WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 Purdue University leads two projects at the forefront of the U.S. Department of Energy\u2019s (DOE) efforts to accelerate the process of scientific discovery by utilizing artificial intelligence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Purdue is the only university in Indiana to lead a project under the Genesis Mission awards, the DOE\u2019s largest science and technology funding effort. Only 278 projects out of 5,000 covering all 50 states were selected on topics including energy, discovery science and national security research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Purdue projects are led by College of Science<\/a> faculty from the Department of Physics and Astronomy<\/a> and the Department of Computer Science<\/a> alongside private, academic and government partners and will be focused on data science and AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dan DeLaurentis, Purdue\u2019s executive vice president for research, said the recognition is a \u201cstrong statement about where our faculty stand nationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe selection of two Purdue projects for the Genesis Mission awards underscores our academic progress,\u201d DeLaurentis said. \u201cSuccessfully using AI to push the rate of scientific discovery can establish a new future in scientific discovery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n One project led by Wei Xie, professor of physics and astronomy; Miaoyuan Liu, assistant professor of physics and astronomy; and Ruqi Zhang, assistant professor of computer science, will focus on organizing the intense data streams to be generated by the Electron-Ion Collider. This flagship U.S. research facility and the world\u2019s first polarized electron-ion collider is currently under construction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The team will design and develop autonomous, on-sensor and real-time machine learning models with agentic AI assistance intended to identify important particle interactions and compress data, allowing scientific instruments to recognize which data matters most and minimize data loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The second project will be run by David F. Gleich, a professor of computer science. For the research, Gleich will investigate to what extent large language models (LLM) can directly cite their training data. This behavior is important for scientific models so that scientists are aware of the basis of predictions from the AI models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The project work by Gleich will be done in partnership with the Oak Ridge National Labs. Xie is partnering with Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Five other Purdue faculty are part of Genesis Mission awards led by other institutions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n AI research is a part of the Institute of Physical Artificial Intelligence, a core component of Purdue Computes<\/a>. The comprehensive Purdue Computes initiative emphasizes four key pillars of Purdue\u2019s extensive technological and computational environment \u2014 computing departments, physical AI, quantum science and semiconductor innovation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Purdue University is a research institution ranked among the top 10 public universities in the United States. More than 106,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, including more than 57,000 at our main campus locations in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. As a land-grant university committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue\u2019s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row, enabling more students than ever to graduate debt-free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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