The organizing committee
Ten organizers from Sophelio, General Atomics (DIII-D) and the University of Texas at Austin, spanning fusion plasma physics, applied machine learning, scientific data engineering, and open-source community building.
Who runs this challenge
Tapan Ganatma Nakkina
Sophelio, Austin, TX, USA
Matthew Waller
Sophelio, Austin, TX, USA
Craig Michoski
Sophelio, Austin, TX, USA
Corresponding organizer
Brian Sammuli
General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
David R. Hatch
University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
William Boyes
General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Mitchell Clark
General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Raffi Nazikian
General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Sterling Smith
General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Torrin Bechtel Amara
General Atomics, San Diego, CA, USA
Get in touch
For anything about the challenge — data, scoring, submissions, or the leaderboard — email the organizers at [email protected]. It reaches the whole committee, and it is the fastest route to an answer. Press and partnership enquiries go to the same address, addressed to the corresponding organizer.
Participating institutions
Sophelio 
DIII-D National Fusion Facility / General Atomics 
UKAEA Culham / MAST-U 
University of Texas at Austin The committee includes both early-career and senior researchers and follows the NeurIPS diversity guidelines. The challenge involves no human-subject data, no personally identifiable information, and complies with the NeurIPS Code of Ethics.