UC San Diego researchers will lead one of the U.S. Department of Energy's new Genesis Mission projects, using intelligent AI agents to accelerate work in fundamental physics and quantum computing.
Assistant professor Aobo Li is the principal investigator and associate physics professor Yi-Zhuang You is co-principal investigator. Their team will build SIDERIUS, an AI scientist designed to analyze data, develop AI models and deploy them on specialized chips for scientific applications; AI company EdenCode is a subawardee.
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UC San Diego researchers are also co-investigators on four Genesis projects led by other institutions. Those collaborations involve high-speed processing of particle-collision data and AI tools for experiments searching for neutrinoless double-beta decay.
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