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RCC Seminar: AI for Science

23 August 2019
9:00am to 10:00am
RCC, Room 505, Level 5, Axon Building (47) (St Lucia)

Abstract:

In this talk, I will describe an emerging initiative at the US Argonne National Laboratory to advance the concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aimed at addressing challenging problems in science. We call this initiative “AI for Science”. The basic concept is threefold:

  1. To identify those scientific problems where existing AI and machine learning methods can have an immediate impact (and organise teams and efforts to realise that impact);
  2. Identify areas where new AI methods are needed to meet the unique needs of science research (frame the problems, develop test cases, and outline work needed to make progress); and
  3. Develop the means to automate scientific experiments, observations, and data generation to accelerate the overall scientific enterprise.

Science offers plenty of hard problems to motivate and drive AI research, from complex multimodal data analysis, to integration of symbolic and data-intensive methods, to coupling large-scale simulation and machine learning to drive improved training to control and accelerate simulations.

A major sub-theme is the idea of working toward the automation of scientific discovery through integration of machine learning (active learning and reinforcement learning) with simulation and automated high-throughput experimental laboratories.

I will provide some examples of projects underway and lay out a set of long-term driver problems.
 

Speaker Bio:

Professor Rick Stevens is internationally known for work in high-performance computing, collaboration and visualisation technology, and for building computational tools and web infrastructures to support large-scale genome and metagenome analysis for basic science and infectious disease research. A current focus is the national initiatives for Exascale computing and Artificial Intelligence (AI).

He is the Associate Laboratory Director at Argonne National Laboratory, and a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago.

In addition, he is the principle investigator of the NIH-NIAID-funded PATRIC Bioinformatics Resource Center, the Exascale Computing Project (ECP) Exascale Deep Learning and Simulation Enabled Precision Medicine for Cancer project, and the predicitive models pilot of the DOE-NCI-funded Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer (JDACS4C) project.

Over the past 20 years, he and his colleagues have developed the SEED, RAST, MG-RAST, and ModelSEED genome analysis and bacterial modeling servers that have been used by tens of thousands of users to annotate and analyse more than 250,000 microbial genomes and metagenomic samples.

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