Francis Alexander

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Talk Title: Collaborative Biomedical Digital Twins Opportunities in North America

Francis Alexander is a scientist at Argonne National Laboratory. Prior to that he was the Deputy Director of the Computational Science Initiative at Brookhaven National Laboratory from 2017-2023. Earlier, at Los Alamos National Laboratory he was the acting division leader of the Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences (CCS) Division. During his more than 20 years at Los Alamos, he held several leadership roles, including as deputy division leader of the CCS Division, Information Sciences Group Leader and leader of the Information Science and Technology Institute. Frank's current research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, decision-making under uncertainty, optimal design of experiments, computational physics, and nonequilibrium physics. Frank has a PhD in Physics from Rutgers University and a B.S. degree in physics and mathematics from The Ohio State University. He has published more than 70 papers in peer reviewed venues.