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Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli

Co-founder & CSO, Lila Sciences. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

academicscientistfounderexecutivegomezbombarelli.mit.edu ↗

He leads MIT’s Learning Matter Lab, combining physics-based atomistic simulations with deep learning to accelerate material discovery. He is also a co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Physical Sciences at Lila Sciences.

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Everything Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

Gomez-Bombarelli: Pure language representation is not required for scientific superintelligence
“I don't think it's necessary. I don't think that's a necessary condition for a scientific super intelligence.”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 33:21 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gomez-Bombarelli: Small-Molecule Drug Discovery Training Transferred to Metal-Organic Frameworks
“And it turns out that our models had been trained on small molecule drug discovery, and all of the chemistry that they had learned thinking about drug discovery carried over to start reasoning over this metal organic framework materials that we can use to take…”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 39:53 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
Gomez-Bombarelli: Meta's virtual materials datasets fail to solve real-world chemistry
“Meta has produced tens of millions, hundreds of millions of training data points, but they're all virtual simulations that just don't carry enough water for the thing we actually want to do.”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 1:37:52 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
Gomez-Bombarelli: AI Must Solve Real Material Science Beyond Simulation
“But it was clear that we needed to bridge a gap and get this thing all the way out and make, do AI for actual material science and not just the computational version.”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 5:10 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
Gomez-Bombarelli: False Positives Are Terrible for Humans but Great for AI
“False positives are terrible for human scientists, right? Because you go to try something. It doesn't work for the model. It's fantastic. It reduces uncertainty a lot. For the operator, it's kind of a bummer, right? Because you thought you were going to get so…”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 20:34 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gomez-Bombarelli: Lila tests 96 MOFs in an hour using proxy measurements
“And that's something we built in the lab now where instead of measuring pressure, we're measuring another property we care about that is a readout for what actually pressure will tell us, but we can do 96 well plates for 96 metal organic frameworks in like an …”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 1:12:46 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gomez-Bombarelli: Modern lab benchtop instruments match decade-old government beamlines
“The instruments we have now are as powerful as a beam line would have been 10 years ago. We're taking measurements today that 10 years ago would have requested you to ask the federal government for a Time slot at two in the morning, somewhere out there you kno…”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 1:17:14 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
LATENT SPACE Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gomez-Bombarelli: Self-driving lab synthesizes custom quantum dots in 90 minutes
“So we have a cute demo where our self-driving lab, we ask our visitors to pick up wavelengths. What color do you want the quantum dot to be when they come into the office? And then we fire off the machine, The model reasons, even sometimes we've been throwing …”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 36:27 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
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Gomez-Bombarelli: Lila AI Calls Process Simulators for Scale-Up Economics
“In the materials and chemistry, you know, our tools can call process engineering simulators. And go figure out what pipe diameters and what heat exchangers you should be using in order to scale up the process for the economics to be worth it.”
Rafa Gomez-Bombarelli Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 56:28 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences

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