Mehrad Ansari

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Staff Scientist at Acceleration Consortium

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Education

Degrees

Chemical Engineering, Ph.D.

University of Rochester UofR

UofR

Chemical Engineering, M .Sc.

University of Rochester UofR

UofR

Environmental Engineering, M .Sc.

Missouri S&T MST

MST

Chemical Engineering, B .Sc.

University of Tehran

Languages & Tools

Python

MATLAB

JavaScript

HTML5

CSS

TensorFlow

PyTorch

Scikit-learn

Skills

Deep Learning

Large Language Models

Bayesian Optimization

Cloud (AWS)

High Performance Computing

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Software Development

Web Development

Awards

3rd Place Radical AI Winner. LLM Hackathon for Materials and Chemistry (2024)

2nd Place Winner. Bayesian Optimization Hackathon for Chemistry and Materials (2024)

Acceleration Consortium Research Fellowship (2023)

1st Place Winner. Battery Informatics & ML Competition, Materials Research Society (2022)

Kwang-Yu and Lee-Chien Wang Fellowship (2021)

Earl W. Costich Fellowship (2020)

Mike Alizadeh Scholarship (2017)

University of Sharif Computer-Aided Chemical Engineering Contest (2014)

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Work

Staff Scientist

Acceleration Consortium
Toronto, ON
(June 2023 - Present)

Research Assistant

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
(Jan 2019 - May 2023)

Energy & Materials Research Engineer

Toyota Research Institute
Los Altos, CA
(May 2022 - March 2023)

Lead CFD Analyst

Missouri S&T Solar Car Design Team
Rolla, MO
(2016 - 2018)

Research Assistant

Missouri S&T
Rolla, MO
(2016 - 2018)

Manufacturing Process Modeling Intern

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
Akron, OH
(May - Dec 2017)

Engineering Intern

Emden-Leer University of Applied Sciences
Emden, Germany
(July - Sep 2014)

Boring, show me some cool apps!

Scientific Software

dZiner: Agentic framework for closed/human-in-the-loop rational inervse design of materials (NeurIPS 2024 Spotlight).

Chemistry-informed AI agent within Slack API.

Chemist AI agent for developing materials datasets from scientific literature with natural language prompts.

Answer scientific questions from pre-print servers using Langchain and OpenAI.

Automated deep learning framework for early prediction of degradation of batteries with unknown cycling histories.

PEPTIDE.BIO

Edge-computing sequence-based prediction of peptide properties using recurrent neural networks.

Plugin with TensorFlow GPU-accelerated operations combined with HOOMD-Blue molecular dynamics simulation engine.

Python implementation of Maximum Entropy principle for simulation-based inference.

Python implementation of compartmental disease modeling.

Automated workflow in CFD modeling combined with active-learning and symbolic regression.

Real-time HPC Monitoring

Web-based app for real-time monitoring of CPU resources in SLRUM using a Raspberry Pi.

Gelator Transparency Predictor (GTP)

Web-based app for predicting transparency of cationic and anionic peptide-based gelators using kernel ridge regression.

Let's see some interesting projects!

Projects

Inverse Design of Materials with AI Agents

A Chemistry-informed AI agent for designing materials with desired properties.

Agent-based learning of chemical datasets

Using an AI agent with a large language model at its core, we can create chemical datasets and predict properties of new materials.

Where did Covid-19 start in the state of New York?

Using data from CSSE at John Hopkins University, we infer the source of Covid-19 outbreak in the State of New York.

Answer scientific questions from pre-print servers using Langchain and OpenAI.

Learning Peptide Properties with Positive Examples Only

Using sequential information and only positive examples, we predict peptide properties.

Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Microfluidics

Numerical modeling of spontaneous capillary-driven flow in open microchannels using adaptive mesh refinement.

Finite Difference Analysis of Shallow Water Dynamics

Numerical modeling of shallow water equations using different temporal and spatial discretizations in Python.

Aerodynamic Design Optimization of Solar Car

3D wind tunnel simulation of a solar car to study drag force and drag coefficient.

Here's something fun!

Fun Stuff

Mt. Damavand's Peak
(5,671 m)

Maranjab Desert

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