Date Oct 9, 2024, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Location Bowen Hall Auditorium 222 Details Event Description Advancing Artificial Intelligence Approaches for the Discovery of Organic SemiconductorsAbstract: Organic semiconductors (OS) derived from π-conjugated molecules and polymers are of broad interest across a range of electronic and optical technologies. How molecular design and material processing merge to result in OS with optimal properties to function in a given device application, however, remains largely a mixture of art and science. To enable machine-driven OS design and discovery, we seek to develop and implement artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML) approaches to enhance and expedite the search for new materials. Here, we will discuss the development of ML models to rapidly predict properties of molecular building blocks and the final OS. Further, we will discuss the development of software and tools to enable automated, robotic experimentation. Bio: Chad Risko is the John C. Hubbard Professor of Chemistry in the University of Kentucky (UK) Department of Chemistry and is an affiliated faculty member of the UK Center for Applied Energy Research. Since 2021, Chad serves as the Faculty Director of the Office of Undergraduate Research at UK and as an Associate Editor at Chemistry of Materials. Chad’s research blends principles from organic and physical chemistry, condensed-matter physics, materials science, and data science and artificial intelligence/machine learning to develop computational materials chemistry approaches to better understand and design materials for advanced electronics and power generation and storage applications. For his research and teaching, Chad received the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award, was selected as a Cottrell Scholar (Research Corporation for Science Advancement, RCSA), and was an RCSA Scialog Fellow for Advanced Energy Storage. At UK, Chad has been honored with the 2019 UK College of Arts & Sciences Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentoring, and the 2021 UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award.All seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 -1:00 p.m. in the Bowen Hall Auditorium Room 222. A light lunch is provided at 11:30 a.m. in the Bowen Hall Atrium immediately prior to the seminar.