Bio

Jeffrey B. Lai

jlai [at] utexas.edu

I'm Jeff. I'm a PhD student in the Oden Institute at UT Austin working with William Gilpin. Previously, I studied physics at UIUC and built stuff at Ramp, Meta, and the Naval Research Lab.

Research Interests

I'm broadly interested in making neural networks simulate physics well [Google Scholar]. I'm currently thinking about how to build data-driven surrogate models for complex physics that:

[+] produce useful forecasts

[+] enable rapid iteration for engineering design

[+] accelerate scientific experiments and inverse problems