iDMT Lecture Series | 7th November 2023 at 3pm

Pfizer Lecture Theatre, Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge

For the next feature in the iDMT Lecture Series, we will be exploring reaction data for machine learning with Professor Alexei Lapkin, the iDMT's Director and co-founder of Chemical Data Intelligence: CDI Pte Ltd. This talk will include both academic and industrial perspectives on data needs and preparation for synthesis planning and reaction prediction. All are welcome to attend.

Exploring reaction data for machine learning: synthesis planning and reaction predictions

Professor Alexei Lapkin | iDMT Director & co-Founder of Chemical Data Intelligence: CDI Pte Ltd

Data is critical for machine learning, but in chemistry, data is rather scarce and needs to be prepared for machine learning workflows. In the Sustainable Reaction Engineering group we have approached this problem from different directions: evaluating how to use large reaction datasets of available chemical data (Reaxys), looking into data recording standards (extension of InChi to record process data and UDM standard), preparing data for ML pipelines starting from Open Reaction Database (ORD) schema as well as from Reaxys. We then productised some of these tools via our start-up company Chemical Data Intelligence (CDI) Pte Ltd. In the talk I’ll discuss the academic work on this topic and the route to commercialisation.

Recordings of past iDMT Lecture Series talks are available to iDMT Network Members, contact the iDMT team to find out more.

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