PNNL

What Is the Center for AI?

The Center for AI @PNNL drives a research agenda that explores the foundations and emerging frontiers of AI, combining capability development and application to mission areas in science, security, and energy resilience.

The Center’s Core Activities

• Advance the state-of-the-art in AI through research and capability development
• Foster a mission-capable AI workforce and enable exceptional AI talent acquisition
• Support and advise project AI implementations via provisioning, infrastructure access, and project governance
• Coordinate institutional AI partnerships and outreach, visibility, internal integration, and communications 

How PNNL Contributes to the Genesis Mission

Drawing on its deep expertise in the design and application of AI, novel computing paradigms, and fundamental science, PNNL will lead and participate in projects that reflect the breadth of our mission: biotechnology, securing the grid, materials discovery, quantum sciences, and environmental management/cleanup. Our efforts are as follows:

• Aiding autonomous discovery science in chemistry, materials, and biology
• Delivering AI-enabled science and technology/innovations that accelerate the environmental management cleanup mission
• Improving real-time control of practical quantum systems using autonomous AI controls
• Ensuring reliable, secure energy grids

Together, these efforts and more make PNNL a transformational AI engine advancing the nation’s scientific, energy, and national security missions. 

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