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Cory Simon

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applying math, computation, and machine learning to problems in chemical engineering | associate professor, Oregon State University | views mine https://simonensemble.github.io/

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Nov 18

👋 Blue Sky!
I'm an associate professor of chemical engineering at Oregon State University. here are my research interests. and my dog Oslo.

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MOF Papers @mofpapers.bsky.social · 2d

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · 14d

pretty cool!

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · 18d

in a “it’s a small world” moment, I ran into @bessvlai.bsky.social at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH. she was giving a seminar in the chemistry department; me, in chemical engineering. great to see you, Bess!

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Sep 2

new preprint,
"adaptive allocation of Monte Carlo samples for efficient, multi-fidelity computational screening of metal-organic frameworks"

feedback welcome!

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Jul 23

"guidelines for multi-fidelity Bayesian optimization of molecules and materials"

our News & Views article in Nature Computational Science.

rdcu.be/ext6h

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Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz.com · Jun 30

My latest for @nytimes.com -- please repost so your followers can see this for free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How a Puzzle About Fractions Got Brain Scans Rolling (Gift Article)

A story of bowling pins, patterns and medical miracles.

www.nytimes.com

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Jun 27

beavers are cool. glad our mascot is a beaver.

> The fur trade transformed North America but it nearly destroyed the population of several fur-bearers like muskrats and beavers who are critically important to their ecosystem.
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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · May 30

🍷solving a linear program for optimal wine blending in Julia

simonensemble.github.io/pluto_nbs/wi...

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · May 10

😅 yeah, I think he wanted to go on a walk!

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · May 10

a post-fermentation blend of *nine* white wines from Oregon! and a linear program for wine blending.

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Apr 15

🚰 "Optimizing mixtures of metal–organic frameworks for robust and bespoke passive atmospheric water harvesting" by C. Harriman, Q. Ke, T. Vlugt, A. Howarth, C. Simon.

feedback welcome on our ChemRxiv preprint:

chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr...

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Apr 13

fascinating: atmospheric water harvesting by indigenous populations on the Canary Islands long ago.

Kennedy & Boreyko. “Bio‐inspired fog harvesting meshes: a review”. Advanced Functional Materials. 2023.

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Zhichang Liu @zhichangliu.bsky.social · Apr 13

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Apr 12

finally got to meet Mark Allendorf from Sandia National Lab! currently co-director of the DOE Hydrogen Materials – Advanced Research Consortium (HyMARC). been following his work since grad school.

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Apr 5

with @cgbischak.bsky.social and @shijingsun.bsky.social at the Automating Chemical Labs Scialog in Tucson! 🌵

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 31

me with the shipwreck of Peter Iredale on the Oregon coast. happened in 1906. everyone survived.

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 17

💦 our recent paper, published in Chemical Engineering Science:

can we infer the cross-sectional area profile of an unseen solid contained in a draining tank from its liquid level dynamics?

🔙 we employ Bayesian statistical inversion to do so.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Inferring the cross-sectional area profile of an unseen solid in a draining tank from liquid level dynamics

We aim to reconstruct the horizontal cross-sectional area profile of an exogenous, heavy, unseen solid contained in a tank from measurements of the li…

www.sciencedirect.com

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 14

interesting. so e.g. given an antibiotic used by both humans and for animals in agriculture, we could indirectly attribute the antibiotic in a water sample e.g. 90% from humans, 10% from an animal farm, based on the sucralose concentration there being high (unless the animals get sweetened hay 😆).

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 13

😍 please tell me their name so I can look up their work! the optimal sensor placement is a very cool one.

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 12

(inverse problem for my class:)

🏭 suppose:
1. a monitoring station at a lake measures the concentration of a pollutant every two hours.
2. a factory injected pollutant into a river upstream.

from the monitoring station's time series data, infer when and how much the factory polluted the river.

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Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 9

🎥 Chunking Express (1994)

> somehow I've become very cautious. when I put on a raincoat, I put on sunglasses too. who knows when it will rain, or when it will turn out sunny?

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 6

so this cancer drug Taxol was discovered from the bark of this Pacific yew tree that grows naturally in Oregon! will be on the lookout for one.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 6

a cool and beautiful flower that turns from opaque white to translucent when exposed to water. wonder if this material/chemistry has some application (e.g. humidity sensing).

www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/07/skel...

The "Skeleton Flower" Turns From White to Translucent When Exposed to Water

The Diphelleia grayi or “Skeleton Flower” is finally a reason to look forward to rainy days. This rare flower transforms into a translucent beauty [its skeletal form] when exposed to water, its white ...

www.thisiscolossal.com

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 6

Edward Hopper
Soir Bleu
1914

> no one is like anybody else. everybody is separated from everybody else. [...] one is always searching for a meaning somewhere else, in a costume or in a prostitute or in a drink or in a cigarette or in a party. - Rick Brettell

Cory Simon @corymsimon.bsky.social · Mar 5

celebrated Oslo's sixth birthday yesterday! 🎉