DOE honors seven early-career Lab scientists

Seven LLNL scientists are recipients of the DOE's Office of Science Early Career Research Program (ECRP) award. Among them is Shusen Liu, a computer scientist in the Machine Intelligence Group in the Center for Applied Scientific Computing. His work focuses on understanding and interpreting the inner mechanisms of neural networks and integrating human domain knowledge with machine capabilities to advance scientific discovery. “I feel very fortunate to receive this recognition and funding, which will allow me to continue developing the research agenda I have been pursuing at LLNL,” he said. “My work here focuses on the intersection of human-computer interaction and fundamental machine learning research.” After joining the lab as a postdoc in 2017, Liu advanced to a staff scientist in 2019. With his award he plans to delve deeper into uncovering how concepts and other human-understandable structures are organized and represented in neural networks. “By leveraging this understanding, we can facilitate machine-human knowledge exchanges at various granularities and for different audiences,” Liu said. “The proposed research is expected to yield long-term impacts in AI-driven discovery, the development of scientific foundation models and AI safety.” Read about all of the recipients at LLNL News.