AI Residency Program, Physical Sciences
Your Impact at LILA
The Lila Sciences AI Residency is a full-time research program at the intersection of artificial intelligence and materials science. Residents join a cohort of researchers tackling open-ended scientific challenges alongside Lila's scientists and engineers, with the option to focus on fundamental or applied research.
Residencies run 6 to 12 months, with extension possible. First residencies begin in spring 2027, with rolling applications and additional intakes in fall 2027. Residents are paired with technical mentors, receive feedback from cross-functional teams, and work with proprietary datasets, high-performance compute, and Lila's research infrastructure. Publishing is encouraged but not required. What matters most is pushing the frontier of scientific discovery.
Priority research areas for the 2027 cohort span four domains:
- Soft matter and formulation intelligence: composition-process-property modeling, representation learning for mixtures and formulations, physics-informed and simulation-augmented predictive models, and generative models for 3D soft-material structures at the mesoscale and microscale (colloidal assemblies, phase-separated domains, particle networks, film and bulk morphologies)
- Physics-based simulation and in silico discovery:
