Senior Architect, Co-executive Director, Ultrascale Systems Research Center. Los Alamos National Laboratory. US.

“ArtIMis – AI for Mission at LANL“

Thursday 19 February 2026

Abstract

This talk provides an overview of the ArtIMis (AI for Mission) project at LANL.  ArtIMis is an institutional investment, lab leadership supported, AI initiative that brings together over 100 LANL scientists on focused, AI R&D for LANL’s various missions.  In this talk, Dr. DeBardeleben will covers goals, accomplishments, and plans of ArtIMis in its second year including multiphysics foundation models, AI for material discovery and fracture, agentic AI uses, AI for therapeutics, and other topics.  Grand challenges around AI include how to accelerate scientist workflow through agentic control of simulation workflows and fast surrogate models enabling exploration of parameter spaces for design and discovery.

Bio

Nathan joined Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in 2004 after finishing his PhD in computer engineering from Clemson University. He is a senior research scientist in the High Performance Computing (HPC) Design group. In that time he has lead efforts on supercomputer errors induced by cosmic radiation and applied machine learning for manufacturing tasks. Starting in 2024 he became the co-PI of LANL’s AI for Mission (ArtIMis) project that comprises over 100 staff members across 16 divisions at the laboratory. ArtIMis is project that aims to bring together scientific foundation models (SciFMs) with agentic autonomous AI tools to accelerate scientific discovery.

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