Project 8

Project 8: AI Enabled Spectrometer Design

Lead PIs: Jeff McMahon (UC), Ermin Wei (NU; ermin.wei at northwestern.edu)
Co-PI: Yuxin Chen (UC)
Collaborators: Morgana Iacocca (UC), Juliang Li (ANL), Yunai Li (NU), Henry Ma (NU), Yang Meng (UC), Zhenyu Sun (NU)
Project Summary: This project targets AI-informed astronomical instrument design for millimeter-wave spectrometers. The project is broken into two tasks: Task 1 seeks to leverage deep neural networks to more expansively explore the space of demultiplexer spectrometer designs by building a mapping between topology and performance; Task 2 seeks to leverage multifidelity simulations (deep kernel Bayesian optimization) to efficiently explore the design space. Potential impacts would be in the design of new astronomical instrumentation and the AI tools for optimizing instrument design.