Vignesh Gopakumar
Senior AI Research Scientist at UK Atomic Energy Authority
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolVignesh Gopakumar is a Senior AI Research Scientist with nine years of experience applying physics-informed machine learning to accelerate and quantify uncertainty in complex numerical simulations, primarily for the fusion energy domain. At UKAEA he leads development of Neural-PDE solvers, foundation models for science, and robust surrogate models that inform simulation campaigns to maximise information gain. A physicist-turned-AI researcher with a PhD from UCL and hands-on stints at STFC, Caltech and as AI Chief at SimVue, he bridges domain physics and scalable ML engineering. Known for combining theory and applied tooling, he focuses on making scientific ML both more accurate and more actionable for downstream decision-making in fusion research.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, European Master in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics, Master of Science - MS, European Master in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics at Universite de LorraineBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at Loyola CollegeMaster of Science - MS, European Master in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics, Master of Science - MS, European Master in Nuclear Fusion and Engineering Physics at University of StuttgartUniversity College London
English, Malayalam, Tamil, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
python9
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
backpropagation8
ode-solver8
uncertainty-quantification8
neural-network8
theano7
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
earth-science7
cryptocurrency6
hessian6
convolution6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gitvicky/tf-pde
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
Autodiff based PDE solver implemented on the Tensorflow 2.x API. Package distribution is under the MIT License.
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 24 pushes in 7 months
autodiffpde-solvertensorflow
gitvicky/Spatio-Temporal-CP
Feb 2023 - Nov 2025
Code attached to the paper: Uncertainty Quantification of Surrogate Models using Conformal Prediction
Contributions:2 PRs, 92 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 9 months
uncertainty-quantificationconformal-predictionneural-pdesurrogate-modelsneural-weather
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