Viktoriia Baibakova
AI Research Scientist I at Lila Sciences
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViktoriia Baibakova is an AI Research Scientist specializing in ML, LLMs, and AI-guided discovery of materials for national-scale energy solutions, with eight years of research experience spanning academia and national labs. She holds a PhD in Materials Science from UC Berkeley and has driven projects that combine chemical reaction networks, computer vision, and text mining—building an 8 million–article database and automated extraction tools for experimental optical data. Her work accelerated computational materials synthesis and DFT pathway convergence through topology-informed methods developed at Skolkovo and Berkeley. At Oak Ridge she bridged research and community as president of the postdoc executive committee while advancing LLM and AI-guided synthesis efforts. Now at Lila Sciences she focuses on scientific superintelligence for in-silico materials discovery, blending deep domain knowledge with practical tooling to shorten discovery cycles. Notably, she pairs hands-on experimental expertise (XRD, SEM, chromatography) with state-of-the-art ML to translate literature and plots into actionable materials insight.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science and Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS, Materials Science, Master of Science - MS, Materials Science at Skolkovo Institute of Science and TechnologyBachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics/Applied Physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT)High School Diploma, Physics and Mathematics, High School Diploma, Physics and Mathematics at Physics and Mathematics Lyceum No 5
Github Skills (25)
data-extraction6
computational-materials-science6
chemistry6
dft6
molecule5
quantum-mechanics5
quantum-chemistry4
pygame4
api4
python4
database4
binding3
data-structures3
hpc3
word-embeddings2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ViktoriiaBaib/curvedataextraction
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Automated curve data extraction tool
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
data-extraction
X-Chen97/berkeley-ai-hack
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes in 7 months
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