150th meeting of The Lyncean Group of San Diego – 11:00 am, Friday, 21 November 2025
Location: Southwestern Yacht Club
2702 Qualtrough Street, San Diego, CA 92106 (Point Loma)
Speaker: Dr. Rose Yu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)
Topic: Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Science and Engineering
Innovations in AI continue to shape the future of humanity across nearly every industry. However, when applied to scientific discovery and engineering problems, existing AI methods still face many challenges. In this talk, Dr. Yu will discuss her team’s research efforts to improve the efficiency, credibility and physical consistency of AI methods for science and engineering tasks. She will showcase the applications of this research to improve transportation, climate modeling and physical sciences.
This is planned as the first of a three-part series of presentations on AI applications in science and engineering. The two subsequent AI presentations will be added to the Lyncean Group’s Upcoming Talks calendar when details have been finalized.
Speaker bio: Rose Yu is an associate professor in the UCSD department of Computer Science and Engineering and an Amazon Scholar. She is a primary faculty member with the AI Group. Her research interests lie primarily in machine learning, especially for large-scale spatiotemporal data. She is particularly excited about AI for scientific discovery. She has won Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), DARPA Young Faculty Award, ECASE Award, NSF CAREER Award, Hellman Fellowship, Faculty Awards from Sony, JP Morgan, Meta, Google, Amazon, and Adobe, several Best Paper Awards, Best Dissertation Award at USC. She was named as MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 in AI.
For more details, see her Curriculum Vitae.
Invitations with further details will be e-mailed to Lyncean Group members about three weeks before the meeting.
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