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Saman Shafaei

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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An AI-powered cloud biofoundry for autonomous biological research

Junyu Chen, Michael J. Volk, Saman Shafaei, Shih‐I Tan, Vikas Upadhyay, Nilmani Singh, Xianrui Zhong, Katherine Arneson, Wenqi He, Chen Wang, Jingxia Lu, Aurosish Sharma, John McLaughlin, Matthew Berry, Steven Harmon, , Huimin Zhao

The paper introduces iCloudBiofoundry, a cloud platform that autonomously designs, executes, and iteratively improves biological experiments using AI-driven workflows.

bioRxiv · Oct 1, 2026 · PreprintSynthetic Biology

An end-to-end pipeline for succinic acid production at an industrially relevant scale using Issatchenkia orientalis

Vinh Gia Tran, Somesh Mishra, Sarang S. Bhagwat, Saman Shafaei, Yihui Shen, Jayne L. Allen, Benjamin A. Crosly, Shih‐I Tan, Zia Fatma, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Jeremy S. Guest, Vijay Singh, Huimin Zhao

This paper describes an end-to-end pipeline for cost-effective succinic acid production using Issatchenkia orientalis, achieving high titers and financial viability with reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

bioRxiv · Apr 30, 2023 · PreprintSynthetic Biology