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title: '🧑🏻‍💻 Sam Foreman’s Résumé'
date: 2025-04-26
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Sam Foreman
2025-04-26
- [👤 About](#bust_in_silhouette-about)
- [🎓 Education](#mortar_board-education)
- [đź‘” Professional Experience](#necktie-professional-experience)
- [📚 Publications](#books-publications)
- [🏆 Awards and Honors](#trophy-awards-and-honors)
- [🦜 Talks](#parrot-talks)
- [🎪 Events](#circus_tent-events)
- [đź““ References](#notebook-references)
## 👤 About
Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
Scaling AI for science on supercomputers.
[samforeman.me](https://samforeman.me)
[GitHub](https://github.com/saforem2) • [Google
Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vV_1zDwAAAAJ&hl=en) •
[ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9981-0876) •
[Twitter](https://twitter.com/saforem2)
## 🎓 Education
- **Ph.D., Physics**
_University of Iowa_ \| 2015–2019
- [_Learning Better Physics: A Machine Learning Approach to Lattice
Gauge
Theory_](https://www.proquest.com/openview/95d7f7c12da8da8aa5ead3ac0f6ca0e8/1?cbl=18750&diss=y&pq-origsite=gscholar)
- **B.S. in Engineering Physics**
_University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign_ \| 2010–2015
- [Energy Storage in Quantum Resonators (US Patent
\#US9741492B2)](https://patents.google.com/patent/US9741492B2/en)
- **B.S. in Applied Mathematics**
_University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign_ \| 2010–2015
## đź‘” Professional Experience
- **Assistant Computational Scientist**
- _Argonne National Laboratory_, Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
Lemont, IL \| 2022–Present
- Research lead on scaling large language models (LLMs) and
generative AI for science on supercomputers.
- Co-lead the Models and Pretraining team of the
[AuroraGPT](https://auroragpt.anl.gov) project
- Optimize large-scale training of foundation models and language
models for scientific applications.
- Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to enhance simulation
efficiency and scalability
- Focus on AI and HPC for scientific applications, including:
- Training large language models on supercomputers
- Genome scale language models (GenSLMs) for studying SARS-CoV-2
evolutionary dynamics
- Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) for multimodal protein
design workflows
- Climate modeling and weather forecasting using foundation models
- Developing improved sampling algorithms for lattice quantum
chromodynamics (QCD)
- https://www.alcf.anl.gov/about/people/sam-foreman
- **Postdoctoral Researcher**
- _Argonne National Laboratory_, Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
Lemont, IL \| 2019 – 2022
- Applied deep learning to lattice gauge theory and quantum field
simulations.
- Developed ML-enhanced Monte Carlo methods for QCD
([l2hmc-qcd](https://github.com/saforem2/l2hmc-qcd)).
- Engaged in AI-for-Science collaborations with national labs and
university partners.
- **Graduate Researcher (DOE SCGSR Fellowship)**
- _Argonne National Laboratory_, Mathematics and Computer Sciences
Division (MCS)
Lemont, IL \| 2018 – 2019
- Development of [l2hmc-qcd](https://github.com/saforem2/l2hmc-qcd)
in collaboration with ALCF for my PhD Thesis research
## 📚 Publications
> [!NOTE]
>
>
> You can find a full list of my publications on my [Google
> Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vV_1zDwAAAAJ&hl=en)
>
1. 🌎 [**AERIS**: **Argonne Earth
Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful
Predictions**](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13523) (Hatanpää et al.
(2025))
- ✨ [_2025 ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling
Finalist_](https://awards.acm.org/bell-climate)
2. Aurora: Architecting Argonne’s First Exascale Supercomputer for
Accelerated Scientific Discovery (Allen et al. (2025))
3. [HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for
Scientific Insights](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04846) (Gokdemir et
al. (2025))
4. [Automated Tuning for HMC Mass
Ratios](https://www.osti.gov/biblio/2551828) (Torsiello et al.
(2025))
5. [MOFA: Discovering Materials for Carbon Capture with a GenAI and
Simulation-Based Workflow](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10651) (Yan et
al. (2025))
6. đź§Ş [**MProt-DPO**: **Breaking
the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design with
DPO**](https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41406.2024.00013) (Dharuman et al.
(2024))
- 🌟 [_2024 ACM Gordon Bell
Finalist_](https://sc24.supercomputing.org/2024/10/presenting-the-finalists-for-the-2024-gordon-bell-prize/)
7. [Intro to HPC Bootcamp: Engaging New Communities Through Energy
Justice Projects](https://jocse.org/downloads/jocse-15-1-10.pdf)
(Leung et al. (2024))
8. [Thorough Characterization and Analysis of Large Transformer Model
Training At-Scale](https://doi.org/10.1145/3639034) (Cheng et al.
(2024))
9. [MLMC: Machine Learning Monte Carlo for Lattice Gauge
Theory](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08936) (Foreman et al. (2023))
10. [Protein Generation via Genome-scale Language Models with
Bio-physical
Scoring](https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3624062.3626087)
(Dharuman et al. (2023))
11. [DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling Large-Scale Scientific
Discovery](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04610)
(Song et al. (2023))
- [đź“° DeepSpeed4Science.ai Blog
Post](https://www.deepspeed.ai/deepspeed4science/#new-megatron-deepspeed-for-large-scale-ai4science-model-training)
- [đźš‚ Loooooooong Sequence
Lengths](/posts/auroragpt/long-sequences/)
12. [Comprehensive Performance Study of LLMs on Novel AI
Accelerators](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04607) (Emani et al.
(2023))
13. [Exploratory Analysis of Climate Data with
`ClimRR`](https://saforem2.github.io/climate-analysis), [Intro to
HPC Bootcamp @
NERSC](https://github.com/NERSC/intro-HPC-bootcamp-2023) (Foreman
(2023))
14. 🧬 [**GenSLMs**: **Genome-scale
language models reveal SARS-Cov-2 evolutionary
dynamics**](https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.10.511571v1.abstract)
(Zvyagin et al. (2023))
- Winner of the [🏆 _ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High
Performance Computing-Based COVID-19
Research_](https://www.acm.org/media-center/2022/november/gordon-bell-special-prize-covid-research-2022)
15. [Lattice QCD and Particle Physics](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07641)
(Kronfeld et al. (2022))
16. [Applications of ML to Lattice
QFT](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05838) (Boyda
et al. (2022))
17. [LeapFrogLayers: Trainable Framework for Effective
Sampling](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01582) (Foreman, Izubuchi, et
al. (2021))
18. [HMC with Normalizing Flows](https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01586)
\[[slides](https://indico.cern.ch/event/1006302/contributions/4380743/)\]
(Foreman, Izubuchi, et al. (2021))
19. [Deep Learning Hamiltonian Monte
Carlo](https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03418) \[[+
poster](https://simdl.github.io/posters/57-supp_DLHMC_Foreman_SimDL-ICLR2021_poster1.pdf)\]
(Foreman, Jin, et al. (2021))
20. [Machine Learning and Neural Networks for Field
Theory](https://bit.ly/snowmass_ml2020) (Foreman et al. (2020))
21. [Examples of renormalization group transformations for image
sets](https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.052129)
(Samuel Foreman et al. (2018))
22. [RG inspired Machine Learning for lattice field
theory](https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.02079) (Sam Foreman et al.
(2018))
23. [Large Energy Density in Three-Plate Nanocapacitors due to Coulomb
Blockade](https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5009698) (Hubler et al. (2018))
24. [Superconductivity of In and Sn
Samples](https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4896340) (Deamont and Foreman
(2014))
> [!NOTE] đź““ References
>
>
>
>
>
> Allen, Benjamin S., James Anchell, Victor Anisimov, et al. 2025.
> _Aurora: Architecting Argonne’s First Exascale Supercomputer for
> Accelerated Scientific Discovery_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08207.
>
>
>
>
>
> Boyda, Denis, Salvatore Calı̀, Sam Foreman, et al.
> 2022. “Applications of Machine Learning to Lattice Quantum Field Theory.”
> *arXiv Preprint arXiv:2202.05838*. https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05838.
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheng, Scott, Jun-Liang Lin, Murali Emani, et al. 2024. “Thorough
> Characterization and Analysis of Large Transformer Model Training
> at-Scale.” _Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst._ (New York, NY, USA) 8
> (1). https://doi.org/10.1145/3639034.
>
>
>
>
>
> Deamont, George, and Sam Foreman. 2014. _Superconductivity of in and
> Sn Samples_.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dharuman, Gautham, Kyle Hippe, Alexander Brace, et al. 2024.
> “MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein
> Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization.” _Proceedings of
> the International Conference for High Performance Computing,
> Networking, Storage, and Analysis_ (Atlanta, GA, USA), SC ’24.
> https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41406.2024.00013.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dharuman, Gautham, Logan Ward, Heng Ma, et al.
> 2023. “Protein Generation via Genome-Scale Language Models with Bio-Physical
> Scoring.” *Proceedings of the SC’23 Workshops of the International Conference
> on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis*, 95–101.
>
>
>
>
>
> Emani, Murali, Sam Foreman, Varuni Sastry, et al. 2023. “A
> Comprehensive Performance Study of Large Language Models on Novel AI
> Accelerators.” _arXiv Preprint arXiv:2310.04607_.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04607.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam. 2023. “Energy Justice Analysis of Climate Data with
> ClimRR.” August 7. https://saforem2.github.io/climate-analysis.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Joel Giedt, Yannick Meurice, and Judah Unmuth-Yockey. 2018. “RG-inspired machine learning for lattice
> field theory.” _European Physical Journal Web of Conferences_,
> European physical journal web of conferences, vol. 175 (March): 11025.
> https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817511025.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Taku Izubuchi, Luchang Jin, Xiao-Yong Jin, James C
> Osborn, and Akio Tomiya. 2021. “HMC with Normalizing Flows.” _arXiv
> Preprint arXiv:2112.01586_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01586.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Xiao-Yong Jin, and Osborn James C. 2021. _Deep Learning
> Hamiltonian Monte Carlo_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03418.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Xiao-Yong Jin, and James C Osborn. 2020. _Machine
> Learning and Neural Networks for Field Theory_.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Xiao-Yong Jin, and James C. Osborn. 2023. _MLMC: Machine
> Learning Monte Carlo for Lattice Gauge Theory_.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08936.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Samuel, Joel Giedt, Yannick Meurice, and Judah Unmuth-Yockey. 2018. “Examples of Renormalization Group Transformations for Image
> Sets.” _Physical Review E_ 98 (5): 052129.
>
>
>
>
>
> Gokdemir, Ozan, Carlo Siebenschuh, Alexander Brace, et al. 2025.
> _HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for
> Scientific Insights_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04846.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hatanpää, Väinö, Eugene Ku, Jason Stock, et al. 2025. _AERIS: Argonne
> Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions_.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13523.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hubler, A, S Foreman, J Liu, and L Wortsmann. 2018. “Large Energy
> Density in Three-Plate Nanocapacitors Due to Coulomb Blockade.”
> _Journal of Applied Physics_ 123 (10).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Kronfeld, Andreas S, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Thomas Blum, et al.
>
> 2022. “Lattice QCD and Particle Physics.” *arXiv Preprint arXiv:2207.07641*.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07641.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Leung, Mary Ann, Katharine Cahill, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, et al.
>
> 2024. “Intro to HPC Bootcamp: Engaging New Communities Through Energy Justice
> Projects.” *Journal of Computational Science Education* 15 (1).
> https://doi.org/10.22369/issn.2153-4136/15/1/10.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Song, Shuaiwen Leon, Bonnie Kruft, Minjia Zhang, et al.
>
> 2023. “DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Discovery
> Through Sophisticated AI System Technologies.” *arXiv Preprint
> arXiv:2310.04610*. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04610.
>
>
>
>
>
> Torsiello, J., G. T. Fleming, S. Foreman, X.-Y. Jin, and J. C. Osborn. 2025. “Automated Tuning for HMC Mass Ratios.” In _PoS_. Argonne, ALCF;
> Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Temple
> U.; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United
> States). https://doi.org/10.22323/1.466.0052.
>
>
>
>
>
> Yan, Xiaoli, Nathaniel Hudson, Hyun Park, et al. 2025. _MOFA:
> Discovering Materials for Carbon Capture with a GenAI- and
> Simulation-Based Workflow_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10651.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Zvyagin, Maxim, Alexander Brace, Kyle Hippe, et al.
>
> 2023. “GenSLMs: Genome-Scale Language Models Reveal SARS-CoV-2 Evolutionary
> Dynamics.” *The International Journal of High Performance Computing
> Applications* 37 (6): 683–705.
>
>
>
>
## 🏆 Awards and Honors
- Member of the DeepSpeed Technical Steering Commiittee, 2025 – Present
- Contributing to the development and direction of the DeepSpeed
library for large-scale model training.
- Nominated to serve on the US [**Coordinating Panel for Software and
Computing**](https://imfisk.github.io/CPSC/) by the Division of
Particles and Fields of the American Physical Society (APS).
- **Finalist, ACM Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modeling**, 2025
- Recognized for our work on
🌎 **AERIS** (Hatanpää et al. (2025)): The first billion-parameter
pixel-level diffusion model for global weather and
subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting. Trained efficiently at scales
from 1.3–80B parameters with our sequence-window parallelism (SWiPe)
strategy, we achieve a sustained mixed-precision performance of
10.21 ExaFLOPS and peak performance of 11.21 ExaFLOPS, scaling to
10,080 nodes (120,960 GPUs) on the Aurora supercomputer.
- **Finalist, ACM Gordon Bell Prize**, 2024
- Acknowledged for the MProt-DPO (Dharuman et al. (2024)) project,
which achieved over 4 ExaFLOP sustained performance in multimodal
protein design workflows using Direct Preference Optimization.
- [Argonne team breaks new ground in AI-driven protein design –
Argonne @
SC](https://sc.cels.anl.gov/gordon-bell-argonne-team-breaks-new-ground-in-ai-driven-protein-design/)
- **ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based
COVID-19 Research**, 2022
- Recognized for contributions to the GenSLMs
(
>
>
>
> Allen, Benjamin S., James Anchell, Victor Anisimov, et al. 2025.
> _Aurora: Architecting Argonne’s First Exascale Supercomputer for
> Accelerated Scientific Discovery_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08207.
>
>
>
>
>
> Boyda, Denis, Salvatore Calı̀, Sam Foreman, et al.
> 2022. “Applications of Machine Learning to Lattice Quantum Field Theory.”
> *arXiv Preprint arXiv:2202.05838*. https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05838.
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheng, Scott, Jun-Liang Lin, Murali Emani, et al. 2024. “Thorough
> Characterization and Analysis of Large Transformer Model Training
> at-Scale.” _Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst._ (New York, NY, USA) 8
> (1). https://doi.org/10.1145/3639034.
>
>
>
>
>
> Deamont, George, and Sam Foreman. 2014. _Superconductivity of in and
> Sn Samples_.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dharuman, Gautham, Kyle Hippe, Alexander Brace, et al. 2024.
> “MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein
> Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization.” _Proceedings of
> the International Conference for High Performance Computing,
> Networking, Storage, and Analysis_ (Atlanta, GA, USA), SC ’24.
> https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41406.2024.00013.
>
>
>
>
>
> Dharuman, Gautham, Logan Ward, Heng Ma, et al.
> 2023. “Protein Generation via Genome-Scale Language Models with Bio-Physical
> Scoring.” *Proceedings of the SC’23 Workshops of the International Conference
> on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis*, 95–101.
>
>
>
>
>
> Emani, Murali, Sam Foreman, Varuni Sastry, et al. 2023. “A
> Comprehensive Performance Study of Large Language Models on Novel AI
> Accelerators.” _arXiv Preprint arXiv:2310.04607_.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04607.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam. 2023. “Energy Justice Analysis of Climate Data with
> ClimRR.” August 7. https://saforem2.github.io/climate-analysis.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Joel Giedt, Yannick Meurice, and Judah Unmuth-Yockey. 2018. “RG-inspired machine learning for lattice
> field theory.” _European Physical Journal Web of Conferences_,
> European physical journal web of conferences, vol. 175 (March): 11025.
> https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201817511025.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Taku Izubuchi, Luchang Jin, Xiao-Yong Jin, James C
> Osborn, and Akio Tomiya. 2021. “HMC with Normalizing Flows.” _arXiv
> Preprint arXiv:2112.01586_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.01586.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Xiao-Yong Jin, and Osborn James C. 2021. _Deep Learning
> Hamiltonian Monte Carlo_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.03418.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Xiao-Yong Jin, and James C Osborn. 2020. _Machine
> Learning and Neural Networks for Field Theory_.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Sam, Xiao-Yong Jin, and James C. Osborn. 2023. _MLMC: Machine
> Learning Monte Carlo for Lattice Gauge Theory_.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.08936.
>
>
>
>
>
> Foreman, Samuel, Joel Giedt, Yannick Meurice, and Judah Unmuth-Yockey. 2018. “Examples of Renormalization Group Transformations for Image
> Sets.” _Physical Review E_ 98 (5): 052129.
>
>
>
>
>
> Gokdemir, Ozan, Carlo Siebenschuh, Alexander Brace, et al. 2025.
> _HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for
> Scientific Insights_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04846.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hatanpää, Väinö, Eugene Ku, Jason Stock, et al. 2025. _AERIS: Argonne
> Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions_.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13523.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hubler, A, S Foreman, J Liu, and L Wortsmann. 2018. “Large Energy
> Density in Three-Plate Nanocapacitors Due to Coulomb Blockade.”
> _Journal of Applied Physics_ 123 (10).
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Kronfeld, Andreas S, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Thomas Blum, et al.
>
> 2022. “Lattice QCD and Particle Physics.” *arXiv Preprint arXiv:2207.07641*.
> https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.07641.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Leung, Mary Ann, Katharine Cahill, Rebecca Hartman-Baker, et al.
>
> 2024. “Intro to HPC Bootcamp: Engaging New Communities Through Energy Justice
> Projects.” *Journal of Computational Science Education* 15 (1).
> https://doi.org/10.22369/issn.2153-4136/15/1/10.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Song, Shuaiwen Leon, Bonnie Kruft, Minjia Zhang, et al.
>
> 2023. “DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Discovery
> Through Sophisticated AI System Technologies.” *arXiv Preprint
> arXiv:2310.04610*. https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.04610.
>
>
>
>
>
> Torsiello, J., G. T. Fleming, S. Foreman, X.-Y. Jin, and J. C. Osborn. 2025. “Automated Tuning for HMC Mass Ratios.” In _PoS_. Argonne, ALCF;
> Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Temple
> U.; Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United
> States). https://doi.org/10.22323/1.466.0052.
>
>
>
>
>
> Yan, Xiaoli, Nathaniel Hudson, Hyun Park, et al. 2025. _MOFA:
> Discovering Materials for Carbon Capture with a GenAI- and
> Simulation-Based Workflow_. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10651.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Zvyagin, Maxim, Alexander Brace, Kyle Hippe, et al.
>
> 2023. “GenSLMs: Genome-Scale Language Models Reveal SARS-CoV-2 Evolutionary
> Dynamics.” *The International Journal of High Performance Computing
> Applications* 37 (6): 683–705.
>
>
>
>