In-Person Information Session – Thurs. Sept. 7th It is our pleasure to invite you to our Informatics Skunkworks Information Session on Thursday September 7th from 4:30-5:30 pm in 1410 Engineering Drive, room 175. Machines that …
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All-Hands Meeting Spring 2023
What an incredible finale to the semester! We concluded our journey with the much-anticipated All-Hands meeting, honoring our exceptional Skunkworks team and their remarkable accomplishments in research and machine learning throughout the semester. Keep an …
Congratulations to Skunkworker Vidit Agrawal for Winning a Sophmore Research Fellowship!
We are proud to announce that Vidit Agrawal has been awarded the Sophomore Research Fellowship for his project on “Accelerated Error Bar Predictions in Machine Learning Models”! Way to go Vidit. See his LinkedIn post. …
Skunkworks Participating in Growing the Undergraduate Machine Learning Research (UMLR) Community
The Undergraduate Machine Learning Research (UMLR) community is a network of people interested in engaging students in authentic undergraduate research projects that use machine learning, data science, and informatics techniques to solve problems. We want …
New methods on using Large Language Models to Extract Materials Databases from Literature from Skunkworks Team
We are excited to share two new papers showing great capabilities for large language models to extract data from papers. This work originated as a Skunkworks project. Congratulations to undergraduates Shrey Modi, Anna Latosinska, Jinming …
Starting Spring 2023 Tutorial Series – February 15
The Undergraduate Machine Learning Research (UMLR) Community of which the Informatics Skunkworks is a part will be hosting its first in a series of introductory machine learning tutorials next week! The 30 minute hands-on tutorial …
Spring 2023 Mentor Check-in Meetings
New this semester the Informatics Skunkworks will be hosting bi-weekly Mentor Check-in Meetings to support the people leading undergraduate research groups. The goals of these short 30 minute online Zoom calls are to give mentors …
Spring 2023 Information Sessions – Jan 19th and Jan 20th
It is our pleasure to invite you to our Informatics Skunkworks Information Sessions on Thursday January 19th from 12:00-1:00 pm in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) building, room 221. Machines that “think” are transforming …
Successful End of Fall 22 Semester All-Hands Meeting
Thanks for everyone that attended the All-Hands meeting last week! We had 40 people in person despite the weather and were able to add in a Zoom component as well for people that were stuck …
Generative AI guides on the Skunkworks (just some fun)
From the new OpenAI Chat NLP tool (https://chat.openai.com/chat). Pretty impressive! Prompt: Write a vision statement for an effort to engage undergraduates in data science research at the interface of science and engineering Output: Our vision …