People

Optimizers in AMCR (in no particular order)

Juliane Mueller

Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR), staff scientist

  • Algorithm development for computationally expensive black-box optimization problems

  • Hyperparameter Optimization of Deep Learning models for scientific applications

JulianeMueller@lbl.gov

Vincent Dumont

Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR), postdoc

Implementation of hyperparameter optimization algorithms and deployment on HPC systems and massively parallelized HPO applications

VDumont@lbl.gov

Alejandra Castillo Roldan

Oregon State, grad student

Dimension reduction, sensitivity analysis, active subspaces, optimization

Jeffrey Donatelli

Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division (AMCR) & Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA), staff scientist

Computational harmonic analysis, numerical linear algebra, and optimization applied to solving inverse problems from experimental data

jjdonatelli@lbl.gov

Optimizers in Other Divisions

Anubhav Jain

Energy Technologies Area (ETA)

New materials discovery and design using a mix of theory, computation, and data mining

ajain@lbl.gov

Alex Dunn

UC Berkeley, Material Science Department, Ph.D. Candidate

Optimization for accelerated high-throughput materials design of batteries, thermoelectrics, and solar cells

ardunn@lbl.gov

Energy Technologies Area (ETA), Simulation Research Group

Thermal building simulation, computer simulation methodologies, low-energy buildings, optimization, building controls

MWetter@lbl.gov

Remi Lehe

Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division (ATAP)

Large-scale numerical simulations and theoretical analysis in laser-plasma acceleration

rlehe@lbl.gov

Ji Qiang

Accelerator Technology and Applied Physics Division (ATAP)

Large-scale particle simulations, Numerical methods, HPC for scientific applications

jqiang@lbl.gov

Oluwamayowa (Mayo) Amusat

Scientific Data Division

Development of data-driven surrogate modelling techniques for advanced energy systems.

ooamusat@lbl.gov

Marcus Noack

CAMERA

Stochastic Processes, Function Optimization, Autonomous Experimentation

MarcusNoack@lbl.gov

Zixi Hu

CAMERA & UC Berkeley, grad student

Development of numerical algorithms for the processing and analysis of X-ray experimental data.

zixihu@lbl.gov