2 Purdue AI research projects selected among the first Genesis Mission awards

Twitter LinkedIn Email Print WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Department of Energy’s (DOE) efforts to accelerate the process of scientific discovery by utilizing artificial intelligence.

Purdue is the only university in Indiana to lead a project under the Genesis Mission awards, the DOE’s largest science and technology funding effort. The Purdue projects are led by College of Science faculty from the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department.

What Happened

One project led by Wei Xie, professor of physics and astronomy; Miaoyuan Liu, assistant professor of physics and astronomy; and Ruqi Zhang, assistant professor of computer science, will focus on organizing the intense data streams to be generated by the Electron-Ion Collider..

• Only 278 projects out of 5,000 covering all 50 states were selected on topics including energy, discovery science and national security research.

• More than 106,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, including more than 57,000 at our main campus locations in West Lafayette and Indianapolis.

• At the nation’s only all-digital nuclear reactor, engineers conduct the first experiments of their kind in the U.S.

Key Details

The second project will be run by David F. Gleich, a professor of computer science.

• As a land-grant university committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row, enabling more students than ever to graduate debt-free.

• Purdue University is a research institution ranked among the top 10 public universities in the United States.

• The comprehensive Purdue Computes initiative emphasizes four key pillars of Purdue’s extensive technological and computational environment — computing departments, physical AI, quantum science and semiconductor innovation.

Why It Matters

For the research, Gleich will investigate to what extent large language models (LLM) can directly cite their training data. This behavior is important for scientific models so that scientists are aware of the basis of predictions from the AI models.

• AI research is a part of the Institute of Physical Artificial Intelligence, a core component of Purdue Computes.

• Xie is partnering with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

What Reports Say

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