James L. Peterson

J. Luc Peterson received the Ph.D. degree in plasma physics from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, in 2011. He is currently a Physicist and a Group Leader with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. He is also a member of the Inertial Confinement Fusion Program, National Ignition Facility, Livermore, CA, USA, where his scientific contributions include theoretical and computational studies of hydrodynamic instabilities, radiation transport, hohlraum symmetry, uncertainty quantification, data analytics, high-frequency computing, and machine learning. He is also leading the Merlin Project, which aims to augment computational and experimental workflows with machine learning.