Heather Kulik
Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast
🔬Why There Is No "AlphaFold for Materials" — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik
- Published
- March 24, 2026
- Duration
- 35:14
- Summary source
- description
- Last updated
- May 20, 2026
Discusses ai.
Summary
Materials science is the unsung hero of the science world. Behind every physical product you interact was decades of research into getting the properties of materials just right. Your gym clothes contain synthetic fibers developed over decades. The glass screen, diodes, and chip substrate technology needed to read this blog post were only viable due to ma…
Show notes
Materials science is the unsung hero of the science world. Behind every physical product you interact was decades of research into getting the properties of materials just right. Your gym clothes contain synthetic fibers developed over decades. The glass screen, diodes, and chip substrate technology needed to read this blog post were only viable due to many teams of material scientists.Our guest Prof. Heather Kulik was one of the first material scientists to realize that there was alpha in combi
Themes
- ai