Organizers

The organizing committee

A team spanning fusion plasma physics, applied machine learning, scientific data engineering, and open-source community building — across four countries and three time zones.

The team

Organizers

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

How the team is structured

Committee roles

Coordinators

Overall direction, schedule, and NeurIPS liaison.

Data providers

DIII-D and MAST archive curators, authorized by the host laboratories to release the shots used in this challenge.

Platform administrators

Codabench configuration, Hugging Face dataset hosting, and dFL visualizer maintenance.

Baseline method providers

The four reference pipelines and the synthetic-diagnostic starter kit.

Evaluators

Independent reviewers of each candidate baseline and the scoring container.
In partnership with

Participating institutions

SophelioDIII-D National Fusion Facility / General AtomicsUKAEA Culham / MAST-UUniversity of Texas at Austin

The committee includes both early-career and senior researchers and is balanced for gender and geographic representation in line with the NeurIPS diversity guidelines. The challenge involves no human-subject data, no personally identifiable information, and complies with the NeurIPS Code of Ethics.