Writing

Research notes, paper thoughts, and practical materials informatics essays.

Short essays on polymer informatics, machine-learning workflows, research software, and lessons from recent papers.

What T5 Adds Beyond Decoder-Only Polymer Models

A technical but accessible note on why encoder-decoder T5 architectures matter for polymer property prediction, conditional generation, molecule-text translation, and materials discovery workflows.

POLYT5 T5 polymer-language-models generative-design materials-informatics

Hardness Prediction Needs the Load

A note on our Applied Physics A paper showing why load-dependent experimental data can matter more than DFT-derived hardness proxies for Vickers hardness prediction.

hardness machine-learning gaussian-process-regression materials-informatics

Why I Built matgpr for Materials Informatics

A first note on matgpr, an open-source toolkit for uncertainty-aware, physics-informed Gaussian Process Regression workflows in materials informatics.

matgpr gaussian-process-regression physics-informed-ml materials-informatics

POLYT5: Turning Polymer Design Into a Text-to-Text Problem

A first note on POLYT5, a polymer-native encoder-decoder language model for property prediction, conditional generation, and high-temperature dielectric polymer design.

POLYT5 polymer-design language-models materials-informatics