Welcome to the Jensen Lab in the Biomedical Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. We combine laboratory robotics with artificial intelligence to solve fundamental problems in microbiology. Our self-driving lab has performed over 1 million high-throughput experiments to understand bacterial metabolism and quorum sensing.

• Meet our people and our robots.
• Read our publications and preprints.
• Find teaching materials including our undergraduate textbook Linear Algebra: Foundations of Machine Learning.
• Learn about our workshops on autonomous science. We hold workshops around the world at conferences, companies, national laboratories, foundations, and academic institutions.

News

Oct 2025	Welcome new lab members: Will Herbert joins the lab as postdoc. Chloe Baumer joins the lab as a technician. Ruqaiya Siddqui becomes our lab manager.
Oct 2025	Paul, Ben, and Mark Hendricks (Whitman College) teach a short course on Autonomous Science in Denmark.
Sep 2025	Our lab receives funding from the Align Foundation to create the world's largest phenotypic dataset for microbes.
Aug 2025	Our lab receives funding from OpenAI to train language models to generate and test hypotheses.
Jul 2025	Graduate student Benjamin David defends his PhD thesis.
Jul 2025	Graduate student Deepthi Suresh defends her PhD thesis.
Jul 2025	Our lab receives a sponsored research agreement with Vedanta Biosciences.
Jun 2025	The Jensen Lab attends ASM 2025: Ryan gives an oral presentation, Noah and Noelle present posters, and Paul hosts a plenary session.
Jun 2025	Undergraduates Bella Hodges and Amanda Leonard join us for the summer through our exchange program with Lisa McLellan's lab at Purdue University-Fort Wayne.
Nov 2024	Our lab receives funding from DARPA to build AI agents that learn the functions of unannotated genes.

Contact

Our laboratory's home is the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan.

Mailing Address:

Jensen Lab University of Michigan 2420 LBME 1101 Beal Ave Ann Arbor, MI 48109