Artificial; Super) Intelligence, Chemistry, and Chemical Engineering

DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory

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Postdoctoral research opportunity to design and build reactor models, chemical kinetics models, process models, and also perform fundamental research in artificial intelligence or machine learning methods for energetic materials. Research involves modeling of highly exothermic chemistry in various types of reactors at operational conditions. Research will involve creation of both traditional chemical engineering models, and Bayesian models or machine‑learned models for reactors and process optimization.

In addition to the reactor modeling, this fellowship offers freedom to pursue new ideas in AI/ML for energetic materials research in collaboration with a variety of institutions (including major R1 universities). Research products will include both traditional academic open literature publications and nonpublic technical reports. The postdoctoral researcher will have the opportunity to travel and give presentations at both traditional academic meetings and other nonpublic meetings.

Appointment will be Full-Time. One-year initial appointment with expectation for renewal to year two. Year three is dependent on performance and available funding.

Brian Barnes

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ARL’s Army Research Directorate (ARD) focuses on exploiting concept development, discovery, technology development, and transition of the most promising disruptive science and technology to deliver to the Army fundamentally advantageous science-based capabilities through laboratory’s 11 research competencies. This intramural research directorate also manages the laboratory’s essential research programs, which are flagship research efforts focused on delivering defined outcomes.

Internal, transitional, and external ballistics; launch, flight, control, and navigation of guided weapons and aerial systems; development of novel weapon concepts.

• Multiscale Reactive Modeling Team
• Detonation Science and Modeling Branch
• U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory

The Army Research Laboratory Research Associateship Program (ARL-RAP) is designed to significantly increase the involvement of creative and highly trained scientists and engineers from academia and industry in scientific and technical areas of interest and relevance to the Army. Scientists and Engineers at the CCDC Army Research Laboratory (ARL) help shape and execute the Army's program for meeting the challenge of developing technologies that will support Army forces in meeting future operational needs by pursuing scientific research and technological developments in diverse fields such as: applied mathematics, atmospheric characterization, simulation and human modeling, digital/optical signal processing, nanotechnology, material science and technology, multifunctional technology, combustion processes, propulsion and flight physics, communication and networking, and computational and information sciences.

Security restriction:
This fellowship requires a U.S. citizen able to pass a background check.

Requirements: A Ph.D. in chemical engineering, chemistry, materials engineering, mechanical engineering, materials science, computer science, or artificial intelligence engineering. If you have equivalent skills that meet the project needs, but a different degree, please consider applying.

Desired knowledge, skills, and abilities:

• Experience with Python programming, including the chemistry module “rdkit” and the scientific Python stack.
• Bachelor's or above level knowledge of…