Fast Machine Learning for Science Conference 2026

from Monday, 31 August 2026 (08:00) to Friday, 4 September 2026 (13:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
31 Aug 2026
1 Sept 2026
2 Sept 2026
3 Sept 2026
4 Sept 2026
AM
08:00 --- Registration & Breakfast ---
09:00
Tutorials (until 10:30)
09:00 AI Applications Porting, Running and Scalability Analysis on Voyager โ€“ an AI-focused Intel/Habana Gaudi processor-based supercomputer - Dr Mahidhar Tatineni (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego) Dr Madhusudan Gujral (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego) Dr Javier Hernandez Nicolau (San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego)   (QI Theater)
09:00 hls4ml tutorial - Georgios Flengas (CERN) Marius Kรถppel (ETH Zurich (CH))   (QI Auditorium)
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Tutorials (until 12:30)
11:00 KalEdge: Bridging ML models and Edge-AI - Romina Soledad Molina   (QI Auditorium)
11:00 Tutorial on HGQ, Alkaid, and Top-Level-Synthesis for End-to-end system design - Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology (US))   (QI Theater)
08:00 --- Registration & Breakfast ---
09:00
Invited Talks - Shih-Chieh Hsu (University of Washington Seattle (US)) (until 10:30)
09:00 Fast Machine Learning in Neutrino Experiments - Zepeng Li (University of Hawaii at Manoa)  
09:30 โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹โ€‹Machine Learning for Tokamak Equilibrium Reconstruction and Prediction: From EFIT-AI to Digital Twins - Joey McClenaghan (General Atomics)  
10:00 Next Generation Data Acquisition at the LHC: Representation Learning and New Paradigms of Computing - Maciej Mikolaj Glowacki (CERN)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Contributed Talks - Seda Memik (Northwestern University) (until 12:36)
11:00 Alkaid: A Compiler Framework for Low-Latency Kernels on Hardware - Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology (US))  
11:12 pyrtlnet: An End-to-End Python Workflow for Quantized Inference Hardware Development - Timothy Sherwood (UC Santa Barbara)  
11:24 IRONSmith: A Visual Dataflow Design Environment for AMD Ryzen AI NPUs - Brock Sorenson (Arizona State University)  
11:36 STRIDE: An Automated Design Space Exploration Workflow for Generating AI Training Datasets from Hierarchical Mathematical Kernels - Giuseppe Di Guglielmo (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Angelos Ioannou (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
11:48 SliceFI: An Optimized, Heuristic-Based Fault Injection Tool for Edge Neural Networks - Andy Meza  
12:00 KrIO: Standardized Hardware for Accelerated Science - Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
12:12 Implementation of GPU Tracking as-a-Service for the ATLAS Event-Filter - Miles Cochran-Branson (University of Washington (US))  
12:24 Ultrafast On-chip Online Learning via Spline Locality in Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks - Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
08:00 --- Registration & Breakfast ---
09:00
Invited Talks - Ryan Kastner (until 10:30)
09:00 Memory Tradeoffs in Spatial Programming of Embedded Accelerators - stephen neuendorffer (AMD)  
09:30 Beyond Rounding: Error-Shaping Quantization for Fast Neural Network Inference - Rayaan Saab (UCSD)  
10:00 AI for Science & Science For AI: Physics, AI, and their Entanglement - Rose Yu (UCSD)  
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Contributed Talks - Nhan Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) (until 12:36)
11:00 Efficient Attention Architectures for Real-Time Jet Tagging at the LHC: SAL-T and PHAT-JeT - Zihan Zhao (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
11:12 HEPTv2: End-to-End Efficient Point Transformer for Charged Particle Reconstruction - Yuan-Tang Chou (National Tsing Hua University) Jan-Frederik Schulte (Purdue University (US))  
11:24 XFMT: LUT-based Transformer for microsecond-scale inference - Arianna Cox (Imperial College (GB))  
11:36 An extensible transformer architecture implementation on AMD AI-engines for ultra-low-latency stream-data processing - Elias Leutgeb (CERN) Fabian Helmberger (Vienna University of Technology (AT)) Thomas Owen James (CERN)  
11:48 Accelerating the Full Particle Transformer on the AMD Versal AI Engine - Yuheon Joh (University of California San Diego)  
12:00 Autoregressive Models with HGQ and hls4ml on Altera FPGAs - Lauri Antti Olavi Laatu (Imperial College (GB))  
12:12 Design Rules for Extreme-Edge Scientific Computing on AI Engines - Zhenghua Ma (University of California San Diego)  
12:24 Altera SoC FPGAs Enable Ultra-Low-Latency, Deterministic AI Inferencing - Dan Pritsker (Altera)  
08:00 --- Registration & Breakfast ---
09:00
Contributed Talks - Jennifer Ngadiuba (FNAL) (until 10:36)
09:00 Evolution of Real-Time Anomaly Detection in the CMS Trigger System: From Run 3 to Phase-2 - Sabrina Giorgetti (CERN)  
09:12 GELATO: A Generic Event-Level Anomalous Trigger Option for ATLAS - Sagar Addepalli (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
09:24 NomAD: Unsupervised Machine Learning for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in the ATLAS Level-1 Trigger - Ben Carlson (Westmont College)  
09:36 Distilling Normalizing Flows for Real-Time Anomaly Detection at the LHC - Noah Clarke Hall (CERN) Tara Tahseen  
09:48 Real-time Quantum Inspired Algorithms for Anomaly Detection in Collider Triggers - Sagar Addepalli (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
10:00 Real-time Event-level Zero-shot Learning at 40 MHz - Leo Rozanov  
10:12 Distributed Machine Learning for low-latency triggering and reconstruction in future collider experiments - Paul Devouge (Universitรฉ Paris-Saclay (FR))  
10:24 Collide-2V Challenge: Edge AI and Foundation Model Development for High-Energy Physics - Benedikt Maier (Imperial College (GB))  
10:36 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (until 12:30) (QI Auditorium)
11:00 Beyond Fast Inference: Toward Adaptive Scientific Systems - Nhan Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US))  
11:00
Hackathon - Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) (until 12:30)
11:00 Introduction to Hackathon Challenges - Daniel Diaz (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
08:00 --- Registration & Breakfast ---
09:00
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (until 10:30) (QI Auditorium)
09:00 hls4ml Developers Forum - Jovan Mitrevski (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
09:00
Hackathon - Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (until 12:30) (QI Auditorium)
11:00 LLM Agents for Science: Vibe Coding, Autonomous Scientists, and Beyond - Eric Anton Moreno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)) Nan Huang (UC San Diego) Yue Ma  
11:00
Hackathon - Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) (until 12:30)
11:00 Hackathon Final Reports  
12:00 Hackathon Prizes - Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
PM
12:30 --- Lunch & Exhibition ---
13:50
Invited Talks - Ryan Kastner (until 15:40)
13:50 Introduction to Fast ML for Science - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
14:05 Welcome to UCSD - Rajesh Gupta  
14:10 From Fast Inference to Intelligent Instruments: AI across the life-cycle of scientific instrumentation - David Miller (University of Chicago (US))  
14:40 Quantum Computing: An Outlook for Platforms and Applications - Fred Chong (University of Chicago)  
15:10 Silicon and Memristive Integrated Neuromorphic Systems for Distributed Parallel AI at Extreme Scale and Efficiency - Prof. Gert Cauwenberghs (UC San Diego)  
15:40 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Contributed Talks - Giuseppe Di Guglielmo (Fermilab) (until 17:30)
16:00 Sparse Streaming Neural Decoders for Real-Time Quantum Error Correction - Mr Eric Jin (University of California, Berkeley)  
16:15 Real-Time Plasma State Estimation via FPGA-Accelerated Quantized Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks - Jose Daniel Gaytan Villarreal (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))  
16:30 Fast Accelerator Control from Learned Surrogates - Andrew Whitbeck (Fermilab)  
16:45 Surrogate Models for Real-Time Thermal Runaway Prediction in HTS Magnets - Maira Khan (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)  
17:00 Real-Time Axion Dark Matter Signal Detection with a WaveNet Architecture Deployed on FPGA - Ms Akbota Assan (University of California, San Diego)  
17:15 An Asteroseismic Inversion Framework Using Physics-Informed Neural Networks to Estimate Mixing Length Parameters in Evolved Stellar Grids - Pritam Singh (Wichita State University)  
17:30
Reception & Poster Session (until 19:00)
17:30 A Binary-Weight Transformer for Real-Time Particle Jet Tagging at the LHC - Kai Yamaguchi Russell Denilson Marroquin Solares (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
17:30 A Controlled Benchmark for Memory Mechanisms in Efficient-Attention Transformers - Robert Sneiderman (Independent)  
17:30 A Controlled Comparison of FINN and Vitis AI for Small Neural Networks - Ruthwik Reddy Sunketa  
17:30 Accelerating Lattice Gauge Simulations with Gauge-Equivariant Graph Neural Networks - Gia-Wei Chern (University of Virginia)  
17:30 An extreme edge ML-based electron/photon trigger for the ATLAS Global Trigger - Vila Andela Petrovic (UCL)  
17:30 Applications of machine learning to classification of cosmic X-ray sources: results and challenges. - Yichao Lin (The George Washington University)  
17:30 Benchmarking BitNet-Style Low-Precision Networks for Fast Jet Classification Toward FPGA Deployment - Dorian Sloot (Austrian Academy of Sciences (AT))  
17:30 Bridging the Gap Between Enterprise Memory-Intensive Workloads and Real-Time Distributed ML Systems: A Scheduling Reality Check - Atul Garg  
17:30 CNN-based event classification for first level triggers at HL-LHC - Jim Brooke (University of Bristol (GB))  
17:30 Deploying a Diffusion model on Voyager for cosmological applications - Javier Hernandez-Nicolau (San Diego Supercomputer Center)  
17:30 Design and Implementation of Tiny Real-Time ML for FPGAs with Agentic Workflows - Qibin Liu (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (US))  
17:30 Direct Parameter Estimation of Binary Neutron Star Mergers with State Space Models - Kyungseop Yoon (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)  
17:30 End-to-end benchmarking of on-detector data-reduction strategies: from realistic MAPS data to PPA - Marc DAVID Nichitiu (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
17:30 Fast machine learning trigger system for real-time event identification for Ba-tagging in a Liquid Xenon TPC - Melissa Medina Peregrina  
17:30 Fast turbulent velocity field reconstruction from 2D fusion plasma imaging with convolutional neural networks - Filipp Khabanov (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  
17:30 FlowFI: Dataflow and Quantization Aware Fault Injection for Resilient Accelerators - Raymond Duenas  
17:30 FPGA-Accelerated Edge AI for Real-Time Turbulence-Based Plasma Instability Prediction and Control - Semin Joung  
17:30 FQTree: Fine-Grained Quantization and Hardware Generation of Boosted Decision Trees - Zhiqiang Que (University of Bristol) Chang Sun (California Institute of Technology (US))  
17:30 From Keras 2 to Keras 3: QKerasV3 Integration with the hls4ml FPGA Flow - Marius Kรถppel (ETH Zurich (CH))  
17:30 Generative Cosmological Emulators as Fluid Flows in Data Space - Sandip Roy (University of California San Diego)  
17:30 HACE: A Surrogate-Guided Agent for hls4ml Configuration on Scientific FPGAs - Mr Venkata Sai Prathyush Turaga (Texas Tech University)  
17:30 Jet Tagger for Real-Time Triggering at the LHC - Kalib McEuen (Univ. of Illinois Chicago (US))  
17:30 Lightweight Transformers for High-Energy Physics Experiments - Erdem Yigit Ertorer (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))  
17:30 Machine Learning-Based Large-R Jet Tagging for the ATLAS Level-0 Global Trigger - Maryam Bayat Makou (Southern Methodist University (US))  
17:30 Machine-Learning-Based Self-Trigger for the COHERENT Cryogenic CsI Detector - Zepeng Li (University of Hawaii at Manoa)  
17:30 Memory-Efficient Activation Checkpointing with Sliding Window and Hirschberg's Algorithm for 0/1 Knapsack Solving in PyTorch - Jฤ™drzej Maczan  
17:30 ML Classifiers for the search of new post-AGB candidates in all-sky surveys. - Diego Osvaldo Ochoa de la Cruz  
17:30 Multi-SG Parameter Estimation for Anomalous Gravitational Wave Signals - Jack Redepenning  
17:30 Nereid: an Inference Server for HPC - Ethan Colbert (Purdue University (US)) Noah Paladino (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
17:30 NomAD: Unsupervised Machine Learning for Real-Time Anomaly Detection in the ATLAS Level-1 Trigger - Isaiah Michael Conway (WESTMONT COLLEGE DPT OF PHYSICS & ENGINEERING (US))  
17:30 PermuGini-RF: A Hybrid Feature Selection Model of Permutation and Gini Importance for Mobile Phone Price Classification - FEMI JOHNSON  
17:30 PLANT: Conditional Generative Models for Fast Gravitational-Wave Population Synthesis - Rhea Senthil Kumar (University of California, San Diego)  
17:30 Predicting grain-size-aware flow behavior via a physics-informed neural network elasto-viscoplastic model - Adnan Eghtesad  
17:30 Proxy-guided DSE for Neural Networks on FPGAs - Gabriele Trotta  
17:30 Pruning LUT-Based Neural Network Ensembles for Efficient FPGA Inference - Sijan Shrestha (Howard University)  
17:30 Real-Time Detector Alignment using Machine Learning on AMD AI Engine - Akshay Malige (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))  
17:30 Real-Time Multi-Messenger Trigger Fusion Using Machine Learning for Sub-Threshold Event Detection - Ms Madhushree Naga (Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering) Mr Kaamesh Chandrasekaran (Sri Venkateswara College of Engineering)  
17:30 Reject or Compress. Event streaming and triggering system using Byte Latent Transformer. - Leonid Didukh  
17:30 Residual Geometry as a Diagnostic for Hidden Failure Modes in Fast Language Model Compression - Jun-Sik Yoo  
17:30 SNAC-Pack: Surrogate Neural Architecture Codesign Package for Hardware-Aware Machine Learning - Jason Weitz (Univ. of California San Diego (US))  
17:30 SparsePixels++: Scalable Sparse Convolution on FPGAs - Ho-Fung Tsoi (University of Pennsylvania)  
17:30 Sub-100ns On-Probe Spike Sorting via Resource-Constrained FPGA - Aarav Gaur  
17:30 SUNet: A Spectral UNet for Axion Dark Matter Signal Denoising - Akbota Assan (University of California, San Diego)  
17:30 TensorFlow-to-ONNX Migration of CMS DeepTau Models for Efficient Inference in CMSSW and SONIC - Pritam Palit (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))  
17:30 The CMS ML-based Data Quality Monitoring Infrastructure - Dr Antonio Vagnerini (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)  
17:30 To Chop or Not To Chop: the Question for Variational Autoencoders as Anomaly Detectors in High Energy Physics - Sterre Hoogendoorn (University of Pennsylvania)  
17:30 TriggerFlow: A Reproducible End-to-End Framework for Machine Learningโ€“Driven Level-1 Trigger Systems in CMS - Marius Kรถppel (ETH Zurich (CH))  
17:30 TSCC as an AI-for-Science Platform: Enabling Research with LLMs, Agentic Tools, and Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Yuwu Chen (San Diego Supercomputer Center) Subhashini Sivagnanam (San Diego Supercomputer Center)  
17:30 Using Variational Autoencoders to Generate Atmospheric Models for Brown Dwarfs - Julia Haynes  
12:36 --- Lunch & Exhibition ---
14:00
Invited Talks - Aobo Li (University of California San Diego) (until 15:30)
14:00 Panda Diplomacy: Cross-Detector Sensor-Level Foundation Models for HEP - kazuhiro terao  
14:30 A Foundation Model for Nuclear and Particle Physics (FM4NPP) - Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory)  
15:00 Structured Knowledge for Operational Agents - Jason Mohoney (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Contributed Talks - Corrinne Mills (University of Illinois Chicago (US)) (until 17:30)
16:00 On-chip probabilistic inference for charged-particle tracking at the sensor edge - David Jiang (Univ. Illinois at Urbana Champaign (US))  
16:12 Smartpixels at a 10 TeV Muon Collider: Machine Learning Algorithms for On-Pixel Rejection of Beam Induced Background - Daniel Abadjiev (University of Chicago (US))  
16:24 A Comparative Study of Neural-Network Architectures for Embedded On-Chip Inference For Future MAPS Pixel Detectors - Pedro Vicente Leitao (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US))  
16:36 Memristive tabular variational autoencoder for compression of analog data in high energy physics - Tae Min Hong (University of Pittsburgh (US))  
16:48 SpikePID: Neuromorphic Cluster Counting in Future Drift Chambers - Ho-Fung Tsoi (University of Pennsylvania)  
17:00 Scaling Out hls4ml for ASICs: A Surrogate Model for Neural Network Accelerator Synthesis Metrics - Arghya Ranjan Das (Purdue University)  
17:12 Real-Time Detection of Charge Jumps in Superconducting Qubits with a Convolutional Neural Network - Jose Daniel Gaytan Villarreal (Carnegie-Mellon University (US))  
17:30
Panel - Ryan Kastner (until 18:30)
17:30 Industry Panel: From Silicon to Science - Kimberly Ferguson-Walter (Leidos) David Burnette (Siemens) Adam Thompson (Nvidia) Stephen Neuendorffer (AMD) Lawrence Leung (Intel) Parvathy Jayaprakash (Supermicro)  
12:36
A3D3 Lunch (until 14:00)
12:36 --- Lunch & Exhibition ---
14:00
Invited Talks - Mia Liu (Purdue University) Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US)) (until 14:30)
14:00 SIDERIUS: Resource-Aware Multi-Agent System for Automated Machine Learning - Yue Ma  
14:30
Panel - Nhan Tran (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) (until 15:50)
14:30 Fast ML and the DOE Genesis Mission - Yue Ma (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Wahid Bhimji (Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (US)) Joe Osborn (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Zepeng Li (University of Hawaii at Manoa) Andrew Whitbeck (Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (US)) Miaoyuan Liu (Purdue University (US)) Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) Maira Khan (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory) kazuhiro terao (SLAC)  
15:50 --- Coffee ---
16:10
Contributed Talks - Yuan-Tang Chou (National Tsing Hua University (TW)) (until 17:46)
16:10 Towards the end-to-end optimisation of LHC triggers - Noah Clarke Hall (CERN)  
16:22 A-Global Holoscan-based Scouting Trigger - Ramya Gurunathan Vila Andela Petrovic (UCL) Noah Clarke Hall (CERN)  
16:34 Capturing Neutrinos and New Physics at ProtoDUNE with a Machine Learning-Based Trigger Algorithm - Ciaran Hasnip (CERN)  
16:46 Towards FPGA-Deployed Anomaly Detection for Real-Time Neutrino Data Selection in LArTPCs - Seokju Chung (Columbia University)  
16:58 Passage of particles through matter and the effective straggling-function: High-fidelity accelerated simulation via Physics-Informed Machine Learning - Rotem Dover (Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science)  
17:10 SuperSONIC: Inference as a Service on Kubernetes and HPC - Dmitry Kondratyev (Purdue University (US))  
17:22 GASP: Cheap Uncertainty Quantification with Logic Neural Networks - Liv Helen Vage (Princeton University (US))  
17:34 Just Furnish Context: Autonomous Agents Compress the HEP Analysis Cycle from Years to Hours - Eric Anton Moreno (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US))  
17:46
Banquet (until 19:16)
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Conference Summary & Closing - Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) (until 15:30)
14:00 Conference Summary - Olivia Weng  
15:00 Poster/Talk Prizes and Closing  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (until 17:30)
16:00 Fast ML Research Foundation Advisory Board Meeting - Alex Tapper (Imperial College London) Thea Aarrestad (ETH Zurich (CH)) Ryan Kastner Philip Coleman Harris (Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (US)) Javier Mauricio Duarte (Univ. of California San Diego (US))   (CSE 1242)
16:00 SONIC - Inference as a Service - Yongbin Feng (Texas Tech University (US)) Yuan-Tang Chou (University of Washington (US))   (QI Auditorium)
16:00
Hackathon - Melissa Quinnan (Univ. of California San Diego (US)) (until 17:30)