Rebecca Hartman-Baker was chosen for her skills in high-performance computing, building a diverse community, and communicating the potential of computational science.
Anubhav Jain and his colleagues fed abstracts from 3.3 million materials science journal articles to the algorithm, training it to divine substances with useful properties.
Carnegie Mellon University's Zachary Ulissi will use Perlmutter to search for new renewable energy materials as part of the NERSC Early Science Applications Program.