Anima Anandkumar, a 2024 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientist Finalist, received the TIME100 AI Impact Award for her work on using AI in prediction models of extreme weather and also in sustainable nuclear fusion simulations as a potential future energy source. Neural operators—a type of AI framework that can learn across multiple scales—are key to Anandkumar’s efforts. Using neural operators, Anandkumar and her collaborators are able to build systems “with universal physical understanding that can simulate any physical process, generate novel engineering designs that were previously out of reach, and make new scientific discoveries,” she said.
Anima Anandkumar Highlights AI’s Potential to Solve ‘Hard Scientific Challenges’
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