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2025 Award List

INCITE 2025

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

COMbining Deep-Learning with Physics-Based AffinIty EstimatiOn 3 (COMPBIO3)

PI: Peter Coveney, University College London
HOURS: ALCF: 795,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

Establishing Digital Twins for High-Throughput Cellular Analysis in Whole Blood

PI: Amanda Randles, Duke University
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 450,000 Node-Hours

ExaCortex: Exascale Reconstruction of Human Cerebral Cortex

PI: Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 250,000 Node-Hours

Foundation Models for Predictive Molecular Epidemiology

PI: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 320,000 Node-Hours

OpenFold-Powered Machine Learning of Protein-Protein Interactions and Complexes

PI: Mohammed AlQuraishi, Columbia University
HOURS: ALCF: 1,750,000 Node-Hours

Large-Scale Simulations of Inner-Ear Mechanotransduction Complexes

PI: Marcos Sotomayor, University of Chicago
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours

Multi-Resolution Genome Folding: Ensemble 3D Structures Across Diverse Tissues

PI: Jie Liang, University of Illinois Chicago
HOURS: ALCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

OpenFold-Powered Machine Learning of Protein-Protein Interactions and Complexes

PI: Mohammed AlQuraishi, Columbia University
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours

CHEMISTRY

Exascale Catalytic Chemistry

PI: David Bross, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 425,000 Node-Hours

Heteropolymer Design Harnessing New and Emerging Computing Technologies

PI: Vikram Mulligan, Flatiron Institute
HOURS: ALCF: 1,500,000 Node-Hours

High-Accuracy Quantum Simulations in Cancer Therapy Using Exascale Computing

PI: Anouar Benali, Qubit Pharmaceuticals
HOURS: ALCF: 120,000 Node-Hours

High-Throughput Lead Optimization with Amber

PI: Darrin York, Rutgers University
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours

COMPUTER SCIENCE

AuroraGPT: A Large-Scale Foundation Model for Advancing Science

PI: Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago
HOURS: ALCF: 920,000 Node-Hours

Experimental Realization of Certified Randomness from Quantum Supremacy

PI: Ruslan Shaydulin, JPMorgan Chase
HOURS: ALCF: 300,000 Node-Hours

EARTH SCIENCE

A Climate-Informed, Large-Scale, and High-Resolution Inundation Modeling Framework

PI: Sudershan Gangrade, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

Energy Exascale Earth System Model

PI: Peter Caldwell, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

High-Resolution GPU-Enabled SCREAM RRM Simulations for Extreme Weather and Climate Events

PI: Brandi Gamelin, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 300,000 Node-Hours

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

Foundation Models for Crystals

PI: Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan, University of Michigan
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 300,000 Node-Hours

ENGINEERING

Advancing Fusion and Fission Energy through Exascale

PI: Elia Merzari, Pennsylvania State University
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 250,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Simulations of Rayleigh-Benard Convection

PI: Janet Scheel, Occidental College
HOURS: ALCF: 800,000 Node-Hours

High-Fidelity Simulations of Open Fan/Wing Integration for Sustainable Aviation

PI: Stephan Priebe, GE Aerospace Research
HOURS: ALCF: 40,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 800,000 Node-Hours

Hypersonic Transition Control via Porous and Wavy Walls at High Reynolds Numbers

PI: Carlo Scalo, Purdue University
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours

Online Machine Learning for Large Scale Turbulent Simulations

PI: Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder
HOURS: ALCF: 375,000 Node-Hours

Scalar Transport in Turbulent Bubbly Flows: Insights from Interface-Resolved Simulations

PI: Parisa Mirbod, University of Illinois Chicago
HOURS: ALCF: 60,000 Node-Hours

Using Exascale Computing for New Insights into High-Lift Ground Testing

PI: Eric Nielsen, NASA Langley Research Center
HOURS: ALCF: 500,000 Node-Hours

MATERIALS SCIENCE

Advancing Fusion Reactor Materials Through Exascale Simulations

PI: Tim Frolov, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 20,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 980,000 Node-Hours

AI-Guided Exascale Simulations of Quantum Materials Manufacturing and Control

PI: Aiichiro Nakano, University of Southern California
HOURS: ALCF: 825,000 Node-Hours

Carbon at Extremes: Discovery Science with Exascale Computers

PI: Ivan Oleynik, University of South Florida
HOURS: ALCF: 300,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 800,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Simulation of Correlated Election-Phonon Coupling in Quantum Materials

PI: Zhenglu Li, University of Southern California
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 450,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Simulations of Quantum Materials

PI: Paul Kent, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 750,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 600,000 Node-Hours

Heterogeneous Reaction Dynamics for Energy Storage and Hydrogen Production

PI: Boris Kozinsky, Harvard University
HOURS: ALCF: 50,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 150,000 Node-Hours

High-Throughput Calculation of Materials Properties at Finite Temperature

PI: Chris Wolverton, Northwestern University
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours

MOFA: Generative AI-Driven MOF Discovery for Carbon Capture at Exascale

PI: Eliu Huerta, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 400,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 370,000 Node-Hours

QMC-HAMM: High-Accuracy Multiscale Models Using Quantum Monte Carlo

PI: Lucas Wagner, University of Illinois
HOURS: ALCF: 760,000 Node-Hours

PHYSICS

3D Imaging of Strong Interaction Nambu-Goldstone Bosons

PI: Yong Zhao, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 600,000 Node-Hours

Ab Initio Nuclear Structure and Nuclear Reactions

PI: Gaute Hagen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 600,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

Advances in Quark and Lepton Flavor Physics with Lattice QCD

PI: Andreas Kronfeld, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Gyrokinetic Study of ITER Challenge on Power-Exhaust and ELM-Free Edge

PI: CS Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 1,200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,300,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Models of Astrophysical Thermonuclear Explosions

PI: Michael Zingale, Stony Brook University
HOURS: ALCF: 50,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 450,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Simulation and Deep Learning Model for Energetic Particles in Burning Plasmas

PI: Zhihong Lin, University of California, Irvine
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 100,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Simulations of Compact Binary Mergers

PI: David Radice, Pennsylvania State University
HOURS: ALCF: 500,000 Node-Hours

High-Fidelity Turbulence-Based Predictions of Stellarator Reactor Performance

PI: Noah Mandell, Type One Energy
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours

Probing the Primordial Universe with ExascaleSimulations

PI: Nicholas Frontiere, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 1,050,000 Node-Hours

Radiation-Dominated Black Hole Accretion

PI: James Stone, Institute for Advanced Studies
HOURS: ALCF: 1,100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

State-of-the-Art High-Resolution 3D Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae

PI: Adam Burrows, Princeton University
HOURS: ALCF: 250,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 3,000,000 Node-Hours

QCD Under Extreme Conditions

PI: Zoltan Fodor, Pennsylvania State University
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 100,000 Node-Hours

ALCC 2025–2026

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Advanced Modeling for Two-Dimensional Materials and Transition Metal Oxides

PI: Daniel Mejia Rodriguez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 275,000 Node-Hours, OLCF, 275,000 Node-Hours

EMERGE: ExaEpi Calibration Runs and Surrogate Models

PI: Shinjae Yoo, Brookhaven National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 425,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 425,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 100,000 Node-Hours

Kinetic Plasma Model Investigation of Z Pinch Physics at Fusion Conditions

PI: Noah Reddell, Zap Energy Inc.
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 800,000 Node-Hours

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Causal Online Alignment for Reliable Foundation Models

PI: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Oumi PBC
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 145,628 Node-Hours

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for Foundation Models

PI: Kibaek Kim, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 409,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 614,400 Node-Hours, NERSC: 102,400 Node-Hours

Space Traffic Autonomy: Leadership Computing Advances Hierarchical Planning R&D

PI: Allan Grosvenor, Microsurgeonbot Inc.
HOURS: ALCF: 685,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 685,000 Node-Hours

Tensor-Compressed Sustainable Pre-Training of Extreme-Scale Foundation Models

PI: Zheng Zhang, University of California, Santa Barbara
HOURS: ALCF: 700,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 80,000 Node-Hours

Training Multimodal Models for HPC Code and Data

PI: Harshitha Menon, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 300,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 200,000 Node-Hours

CHEMISTRY

High-Precision Heterogeneous Catalysis by Quantum Monte Carlo

PI: Michal Bajdich, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 1,500,000 Node-Hours

Microscopic Insight into Transport Properties of Li-Battery Electrolytes

PI: Wei Jiang, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 600,000 Node-Hours

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

Development of AI-Powered Application for Advanced Nuclear Reactor Design

PI: Jun Fang, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours

High Energy Density Physics of Novel Inertial Fusion Energy Ablator Materials

PI: Ivan Oleynik, University of South Florida
HOURS: ALCF: 800,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 100,000 Node-Hours

High-Fidelity CFD Enabling Advanced Nuclear Power

PI: Taehun Lee, The City College of New York
HOURS: ALCF: 70,000 Node-Hours

High-Fidelity Simulations of Helium-Air Mixing in HTGR Cavities 2.0

PI: Yiqi Yu, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 500,000 Node-Hours

LES and DNS Simulation on Flow and Heat Transfer Behavior in Involute Plate Research Reactor

PI: Yiqi Yu, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 550,000 Node-Hours

LES and DNS Simulation on Flow and Heat Transfer Behavior in Involute Plate Research Reactor

PI: Yiqi Yu, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 550,000 Node-Hours

Pathfinding Integrated and Automatic Experimental Analyses for DIII-D Research

PI: Mark Kostuk, General Atomics
HOURS: ALCF: 15,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 35,000 Node-Hours

Turbulence Database for Fusion Energy Science

PI: Jeff Candy, General Atomics
HOURS: ALCF: 300,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 300,000 Node-Hours

Validation of Stability Simulations and Predictive Scaling Toward Next Step FRC Fusion Device

PI: Roelof Groenewald, TAE Technologies Inc.
HOURS: ALCF: 250,000 Node-Hours

ENGINEERING

High-Fidelity Simulations of Bubble-Laden Turbulent Flows with Surfactants

PI: Suhas Jain, Georgia Institute of Technology
HOURS: ALCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours

High-Fidelity Simulation of SAF End Use: Emissions and Operability Studies

PI: Bruce Perry, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 300,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 600,000 Node-Hours

Integrated and Detailed Simulation of Combustor and Turbine Interaction in a Jet Engine

PI: Dheeraj Kapilavai, GE Aerospace Research
HOURS: ALCF: 425,000 Node-Hours

Predicting Flow Distortions in Serpentine Engine Inlets

PI: Parviz Moin, Stanford University
HOURS: ALCF: 1,700,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 1,600,000 Node-Hours

PHYSICS

Enabling Exascale Discovery in Neutrino Science

PI: Thomas Wester, University of Chicago
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours

Enhancing APS-Enabled Research Through Integrated Research Infrastructure

PI: Nicholas Schwarz, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 10,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: Node-Hours

Hadronic Contributions to the Muon g-2 from Lattice QCD

PI: Thomas Blum, University of Connecticut
HOURS: ALCF: 2,000,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 2,000,000 Node-Hours

Simulating Large-scale Long-lived Neutron Star Remnants from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

PI: Ore Gottlieb, Flatiron Institutet
HOURS: ALCF: 667,000 Node-Hours

ALCC 2024–2025

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Building Digital Twin of a Model Host-Pathogen System for Enhancing Biopreparedness

PI: Margaret S. Cheung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF, 50,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 300,000 Node-Hours

Foundation Neuroscience AI Model-NeuroX

PI: Shinjae Yoo, Brookhaven National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 290,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 152,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 120,000 Node-Hours

CHEMISTRY

Exploring Exascale Quantum Chemical Methods for Transition Metal Chemistry

PI: Daniel Mejia Rodriguez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 313,442 Node-Hours, OLCF: 145,628 Node-Hours

Highly Scalable Ab Initio Simulations of N-Doped Porous Materials for Carbon Capture

PI: Mark Gordon, Ames National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 2,000,000 Node-Hours

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Scalable and Resilient Modeling for Federated Learning Systems and Applications

PI: Xiaoyi Lu, University of California
HOURS: ALCF: 44,800 Node-Hours, OLCF: 15,360 Node-Hours, NERSC: 207,520 Node-Hours

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

DNS of Buoyancy-Driven Flows for Developing NN-Informed High-Fidelity Turbulence Closures

PI: Som Dutta, Utah State University
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 300,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 200,000 Node-Hours

Exascale Computing for Energy Applications

PI: Misun Min, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 250,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, NERSC: 50,000 Node-Hours

High-Fidelity CFD Enabling Advanced Nuclear Power

PI: Dillon Shaver, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 200,000 Node-Hours

High Fidelity Numerical Analysis on Flow and Heat Transfer Behavior in Involute Plate Research Reactor to Support the Conversion Program

PI: Yiqi Yu, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 200,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 500,000 Node-Hours

High-Fidelity Simulations of Helium-Air Mixing in High-Temperature Gas Reactor Cavities

PI: Saumil Patel, Argonne National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 115,000 Node-Hours

ENGINEERING

Autonomy for DOE Simulations

PI: Allan Grosvenor, MSBAI
HOURS: ALCF: 30,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 100,000 Node-Hours

MATERIALS SCIENCE

High Energy Density Physics of Novel Inertial Fusion Energy Ablator Materials

PI: Ivan Oleynik, University of South Florida
HOURS: ALCF: 600,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 900,000 Node-Hours

Machine Learning Enabled Atomistic Simulation of Iron at Extreme Pressure

PI: Robert Rudd, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
HOURS: ALCF: 150,000 Node-Hours

Predicting Heterogeneous Photocatalysts Using Large-scale Ab Initio Calculations

PI: Felipe Jornada, Stanford University
HOURS: ALCF: 100,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 140,000 Node-Hours

PHYSICS

Hadronic Contributions to the Muon g-2 from Lattice QCD

PI: Thomas Blum, University of Connecticut
HOURS: ALCF: 1,000,000 Node-Hours, OLCF: 3,846,000 Node-Hours

Simulating Large-scale Long-lived Neutron Star Remnants from Binary Neutron Star Mergers

PI: Ore Gottlieb, Flatiron Institute
HOURS: ALCF: 400,000 Node-Hours

AURORA EARLY SCIENCE PROGRAM

Accelerated Deep Learning Discovery in Fusion Energy Science

PI: William Tang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Dark Sky Mining

PI: Salman Habib, Argonne National Laboratory

Data Analytics and Machine Learning for Exascale Computational Fluid Dynamics

PI: Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder

Enabling Connectomics at Exascale to Facilitate Discoveries in Neuroscience

PI: Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory

Exascale Computational Catalysis

PI: David Bross, Argonne National Laboratory

Extending Moore’s Law Computing with Quantum Monte Carlo

PI: Anouar Benali, Argonne National Laboratory

Extreme-Scale Cosmological Hydrodynamics

PI: Katrin Heitmann, Argonne National Laboratory

Extreme-Scale In-Situ Visualization and Analysis of Fluid-Structure-Interaction Simulations

PI: Amanda Randles, Duke University

Extreme-Scale Unstructured Adaptive CFD

PI: Kenneth Jansen, University of Colorado Boulder

High-Fidelity Simulation of Fusion Reactor Boundary Plasmas

PI: C.S. Chang, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory

Machine Learning for Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics

PI: William Detmold, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Many-Body Perturbation Theory Meets Machine Learning to Discover Singlet Fission Materials

PI: Noa Marom, Carnegie Mellon University

NWChemEx: Tackling Chemical, Materials, and Biochemical Challenges in the Exascale Era

PI: Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory

Simulating and Learning in the ATLAS Detector at the Exascale

PI: Walter Hopkins, Argonne National Laboratory

Virtual Drug Response Prediction

PI: Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory

DIRECTOR’S DISCRETIONARY

The following list provides a sampling of the many Director’s Discretionary projects at the ALCF.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Large Ensemble Model of Single-Cell 3D Genome Structures

PI: Jie Liang, University of Illinois at Chicago

Targeting Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Using Artificial Intelligence-Driven Molecular Simulations

PI: Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne National Laboratory

CHEMISTRY

Multimodal Imaging with Intense X-ray Pulses

PI: Phay Ho, Argonne National Laboratory

COMPUTER SCIENCE

APS Beamline Data Processing and Analysis

PI: Rafael Vescovi, Argonne National Laboratory

Advanced Photon Source (APS) Data Processing

PI: Nicholas Schwarz, Argonne National Laboratory

Materials Science, Data¬Driven Molecular Engineering of Solar-powered Windows

PI: Jacqueline Cole, University of Cambridge

Optimizing Bayesian Neural Networks for Scientific Machine Learning Applications

PI: Murali Emani, Argonne National Laboratory

ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES

Development of High-Fidelity Simulations of Gas Turbine Combustors for Sustainable Aviation Applications

PI: Sicong Wu, Northwestern University

Investigation of Flow and Heat Transfer Behavior in Involute Plate Research Reactor with Large Eddy Simulation to Support the Conversion of Research Reactors to Low Enriched Uranium Fuel

PI: Yiqi Yu, Argonne National Laboratory

Multiphase Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics

PI: Igor A. Bolotnov, North Carolina State University

Optimizing Bayesian Neural Networks for Scientific Machine Learning Applications

PI: Joshua New, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

ENGINEERING

Turbulent Rayleigh-Benard Convection in Suspensions of Bubbles

PI: Parisa Mirbod, University of Illinois at Chicago

MATERIALS SCIENCE

Adsorptive CO2 Removal from Dilute Sources

PI: John J. Low, Argonne National Laboratory

Materials Informatics Study of Two-Dimensional Magnetic Materials and Their Heterostructures

PI: Trevor David Rhone, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

PHYSICS

Analytic Continuation of Interacting Fermion Spectra

PI: Adrian Giuseppe Del Maestro, University of Tennessee

Neural Network Quantum States for Atomic Nuclei

PI: Alessandro Lovato, Argonne National Laboratory

Reproducible, Interpretable, and Physics-Inspired AI Models in Astrophysics

PI: Eliu Huerta, Argonne National Laboratory