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Luis Villa

@lvilla.bsky.social

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Lab Automation Engineer & co-founder of the Bay Area Lab Automators. Background in Genomics from UC Berkeley. Exp in NGS, CLIA, FDA, Clinical, Cell Therapy, Software Dev, and 2x Cat Dad. 🇲🇽🇸🇻 Views are my own.

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Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Jun 23

Celebrated International Lab Automation Day with a 24 hour hackathon at Studio 45 where be built MCP servers for robots and integrated them into agentic workflows. Folks flew in from Boston, Denver, Seattle, Houston and more to come together and build at the edge. #labautomation

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 29

f these topics are of interest to you, join us! It's FREE & open to the community: lu.ma/o2qz1j80

#labautomation #mcp #automation

ai + lab auto build day / mcp + agents @ studio 45 · Luma

we're bringing together the best of the bay area ai, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation. **no pre-reqs. all…

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 29

Topics Include, the world's first lab automation mcp connected to hardware (or if you know of another, comment below!), testing agentic workflows between hypothesis generation & protocol generation, and the roles simulation software and digital twins can play in new builds.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 29

In support of our lab auto hackathon on June 21st, we're hosting a Build Day/ Workshop on June 14th in San Francisco at Studio 45!

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 29

SF New Event Alert: Build in public, learn in public, level up as a community. It's never been easier to build and building is without a doubt the best way to learn. if the only constant in our industry is change, how are you making the space & time to keep up with these changes?

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 23

Just in time for the long weekend, thank you!

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 22

Which talk is this one?

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 21

The shirt is amazing, need one!

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 21

Join us: lu.ma/3ys6obhi

ai + lab auto 24hr hack @ studio 45 · Luma

we're bringing together the best of the bay area ai, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation. **no pre-reqs. all…

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 21

You don't need to be an expert or a cracked engineer, you just need to show "ganas" (enthusiasm).

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 21

It's an opportunity to build, it shows initiative and it gets you out of your comfort zone. Work on a different problem for a day with a different set of tools and with folks across a broader skill set than you may to encounter day-to-day.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 21

The number one question I get asked is, "how can I break into automation?" The number two question I get asked is, "how can I make that next leap?" My answer is generally the same, "Come to our hackathons." Why?

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 20

The goal with these hackathons and workshops is to give folks an opportunity to upskill, build community, but ultimately to give folks access to a space or equipment or knowledge they may otherwise struggle to find organically in an industry or academic setting.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 20

The focus this time is on AI Agents (& maybe Digital Twins.) To support the hackathon, we're hosting a community workshop to help teach folks to use AI, build their own MCP servers and agentic workflows.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · May 20

We are co-hosting our third AI x Lab Automation hackathon in San Francisco to kick off International Lab Automation Day & SF Deep Tech Week: lu.ma/3ys6obhi

ai + lab auto 24hr hack @ studio 45 · Luma

we're bringing together the best of the bay area ai, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation. **no pre-reqs. all…

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Apr 1

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Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Mar 29

Massive loss

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Mar 29

Breaking News: The top vaccine official at the FDA abruptly resigned, saying that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “misinformation and lies” were irresponsible.

Top FDA Vaccine Official Resigns, Citing Kennedy’s ‘Misinformation and Lies’

Dr. Peter Marks, a veteran of the agency, wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is irresponsible and a danger to public health.

www.nytimes.com

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Mar 19

Just lots of new tools, libraries & SDK’s. Need to start dedicating time to just keeping up but noticing that even the mega corps are struggling as well.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Mar 15

Unfortunately being heads down as an IC (for some reason VP's & founders still seem to have unlimited time even when they're heads down) means that even within that month or two, you miss out on a lot of research and updates.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Feb 27

Impossible to imagine a future where agents aren’t some of the first “workers” at startups.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Feb 26

Using @anthropic.com Claude Code and this is what agents should feel like day to day. Simple terminal, easy to prompt. Curious to see how it does with DI and self generation of Swagger comments. Vibe coding is here to stay.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Feb 26

It's clear when folks aren't familiar with or using the technologies they're hyping. You may have interviewed or spoken with 100 experts to arrive at a conclusion that supported your initial hunch but did you talk to the correct 100 people? I doubt it.

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Feb 22

I've been hibernating since #SLAS, I've been grinding & pushing through professional & personal deadlines. Lab automation remains a domain that still requires a whimsical and dizzying array of skillsets. Currently using my first "free" day to read through a backlog of papers, blogs and code. 🥂

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Jan 26

Best example of this are note takers for zoom meetings, yes someone could take notes but then that person never really feels plugged in because they have to take notes and then absorb later. Also each person is biased and may devalue items others find valuable

Luis Villa @lvilla.bsky.social · Jan 26

ChatGPT for generation to f a list of commonly used acronyms in domain Z vs domain Y is super clutch 😅