Philip Romero

Ph.D., Assistant Professor UW-Madison

Philip Romero is an assistant professor in the departments of Biochemistry and Chemical & Biological Engineering at UW-Madison. Dr. Romero pursued graduate studies in Frances Arnold’s lab at Caltech and was a postdoctoral researcher in Adam Abate’s lab at UCSF. He is the recipient of the Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award, the Shaw Scientist Award, and the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) Innovation Award. His research group at UW-Madison focuses on data-driven approaches to model and design biological systems.

Day One - 06 July 2021

11:00 AM Transforming Protein Engineering Through AI Enabled Smart Connected Labs

  • To accelerate scientific discovery, our industry must re-imagine laboratories as smart and automated data centers to generate clean, machine actionable, and reproducible data rapidly as compared to today’s artisan (and mostly manual) research approaches.
  • Cloud access to smart connected laboratories is no longer a reality waiting to happen. This newer breed of laboratories is ushering in new knowledge driven by data, computation, artificial intelligence, automation, and high-throughput robotics with the goal of fundamentally advancing the life sciences
  • Learn how the University of Wisconsin remotely leveraged and integrated the Strateos automated robotic cloud lab, and created a fully automated robotic discovery process driven by artificial intelligence that designs and screens for millions of protein sequences in a reproducible and iterative manner, making the long process of protein engineering much faster and more reliable.