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UMass Lowell Hosts 2022 HPC Day

September 26, 2022

The HPC Day conference series provides a showcase of computational research in science, engineering, and computer science research being carried out in the New England area. After a three-year pandemic hiatus, researchers gathered on September 9, 2022, at UMass Lowell for all things HPC.
Talks at this year’s meeting included:

Ayse Kivilcim Coskun, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for High Performance Computing (HPC) Analytics 

Carole-Jean Wu, Research Scientist and Technical Lead Manager, Meta
Sustainable AI: Environmental Implications, Challenges and Opportunities

Sarah Caudill, UMass Dartmouth
Hidden Masses: The next frontier in observational gravitational-wave astronomy

Fanglin Che, UMass Lowell (UML)
Investigations of Electric Field Effects on Catalysis: A Combination of Deep Learning Models and Multi-Scale Simulations

Isaac Ginis, University of Rhode Island (URI)
Coastal Hazards, Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction for Emergency Management and Response

Aswin Gnanaskandan, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
High-fidelity multiphase flow simulations using HPC

Daniel Haehn, UMass Boston
Processing of Massive Biological Datasets at UMass Boston

Francisco Hung, Northeastern University
Molecular Simulation of Deep Eutectic Solvents and Lipid Nanoparticles for Gas Separations and Drug Delivery

Markos Katsoulakis, UMass Amherst
Information divergences and optimal transport for enhanced generative modeling

Jill Moore, UMass Chan Medical School
From nucleotides to neural networks: studying gene regulation in the era of “big data”

Poster presentations:

  • Leticia Adao Gomes
    Northeastern University
    Discovery of novel organic photoredox catalyst with high-throughput virtual screening
  • Daniel Adrion
    Northeastern University
    Non-Adiabatic Molecular Dynamics Simulations Reveal the Mechanism of Decarbonylation in Complex Environments
  • Zhen Chen
    Dartmouth College
    Data-Driven Modeling of Structured Systems
  • Bosu Choi
    Dartmouth College
    Data Split for Cross-Validation in the Parameter Selection of Regularized Inverse Problems
  • Cecile Cres
    University of Rhode Island
    DL-TODA: A Deep Learning Tool for Omics Data Analysis
  • Sam DeLap
    UMass Lowell
    Applying Machine Learning Principles to X-Ray Reconstruction of Moving Morphology (XROMM)
  • Jihun Han
    Dartmouth College
    A Neural Network Approach for Homogenization of Multiscale Problems
  • Mohammad Amin Kiani
    UMass Lowell
    Development of catalyst screening workflow based on electronic structure calculations
  • Tongtong Li
    Dartmouth College
    Improving numerical accuracy for the viscous-plastic formulation of sea ice
  • Prabath Meemaduma
    UMass Lowell
    Comparative transcriptomic studies of the slow and fast twitch muscles.
  • Uzezi Okinedo
    UMass Boston
    Evidence of Local adaptation in Silver Leaf sunflower using gene network connectivity.
  • Christian Salguero
    Northeastern University
    Multiconfigurational non-adiabatic molecular dynamics towards photochemical-N2-extrusion reactions in borodiazenes
  • Ephraim Simasiku
    UMass Lowell
    Variational Multiscale Finite Element Modeling of Plasma-on-Liquid Interaction
  • Dilruba Sofia
    UMass Amherst
    Patient-Specific Mathematical Model of Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Microenvironment
  • Mark Ivan Ugalino
    UMass Dartmouth
    Turbulently driven detonations in near-Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs
  • Mingyu Wan
    UMass Lowell
    Hybrid Organic-Inorganic SAM/Cu Interfaces Drive CO2 Capture and Conversion
  • Yuting Xu
    UMass Lowell
    Renewably-Powered CO2 Recycling for Net-Zero-Carbon On Demand Fuel Generation
  • Zhengyang Yang
    UMass Lowell
    Self-Assembled Monolayers for Electrocatalysis: A Theoretical Study of CO2 Reduction Reaction to CO over Ag
  • Wentong Zhou
    UMass Lowell
    Computational study on reactivity of graphene surface catalyzed by transition metals
  • Ryan Zurrin
    UMass Boston
    Creating The World’s Largest Mammography Database

Story image – Photo credit: Christopher Hill

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Research projects

Foldit
Dusty With a Chance of Star Formation
Checking the Medicine Cabinet to Interrupt COVID-19 at the Molecular Level
Not Too Hot, Not Too Cold But Still, Is It Just Right?​
Smashing Discoveries​
Microbiome Pattern Hunting
Modeling the Air we Breathe
Exploring Phytoplankton Diversity
The Computer Will See You Now
Computing the Toll of Trapped Diamondback Terrapins
Edging Towards a Greener Future
Physics-driven Drug Discovery
Modeling Plasma-Surface Interactions
Sensing Subduction Zones
Neural Networks & Earthquakes
Small Stars, Smaller Planets, Big Computing
Data Visualization using Climate Reanalyzer
Getting to Grips with Glassy Materials
Modeling Molecular Engines
Forest Mapping: When the Budworms come to Dinner
Exploring Thermoelectric Behavior at the Nanoscale
The Trickiness of Talking to Computers
A Genomic Take on Geobiology
From Grass to Gas
Teaching Computers to Identify Odors
From Games to Brains
The Trouble with Turbulence
A New Twist
A Little Bit of This… A Little Bit of That..
Looking Like an Alien!
Locking Up Computing
Modeling Supernovae
Sound Solution
Lessons in a Virtual Test Tube​
Crack Computing
Automated Real-time Medical Imaging Analysis
Towards a Smarter Greener Grid
Heading Off Head Blight
Organic Light-Harvesting Antennae
Art and AI
Excited by Photons
Tapping into an Ocean of Data
Computing Global Change
Star Power
Engineering the Human Microbiome
Computing Social Capital
Computers Diagnosing Disease
A Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Yale Budget Lab
Wearable Health Technology
Volcanic Eruptions Impact on Stratospheric Chemistry & Ozone
The Rhode Island Coastal Hazards Analysis, Modeling, and Prediction System
Towards a Whole Brain Cellular Atlas
Tornado Path Detection
The Kempner Institute – Unlocking Intelligence
The Institute for Experiential AI
The Forensic Video Exploitation and Analysis (FOVEA) Tool Suite
The Center for Scientific Computing and Data Science Research (CSCDR)
Taming the Energy Appetite of AI Models
Surface Behavior
Studying Highly Efficient Biological Solar Energy Systems
Software for Unreliable Quantum Computers
Simulating Large Biomolecular Assemblies
SEQer – Sequence Evaluation in Realtime
Sensorimotor Technology Realization in Immersive Virtual Environments (STRIVE)
Revolutionizing Materials Design with Computational Modeling
Remote Sensing of Earth Systems
Refugee Migration and Return on Social Media
QuEra at the MGHPCC
Predicting Reaction Barrier Heights
Quantum Computing in Renewable Energy Development
Quantifying Risk, Resilience, and Uncertainty with Machine Learning and HPC
Pulling Back the Quantum Curtain on ‘Weyl Fermions’
Predicting Kinetic Solvent Effects
OpenCilk
Offshore Precipitation Capability (OPC) System
New Insights on Binary Black Holes
NeuraChip
Network Attached FPGAs in the OCT
NASA Arctic-Boreal Vulnerability Experiment (ABoVE)
Monte Carlo eXtreme (MCX) – a Physically-Accurate Photon Simulator
Modeling Molecular Dynamics for Drug Delivery
Modeling Hydrogels and Elastomers
Modeling Breast Cancer Spread
Machine Learning and Wastewater
Lichtman Lab – Center for Brain Science
Measuring Neutrino Mass
Learning-Task Informed Abstractions
Large-Scale Brain Mapping
Invisible Tags
Investigating Mantle Flow Through Analyses of Earthquake Wave Propagation
Impact of Marine Heatwaves on Coral Diversity
IceCube: Hunting Neutrinos
Genome Forecasting
Global Consequences of Warming-Induced Arctic River Changes
Fuzzing the Linux Kernel
FlyNet
Exact Gravitational Lensing by Rotating Black Holes
Evolution of Viral Infectious Disease
Evaluating Health Benefits of Stricter US Air Quality Standards
Ephemeral Stream Water Contributions to US Drainage Networks
Energy Transport and Ultrafast Spectroscopy Lab
ElectroVoxels: Modular Self-reconfigurable Robots
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