Corneel Casert

Corneel Casert

Machine Learning Engineer

National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)

Science Engagement & Workflows Dept.

Data & AI Services Group

Corneel Casert is a Machine Learning Engineer in the Data and AI Services group at NERSC. His main interests are in the intersection of machine learning and statistical mechanics. This includes using neural-network protocols to control physical systems, designing thermodynamic computers for more energy-efficient machine learning, and training neural networks with Monte-Carlo based methods. Corneel was a postdoctoral fellow at The Molecular Foundry, working on neural-network based control and optimization for nonequilibrium processes in simulation and experiment. Corneel received a PhD in physics from Ghent University, where he studied fundamental problems in the physics of dynamical and nonequilibrium systems through the application of machine-learning methods. In Corneel’s spare time, he enjoys baking, birding, hiking, and reading.

Recent Publications

Nonlinear thermodynamic computing out of equilibrium

Authors: Whitelam, S; Casert, C

January 2026, Nature Communications


Towards AI-driven autonomous growth of 2D materials based on a graphene case study

Authors: Sabattini, L; Coriolano, A; Casert, C; Forti, S; Barnard, ES; Beltram, F

December 2025, Communications Physics


Prediction of vacancy defect diffusion paths in high entropy alloys via machine learning on molecular dynamics data

Authors: Reimer, C; Saidi, P; Casert, C; Beeler, C; Feugmo, CGT; Whitelam, S

August 2025, Journal of Applied Physics


Using the Metropolis algorithm to explore the loss surface of a recurrent neural network

Authors: Casert, C; Whitelam, S

December 2024, Journal of Chemical Physics


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