James Roberts joins NIST as NSF-NIST Scholar-in-Residence
CIDAR Lab has been awarded an NSF award. James Roberts, a PhD student in the CIDAR Lab at Boston University, has been selected as an NSF-NIST Scholar-in-Residence for their project, Developing a Standardized AI-ready Pipeline for Organizing, Representing, and Training on Massive Datasets of Integrated Genetic Circuits. Through this award, James will spend a full‑time research residency at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he will collaborate with measurement‑science experts to advance Knox, CIDAR’s AI-enabled platform for predictive biological design. This work will accelerate design–build–test–learn cycles, reduce experimental costs, and strengthen national biotechnology infrastructure by developing open, standards‑aligned tools for the broader research community.
More Information about the program can be found here:
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