• AMCR’s Aditi Krishnapriyan Receives 2025 Early Career Award Article Aditi Krishnapriyan, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award. • With this support, she will develop innovative, scalable machine learning methods that enable fast and accurate predictions grounded in real-world science, creating a system that balances accuracy, efficiency, and scalability for complex scientific problems. • Now in its fifteenth year, the ECRP award supports exceptional researchers during the critical stages of their formative work by funding their research for a period of five years. • As modern scientific research increasingly relies on massive datasets generated by advanced computer simulations and cutting-edge experiments, machine learning offers a powerful way to extract insights. • However, current methods often face practical challenges when handling large-scale scientific data because they require more computational power than is readily available in practice and can struggle to deliver accurate, physically consistent predictions. • Krishnapriyan’s ECRP project,Accelerating Large-Scale Atomistic and Continuum Simulations with Physically Consistent and Scalable Machine Learning Methods, aims to overcome these challenges by developing machine learning models and frameworks that can efficiently scale as the dataset size and complexity grow.

Article Summaries:

  • Aditi Krishnapriyan, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR) and assistant professor at UC Berkeley, has been awarded a prestigious 2025 Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award. With this support, she will develop innovative, scalable machine learning methods that enable fast and accurate predictions grounded in real-world science, creating a system that balances accuracy, efficiency, and scalability for complex scientific problems. Now in its fifteenth year, the ECRP award supports exceptional researche

Sources: