SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Grzegorz M. Madejski
Senior Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioMy English-speaking friends know me as Greg. I was born in Poland, but my college and graduate education was in the US, respectively at MIT and Harvard. After spending 14 years at NASA/Goddard, I arrived in Stanford in 2000. My research interests are mainly in extragalactic high-energy astrophysics. This includes (1) studies of active galactic nuclei, and an associated formation and evolution of relativistic jets; and (2) studies of clusters of galaxies, and in particular the processes responsible for the heating of the X-ray emitting intra-cluster gas. Besides taking advantage of data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory, I am involved in analyzing and interpreting observations performed with X-ray satellites such as NuSTAR, a recently-launched NASA satellite, sensitive in the hard X-ray band, and Hitomi, a joint Japanese - US X-ray astronomy mission.
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Darya Marchany-Rivera
Staff Engineer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordBeamline Scientist- SMB MC
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Linda McCulloch
Unit/Program Comms Mgr 2, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordHead of Creative Content & Identity at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Apurva Mehta
Senior Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioI am a materials scientist by training with 30 years of experience investigating molecular-scale processes that control function, aging, and failure of complex materials and devices. Advance characterization methods that give insight into molecular processes have undergone a dramatic change over those 30 years with the advent of brighter sources (from X-rays synchrotrons and free-electron lasers to MeV accelerator-based electron sources), and faster and larger area detectors. The depth and the precision of insights have improved significantly but the amount of raw data has increased by orders of magnitude as well, making extraction of deep insights harder. Over the last decade, I have, therefore, focused on leveraging emerging machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to not only accelerate knowledge extraction from complex, multi-dimensional, and noisy data but also make data collection smarter.
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Derek Mendez
Staff Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordComputational staff scientist at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL), in the Macromolecular Crystallography group (Structural and Molecular Biology division).
Main activities revolve around a 3 year BRaVE-funded project to build a new X-ray resource for the acceleration of medicines development (XMeD). Active in-silico areas of research are in the characterization of crystallization outcomes, virtual and experimental screening of ligands, in-silico methods for lead molecule optimization, and extremely sensitive absorption profile characterization using machine learning techniques. A major computational goal is to determine the most valuable tools (and develop new ones) for future XMeD users.
Beyond XMeD, we are focusing on using GPUs and machine learning models to accelerate processing and characterization of user diffraction data that is collected at SSRL beamlines 12-1, 12-2, 14-1, and 9-2. In addition, we are aiming to make available to users new methods that process X-ray diffraction data at the pixel-level in order to extract more information to better resolve structural changes in proteins arising from e.g., binding events and light/chemical driven dynamics.
We are also partnering with NERSC to build a framework for our beamline users to offload computationally intensive jobs to the Perlmutter GPU cluster. -
Bennet Meyers
Staff Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioI am a Staff Scientist with SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in the Grid Integration Systems and Mobility (GISMo) Lab in the Applied Energy Division. I completed my PhD in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in Winter 2023, advised by Prof. Stephen Boyd. We recently wrote a book on signal decomposition, which can be found under my publications tab. More info available on my personal website.
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Despina Milathianaki
Development Manager, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioDespina is the director of the Office of Technology Transfer and Strategic Partnerships, in the organization of the SLAC Deputy Director for Science and Technology. She and her team help accelerate the translation of cutting-edge research into transformative technologies and solutions through collaborations with industry, academia, and government partners. Before her current role, Despina served as senior director for Department of Energy partnerships in the quantum computing industry establishing important R&D efforts between the private sector and the national labs. Prior roles in the private sector included management consulting for Accenture UK and engineering for a Silicon valley startup. Despina first joined SLAC in 2010 as a staff scientist at the Linac Coherent Light Source investigating materials science at extreme conditions. She later transitioned to strategic planning where she served as the director of strategic planning and investment for SLAC. Despina holds a Bachelor's in Physics from Imperial College London and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. She completed her PhD in High Energy Density Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, conducting research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
