Artificial Intelligence

Ritankar Das: Chemistry as an economic powerhouse

May 2, 2024
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
At just 18 years old, he was the youngest person in over a hundred years to win the University Medal, and the first student from the College of Chemistry in 58 years to win the award.

Aditi Krishnapriyan: A two-way street between physics and machine learning

May 2, 2024
By Sarah C.P. Williams
Krishnapriyan uses physics knowledge to improve machine learning methods, and machine learning methods to tackle challenges in physics and chemistry.

Omar Yaghi appointed as University Professor

June 17, 2025
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
The University of California Board of Regents formally approved the appointment of Professor Omar M. Yaghi as University Professor.

Skin cancer mystery revealed in Yin and Yang protein

December 29, 2019
Jorge Salazar | https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/
Researchers in the UC Berkeley lab of John Kuriyan have utilized powerful NSF funded supercomputers at the University of Texas Advanced Computing Center and the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center to uncover the mechanism that activates cell mutations found in about 50 percent of melanomas.

Advancing reticular chemistry with large language models

February 27, 2025
by Tiffany Lohwater | Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society
UC Berkeley researchers in chemistry and computer science recently reported on their use of an AI tool to advance discovery in reticular chemistry and materials science.
https://cdss.berkeley.edu/news/advancing-reticular-chemistry-large-language-mode…

New machine-learning method makes computer simulations of atoms faster and more efficient

January 3, 2025
By Veronica Bartell | College of Chemistry
Researchers have created a new machine-learning method called EScAIP that makes simulations of atoms faster and more efficient.

UC Berkeley scientists collaborate with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany on catalyst digital design program

May 31, 2023
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, has today announced a three-year collaboration with the research group of John Hartwig at UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Teresa Head-Gordon receives COVID-19 research funding

June 25, 2020
UC Berkeley, College of Chemistry Press Release
Teresa Head-Gordon, Chancellor's Professor of Chemistry, Bioengineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, joins three colleagues from Berkeley Engineering who have received funding from the C3.ai Digital Transformation Institute for COVID-19 projects.

Three decades after UN milestone, experts convene to find AI climate solutions

March 21, 2024
By Rachel Leven | Berkeley Computing, Data Science, and Society
Aditi Krishnapriyan, Omar Yaghi, and colleagues are using the power of artificial intelligence to develop cutting-edge technology to stem the planet’s warming and its related impacts.

Markita Landry receives 2018 DARPA Young Faculty Award

July 18, 2018
Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Markita Landry has been awarded a prestigious two-year Department Of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award for her project Brain Chemical Signaling: A New Input Signal for Brain-Computer Interfaces.