Heather Kulik
Professor of chemical engineering at MIT whose work focuses on computational chemistry, materials discovery, and the use of machine learning to accelerate and improve chemical design.
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Mar 24, 2026 • 35min
🔬Why There Is No "AlphaFold for Materials" — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik
Heather Kulik, MIT chemical engineering professor in computational chemistry, explores why materials discovery has no AlphaFold moment yet. She digs into AI-designed polymers that turned out four times tougher. She talks about active learning for CO2 capture, why quantum models need ML speedups, where LLMs still fail simple chemistry tasks, and how noisy data and lab bottlenecks slow progress.
