SafeLens: reading between the safety records
A near-miss report is one observation. Hundreds of thousands of reports can become organizational memory—if we know how to ask useful questions.
Read the story →SI² — SuperIntelligence for Science
AI for Laboratory Operations
Intelligence for the people, records, and decisions that keep scientific laboratories moving.
The mission
Scientific operations.
Intelligent by design.
Build AI tools for laboratory operations that support operational excellence and predictive maintenance. Our research connects diverse operational evidence with grounded reasoning, expert oversight, and useful decision support.
Research stories
The ideas behind the tools.
BLUEPRINT: finding the right drawing in a mountain of records
A drawing is more than its filename. BLUEPRINT connects what a page says, where it says it, and what an engineer needs to find.
Read the story →Three connected directions
From evidence to informed action.
Knowledge Discovery
Discover engineering knowledge and actionable insights across laboratory records.
Explore research →Safety & Risk Intelligence
Connect operational evidence with hazard assessment and actionable safety insights.
Explore research →Compliance & Governance
Support traceable classification and human review in laboratory governance.
Explore research →The ecosystem
A connected research architecture.
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Operational evidence
Engineering drawings · Incident records · Laboratory documents · Policies & procedures
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Intelligence foundations
Multimodal retrieval · Retrieval-augmented generation · Agentic reasoning · Evaluation
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Research & tools
Knowledge discovery · Safety & risk intelligence · Compliance & governance
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Decision support
Discover evidence · Assess hazards · Review decisions · Share insights
Tools & benchmarks
Explore the research portfolio.
Accepted
Knowledge DiscoveryBLUEPRINT
Multimodal retrieval for complex engineering drawings and documents.
Research & resources →Published
Safety & Risk IntelligenceREFSafE
Evidence-grounded predictive risk analysis and automated safety report generation.
Research & resources →Published
Compliance & GovernanceORCHID
Retrieval-augmented classification of high-risk property with intelligent decision-making.
Research & resources →Published
Safety & Risk IntelligenceChemSafe / SafeChem
Chemical hazard assessment and evaluation: hybrid retrieval-augmented decision support and safety benchmarking.
Research & resources →Published
Knowledge DiscoverySafeLens
AI-augmented exploration of organizational safety records for actionable insights.
Research & resources →Published
Safety & Risk IntelligenceHAZDIAL
Structured agentic dialogue for hazard identification analysis.
Research & resources →Research tool
Compliance & GovernanceRegChange
AI compliance tool that compares regulation versions, maps impacts to internal procedures, and generates change recommendations.
Research & resources →Research tool
Compliance & GovernancePolicyGuard
Extracts requirements from DOE orders & eCFR, compares against internal procedures, and maps gaps and conflicts.
Research & resources →Research tool
Compliance & GovernanceORImpact
AI decision impact platform that evaluates how operational or policy decisions affect risk posture, compliance, and operations.
Research & resources →Research tool
Safety & Risk IntelligenceSmartInspect
AI vision tool that analyzes images of any space or equipment with text context to rapidly identify safety hazards.
Research & resources →Research tool
Safety & Risk IntelligenceCausalAI
Agentic AI performing 5-Whys root cause analysis and barrier extraction on incident reports.
Research & resources →Research tool
Compliance & GovernanceQualityAI
AI anomaly detection for procurement that flags items incorrectly classified as quality-insignificant before they slip through.
Research & resources →Research outputs
Publications & submissions.
REFSafE: A RAG-Enabled Framework for Predictive Risk Analysis and Automated Safety Report Generation in Mission-Critical Environments
Citation
Sanjay Das et al. (2026). REFSafE: A RAG-Enabled Framework for Predictive Risk Analysis and Automated Safety Report Generation in Mission-Critical Environments. RAG4Reports, pp. 47–56.
ORCHID: Orchestrated Retrieval-Augmented Classification of High-Risk Property with Intelligent Decision-Making
Citation
Sanjay Das et al. (2026). ORCHID: Orchestrated Retrieval-Augmented Classification of High-Risk Property with Intelligent Decision-Making. RAG4Reports, pp. 57–64.
BLUEPRINT Rebuilding a Legacy: Multimodal Retrieval for Complex Engineering Drawings and Documents
Citation
Ethan Seefried et al. (2027). BLUEPRINT Rebuilding a Legacy: Multimodal Retrieval for Complex Engineering Drawings and Documents. WACV 2027.
ChemSafe: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Decision Support for Laboratory Chemical Hazard Assessment
Citation
Ran Elgedawy et al. (2026). ChemSafe: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Decision Support for Laboratory Chemical Hazard Assessment. JCDL.
SafeChem: A Benchmark Dataset for Multi-Label Chemical Hazard Prediction and LLM Safety Hallucination Evaluation
Submitted to NeurIPS
Citation
Ran Elgedawy et al. (2026). SafeChem: A Benchmark Dataset for Multi-Label Chemical Hazard Prediction and LLM Safety Hallucination Evaluation. ChemRxiv.
SafeLens: AI-Augmented Exploratory Analysis over Organizational Safety Records for Actionable Insights Generation
Citation
Sanjay Das, Ryan Burchfield, Gavin Wiggins, Alan Guy, and Tirthankar Ghosal (2026). SafeLens: AI-Augmented Exploratory Analysis over Organizational Safety Records for Actionable Insights Generation. JCDL.
Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis
Citation
Sanjay Das, Ran Elgedawy, Ethan Seefried, Ryan Burchfield, and Tirthankar Ghosal (2026). Enhancing Operational Safety via Agentic Dialogue Hazard Identification Analysis. SIGDIAL, pp. 757–772.