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title: Home Page of Prasanna Balaprakash
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<strong>Director of AI Programs and Distinguished R&D Staff Scientist</strong> <br/>
<a href="https://www.ornl.gov/directorate/ccsd" target="_blank"> Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate </a> <br/>
<a href="http://www.ornl.gov" target="_blank">Oak Ridge National Laboratory</a><br />
Building 5700, Room G215, Mail Stop 6164 <br />
P.O. Box 2008, 1 Bethel Valley Road <br />
Oak Ridge, TN 37831 <br />
<i class="fa fa-phone"></i> 865-576-9087 (Please avoid cold calls/solicitations)<br/>
<i class="fa fa-envelope"></i> pbalapra (at) ornl (dot) gov <br />
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<strong>R&D Lead and Computer Scientist</strong> <br/>
<a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov" target="_blank"> Mathematics and Computer Science Division</a> & <br/> <a href="http://www.alcf.anl.gov" target="_blank"> Leadership Computing Facility </a> <br/>
<a href="http://www.anl.gov" target="_blank">Argonne National Laboratory</a><br />
9700 S. Cass Avenue<br />
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Lemont, IL 60439<br />
<i class="fa fa-phone"></i> (630) 252-1109<br />
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<li class="itemize">New DOE ASCR funded project. PosEiDon: Platform for Explainable Distributed Infrastructure</li>
<li class="itemize">New DOE EERE funded project. Probabilistic Machine Learning for Rapid Large-Scale and High-Rate Aerostructure Manufacturing</li>
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Since March 2023, I am serving as the Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
I direct the ORNL’s <a href="https://www.ornl.gov/ai-initiative" target="_blank">Artificial Intelligence Initiative</a>, a multimillion-dollar Laboratory Directed Research and Development portfolio.
I set the strategic vision for AI for science portfolio and develop plans and execute them.
I seek to deliver foundational, scalable, and applied AI/ML capabilities that support the broad mission of ORNL, providing world-class solutions in areas such as computer and computational science, materials science, manufacturing, energy, and climate science.
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The ORNL’s AI initiative focuses on the development of secure, trustworthy, and energy-efficient AI solutions to tackle problems of national importance.
The initiative's portfolio comprises more than 10 advanced AI projects and involves over 50 researchers from across the lab.
Through the AI Initiative's AI Academy, I engage with more than 100 ORNL AI researchers to promote the adoption of secure, trustworthy, and energy-efficient AI methods.
This engagement is facilitated through several workforce development activities for the lab, including the
<a href="https://www.ornl.gov/ai-initiative/workforce-development" target="_blank">AI Summer Institute</a>,
<a href="https://ornl.github.io/events/ai-tutorials-series-2024/" target="_blank">AI Tutorial Series for Science</a>,
<a href="https://www.openhackathons.org/s/siteevent/a0CUP000006I4B12AK/se000328" target="_blank">AI for Science Bootcamps</a>,
<a href="https://ornl.github.io/events/genAI-July-2023/" target="_blank">AI Workshops</a>,
<a href="https://www.ornl.gov/event/ai-expo" target="_blank">AI Expo</a>, and
<a href="https://ornl.github.io/events/ai-initiative-seminar-2024/" target="_blank">AI Seminar Series</a>.
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Appointed by Tennessee State Governor, I serve as a member of the newly formed <a href="https://www.tn.gov/lawsandpolicies/policies/artificial-intelligence-council.html" target="_blank">Tennessee AI Advisory Council</a>.
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My research interests span the areas of AI, machine learning, optimization, and high-performance computing. I serve as AI lead for several DOE-funded projects:
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<li class="itemize"> SciGPT: Scalable Foundational Model for Scientific Machine Learning </li>
<li class="itemize"> <a href="https://swarm-workflows.github.io/" target="_blank">SWARM: Distributed Resilient System</a>, Co-Investigator and AI Lead </li>
<li class="itemize"> <a href="https://www.anl.gov/csteel" target="_blank">C-STEEL: Center for Steel Electrification by Electrosynthesis</a>, AI Lead </li>
<li class="itemize"> <a href="https://rapids.lbl.gov/" target="_blank">RAPIDS2: A SciDAC Institute for Computer Science, Data, and Artificial Intelligence</a>, AI Thrust Lead </li>
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I co-lead the research and development of <a href="https://deephyper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/" target="_blank">DeepHyper</a>, a scalable automated machine learning package for trustworthy and energy-efficient AI model development on DOE leadership-class systems.
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I am honored to have received <a href="https://www.anl.gov/article/three-argonne-scientists-receive-doe-early-career-awards" target="_blank"> U.S. Department of Energy Early Career Award</a>, 2018--2023.
My primary research sponsor is the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR).
I am also grateful for the funding support from Basic Energy Sciences (BES), Biological and Environmental Research (BER),
Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), High Energy Physics (HEP), and Nuclear Physics (NP) through SciDAC partnerships,
and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
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Previously,
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<li class="itemize">2020--2023: R&D Group Leader and Computer Scientist, MCS & LCF Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory</li>
<li class="itemize">2017--2020: Computer Scientist, MCS & LCF Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory</li>
<li class="itemize">2017--2023: Fellow, Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Northwestern University</li>
<li class="itemize">2014--2018: Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago</li>
<li class="itemize">2014--2017: Assistant Computer Scientist, MCS & LCF Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory</li>
<li class="itemize">2012--2015: Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, inSiliTech LLC</li>
<li class="itemize">2010--2013: Postdoc, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory</li>
<li class="itemize">2009--2010: Chief Technology Officer, Mentis SA, Brussels, Belgium</li>
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From 2013 to 2017, I was an assistant computer scientist and my supervisors were <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wild/" target="_blank">Dr. Stefan Wild</a> and <a href="https://www.alcf.anl.gov/staff-directory/kalyan-kumaran" target="_blank">Dr. Kalyan Kumaran</a>.
Until 2013, I was a postdoc at Argonne with <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~wild/" target="_blank">Dr. Stefan Wild</a> and <a href="http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~hovland/" target="_blank">Dr. Paul Hovland</a>.
Prior to Argonne, I worked as a Chief Technology Officer at <a href="http://www.mentis-consulting.be/" target="_blank">Mentis Consulting</a>, a machine learning startup in Brussels, Belgium.
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I received my PhD in 2010 from <a href="https://code.ulb.ac.be/lab/IRIDIA" target="_blank"> CoDE-IRIDIA (AI Lab)</a>, <a href="http://www.ulb.ac.be" target="_blank">Université Libre de Bruxelles</a>, Brussels, Belgium,
where I was a recipient of <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/research/mariecurieactions/node_en" target="blank_">Marie Skłodowska-Curie</a> and <a href="http://www.fnrs.be/en/" target="_blank">F.R.S-FNRS Aspirant</a> fellowships from the
the European Commission and the Belgian-French Community's National Fund for Scientific Research, respectively.
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Supervisors of my doctoral research were <a href="http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/%7Emdorigo" target="_blank">Prof. Marco Dorigo</a>, <a href="http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/%7Embiro" target="_blank">Dr. Mauro Birattari</a>, and <a href="http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/%7Estuetzle" target="_blank">Dr. Thomas Stützle</a>.
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<li class="itemize">ANL PI on new DOE ASCR funded project with University of Southern California, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and UNC's Rennaisance Computing Institute: <a href="https://sites.google.com/view/poseidon-workflows/home" target="blank_">PosEiDon: Platform for Explainable Distributed Infrastructure</a>.
We will develop AI/ML based methods to simulate, model and optimize scientific workflow performance on large, distributed DOE computing infrastructures. </li>
<li class="itemize">Lead PI on new DOE EERE funded project with GE Resarch, GKN Aerospace, and Edison Welding Institute: Probabilistic Machine Learning for Rapid Large-Scale and High-Rate Aerostructure Manufacturing. We will develop a novel probabilistic
ML framework to significantly improve manufacturing efficiency for large-scale aerostructures produced at high rates.</li>
<li class="itemize">[NeurIPS 2021] <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.14035" target="blank_">Formalizing the Generalization-Forgetting Trade-off in Continual Learning</a>.</li>
<li class="itemize">[SC 2021] <a href="https://sc21.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=pap460&sess=sess150" target="blank_">AgEBO-Tabular: Joint Neural Architecture and Hyperparameter Search with Autotuned Data-Parallel Training for Tabular Data</a>.</li>
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