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A3D3 Attends the Transients from Space Conference
By: Will Benoit, Cristina Andrade, Tyler Barna, Michael Davis, and Andrew ToivonenApril 24, 2025 The 2025 Transients from Space conference featured...
Harvesting the Data Revolution: Annual HDR Ecosystem Conference held at the University of Illinois
The 3rd annual conference of the NSF HDR Ecosystem was held on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign from the 9th to the 12th of...
Highlights from the First HDR Interdisciplinary Machine Learning Challenge
By: Yuan-Tang Chou March 20, 2025 Scientific discovery often hinges on spotting the unexpected—those peculiar inconsistencies that stand out...
What I Learned at the American Astronomical Society Conference as an A3D3 Postbaccalaureate Fellow
By: Kira Nolan March 4, 2025 A new record for the largest gathering of astronomers was set this January, as around 3,700 people traveled to the 245th...
Is there a Signal in all that Noise? GWAK’s Search for Unmodeled Gravitational Waves
By: Katrine Kompanets March 4, 2025 First predicted by Einstein’s theory of General relativity over 100 years ago, gravitational wave detection by...
A3D3 Members Attend the 2025 Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics
By: Katrine Kompanets March 4, 2025 The Conference for Undergraduate Women and Gender Minorities in Physics (CU*iP) is a unique annual event that...
Trainees Attend the Mid-American Regional Astrophysics Conference (MARAC)
By: Cristina Andrade and Emma de Bruin February 20, 2025 The Mid-American Regional Astrophysics Conference (MARAC) took place this past December at...
Bridging Particle Physics and Machine Learning with the BCVSPIN-2024 Masterclass
By: Santosh ParajuliFebruary 20, 2025 Kathmandu, Nepal — The BCVSPIN-2024 Masterclass, held from 4-6 December 2024 at Tribhuvan University, Nepal,...
A3D3 Highlights AI for Scientific Discovery at NeurIPS
By: Eli ChienDecember 19, 2024 Vancouver, Canada – The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2024) was...
A Constellation of Ideas in a Sky of Innovation: Insights from the 2024 A3D3 All-Hands Meeting
By: Cymberly TsaiDecember 19, 2024 About the author: Cymberly Tsai is a high school senior at Council Rock High School North working with Prof....
Introducing the 2024–2025 A3D3 Postbaccalaureate Fellows
For the past three years, the A3D3 Postbaccalaureate Fellowship Program has provided recent college graduates in STEM with a one-year fully-funded...
Machine Learning, But Make It Hardware: Embedded FPGAs for Particle Detectors
By: Julia GonskiOctober 22, 2024 We’ve all heard about the AI revolution: machine learning algorithms are better and faster than ever before, and...
ZTF summer school
University of Minnesota hosts ZTF summer school The Coughlin group at the University of Minnesota hosted the 2024 Edition of the ZTF Summer School,...
Tracking as-a-service Tutorial at US-ATLAS Conference
By: Miles Cochran-BransonJuly 26, 2024 Following the three-day US-ATLAS conference held at the University of Washington (UW) Seattle campus, students...
Students learn new skills at: Coding The Cosmos workshop
By Katrine Kompanets May 31, 2024 University of Minnesota students (from left to right): Katrine Kompanets, Lilia Bouayed, and Emma de Bruin...
A3D3 at the APS April Meeting
By Angela Tran May 2024 A3D3 recently engaged in one of the largest U.S. national physics conferences—the American Physical Society’s April...
Hanchen Ye (UIUC) was honored with the First Place Winner Award at the 60th Design Automation Conference PhD Forum for his pioneering research on ScaleHLS.

A Recipe to Find Anomalies: Enhancing Gravitational Wave Detection with Deep Recurrent Autoencoders
arXiv: 2309.11537By: Ryan Raikman1,5, Eric A. Moreno2, Ekaterina Govorkova2, Ethan J Marx1,2, Alec Gunny1,2, William Benoit3, Deep Chatterjee1,2,...
A3D3 Postbac Lucie Afko Advocates for Science and Dark Skies
Lucie Afko (A3D3 Postbac Scholar, Duke) May 10, 2024 In Mid-April the American Astronomical Society (AAS) brought me and around 20 other volunteers...
A3D3 Lab Tour for Washington Middle School
Students at Washington Middle School get hands-on instruction in fast machine learning, neuroscience, and particle physics....
A3D3 and the US Particle Physics Vision (P5)
By: Dylan RankinFebruary 21, 2024 The Reach of High Energy Physics The A3D3 institute innovates in AI to enable discovery across science, with high...
A Gravity Well of Wonder: University of Minnesota A3D3 delights students with science
By: Angela TranApril 4, 2024 As marbles swirl in orbit on a dizzying checkered sheet, the elementary students point and smile. This is their first...
A3D3 Affiliates Present at the 22nd International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research
By: Yuan-Tang Chou Grace Williams April 2, 2024 The 22nd International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research...
Cultivating Community: UW A3D3 Trainees Lead Engaging Seminars and Luncheons with Faculty Members
By: Trung LeFebruary 15, 2024 Seattle, WA – On February 5th, 2024, A3D3 trainees at the University of Washington (UW) kicked off their “Lunch...
A3D3 Postbaccalaureate fellows meet at Duke
A3D3 Postbac fellows meet at Duke University in November....
A3D3 shows up big at NeurIPS
By: Deep Chatterjee December 27, 2023 New Orleans, LA – The 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems was held in New Orleans...
A3D3 Trainee Attending WAFER Event
By: Jingyuan LiNovember 7, 2023 A3D3 graduate trainees Jingyuan Li and Mingfei Chen gave two presentations at WomXn at the Forefront of ECE Research...
High School students explore AI for science with A3D3
By: Rajeev Bhavin Botadra November 16, 2023 Seattle, WA– Around 50 High school scholars visited the A3D3 Institute and met with students...
A3D3 trainees attend National Diversity in STEM conference
By: Rajeev Bhavin Botadra November 22, 2023 Researchers Javier M. Duarte (Faculty at the University of California San Diego, A3D3), Luke Song...
2023 NSF Harnessing the Data Revolution (HDR) Ecosystem Conference
By: Xiangyang Ju (Computing System Engineer, LBNL) November 13, 2023 In the vibrant Mile High City, members and affiliates of the A3D3 institute...