Prasanna Balaprakash
Scholar

Prasanna Balaprakash

Google Scholar ID: ZycQHdgAAAAJ
Director of AI Programs and Distinguished R&D Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
AI for ScienceScientific Machine LearningHigh Performance Computing
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Publications
14 items
Towards Scaling Law Analysis For Spatiotemporal Weather Data
2026
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HARNESS: Human-Agent Risk Navigation and Event Safety System for Proactive Hazard Forecasting in High-Risk DOE Environments
2025
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ORCHID: Orchestrated Retrieval-Augmented Classification with Human-in-the-Loop Intelligent Decision-Making for High-Risk Property
2025
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The Iceberg Index: Measuring Workforce Exposure Across the AI Economy
2025
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LLM Agents for Interactive Workflow Provenance: Reference Architecture and Evaluation Methodology
2025
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Matrix-free Neural Preconditioner for the Dirac Operator in Lattice Gauge Theory
2025
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The (R)evolution of Scientific Workflows in the Agentic AI Era: Towards Autonomous Science
2025
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Ensembles of Neural Surrogates for Parametric Sensitivity in Ocean Modeling
2025
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Resume (English only)
Research Experience
  • Since May 2025, Section Head of Data and AI Systems at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), leading 45 researchers and engineers across five specialized groups.
  • Since March 2023, Director of AI Programs at ORNL, directing the multimillion-dollar ORNL AI Initiative.
  • 2020–2023: R&D Group Leader and Computer Scientist, MCS & LCF Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory.
  • 2017–2020: Computer Scientist, MCS & LCF Divisions, Argonne National Laboratory.
  • 2017–2023: Fellow, Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering, Northwestern University.
  • AI Lead for multiple DOE-funded projects: SciGPT, SWARM, C-STEEL, and RAPIDS2.
  • Co-leads the development of DeepHyper, a scalable AutoML package for trustworthy and energy-efficient AI on DOE leadership-class systems.
Co-authors
43 total
Sandeep Madireddy
Sandeep Madireddy
Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory
Mauro Birattari
Mauro Birattari
F.R.S.–FNRS Research Director, IRIDIA, Université libre de Bruxelles
Thomas Stützle
Thomas Stützle
F.R.S.-FNRS Research Director, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)
Stefan M. Wild
Stefan M. Wild
Berkeley Lab, Applied Mathematics & Computational Research Division
Paul D. Hovland
Paul D. Hovland
Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
Marco Dorigo
Marco Dorigo
FNRS Research Director, IRIDIA, Université Libre de Bruxelles
Venkatram Vishwanath
Venkatram Vishwanath
Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
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