Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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Artificial Intelligence at Sandia

Sandia’s AI Strategic Focus Areas

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Introduction

Sandia delivers essential science and technology to resolve the most challenging national security issues. Science-based, systems-engineering solutions are delivered through ground-breaking work in secure AI, computing co-design, and scientific machine learning.

Sandia is partnering with industry, government, and academia to advance AI capabilities through research, development, and deployment. These collaborations facilitate support of DOE’s AI initiatives, including the transfer and commercialization of award-winning AI technology, and the training of future leaders who must anticipate and tackle problems facing the nation.

Sandia AI News Releases

The Advanced Memory Technology program kicks off round three with Cerebras

THE TRI-LABS AND CEREBRAS MEET AT SANDIA – The program and team leads from Sandia, Los...

Brain-based computing for ND solutions

New neuromorphic computing system arrives at Sandia THE HARDWARE BEHIND THE BRAIN — NERL Braunfels consists...

Sandia scientist testifies how AI is helping with science innovation

Sandia’s Jennifer Gaudioso testified before Congress on how scientists at U.S. national laboratories are poised to...

Transformational capabilities demonstrated by Sandia at AI Expo

Ten national laboratories, including Sandia, shared one of the largest booths at the AI Expo for...

Out of the desert, a quantum powerhouse rises

They knew it was an ambitious goal. But by the time they announced it in 2022,...

AI center to combine hardware, software for practical gains

Sandia and Pacific Northwest national laboratories and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta are launching...

Sandia cloud-resolving climate model meets world's fastest supercomuter: Simulations show a year's climate in a research day

Focused on improving the accuracy of climate predictions, a Sandia-led computational team recently achieved a major...

SCREAM wins Gordon Bell climate prize at SC23 convention Cloud-resolving Sandia model shows unprecedented speed and accuracy

Running a model of the global atmosphere with unprecedentedly high resolution on the world’s first exascale...

What if the secret to your brain's elusive computing power is its randomness?

If you’ve ever asked a car mechanic how long a part will last until it breaks,...

Strong and flexible interlocking metasurfaces

Interlocking metasurfaces are a recent Sandia-invented joining technology that may replace other structural joining methods, such...

Ensure machine learning results are accurate

Computational simulation, or CompSim, models are digital prototypes of something a researcher is interested in building...

1.15 billion artificial neurons arrive at Sandia

Sandia received a brain-based computing system from Intel Corp. that has 1.15 billion artificial neurons, aiming...

Future hypersonics could be artificially intelligent

A test launch for a hypersonic weapon — a long-range missile that flies a mile per...

Can the insect brain help us develop smarter, faster AI?

Dragonflies intercept their prey with 95% accuracy. Understanding how their brains function could be the key...

Sandia partners with other labs to bolster nuclear security

Sandia is collaborating with international partners to collect data to better protect nuclear sites from cyberattacks...

Cloud-resolving climate model meets world’s fastest supercomputer

Focused on improving the accuracy of climate predictions, a Sandia-led computational team recently achieved a major...

Supercomputer Stout brews breakthroughs

Stout, a new Sandia supercomputer, secured its place on the Top500 computers list that was released...

Sandia 3D-imaging workflow has benefits for medicine, electric cars and nuclear deterrence

Sandia researchers have created a method of processing 3D images for computer simulations that could have...

Powerful Sandia machine-learning model shows diamond melting at high pressure

A Sandia supercomputer simulation model called SNAP, or Spectral Neighbor Analysis Potential, that rapidly predicts the...

Neuromorphic computing widely applicable, Sandia researchers show

With the insertion of a little math, Sandia researchers have shown that neuromorphic computers, which synthetically...

Build-a-satellite program could fast track national security space missions

Satellites equipped with remote sensing technology execute many critical national security missions, from detecting explosions to...

Sandia partners with Alabama A&M to open AI cage

Nestled on the Alabama A&M University campus lies a state-of-the-art facility that allows faculty and students...

Explore capabilities in popular AI models

With a couple thousand years and modern science, humanity now knows quite a bit more about...

Featured Sandia AI Publications

“Protecting the grid with artificial intelligence” (Associated publications: ScienceSprings, R&D World, News Break, The Mirage, KRQE (News 13), Yahoo! News, EuropeSays). Associated interviews: KOAT)

“Utilizing Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence Algorithms to Predict and Design the Mechanical Compression Response of Direct Ink Write 3D Printed Foam Replacement Structures”
(Additive Manufacturing, 2021)

“Optimization and Prediction of Spectral Response of Metasurfaces Using Artificial Intelligence”
(Crystals, 2020)

“Crossing the Cleft: Communication Challenges Between Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence”
(Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2020)

“Making BREAD: Biomimetic strategies for Artificial Intelligence Now and in the Future”
(Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2019)

“Making BREAD: Biomimetic strategies for Artificial Intelligence Now and in the Future”
(arXiv, 2018)

“Introduction to the Special Issue on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence 2014”
(AI Magazine, 2015)

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Current AI, ML, Computing, and Advanced Simulation Openings

Current AI, ML, Computing, and Advanced Simulation Openings

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