BIDMaP congratulates our Co-Director, Omar Yaghi, on being named University Professor—UC’s highest faculty honor. Omar is “the perfect scholar” for this title, having invented the field of reticular...
BIDMaP Postdoctoral Fellow, Zhiling (Zach) Zheng, has been honored with the prestigious 2025 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award. This international...
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation is transforming industries worldwide, and the field of science is no exception.
At the recent BIDMaP session at the University of California...
A high-profile session during SF Climate Week's "AI and Climate Symposium: From Cutting-Edge Research to Commercialization" brought together leading scientists to showcase how...
BIDMaP, together with Bakar Climate Labs, hosted the inaugural “AI and Climate Symposium: From Cutting-Edge Research to Commercialization.” The symposium brought together...
BIDMaP congratulates our Postdoctoral Fellow Zhiling (Zach) Zheng on receiving the prestigious Inflection Award for his impactful research on climate change solutions.
Large Language Models are transforming reticular chemistry by accelerating materials discovery through AI driven insights. These generative models assist scientists in extracting knowledge, designing materials, and analyzing experimental data...
A new feature article explores Omar Yaghi’s pioneering efforts to integrate artificial intelligence with reticular chemistry, a field he helped establish. By harnessing AI-driven models, Yaghi and his...
We are excited to announce the second annual EarthTech Symposium. Building on the
success of last year’s inaugural event, EarthTech2024 will once again bring together
experts from across campus to engage in discussions about the role of emerging
science and technologies in addressing society's most pressing challenges...
Omar Yaghi, the James and Neeltje Tretter Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, and graduate student Zihui Zhou are senior author and first author respectively of a paper that will appear online on Oct. 23 in the journal Nature. UC Berkeley researchers created a highly...
The Synthesis Advanced Research Challenge (SARC), a multiyear, multimillion-dollar initiative by the Toyota Research Institute (TRI), has selected four winning applications to focus on the development of...
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...
