Congratulations to Max Cooper

Second-year undergraduate student Max Cooper has co-authored a publication exploring whether AI models can meaningfully speed up scientific experimentation.

The research paper, featuring in the RSC journal Digital DiscoveryLink opens in a new window, credited Max for work conducted on a summer placement at the University of Liverpool. As part of a team of researchers, he assisted with a study to integrate large language model (LLM) reasoning with Bayesian optimisation (BO) for accelerating scientific discovery using closed-loop experiments. The team found that experiment-by-experiment machine reasoning may be a viable strategy for certain scientific optimisation tasks.

Read the paper here: https://doi.org/10.1039/D5DD00520ELink opens in a new window