10/01/2025 – DARPA Young Faculty Award
Sebastian earns the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA) Young Faculty Award.
This award from the US Department of Defense will allow us to develop an autonomous testing platform that uses robotics, automation and artificial intelligence to accelerate the discovery process for new oxidation-resistant alloys. These advanced materials have applications in turbines, jet engines, rocket nozzles, nuclear reactors, high-speed aerospace vehicles, and beyond.
08/21/2025
Congratulations to Ashika Bhatta on the successful completion of her Masters in our group.
05/15/2025 – First year celebration.
We have completed our first year together as a group!
01/01/2025 – New year, new beginnings.
Ashika Bhatta and Vignesh Selvaraj join our group for a deep dive into alloy design and discovery. Welcome to the team!
08/15/2024 – Welcome Anagh and Print!
Anagh Dutta and Pakorn (Print) Boonpetch join the research group and embark on their PhD journey as freshly baked Badger Engineers. Welcome to Madison!
07/02/2024 – ARPA-E IGNIITE Award
Sebastian earns the Advanced Research Project Agency – Energy’s (ARPA-E) IGNIITE early career award.
This award from US Department of Energy will support our autonomous laboratory platform “AlloyBot”, which uses robotics, automation and AI to rapidly optimize new structural alloys for the extreme operating conditions found in energy and propulsion applications.
04/01/2024 – Scialog: Automating Chemical Laboratories
Sebastian is selected as Scialog Fellow for Automating Chemical Laboratories by RCSA (Research Corporation for Science Advancement).
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01/01/2024 – First day!
Sebastian joins UW-Madison’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
