SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
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Darya Marchany-Rivera
Staff Engineer, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordBeamline Scientist- SMB MC
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Phil Marshall
Senior Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioPhil is currently Deputy Director of Operations at the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and looking forward to all the science from its 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). He helped form the LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration at its inaugural meeting in 2012, and held leadership positions in it for 7 years until he moved to his current position at Rubin. (This included being collaboration Spokesperson 2017-2019, during which time he led the implementation of the collaboration's operations plan.) His long-standing scientific interest is strong gravitational lenses, whose Einstein rings and time delays can be used to probe the accelerated expansion history of the Universe, and which can help us probe the nature of Dark Matter via the sub-galactic structure than perturbs the lensing effect. Analyzing tens of thousands of these systems from the LSST will take new approaches to lens detection and modeling: Phil and his Strong Lensing Group at KIPAC are investigating machine learning with deep neural networks as a way to carry out principled, multi-level scientific inference at LSST scale. Phil did his PhD on Bayesian Analysis of Clusters of Galaxies at the University of Cambridge, during which time he first got interested in the process of measuring astronomical objects, including things like Dark Matter halos which we may not be able to observe directly. He first moved to Stanford in 2003 as one of KIPAC's first wave of postdocs, and returned as Kavli Fellow in 2009 after three years as TABASGO Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Phil then spent three years in Oxford as a Royal Society University Research Fellow, before moving back to join the SLAC staff on a permanent basis in 2013.
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Timothy Maxwell
Lead Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Current Role at StanfordDepartment Head
NC Linac & FEL Area Physics
Linac & FEL Division
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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 with three decades of experience unraveling the molecular-scale processes that govern the functionality, aging, and failure of complex materials and devices. Over this time, advanced characterization methods have undergone a revolutionary transformation, driven by the emergence of brighter sources—from synchrotrons and X-ray free-electron lasers to MeV accelerator-based electron sources—paired with faster and larger-area detectors. While the depth and precision of measurements have vastly improved, the explosion of raw data now poses a significant challenge, making it increasingly difficult to extract meaningful insights them.
Recognizing this growing challenge, I have devoted the last decade to harnessing the power of emerging machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to find breakthroughs. My focus has been on not only accelerating the extraction of knowledge from intricate, multi-dimensional, and often noisy measurements but also on making data collection smarter. By integrating these cutting-edge technologies, I aim to transform how we approach material science and deepen our understanding of material behavior and device performance. -
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. -
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.
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Michael P. Minitti
Senior Scientist, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
BioA native of Arizona, I studied chemistry at Mesa Community College and Arizona State University, receiving my bachelor’s degree in 2000. I then did graduate work in chemistry at SUNY Stony Brook and Brown University, eventually specializing in time-resolved studies of the dynamics of chemical reactions. Following my interest in combining chemistry with ultrafast lasers, I did postdoctoral research at Princeton and Brown before joining SLAC as a staff scientist in 2011.
