Sander Vandenhaute
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Sander Vandenhaute
@sanderhaute.bsky.social
Computational physics/chemistry, and some ML

prev: PhD @ Ghent University 🇧🇪, AI researcher @ Orbital Materials 🇬🇧
now: postdoc @ Rotskoff group (Stanford University)
Orb-v3 out now -- achieves SOTA on speed *and* accuracy

arxiv.org/abs/2504.06231
April 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
simple Python API; to drive a single 'master' job which then does everything else!
November 25, 2024 at 6:09 PM
scalable molecular simulation: github.com/molmod/psiflow

scientific: ML potentials, DFT and post-HF calculations, (path-integral) MD, replica exchange, alchemical ΔF , hessians, ...

technical: automated job submission, simple Python, scales to >100 nodes, containerized!
November 25, 2024 at 6:08 PM
new SOTA on collective variable learning!

gist? Train classifier in feature space of pretrained GNN to predict 'phase' of an atomic geometry:

CV(A->B) = logit(B) - logit(A)

+data-efficient
+invariant wrt trans/rot/perm
+compatible w foundation models!
April 8, 2024 at 1:00 PM