Brian Spears

Researcher

Now Founding AI Architect · Warp Sciences

Latest move

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory → Warp Sciences · Founding AI Architect

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory– 2026Director, AI Innovation Incubator (as of Aug 2025)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory– 2026Principal investigator, Cognitive Simulation Director's Initiative (as of Nov 2022)
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory– 2026Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff (on leave)
U.S. Department of Energy, Genesis MissionFounding Technical Director

Predicting fusion ignition at the National Ignition Facility with physics-informed deep learningScience 2025Combines simulations and past experiment data in a deep-learning model to forecast the outcome of a National Ignition Facility fusion shot before it was fired.
Improved surrogates in inertial confinement fusion with manifold and cycle consistenciesPNAS 2020Builds neural-network surrogates of inertial confinement fusion simulations that predict images and scalar outputs together and can be run backwards from outputs to inputs.
Contemporary machine learning: a guide for practitioners in the physical sciencesarXiv 2017A tutorial on deep learning for physical scientists, with examples from plasma physics and advice on making models generalise.