Last year was busy and exciting at Pasteur Labs! Our world-class team has been chipping away at building a transformative Simulation Intelligence Platform.

We’ve also been sharing our learnings and insights along the way with audiences across the globe. Here are some highlights from summer and fall of 2024, with more to come in 2025!

December 2024

Alexander Lavin (CEO) presents Differentiable Physics: A Programmer's Perspective as an invited lecturer for Stanford University’s graduate course, Machine Programming. He breaks down how Pasteur Labs' products aim to tackle audacious challenges like: What if we could build physics programs that are end-to-end differentiable and thus machine-learnable? And what if we could build such a software system with abstractions for domain experts without ML/AI knowledge?

November 2024

Dion Häfner (R&D Lead) leads a seminar, Useful AI for science and engineering, for Georgia Tech’s Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources group addressing steps we should take to enable AI to live up to its yet-unrealized promises in the hard sciences and engineering.

In celebration of Veterans Day, M. Alejandra Parra-Orlandoni (COO, aka MAPO) speaks on a panel, AI and the Military, alongside BG(R) David Barnes (US Army) and Marne Marotta (Managing Director, Arnold & Porter) and hosted by Arnold & Porter’s Veterans and Affiliates Leadership Organization, exploring the ethical and legal questions raised by using AI in the battlefield.

October 2024

Alexander presents Realizing Differentiable Physics in Digital Engineering at CDFAM Computational Design Symposium Series NYC 2024, demonstrating how Pasteur Labs’s computational design and engineering tools unlock novel autonomous, data-driven, machine-learnable techniques for advanced manufacturing and digital engineering.

In the lead-up to CDFAM 2024, Alexander gives an interview. Here’s a highlight:

"Consider areas like nuclear fission and fusion energy, or manufacturing in aerospace or medical instruments, where well over 90% of experimentation and validation are done in the real world vs a simulated world. What if we could flip that around, so 90% of your expensive, painfully slow, real-world testing is tackled in software?"

MAPO speaks on a panel, RAI Revolutionaries: Charting your Career Path in AI, alongside Renee Cummings (Professor of Practice in Data Science, University of Virginia), Usha Jagannathan (Associate Director of AI Products, IEEE Standards Association), and Noelle Russell (Chief AI Officer, AI Leadership Institute) at Grace Hopper Celebration 2024, the world's largest gathering of women and non-binary technologists.

Alexander tackles what it takes to reliably and effectively apply AI in industrial engineering at the 2024 Digital Engineering 24/7 Design & Simulation Summit as part of the keynote panel, Is Your CFD Hallucinating? Unpacking the Opportunities and Challenges of AI for Simulation, alongside co-panelists Astrid Walle (Principal, Astrid Walle CFDSolutions) and Sandeepak Natu (Executive Consultant, CIMdata) and moderator Kenneth Wong (Senior Editor, Digital Engineering).

MAPO joins fellow military veterans Jacob Windle (Investor, Harpoon Ventures), Keren de Via (COO, Cyturus Technologies), Matthew Hudren (Program Manager, PKH Enterprises), and Peter Cline (Founder & President, Boots to Books) on a panel, Entrepreneurship by Veterans: Investment & Ownership, hosted by SOFIE, a global not-for-profit organization committed to promoting members of the elite Special Operations Forces and military veterans as entrepreneurs.

Alexander appears as a guest on the Machine Minds Show, hosted by Samson Rose, discussing the why and why now for Simulation Intelligence, Pasteur Labs' unique operating principles, and our mission "to build Nobel-Turing technologies that advance science & society for all humankind." He also shares a peek into his leadership philosophies, including why aspiring to build is the most fruitful driver for entrepreneurship and why prioritizing people’s career development is the best retention policy.

September 2024

At 2024 NASA FDL-X Heliolab State of the Art showcase, Alexander introduces an initiative he’s been advising that uses AI to forecast the impact of geomagnetic storms on our communications and satellites. Pasteur Labs — alongside NASA, Google Cloud, and Nvidia — supports Frontier Development Lab in establishing the technically and scientifically rigorous fundamentals required to develop groundbreaking AI applications for understanding space phenomena.

August 2024

Natalia Rubio (2024 PhD intern SciML Engineering) and former Pasteurians Marta D’Elia and Jordan Jalving present Scientific Machine Learning in Industrial Settings at Uncertainty Quantification for Machine Learning Integrated Physics Modeling 2024, discussing the practical shipment and deployment tools required for successfully applying SciML to solve real-world problems.

MAPO leads a panel discussion, Product Management in the Age of AI, with co-panelists Kevin Alborzi (Lead Product Manager, bp), Sunzay Passari (Head of Innovation & Transformation, UPS), and Thomas Mann (SVP Customer Experience Analytics, Wells Fargo) at Ai4 2024, North America’s largest artificial intelligence industry event.

June 2024

Matteo Salvador (Simulation Intelligence Scientist) presents, Whole-heart electromechanical simulations using latent neural ODEs at Cambridge University, introducing an important step toward creating digital twins of the human heart by combining high-fidelity, multi-scale cardiac models with Scientific Machine Learning methods.