Steven Spurgeon
Senior Materials Data Scientist
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Spurgeon is a Senior Materials Data Scientist based in Golden, Colorado, who combines 17 years of materials research with a decade of applied experience in AI-guided materials discovery. He leads autonomous materials science programs across national labs and academia, serving as co-PI on a $14M DOE EFRC and PI on multi-hundred-thousand-dollar LDRD projects focused on thin-film interfaces and power electronics. Steven’s work spans from hands-on aberration-corrected STEM and correlative atomic-scale imaging to deploying sparse-data and control-theory approaches for automated experimentation, yielding over 79 publications, multiple software packages, and licensed technologies. He has been recognized with an R&D 100 Award and the Microscopy Society of America’s Burton Medal, and he frequently bridges lab-to-region partnerships through faculty and consulting roles. Notably, he has built interdisciplinary programs that operationalize autonomous learning at the edge, accelerating discovery workflows for energy, sensing, and quantum materials. His blend of deep microscopy expertise, funded leadership, and engineering of autonomous experiments makes him a go-to leader for turning complex materials science challenges into operationalized, AI-driven pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Materials Science and Engineering at Drexel UniversityBachelor of Science Materials Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science Materials Science and Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (22)
python3
stem3
open-science3
tomography3
prism2
visualization2
3d-graphics2
simulation2
microscopy2
scientific-visualization2
vtk2
opengl2
open-source1
computed-tomography1
transmission1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
stevenspurgeon/xtl-converter
Oct 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:9 releases, 23 commits, 21 pushes in 2 years
stevenspurgeon/academic-kickstart
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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