CoDEx 2026 Sponsor Presentations
Thank you to our CoDEx 2026 corporate sponsors for providing the following presentations, which will be held in the Arch Room.
2:05 to 2:25 p.m. - Comsol
Accelerating Simulation Apps with Data - Driven Surrogate Models
Akhilesh Sasankan, COMSOL, Inc.
3:05 to 3:25 p.m. - Google Cloud
Scientific Literature Assistants: Embedding Spaces and Retrieval Augmented Generation for AI Applications
John Cecala - Google Higher Education Advocate | Research & AI | Student Success
Ask any researcher, and they'll tell you that great scientific work is measured in years, often a decade or more. But AI has permanently changed that timeline. We’re at a transformational moment where AI is now an indispensable partner to scientific discovery. The technology, methods, and data Google uses to develop novel ideas for solving some of the world's greatest challenges are now available to you at Northwestern University.
- For half a century, one of the grand challenges in medicine was predicting how proteins fold into their complex 3D shapes. A problem so difficult it was thought to be unsolvable. Google AI solved it.
- In Materials Science, discovering a new stable material, such as those used in batteries or solar panels, can take decades. Google AI analyzed over 380K hypothetical materials, identifying over 1,000 new stable compounds, effectively condensing 800 years of research into a matter of weeks.
- Some mathematical algorithms used in computer science have been the same for over 50 years. Google AI discovered a more efficient way to perform matrix multiplication that no human mathematician had identified.
Come learn more in this session from John Cecala - Google Higher Education Advocate | Research & AI | Student Success