1st Annual Fusion Summit: Research Lightning Talks

Опубликовано 7 мая 2025, 15:08

At the Microsoft Fusion Summit, lightning talks from Microsoft Research labs addressed the central question of AI’s potential to accelerate fusion research and engineering. Speakers covered a wide range of applications—from using gaming AI (microsoft.com/en-us/research/b... for plasma control, embodied AI and robotics (microsoft.com/en-us/research/c... for remote maintenance to physics-informed neural networks for plasma modelling and AI for simulating materials (microsoft.com/en-us/research/s... and plasma behavior (microsoft.com/en-us/research/p... Closing the session, Archie Manoharan, Microsoft’s director of nuclear engineering for Cloud Operations and Infrastructure, emphasized the need for a comprehensive energy strategy (microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-... one that incorporates renewables, efficiency improvements, storage solutions, and carbon-free sources like fusion.

Shruti Rajurkar, Senior Research Technical Program Manager, Research Incubations, MSR Accelerator
Tian Xie, Principal Research Manager, MSR AI for Science
Matthew Horton, Senior Research Software Develpment Engineer, MSR AI for Science
Raluca Georgescu, Senior Research Scientist, MSR Redmond
Xiaotian Gao, Senior Researcher, MSR Asia
Archie Manoharan, Director, Nuclear Technologies, Microsoft Cloud Operations and Infrastructure

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