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Daniel Ratner

Head of SLAC machine learning initiative

Areas of research: New technologies; machine learning; deep learning; artificial intelligence; accelerator physics; physics and machine learning

Machine learning is changing every facet of what we do at SLAC. It gives us new ideas for how to design and run experiments, and it lets us look at more challenging data and ask tougher physics questions.”

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AI is playing a key role in helping SLAC researchers find new galaxies and tiny neutrinos, and discover new drugs.

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Researchers across the lab are developing AI tools to harness data and particle beams in real time and make molecular movies, speeding up the...

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The Horizon Prizes celebrate the most exciting, contemporary chemical science at the cutting edge of research and innovation.

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Daniel Ratner, head of SLAC’s machine learning initiative, explains the lab’s unique opportunities to advance scientific discovery through machine learning.

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It combines human knowledge and expertise with the speed and efficiency of “smart” computer algorithms.

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SLAC researchers say their new method could make it easier to study interactions of ultrabright X-rays with matter

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