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X-ray diffusion assisted by Artificial Intelligence: the problem of the representativeness of synthetic


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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-25-0374  

Direction

DRF

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Category

Technological challenges

Thesis topics

X-ray diffusion assisted by Artificial Intelligence: the problem of the representativeness of synthetic databases and the indistinguishability of predictions.

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Job description

The advent of artificial intelligence makes it possible to accelerate and democratize the processing of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) data, an expert technique for characterizing nanomaterials that allows to determine the specific surface area, volume fraction and characteristic sizes of structures between 0.5 to 200 nm.

However, there is a double problem around SAXS assisted by Artificial Intelligence: 1) the scarcity of data requires training the models on synthetic data, which poses the problem of their representativeness of real data, and 2) the laws of physics stipulate that several candidate nanostructures can correspond to a SAXS measurement, which poses the problem of the indistinguishability of predictions. This thesis therefore aims to build an artificial intelligence model adapted to SAXS trained on experimentally validated synthetic data, and on the expert response which weights the categorization of predictions by their indistinguishability.

University / doctoral school

Sciences Chimiques: Molécules, Matériaux, Instrumentation et Biosystèmes (2MIB)
Paris-Saclay

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Site

Saclay

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2025

Person to be contacted by the applicant

CARRIÈRE David david.carriere@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
Bât.125
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
0169085489

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

CARRIÈRE David david.carriere@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
DRF/IRAMIS/NIMBE/LIONS
Bât.125
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex
0169085489

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