Kevin Yager
Interim Director Center For Functional Nanomaterials
Town of Brookhaven, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Yager is a materials scientist and research leader with 10+ years driving nanoscience at Brookhaven National Laboratory, now serving as Interim Director of the Center for Functional Nanomaterials and leading AI Accelerated Nanoscience. His work spans soft and photo-responsive polymers, self-assembly for novel nanoscale morphologies, and x-ray/neutron scattering metrology, paired with hands-on instrumentation development such as a custom laser annealing apparatus. He pioneered autonomous experimentation programs that combine machine learning with experimental platforms to accelerate materials discovery and is now focused on developing agentic AI for physical science. Kevin’s rare blend of deep experimental expertise and AI-driven automation positions him to scale discovery workflows for hundreds of users at a national facility.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Chemistry, Ph.D., Chemistry at McGill University
Github Skills (27)
image-data10
detector10
python-scripts10
image-processing9
hpc-applications9
batch9
simulation7
simulations7
dask7
python7
batch-processing7
ray7
powder6
scale6
data-acquisition4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
CFN-softbio/SciAnalysis
Feb 2019 - Jan 2023
SciAnalysis is a set of Python scripts for batch processing of image data, including x-ray scattering detector images.
Contributions:1 review, 101 commits, 16 PRs in 4 years
raypythonhpc-applicationsbatchbatch-processing
CFN-softbio/ScatterSim
Feb 2016 - Dec 2019
Meso scale SAXS Powder Simulations
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 10 months
saxssimulationsscalesimulationpowder
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