QCE20 Best Paper Includes CRD Quantum Expertise
October 28, 2020A team of researchers that includes CRD's Costin Iancu was honored with a best paper award at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering.
A.I. Enables Self-Driving Data Acquisition
A self-learning algorithm developed by the CAMERA group at Berkeley Lab has enabled researchers at the Institut Laue-Langevin to for the first time run an autonomous data analysis during a neutron scattering experiment. » Read More
IDAES Honored with R&D100 Award
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Institute for the Design of Advanced Energy Systems (IDAES) is the winner of a prestigious 2020 R&D 100 award, which recognizes the developers of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace in the last year. » Read More
New Project Aims to Cut Energy Costs of Painting Cars
CRD mathematicians are working with PPG Industries to model the paint drying process and guide the development of new energy-efficient coating systems for the automotive industry. » Read More
Reva Jambunathan Wins Berkeley Lab SLAM Competition
Jambunathan, the only SLAM finalist from the Computing Sciences Area, won the $3,000 purse with a lay-friendly explanation of her research into pulsars using AMRex and WarpX codes developed at CRD. » Read More
ENDURABLE: Aggregate Data Standard for AI Modeling
The U.S. Department of Energy announced $8.5 million for projects to make artificial intelligence models and data more accessible and reusable. One of these newly funded projects is “ENDURABLE: Benchmark datasets for AI with queryable metadata,” spearheaded by Berkeley Lab’s Computational Research Division. » Read More
CRD staff hold leadership roles in SciDAC Institutes
Over the next five years, the U.S. Department of Energy will provide $57.5 million for two Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Institutes. And Berkeley Lab staff will continue to hold leadership positions in both—Esmond Ng as director of FASTMath and Lenny Oliker as deputy director of RAPIDS2. » Read More
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Machine Learning Software Enhances Molecular Dynamics Modeling
October 21, 2020CRD researchers are co-authors on a research paper that introduces a new machine-learning-based software package for molecular dynamics modeling that is a finalist for the Gordon Bell Prize at SC20 in November.
Summer Students Tackle COVID-19
October 21, 2020As a part of the Computational Research Division’s summer student program at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, four graduate students from the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) researched a method to allow doctors and researchers to use valuable health information in the battle against COVID-19 while also preserving patient privacy in electronic records.
CRD’s Deb Agarwal Named to Committee to Help Shape California State Water Data Structure
October 19, 2020Deb Agarwal, head of the Data Science and Technology Department in Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division, is one of 11 members named to the inaugural steering committee of the California Water Data Consortium.
CRD's Ushizima to Discuss Using ML Algorithms to Screen Lung Images for COVID-19
October 15, 2020On Friday, Oct. 16, Berkeley Lab scientist Daniela Ushizima will discuss early results of using computer vision algorithms to scan medical images of lungs and automatically identify lesions that could indicate COVID-19 at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Academic Data Science Association.
Berkeley Lab AI Autonomously Steers Data Acquisition at Neutron Scattering Facility in France
October 6, 2020A self-learning algorithm developed by the CAMERA group at Berkeley Lab has enabled researchers at the Institut Laue-Langevin to for the first time run an autonomous data analysis during a neutron scattering experiment.
