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Dear SDSC Collaborators, Partners and All Friends:
As we move further into 2026, artificial intelligence continues to reshape research and education, influencing everything from how discoveries are made and how people learn to how institutions partner across sectors. At SDSC, partnerships are foundational to how we enable innovation. This issue of SDSC Innovators highlights how our community is harnessing cross-sector strengths in an increasingly AI-enabled landscape to tackle challenges in areas ranging from energy to agriculture and disaster resilience to health.
Among the projects featured are data-driven agriculture initiatives that support decision-making and regional workforce development, hydrogen combustion simulations on Expanse that advance clean energy research and CloudBank-supported tools that accelerate post-disaster recovery.
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Across California, researchers, farmers, technologists and universities are launching a bold vision for the future of farming: data-driven agriculture, an approach that uses advanced sensors, networking and AI to help growers make more informed decisions.
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Solar panels and wind turbines increasingly dot the landscape, but the future of clean energy may well depend on how smoothly we burn hydrogen. Yet as anyone who’s lit a gas grill or fireplace knows, igniting a flame can be a bit tricky.
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Inspired by the human toll of Hurricane Katrina, Old Dominion University’s Joshua Behr is building a cloud-based disaster recovery platform powered by CloudBank, giving researchers streamlined access to commercial cloud resources to speed housing repair and community rebuilding.
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MIT researchers used SDSC's Expanse to uncover a hidden atomic process that challenges assumptions about how metals behave when melted, cooled or shaped, showing that atoms can form unusual configurations under fast or forceful conditions.
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Researchers have developed a groundbreaking “one-click” AI tool that could transform how doctors plan specialized radiation treatments for cervical cancer, saving physician time, reducing patient discomfort and minimizing the risk of human error.
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From decoding microbial ecosystems to analyzing vast genetic datasets, modern biology increasingly relies on high-powered software tools like scikit-bio that can process massive, complex streams of information. A team led by ASU, UC San Diego and other institutions recently published an article in Nature Methods to showcase the software.
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Applications are open for SDSC's Research Experience for High School Students (REHS), an eight‑week summer program that introduces teens to high performance computing, computational science and research careers. REHS gives participants hands‑on experience in data‑driven research while working alongside researchers and educators. Students learn to design and test hypotheses, analyze computational data, and present their findings through academic posters at a showcase.
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The Wildfire Commons is hosting the Shrubwise Data Challenge and invites teams to develop machine learning pipelines that map shrub distributions across the landscape. We're calling on students, data enthusiasts and innovators to help develop new approaches for predicting shrub distribution — a key factor in understanding fire behavior. Learn more about how to participate.
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Whether you’re just getting started with commercial cloud services or developing or piloting complex workflows, CloudBank provides expert support and training resources to help you succeed. U.S.-based researchers and educators can request commercial cloud resources through CloudBank by applying to the NAIRR Pilot, which serves as a pathway for allocation and approval.
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SDSC Director Frank Würthwein spoke about "AI Infrastructure for All" at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) ACCESS Southern California AI Workshop at USC Information Sciences Institute. The event was supported through the NSF's ACCESS and NAIRR Pilot programs.
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SDSC's Software Development Experience (SDX) team recently partnered with the ELSIhub platform to enhance the digital tools serving researchers who study the ethical, legal and social implications (ELSI) of genetics and genomics.
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SDSC Innovators newsletter is published six times a year, every two months.
To submit information to be included in the next edition, please send details to kbruch@ucsd.edu.
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