Speaker: Zhuowen Zhao
Abstract
Machine learning (ML) algorithms are showing a growing trend in helping the scientific communities across different disciplines and institutions to address large and diverse data problems. However, many available ML tools are programmatically demanding and computationally costly. The MLExchange project aims to build a collaborative platform equipped with enabling tools that allow scientists and facility users who do not have a profound ML background to use ML and computational resources in scientific discovery. At the high level, we are targeting a full user experience where managing and exchanging ML algorithms, workflows, and data are readily available through web applications. Since each component is an independent container, the whole platform or its individual service(s) can be easily deployed at servers of different scales, ranging from a personal device (laptop, smart phone, etc.) to high performance clusters (HPC) accessed (simultaneously) by many users. Thus, MLExchange renders flexible using scenarios — users could either access the services and resources from a remote server or run the whole platform or its individual service(s) within their local network.
We will do a live demonstration of a few available frontend applications.
Bio
Dr. Zhuowen Zhao is a computational science postdoc fellow at the ALS computing group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is a Core developer of MLExchange—a web-based platform for managing and deploying containerized machine learning tools (including data pipelines) across US Department of Energy user facilities. He works on multiple science projects using deep neural networks, such as big data compression and realistic data generation. Before joining LBL, Zhao obtained his Ph.D. from Michigan State University, focusing on understanding and modeling heterogeneous deformation in polycrystalline alloys.
Jean-Francois Croteau