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A. Gilad Kusne received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Carnegie Mellon University. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland College Park's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, an Associate Researcher with the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research aims to accelerate the discovery and optimization of advanced materials. He leads the machine learning team of an international, cross-disciplinary effort building autonomous research systems, with the goal of advancing solid state, soft, and biological materials. For these systems, machine learning performs experiment design, execution (in the lab and in silico), and analysis. He was twice awarded the NIST Bronze Award (highest internal award). He is also the lead founder and organizer of the annual Materials Informatics competition and the Machine Learning for Materials Research Bootcamp and Workshop (now on its 11th year)—educating next generation and mid-career material scientists in machine learning.