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most citedRoadmap on Atomic-scale Semiconductor Devices

20 citations · 55 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

SPEAR: Structure Property Explainability with Attention Regularization

Aditya Raghavan, Utkarsh Pratiush, Dalton A. Pearl +4

Machine learning is increasingly used to learn structure property relationships from spectroscopic and diffraction data, yet its adoption in materials discovery is often limited by…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

LLM-Guided Open Hypothesis Learning from Autonomous Scanning Probe Microscopy Experiments

Boris Slautin, Utkarsh Pratiush, Yu Liu +2

Autonomous experimentation has transformed microscopy and materials discovery by enabling closed-loop optimization including imaging and spectroscopy tuning, strucutre property rel…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

PATHFINDER: Multi-objective discovery in structural and spectral spaces

Kamyar Barakati, Boris N. Slautin, Utkarsh Pratiush +2

Automated decision-making is becoming key for automated characterization including electron and scanning probe microscopies and nano indentation. Most machine learning driven workf…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

AI-assisted Human-in-the-Loop Web Platform for Structural Characterization in Hard drive design

Utkarsh Pratiush, Huaixun Huyan, Maryam Zahiri Azar +4

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has become a cornerstone instrument for semiconductor materials metrology, enabling nanoscale analysis of complex multilayer struct…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

From Photons to Electrons: Accelerated Materials Discovery via Random Libraries and Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

Boris Slautin, Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush +10

The real-world implementation of materials prediction algorithms remains limited by persistent characterization bottlenecks in materials discovery, where photon-based probe techniq…

cs.LG2026

Novelty-Driven Target-Space Discovery in Automated Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Utkarsh Pratiush, Kamyar Barakati, Boris N. Slautin +4

Modern automated microscopy faces a fundamental discovery challenge: in many systems, the most important scientific information does not reside in the immediately visible image fea…

cs.LG2026★ 2 cited

Towards Self-Optimizing Electron Microscope: Robust Tuning of Aberration Coefficients via Physics-Aware Multi-Objective Bayesian Optimization

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Richard Liu +2

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors…

cs.LG2025

DIVIDE: A Framework for Learning from Independent Multi-Mechanism Data Using Deep Encoders and Gaussian Processes

Vivek Chawla, Boris Slautin, Utkarsh Pratiush +2

Scientific datasets often arise from multiple independent mechanisms such as spatial, categorical or structural effects, whose combined influence obscures their individual contribu…

cs.CV2025

SAM: Task-Adaptive SAM with Physics-Guided Rewards

Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush, Sheryl L. Sanchez +5

Image segmentation is a critical task in microscopy, essential for accurately analyzing and interpreting complex visual data. This task can be performed using custom models trained…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Attention-Based Explainability for Structure-Property Relationships

Boris N. Slautin, Utkarsh Pratiush, Yongtao Liu +4

Machine learning methods are emerging as a universal paradigm for constructing correlative structure-property relationships in materials science based on multimodal characterizatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Mic-hackathon 2024: Hackathon on Machine Learning for Electron and Scanning Probe Microscopy

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Kamyar Barakati +70

Microscopy is a primary source of information on materials structure and functionality at nanometer and atomic scales. The data generated is often well-structured, enriched with me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Domain Switching on the Pareto Front: Multi-Objective Deep Kernel Learning in Automated Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

Yu Liu, Utkarsh Pratiush, Kamyar Barakati +5

Ferroelectric polarization switching underpins the functional performance of a wide range of materials and devices, yet its dependence on complex local microstructural features ren…

cs.LG2025

Integrating Predictive and Generative Capabilities by Latent Space Design via the DKL-VAE Model

Boris N. Slautin, Utkarsh Pratiush, Doru C. Lupascu +2

We introduce a Deep Kernel Learning Variational Autoencoder (VAE-DKL) framework that integrates the generative power of a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with the predictive nature o…

eess.IV2025

Rewards-based image analysis in microscopy

Kamyar Barakati, Yu Liu, Utkarsh Pratiush +2

Imaging and hyperspectral data analysis is central to progress across biology, medicine, chemistry, and physics. The core challenge lies in converting high-resolution or high-dimen…

quant-ph2025★ 20 cited

Roadmap on Atomic-scale Semiconductor Devices

Steven R. Schofield, Andrew J. Fisher, Eran Ginossar +47

Spin states in semiconductors provide exceptionally stable and noise-resistant environments for qubits, positioning them as optimal candidates for reliable quantum computing techno…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Automated Materials Discovery Platform Realized: Scanning Probe Microscopy of Combinatorial Libraries

Yu Liu, Aditya Raghavan, Utkarsh Pratiush +13

Combinatorial materials libraries provide a powerful platform for mapping how physical properties evolve across binary and ternary cross-sections of multicomponent phase diagrams.…

cs.LG2024★ 5 cited

Reflections from the 2024 Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry

Yoel Zimmermann, Adib Bazgir, Zartashia Afzal +141

Here, we present the outcomes from the second Large Language Model (LLM) Hackathon for Applications in Materials Science and Chemistry, which engaged participants across global hyb…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Unsupervised Reward-Driven Image Segmentation in Automated Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Experiments

Kamyar Barakati, Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin C. Houston +2

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Scientific Exploration with Expert Knowledge (SEEK) in Autonomous Scanning Probe Microscopy with Active Learning

Utkarsh Pratiush, Hiroshi Funakubo, Rama Vasudevan +2

Microscopy techniques have played vital roles in materials science, biology, and nanotechnology, offering high-resolution imaging and detailed insights into properties at nanoscale…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 1 cited

Machine Learning-Based Reward-Driven Tuning of Scanning Probe Microscopy: Towards Fully Automated Microscopy

Yu Liu, Roger Proksch, Jason Bemis +8

Since the dawn of scanning probe microscopy (SPM), tapping or intermittent contact mode has been one of the most widely used imaging modes. Manual optimization of tapping mode not…

physics.comp-ph2024

Invariant Discovery of Features Across Multiple Length Scales: Applications in Microscopy and Autonomous Materials Characterization

Aditya Raghavan, Utkarsh Pratiush, Mani Valleti +6

Physical imaging is a foundational characterization method in areas from condensed matter physics and chemistry to astronomy and spans length scales from atomic to universe. Images…

physics.ins-det2024★ 1 cited

Implementing dynamic high-performance computing supported workflows on Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

Utkarsh Pratiush, Austin Houston, Sergei V Kalinin +1

Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) coupled with Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) presents a powerful platform for detailed material characterization via rich…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 7 cited

Integration of Scanning Probe Microscope with High-Performance Computing: fixed-policy and reward-driven workflows implementation

Yu Liu, Utkarsh Pratiush, Jason Bemis +8

The rapid development of computation power and machine learning algorithms has paved the way for automating scientific discovery with a scanning probe microscope (SPM). The key ele…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Building Workflows for Interactive Human in the Loop Automated Experiment (hAE) in STEM-EELS

Utkarsh Pratiush, Kevin M. Roccapriore, Yongtao Liu +3

Exploring the structural, chemical, and physical properties of matter on the nano- and atomic scales has become possible with the recent advances in aberration-corrected electron e…