Sidney Starr is a chemistry PhD student at the University of Chicago who studies aqueous zinc-ion batteries with operando Raman spectroscopy and SHINERS, designs 3D-printed spectroelectrochemical cells, and benchmarks machine-learning models on experimental data, with active learning planned to help choose the next experiment.https://sidneystarr.com/https://sidneystarr.com/log/starting-the-log/https://sidneystarr.com/log/starting-the-log/Why I'm learning ML pipeline engineering and lab automation in public, and the roadmap I'm following.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT