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Aug 19, 2026 Presented recent work on machine-learned interatomic potentials for hafnia at ACS Fall 2026.
May 20, 2026 New preprint: TEM-Scientist: Verified Experimental Protocols for Agentic Electron Microscopy — a compile–rehearse–execute architecture that moves the language model above the instrument control loop for safe, verifiable autonomous TEM operation.
Mar 15, 2026 Our preprint AutoMOOSE: An Agentic AI for Autonomous Phase-Field Simulation is now on arXiv (2603.20986). The framework introduces a multi-agent LLM system that automates MOOSE input generation, execution, and post-processing.
Feb 10, 2026 Paper accepted in npj Computational Materials: Physically Interpretable Interatomic Potentials via Symbolic Regression and Reinforcement Learning (Varughese et al.).
Dec 01, 2025 Paper published in Materials Today: Solid Lubricant Mo₂TiC₂Tₓ MXene Coatings with Prolonged Macroscale Superlubricity (Sunkara et al.).
Apr 15, 2025 Invited talk at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore: AI/ML-Driven Multiscale Modeling for Materials and Devices.
Oct 01, 2024 Our paper Machine Learning Simple Interpretable Short Range Potential for Silica (Koneru et al., Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation) was featured on the cover of the journal.