Aditya Grover, assistant professor of computer science in the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering, is working on his research to design artificial intelligence models that can accelerate the pace of scientific discovery to address pressing sustainability challenges such as: Supported research and received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award. climate and energy.
The award is the agency’s highest honor for faculty in the early stages of their careers. The five-year, $500,000 grant will specifically fund Glover’s research in developing generative AI models (artificial intelligence deep learning models that build new data based on the datasets used to train them) for scientific research. provide. Ultimately, the model will be highly reliable, widely applicable, and work with minimal human oversight.
The key to this project is creating an AI model that incorporates large but heterogeneous datasets. Grover’s research will also explore how such generative AI applications can help build computer simulations, predictive techniques, and experimental designs.
Glover’s research focuses on probabilistic machine learning, a subfield of AI that uses approaches based on statistics and probability to make predictions. At UCLA, he leads the Machine Intelligence (MINT) group, which develops AI systems that can interact, reason, and make sequential decisions with limited supervision.
The research group has a particular focus on applying machine learning to the fields of climate science and sustainable energy. In 2023, MINT Group announced the team’s work on ClimaX, a generalizable deep learning model that has demonstrated superior performance in weather and climate prediction benchmarks.
This is Glover’s fourth early career award in the past two years. In March, Glover was named a Schmidt Science AI2050 Early Career Fellow. The two-year fellowship program will provide grants of up to $300,000 for interdisciplinary AI research with the goal of establishing AI systems aligned with human values by 2050. Glover was also named to Forbes magazine’s 2024 30 Under 30 in Science list and was recognized as a Kavli Fellow. Since joining the UCLA faculty, he has also received the Amazon Research Award, Samsung’s AI Researcher of the Year Award, the Google Award for Inclusion Research, and the Meta Research Award.
