Samantha Roberts, Ph.D. is the Director of the ASRC Nanofabrication Facility and a Research Assistant Professor, a role she has held since 2022. She earned her Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 2014, where she conducted research in the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. Dr. Roberts is an expert in the design and fabrication of electrical, photonic, biological, and mechanical nanoscale devices across a wide range of materials. Her research and professional experience includes work on silicon carbide FET development at Case Western Reserve University and five years of advanced nanophotonics research at Columbia University. She brings two decades of experience in academic shared-user nanofabrication facilities, including Cornell, Columbia, CUNY ASRC, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Princeton, and the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to her academic leadership, Dr. Roberts develops applied Generative AI tools for technical knowledge management and research workflows. She is the creator of nanobot.chat, a domain-specific AI assistant for nanofabrication environments, and advocates for using Generative AI to augment deep domain expertise in scientific research.