An exploration of the necessity for science-driven AI integration

Anima Anandkumar
1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
, June 8
June 8

Language models have been used for generating new ideas and hypotheses in scientific domains. For instance, language models could suggest new drugs or engineering designs. However, this is not sufficient to attack the hard part of science which is the physical experiments needed to validate the proposed ideas. This is because language models lack physical validity and the ability to internally simulate the processes. Traditional simulation methods are too slow and infeasible for complex processes observed in many scientific domains. We propose AI-based simulation methods that are 4-5 orders of magnitude faster and cheaper than traditional simulations. They are based on Neural Operators which learn mappings between function spaces

About the speaker

Anima Anandkumar

Anima Anandkumar

The Bren Professor of Computing at Caltech and one of the world’s leading authorities in neural operator research. She also serves as Director of Machine Learning Research at NVIDIA. Previously, she was Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services.She received her B.Tech from IIT Madras and Ph.D. from Cornell University, followed by postdoctoral research at MIT and a faculty position at UC Irvine. Her groundbreaking work has been recognized with honors such as the IEEE Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and faculty fellowships from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Adobe. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network.

The Bren Professor of Computing at Caltech and one of the world’s leading authorities in neural operator research. She also serves as Director of Machine Learning Research at NVIDIA. Previously, she was Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services.She received her B.Tech from IIT Madras and Ph.D. from Cornell University, followed by postdoctoral research at MIT and a faculty position at UC Irvine. Her groundbreaking work has been recognized with honors such as the IEEE Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship, NSF CAREER Award, and faculty fellowships from Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Adobe. She is also a member of the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network.

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