Workshop: Creating a National Network of Cloud and Self-Driving Labs
October 23-25, 2023about
Federal investments and innovations from academia and industry have brought us to the cusp of a revolution in scientific research, where advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning combined with automated instrumentation can drive automated research workflows. Cloud labs and self-driving labs (SDLs) can allow researchers across the country to do more research through these automated research workflows. A national network of cloud labs and SDLs would help usher in a revolution in lab-based scientific research, moving science to be more efficient, more reproducible, more inclusive, more collaborative and more cost-effective.
Carnegie Mellon University is hosting a workshop convening key stakeholders to address the development, challenges and potential of cloud labs and SDLs. This event will bring together the multidisciplinary expertise from diverse sectors and institutions essential to establishing a national network. Aligned with the Year of Open Science, this workshop will also prioritize strategies for data sharing, reproducibility, advancing education and interdisciplinary research.
Key Highlights
Lowering access barriers to self-driving and automated platforms through technological and community-based solutions, including protocol sharing.
Expanding the scope of education through automated laboratories and employing active learning techniques.
Developing strategies to transfer lab infrastructure and protocols to open access platforms, benefiting the community and future commercialization.
Organizing committee
Milad Abolhasani
Associate Professor & University Faculty Scholar, North Carolina State University
Stefan Bernhard
Professor, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
T.J. Brunette
Program Director of Cloud Lab Automation and Protein Design
G. Sayeed Choudhury
Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of Open Source Programs Office, Carnegie Mellon University
Florent Letronne
Director of the CMU Cloud Lab
Theresa Mayer
Vice President for Research, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Juana Mendenhall
Walter E. Massey Professor of the Physical Sciences, Department Chair, Morehouse College
Joshua Schrier
Kim B. and Stephen E. Bepler Chair Professor of Chemistry, Physical Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Fordham University
This workshop is supported by an award from the TIP Directorate, National Science Foundation under Award No. 2335891.