UC-LEAP

University of California

Low-Energy, AI-Informed Phase Transitions (LEAP)

UC awards $18 million to scale up the ambition and impact of AI in scienceTogether with Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Labs, the University of California is funding research to develop new AI approaches in genomics, quantum materials discovery and geothermal energy.

The University of California has awarded $6 million to our LEAP project through its new AI Science at Scale initiative. Led by Professor Ram Seshadri at UC Santa Barbara, LEAP aims to accelerate discovery of low-energy switching materials by training specialized large language models on theory, experimental data, and simulations. By focusing on topological materials with unconventional electron behavior, our team seeks to identify promising candidates for energy-efficient chip design.

People:

Ram Seshadri

Professor of Materials; Director, MRL, UC Santa Barbara

Archana Raja

Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Luis A. Jauregui

Assistant Professor of Physics & Astronomy; Director, UCI Quantum Materials Center

D. Kwabena Bediako

Associate Professor of Chemistry, UC Berkeley

Elizabeth (Beth) Nowadnick

Associate Professor, Chemical and Materials Engineering, UC Merced

Zhiting Hu

Assistant Professor, HDSI & CSE, UC San Diego

Yufei Ding

Associate Professor, Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego

Elizabeth (Liz) Peterson

Scientist, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Lab

Kipton Barros

Scientist, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Lab

Christopher A. Lane

Scientist, Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Lab

Jian-Xin Zhu

Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab

Tuan Anh Pham

Group Leader, Quantum Simulations Group, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Ying Wai Li

Scientist, Los Alamos National Lab

Joel B. Varley

Staff Scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Joel Moore

Professor of Physics

UC Berkeley

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Laisi Chen

Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

Dan S. Borgnia

Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics, UC Berkeley (Moore Group)

Yu-Hsuan (Eugene) Lin

Physics PhD Student (Joel Moore Group), UC Berkeley

Matt Wright

Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials, UC Santa Barbara (Quantum Foundry / Seshadri Group)

Laila Reimanis

Materials, UC Santa Barbara (Quantum Foundry / Seshadri Group)

Kathryn (Katie) Brockmeyer

Materials, UC Santa Barbara (Seshadri Lab)

Shannon S. Fender

PhD Candidate, Chemistry, UC Berkeley

Jinyu Liu

Postdoctoral Scholar, Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine (QMDL)

Eleni Kyriazi

Graduate Student (rotation), Physics & Astronomy, UC Irvine (QMDL)

Joern Fritz Bannies

Graduate Student, Chemistry / QMI, University of British Columbia

Zhen Wang

Postdoctoral Scholar, HDSI, UC San Diego

Tharushi Ekanayake

PhD Student, Physics (Nowadnick Group), UC Merced

Kuntal Talit

Postdoctoral Scholar, Chemical & Materials Engineering, UC Merced

Haseeb Ahmad

Graduate Student, Physics, UC Merced

Byung Joo Jeong

Postdoctoral Scholar, Materials Science, UC Berkeley

Zhengding Hu

Postdoctoral Scholar

Computer Science & Engineering, UC San Diego.

Zhengyi Bian

Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley

zhengyi.bian@berkeley.edu

Tools and links:

Here is https://tritondft.com/, an agentic AI system for DFT calculations.

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