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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