Thomas Edwards, a postdoctoral fellow working with Marc Kamionkowski and Emanuele Berti, has received the 2023 Mark O. Robbins Future Faculty Prize in high-performance computing. The award recognizes work by Edwards and his collaborators in which they used automatic differentiation and AI-assisted techniques to produce a code that analyzes gravitational waveforms from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) with far less computational time than the standard LIGO analysis pipeline.

The Mark O. Robbins Future Faculty Prize is awarded under the auspices of the Advanced Research Computing at Hopkins (ARCH), the high-performance computing facility at the Johns Hopkins University. Edwards will receive a monetary award of $3,000 as well as 800,000 CPU-hours on ARCH for his own self-directed research project.