Omar Yaghi, Co-director and Chief Scientist at the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet, BIDMaP, and the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry, has been honored with the prestigious Balzan Prize for 2024 of Switzerland and Italy. This award recognizes Yaghi's transformative contributions to the field of...
Sarah Jones has recently been appointed Executive Director of the Bakar Institute of Digital Materials for the Planet (BIDMaP) at UC Berkeley. Jones joins UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) following a distinguished career at Arizona State University and in the nuclear medicine industry. Research scientists...
Climate Change AI has announced its 2024 Innovation Grants program, which will fund year-long projects at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. The program offers up to $150,000 per project, with a total funding pool of up to $1.4 million. This initiative is supported by Quadrature Climate Foundation...
BIDMaP's Prof. Omar Yaghi was honored with the prestigious Tang Prize for Sustainable Development in recognition of his pioneering work with Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs). This esteemed accolade celebrates individuals who have contributed substantially to advancing sustainable development, particularly through groundbreaking innovations in science and technology...
On April 24, 2024, Fernando Pérez, the BIDS Faculty Director, was honored with the 2023 Exceptional Public Service Medal from NASA. This prestigious recognition is awarded to non-government individuals for their outstanding contributions to NASA's mission. Pérez received the award for his role in creating and leading the open-source Project...
This symposium aims to bring together leading experts and thought leaders in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and physical sciences, working on applications of AI for climate innovation, particularly focusing on areas in climate and weather and materials science for sustainability.
Prof. Omar Yaghi has been awarded the esteemed Science for the Future Ernest Solvay Prize by Syensqo. This accolade celebrates chemistry leaders whose breakthroughs are shaping the future of the field and humanity. Yaghi is being recognized for his pioneering work on reticular materials, including metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent...
*Applications for the 2024-2025 cohort are completed at this time. Applications for the 2025-2026 cohort will open in early Fall 2024.*
The BIDMaP Emerging Scholars Program is accepting fellowship applications from recent PhDs in basic science or data science fields interested in working at the interface of machine learning...
*Please note this job posting is no longer accepting applications*
The University of California at Berkeley is recruiting two tenured or tenure-track professors with an expected start date of July 1, 2024; one in ML/AI for chemistry, materials science, and chemical biology, and one in ML/AI methods for science including software platforms...
In a groundbreaking scientific article recently published in ACS Central Science, a team of Berkeley researchers unveils the transformative potential of ChatGPT-based assistants in laboratory activities. By integrating a multi-AI system comprising seven independent ChatGPT assistant instances, the study showcases their remarkable ability to expedite the discovery of MOFs and...
BASF has become the first company to produce metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) on a production scale of several hundred tons per year. MOFs are highly crystalline structures with nanometer-sized pores and a large surface area, which offer a high capacity for the storage of carbon dioxide, the dehumidification of air for...
EarthTech2023 is a Symposium organized by the College of Computing, Data
Science, and Society in partnership with the Bakar Institute of
Digital Materials for the Planet at UC Berkeley, with...
In a new paper published in ACS Editors' Choice, ChatGPT was trained by BIDMaP faculty and students via precise prompt engineering to efficiently text mine the academic literature on metal-organic frameworks (MOFS). The resulting "ChatGPT Chemistry Assistant" successfully produced highly accurate synthesis condition predictions for over 800 MOFs. Congratulations to Zhileng...
UC Berkeley researchers have designed an extreme-weather proven, hand-held device that can extract and convert water molecules from the air into drinkable water using only ambient sunlight as its energy source, a study published in Nature Water today shows.
This atmospheric water harvester used an ultra-porous material known as a metal-organic...
