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Damle gets Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Award

September 27, 2024

By Louis DiPietro

Anil Damle, assistant professor of computer science in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science, has received a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career Research award.

A researcher in numerical linear algebra and scientific computing, Damle is one of 91 early-career scientists from across the U.S. selected for the award, which includes an as-yet-finalized financial gift. Combined support for this year’s awardees totals $138 million, according to a DOE press release

Damle’s project, “Fine-grained Theory and Robust Algorithms for Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra,” will investigate randomized algorithms, which have gained traction in numerical linear algebra and could play a key role in solving problems across computational physics, data science, and deep learning.

“Numerical linear algebra plays a central role in computational problems across a diverse range of scientific domains, and the advent of novel randomized techniques allows us to better address challenging problems in those fields,” Damle said.

Launched in 2010, the DOE’s Early Career Research Program supports the next generation of STEM leaders in the U.S. Outside scientific experts peer reviewed and selected this year’s awardees, each of whom are scholars in one of the DOE Office of Science’s eight major program areas, including advanced scientific computing research, fusion energy sciences, and nuclear physics. 

Damle joined Cornell Bowers CIS in 2017. He was previously a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He received a Ph.D. in computational and mathematical engineering from Stanford University in 2016.  

Louis DiPietro is a writer for the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science.