🧑🏻‍💻 Sam Foreman’s Résumé

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Sam Foreman’s resume, including education, experience, awards, publications, and talks.
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Sam Foreman

ALCF

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April 26, 2025

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November 9, 2025

👤 About

Computational Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
Scaling AI for science on supercomputers.
samforeman.me GitHub • Google Scholar • ORCID • Twitter

🎓 Education

👔 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 (Aurora, Frontier, LUMI, Leonardo, …).
        • Co-lead the Models and Pretraining team of the AuroraGPT 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).
      • 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 in collaboration with ALCF for my PhD Thesis research

📚 Publications

You can find a full list of my publications on my Google Scholar

  1. 🌎 AERIS: Argonne Earth Systems Model for Reliable and Skillful Predictions (Hatanpää et al. ())
  2. Aurora: Architecting Argonne’s First Exascale Supercomputer for Accelerated Scientific Discovery (Allen et al. ())
  3. HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for Scientific Insights (Gokdemir et al. ())
  4. Automated Tuning for HMC Mass Ratios (Torsiello et al. ())
  5. MOFA: Discovering Materials for Carbon Capture with a GenAI and Simulation-Based Workflow (Yan et al. ())
  6. 🧪 MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design with DPO (Dharuman et al. ())
  7. Intro to HPC Bootcamp: Engaging New Communities Through Energy Justice Projects (Leung et al. ())
  8. Thorough Characterization and Analysis of Large Transformer Model Training At-Scale (Cheng et al. ())
  9. MLMC: Machine Learning Monte Carlo for Lattice Gauge Theory (Sam Foreman, Jin, and Osborn ())
  10. Protein Generation via Genome-scale Language Models with Bio-physical Scoring (Dharuman et al. ())
  11. DeepSpeed4Science Initiative: Enabling Large-Scale Scientific Discovery (Song et al. ())
  12. Comprehensive Performance Study of LLMs on Novel AI Accelerators (Emani et al. ())
  13. Exploratory Analysis of Climate Data with ClimRR, Intro to HPC Bootcamp @ NERSC (Sam Foreman ())
  14. 🧬 GenSLMs: Genome-scale language models reveal SARS-Cov-2 evolutionary dynamics (Zvyagin et al. ())
  15. Lattice QCD and Particle Physics (Kronfeld et al. ())
  16. Applications of ML to Lattice QFT (Boyda et al. ())
  17. LeapFrogLayers: Trainable Framework for Effective Sampling (Sam Foreman et al. ())
  18. HMC with Normalizing Flows [slides] (Sam Foreman et al. ())
  19. Deep Learning Hamiltonian Monte Carlo [+ poster] (Sam Foreman, Jin, and C. ())
  20. Machine Learning and Neural Networks for Field Theory (Sam Foreman, Jin, and Osborn ())
  21. Examples of renormalization group transformations for image sets (Samuel Foreman et al. ())
  22. RG inspired Machine Learning for lattice field theory (Sam Foreman et al. ())
  23. Large Energy Density in Three-Plate Nanocapacitors due to Coulomb Blockade (Hubler et al. ())
  24. Superconductivity of In and Sn Samples (Deamont and Foreman ())
Allen, Benjamin S., James Anchell, Victor Anisimov, Thomas Applencourt, Abhishek Bagusetty, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Riccardo Balin, 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, Lena Funcke, Daniel C Hackett, Yin Lin, Gert Aarts, 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, Siddhisanket Raskar, Sam Foreman, Zhen Xie, Venkatram Vishwanath, and Mahmut Taylan Kandemir. 2024. “Thorough Characterization and Analysis of Large Transformer Model Training at-Scale.” Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. 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, Sam Foreman, Väinö Hatanpää, Varuni K. Sastry, Huihuo Zheng, et al. 2024. “MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization.” In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. SC ’24. Atlanta, GA, USA: IEEE Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41406.2024.00013.
Dharuman, Gautham, Logan Ward, Heng Ma, Priyanka V Setty, Ozan Gokdemir, Sam Foreman, Murali Emani, et al. 2023. “Protein Generation via Genome-Scale Language Models with Bio-Physical Scoring.” In 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, Zhen Xie, Siddhisanket Raskar, William Arnold, Rajeev Thakur, Venkatram Vishwanath, and Michael E Papka. 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, 2023. 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.” In European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 175:11025. European Physical Journal Web of Conferences. 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, Azton Wells, Brian Hsu, Kyle Hippe, Priyanka V. Setty, et al. 2025. “HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for Scientific Insights.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04846.
Hatanpää, Väinö, Eugene Ku, Jason Stock, Murali Emani, Sam Foreman, Chunyong Jung, Sandeep Madireddy, 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, Norman H Christ, Carleton DeTar, William Detmold, Robert Edwards, 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, Paige Kinsley, Lois Curfman McInnes, Suzanne Parete-Koon, Sreeranjani Ramprakash, 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, Conglong Li, Shiyang Chen, Chengming Zhang, Masahiro Tanaka, 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.” 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, Daniel Grzenda, J. Gregory Pauloski, Marcus Schwarting, Haochen Pan, 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, Yuntian Deng, Bin Zhang, Cindy Orozco Bohorquez, Austin Clyde, 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

  • Nominated to serve on the US Coordinating Panel for Software and Computing 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. ()): 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

  • ACM Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based COVID-19 Research, 2022

  • DOE Office of Science Graduate Student Research Fellow, 2018

    • Awarded by the Department of Energy for outstanding research contributions during graduate studies.

🦜 Talks

You can see all of my talks online at https://samforeman.me/talks/

🎪 Events

📓 References

Allen, Benjamin S., James Anchell, Victor Anisimov, Thomas Applencourt, Abhishek Bagusetty, Ramesh Balakrishnan, Riccardo Balin, 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, Lena Funcke, Daniel C Hackett, Yin Lin, Gert Aarts, 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, Siddhisanket Raskar, Sam Foreman, Zhen Xie, Venkatram Vishwanath, and Mahmut Taylan Kandemir. 2024. “Thorough Characterization and Analysis of Large Transformer Model Training at-Scale.” Proc. ACM Meas. Anal. Comput. Syst. 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, Sam Foreman, Väinö Hatanpää, Varuni K. Sastry, Huihuo Zheng, et al. 2024. “MProt-DPO: Breaking the ExaFLOPS Barrier for Multimodal Protein Design Workflows with Direct Preference Optimization.” In Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis. SC ’24. Atlanta, GA, USA: IEEE Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/SC41406.2024.00013.
Dharuman, Gautham, Logan Ward, Heng Ma, Priyanka V Setty, Ozan Gokdemir, Sam Foreman, Murali Emani, et al. 2023. “Protein Generation via Genome-Scale Language Models with Bio-Physical Scoring.” In 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, Zhen Xie, Siddhisanket Raskar, William Arnold, Rajeev Thakur, Venkatram Vishwanath, and Michael E Papka. 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, 2023. 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.” In European Physical Journal Web of Conferences, 175:11025. European Physical Journal Web of Conferences. 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, Azton Wells, Brian Hsu, Kyle Hippe, Priyanka V. Setty, et al. 2025. “HiPerRAG: High-Performance Retrieval Augmented Generation for Scientific Insights.” https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04846.
Hatanpää, Väinö, Eugene Ku, Jason Stock, Murali Emani, Sam Foreman, Chunyong Jung, Sandeep Madireddy, 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, Norman H Christ, Carleton DeTar, William Detmold, Robert Edwards, 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, Paige Kinsley, Lois Curfman McInnes, Suzanne Parete-Koon, Sreeranjani Ramprakash, 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, Conglong Li, Shiyang Chen, Chengming Zhang, Masahiro Tanaka, 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.” 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, Daniel Grzenda, J. Gregory Pauloski, Marcus Schwarting, Haochen Pan, 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, Yuntian Deng, Bin Zhang, Cindy Orozco Bohorquez, Austin Clyde, 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.

Citation

BibTeX citation:
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  title = {🧑🏻‍💻 {Sam} {Foreman’s} {Résumé}},
  date = {2025-04-26},
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Foreman, Sam. 2025. “🧑🏻‍💻 Sam Foreman’s Résumé.” April 26, 2025. https://samforeman.me/posts/resume/.