Team Members: Emily Heron (ORNL), Miaosen Chai (USC), Tom Hope (Al2) [PI], Tirthankar Ghosal [Co-PI]
Training LLMs to extrapolate to generate "new hypotheses". Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR).
Principal Team Members: Yuan-Sen Ting (OSU) [PI], Tirthankar Ghosal [Co-PI], Tijmen de Haan (KEK-Japan) [Co-PI], Alberto Aaccomazzi (Harvard CfA), Emily Herron (ORNL), Vanessa Lama (ORNL), Josh Nguyen (UChicago), Rui Pan (UIUC), Hardik Arora (IIT Patna)
A consortium of Astrophysicists, Computer Scientists, Data Archivists, Astronomers from Ohio State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA Astrophysics Data System, KEK-Japan, Argonne National Laboratory, working together on several problems of Astrophysics and Astronomy, where ML plays a central role. https://astromlab.org/
Awarded several Director's Discretionary (DD) compute allocation awards at ORNL.
AST 209
AST 216
AST 221
AST 228
The collaboration resulted in the development of Astrosage, AstroLLaMa models, AstroBench. More details soon!
Collaborators: Heng Ji (UIUC) [PI]
Collaborators: Stephen DeWitt (ORNL), Daniel Rosendo (ORNL), Renan De Souza (ORNL), Philippe Austria (ORNL), Sarp Oral (ORNL), Ben Mintz (ORNL), Rafael Fernando (ORNL)
Demonstration of Agentic AI capabilities at MDF, ORNL with 3D Printers. This is a multi-division collaboration within ORNL to explore AI agents in the closed loop scientific workflows with a Additive Manufacturing use-case.
Collaborators: Brant Robertson (UCSC) [PI], Yuan-Sen Ting (OSU) [Co-PI]
Application for DOE INCITE 2026 allocations. Recently awarded a ORNL-DD compute allocation. To start from September 2025.
Collaborators: Jian Wu (Old Dominion University) [PI], Sarah Rajtmajer (PSU), Dominik Soos (ODU)
Awarded a DD compute grant at ORNL. To start from September 2025.
Collaborators: Elsa Olivetti (MIT) [PI], Vineeth Venugopal (MIT) [Co-PI]
Awarded a DD compute grant at ORNL: MAT721
Collaborators: Ahmad Maroof Karimi (ORNL), Woong Shin (ORNL), Jesse Hines (ORNL)
Develop a GenAI based operational data analytics tool for leadership class supercomputers.
Team: Tirthankar Ghosal [PI], Yongqiang Chen [Co-PI] (ORNL)
Application for Seed Proposal at ORNL (under development)
Collaborators: Pum Kim (ORNL) [Co-PI], Komal Chawla (ORNL) [PI]
Application for Seed Proposal at ORNL (under development)
Collaborators: Pratik Dutta (Stony Brook University)
A consortium of ML researchers, Astronomers, and Computer Scientists 👉 UniverseTBD
Hypothesis Generation
LLM Deception
JWST Bench