UVA Data Points Podcast: Extreme Physics
In this episode of UVA Data Points, we explore how data science is helping researchers simulate and understand some of the most extreme physical events on Earth, from floods in Texas to hypersonic flight. Our guests are Stephen Baek, a leading expert in geometric deep learning and an associate professor of data science at the University of Virginia, and Jack Beerman, a Ph.D. student whose work is shaping real-world applications.
Together they discuss how artificial intelligence is transforming fields like weather forecasting, materials design, sports performance and military innovation, and why graduate researchers like Beerman are essential to moving this work forward.
Extreme Physics
At the Visual Intelligence Laboratory, Stephen Baek leads a team interested in developing computer vision algorithms to predict those interesting features, not only learned from data but also informed by physics equations.
