incoming faculty Aditya Nandy Aditya Nandy for being named a Rising Star in AI! chemeng.ucla.edu/aditya-nandy-n…

Ligand Many-Body Expansion as a General Approach for Accelerating Transition Metal Complex Discovery pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Aditya Nandy the Kulik Group #JCIM Vol64 Issue24 #compchem

Next week’s entry in the AI & Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series features Suri Vaikuntanathan (Vaikuntanathan Lab), Professor at UChicago Chemistry! Join us on Tuesday, February 4th! datascience.uchicago.edu/events/17382/

Check out new work by Jordan in collaboration with Aaron Dinner and Petia Vlahovska ! arxiv.org/abs/2503.24120 We consider minimal protocels under non-equilibrium growth conditions and extract low (2) dimensional rules to describe their shapes.

Check out new work by Deb in collaboration with Martin, Margaret Gardel, Aleks Walczak and Thierry Mora : arxiv.org/abs/2504.15107 on how simple mechanosensitive agents can enable learning mechanisms

UCLA associate prof. Samanvaya Srivastava (@uclaengineering CNSI at UCLA) is co-leading a $7.5M U.S. National Science Foundation-funded initiative to revolutionize sustainable chemical manufacturing—enabling cleaner, scalable production of high-value chemicals 🧪 cnsi.ucla.edu/may-27-2025-na…

New preprint! arxiv.org/abs/2508.14001 Joint work with Joshua Fernandes, Hyeongjoo Row and Kranthi Mandadapu!