After the recommended media silence during the shutdown it is time for some recent updates:

Webinar for physics of plasmas

After more than 20 years this year I published a new paper on the journal Physics of Plasmas where I explored how we can leverage machine learning to optimize processes in plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition. Two relevant things about this paper:

  • It is published with an open access license so anyone can access it (in fact, the whole Physics of Plasmas is open access for 2025!).
  • It was one of the featured articles by the journal, and I was asked to give a webinar this fall about the paper, where I provided an introduction to plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition and our machine learning work. The link to the webinar is here.

Our review on Nature Reviews Methods Primer was published

This is a work that was a few years in the making. I had the chance to collaborate with some of the most talented researchers in my field to write an introduction to atomic layer deposition. The link to the paper is here. It is, alas, behind a paywall.

Chairing a session on quantum computing at SC2025

SC2025 is a conference focused on high performance computing. However, it has a post-Moore computing component, and as a member of the program committee for 2025 I was asked to chair one of the sessions in quantum computing

Others

  • Honored to be a member of a PhD committee, Anurag did an outstanding job defending his thesis
  • One of the projects I am leading got renewed this year, so more fun on ALD + microelectronics.
  • Lots of changes in DOE, still processing them.
  • Going through a lot of proposal reviews right now.

Overall, a busy couple of months.