Keith A. Brown

Keith Brown is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Physics and Materials Science and Engineering at Boston University. He is also the Associate Chair for Graduate Programs in Mechanical Engineering. He earned an SB in Physics from MIT, a PhD in Applied Physics at Harvard University with Robert M. Westervelt, and was an International Institute for Nanotechnology postdoctoral fellow with Chad A. Mirkin at Northwestern University. The KABlab studies approaches to accelerate the development of advanced materials and structures with a focus on polymers. The group employs self-driving labs, additive manufacturing, miniaturization of experiments using scanning probe techniques, and novel platforms for parallel materials development to achieve these goals. Keith has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, six issued patents, and his work has been recognized through awards including the Frontiers of Materials Award from The Minerals, Metals, & Materials Society (TMS), a Google Faculty Research Award, being recognized as a “Future Star of the AVS,” the Omar Farha Award for Research Leadership from Northwestern University, and the AVS Nanometer-Scale Science and Technology Division Postdoctoral Award. Keith served on the Nano Letters Early Career Advisory Board, co-organized a National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Workshop on AI for Scientific Discovery, and currently leads the MRS Artificial Intelligence in Materials Development Staging Task Force.

interested in transport processes at the nanoscale. Particularly, he is interested in how the nanostructure of materials affects the way light, heat, electrons, and molecules can move through a system. He focuses on answering fundamental questions in these areas and exploring new materials systems that offer novel ways of tailoring these processes. Often, the ability to answer unique questions stems from realizing new capabilities for making and imaging materials, so a major thrust of his research is the development of enabling techniques, especially those related to scanning probe microscopy.

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