151st  meeting of The Lyncean Group of San Diego  – 11:00 am, Wednesday, 7 January 2026

Location: Southwestern Yacht Club
2702 Qualtrough Street, San Diego, CA 92106 (Point Loma) 

Speaker: Dr. Yadi Cao, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Topic: Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in controlled fusion

Speaker bio: Dr. Cao is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at UCSD, working within Professor Rose Yu’s Spatio-Temporal Lab (STL). He completed his Ph.D. in 2024 at UCLA’s Artificial Intelligence & Visual Computing (AIVC) Laboratory, co-advised by Professors Chenfanfu Jiang and Demetri Terzopoulos. Dr. Cao’s research spans machine learning and numerical methods for scientific applications, including but not limited to, physics based simulations (fusion, mechanics, fluid dynamics, network systems), data-driven analysis, and creating scientific AI assistants.

For more details, see his Curriculum Vitae.

Invitations with further details will be e-mailed to Lyncean Group members about three weeks before the meeting.

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