Engineering / AI / Materials Research

Hi, I'm Jaime

MIT PhD Candidate in Materials Science and Engineering • DoD NDSEG Fellow • Bridging Automata, AI, and Materials Design

With experience ranging from biomaterials and bioelectronics to nanoparticle therapeutics, thin-film fabrication, and lunar materials research, I now focus on uniting cellular automata and generative AI to design adaptive, sustainable, and multifunctional materials inspired by nature.

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Focus: Cellular automata + generative AI
Field: Bio-inspired materials design
Output: Published research + applied systems

Selected Projects

Top Publications

ACRE: Autonomous Casting RovEr (NASA BIG Idea Challenge; 2023 Lunar Forge Challenge)

Autonomous lunar infrastructure concept using concentrated solar energy and in-situ casting for landing pads and roads. Team lead for NASA BIG Idea.

AutomataGPT

Forecasting and ruleset inference for 2D cellular automata using transformer architectures.

Skin Hydration Sensor

Soft, wireless thermal sensor for rapid noninvasive skin hydration measurements.

Bioresorbable Heart Strain Sensor

Laser-structured eco/bioresorbable electronics with wireless cardiac strain-sensing demonstrations.

In progress

Conway Trees

In-progress Game of Life visualization study; research write-up forthcoming.

LifeGPT

Decoder-only GPT for Conway's Game of Life on toroidal grids, with grid-size generalization experiments.

Spherical Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles for Gene Therapies

Early-stage spherical nucleic acid nanoparticle research concept; detailed project summary in progress.

In progress

Turing Mill

In-progress cellular automata pattern-generation project; research write-up forthcoming.

Publications

Top Projects

AutomataGPT: Forecasting and Ruleset Inference for Two-Dimensional Cellular Automata

Advanced Science (under revision, 2025)

LifeGPT: Topology-Agnostic Generative Pretrained Transformer Model for Cellular Automata

npj Artificial Intelligence (2025)

Learning from Nature to Achieve Material Sustainability: Generative AI for Rigorous Bio-Inspired Materials Design

MIT Exploration of Generative AI (2024)

Observational Pilot Study of Multi-Wavelength Wearable Light Dosimetry for Erythropoietic Protoporphyria

International Journal of Dermatology (2024)

Thermoplastic Elastomers for Wireless, Skin-Interfaced Electronic and Microfluidic Devices

Advanced Materials Technologies (2023)

Wireless, Soft Sensors of Skin Hydration with Designs Optimized for Rapid, Accurate Diagnostics of Dermatological Health

Advanced Healthcare Materials (2023)

High-Speed, Scanned Laser Structuring of Multi-Layered ECO/Bioresorbable Materials for Advanced Electronic Systems

Nature Communications (2023)