Meet CMI early career researcher Long Qi

image of person head and shoulders: Long Qi, Ames National Laboratory
Long Qi, Ames National Laboratory

Long Qi, Ames National Laboratory 

Long Qi is a Staff Scientist III at Ames National Laboratory, where he is the project lead for a CMI project leading the effort to accelerate separation studies using automation and machine intelligence. The work highlights the establishment of a AI-accelerated facility for (1) AI-supervised, automated synthesis of extractive agents, (2) high-throughput, automated evaluation of solid-liquid and liquid-liquid separation processes for selective extraction, leaching, precipitation, and crystallization, (3) AI-enhanced data acquisition and analysis for the development of separation processes, and (4) collaboration with industrial partners.  

As a member of the CMI Leadership Academy fifth cohort, he developed the CMI Short Course that was held April 11, 2024, at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. 

Qi earned a doctorate in Green Chemistry and Catalysts from the City University of Hong Kong. 

July 2024

image of five people standing in a laboratory are researchers in group with Long Qi (second from left), Ames National Laboratory
CMI research at Ames National Laboratory on transformative rare earth recovery is training students in critical materials research. From left: Postdoc Lun An, CMI Project Lead Long Qi, SULI researcher Tatum Englund, undergraduate researcher Hailey Bates, and former SULI/undergraduate researcher Tyler Hall.