AI and Automation Approaches for Instrumentation and Measurement Science

Presentations

• AI/ML-Enabled Wavefront Sensing and Phase Engineering for Next-Generation Synchrotron Beamlines

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Xianbo Shi

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Xianbo Shi

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Luca Rebuffi

  • Lahsen Assoufid

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• AI-driven robotics for optics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2505.17985 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Sachin Vaidya

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Sachin Vaidya

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Shiekh Uddin

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Shrish Choudhary

  • Zhuo Chen

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Raafat Salib

  • Luke Huang

  • Dirk Englund

    • Columbia University

  • Marin Soljacic

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• Towards foundation models for large-scale scientific facilities: Characterizing utility, scaling and transfer learning

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Nikolai Yampolsky

  Authors

  • Mahindra Rautela

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • En-Chuan Huang

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

  • Nikolai Yampolsky

  • Alexander Scheinker

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL)

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• Transforming Single Crystal Neutron Diffraction with Agentic AI

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Zhongcan Xiao

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Zhongcan Xiao

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Guannan Zhang

    • Oak Ridge National Lab

  • Zachary Morgan

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Viktor Reshniak

  • Xiaoping Wang

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• Advanced simulations for the shielding design of the Target-Viewing Periscope for ORNL STS

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Vitaly Pronskikh

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Vitaly Pronskikh

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Tucker McClanahan

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Igor Remec

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Lukas Zavorka

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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• NXRefine: An automated workflow for analyzing single crystal diffuse x-ray scattering

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Raymond Osborn

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Raymond Osborn

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Matthew Krogstad

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Stephan Rosenkranz

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Zachary Anderson

    • Argonne National Laboratory, Materials Science Division

  • Yusu Wang

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Jared Coles

    • Northern Illinois University

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• Influence of Matrix Effect of Laser Produced Plasma for Soil Nutrient Measurements

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Zachary Karg

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  Authors

  • Zachary Karg

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  • Stirling Wallace

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  • Hunter Paxton

  • Samuel Knudson

  • Mazhar Sher

  • Samuel Kessinger

  • Jon Kellar

  • Tanvi Govil

  • Rajesh Sani

  • Brent Wiesenburger

  • Mike Rizor

  • Carson Daly

  • Prasoon Diwakar

    • South Dakota School of Mines and Technology

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• AutoLab: A Vision-Guided Robotic Platform for Reproducible 2D Material Stacking

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Publication: Li, Y. et al., "A Practical Flake Segmentation and Indexing Pipeline for Automated 2D Material Stacking," arXiv:2509.01826 (2025). https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01826

  Presenters

  • Yutao Li

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Yutao Li

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory

  • Huandong Chen

  • Noah Lape

    • Dickinson College

  • Darren Medy

  • Ryan Bendelson

  • Logan Sherlock

  • Daniel Ostrom

  • Raymond Blackwell

    • Stony Brook University (SUNY)

  • Kazuhiro Fujita

    • Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)

  • Abhay Pasupathy

    • Columbia University

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• Machine-learning-enhanced NV-center quantum sensing

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: Shraddha Rajpal, Zeeshan Ahmed, and Tyrus Berry, "Evaluating probabilistic and data-driven inference models for fiber-coupled NV-diamond temperature sensors," Opt. Express 33, 19037-19050 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Qiaochu Guo

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  Authors

  • Qiaochu Guo

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology

  • Shraddha Rajpal

  • Tyrus Berry

  • Zeeshan Ahmed

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