Quantum Interactions in Materials: a New Frontier for AI

This talk will discuss recent advances at the interface of AI and materials research, focusing on new techniques to compress quantum interactions, accelerate their computation, and revolutionize precise calculations of transport phenomena and nonequilibrium dynamics in materials.

Bio

Marco Bernardi is a Professor of Applied Physics, Physics and Materials Science at Caltech. Prof. Bernardi received his Ph.D. in Materials Science from MIT in 2013, working on theory and simulations of novel materials and physical processes for energy conversion. He was a postdoc in the Physics Department at UC Berkeley, where he developed new computational approaches to study the dynamics of excited electrons in materials. Marco's group at Caltech develops develops new first-principles methods to investigate electron transport, ultrafast dynamics and light-matter interactions in materials. Applications of this research include electronics, optoelectronics, ultrafast spectroscopy, energy and quantum technologies. Among other recognitions, Marco received the Franco Strazzabosco Award in 2020, the NSF CAREER Award in 2018, the AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2017, the Psi-K Volker Heine Young Investigator Award for electronic structure theory in 2015, and the Intel Ph.D. Fellowship in 2013.