Peter Beaucage
Senior Director, Materials Science
Germantown, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Beaucage is a senior materials science leader who applies autonomous and AI-driven approaches to accelerate discovery and characterization using neutron and x-ray scattering. With a PhD from Cornell and nine years of experience spanning beamline science, postdoctoral technique development, and national lab leadership at NIST, he co-founded the Autonomous Formulation Lab and is the lead developer of PyHyperScattering. Now directing materials platform and experimental science teams at Lila Sciences, he builds AI Science Factories that integrate robotics, scattering measurements, and data-first workflows. His background as a SANS beamline scientist and chemical engineer gives him rare depth across instrumentation, formulation, and software tooling. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex scattering experiments into automated, reproducible pipelines that scale discovery.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemical Engineering at University of CincinnatiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science & Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science & Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (33)
visualization10
conda10
data-loading10
driver10
raycasting10
backend10
conda-forge9
baduk9
automation9
protocols8
live-streaming8
science8
android8
diffraction8
raytracing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pbeaucage/AFL-automation
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
The automation software that powers the NIST Autonomous Formulation Lab! A flexible, web-based backend for device integration, drivers for some devices we've found useful, and glue that makes the AFL run.
Contributions:1 release, 45 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 3 months
pbeaucage/AFL-andon
Aug 2024 - Jun 2025
Andon board for AFL APIServers
Contributions:31 PRs, 79 pushes, 16 branches in 10 months
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