2026

October 2026 • Events

NSDF Summit on Federated Autonomous Science

NSDF Summit on Federated Autonomous Science — October 19, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois.

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2026

June 2026 • News

NSDF Advances Autonomous Scientific Discovery at ISC 2026

NSDF featured at the 2nd Workshop on Advancing Autonomous Scientific Discovery at ISC 2026 in Hamburg.

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2026

March 2026 • News

AI-Guided Beamline Experiments at DOE Data Days

NSDF presented AI-guided beamline experiments at DOE Data Days with INTERSECT at ORNL and CHESS.

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2025

December 2025 • News

NSDF Introduces Theory of Change for Data Science

NSDF introduces its Theory of Change—a strategic framework guiding national efforts to democratize data-driven research.

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2025

December 2025 • News

NSDF Highlighted at Successful SC25 Panel on Interconnected Autonomous Science Labs

NSDF highlighted at SC25 panel on Interconnected Autonomous Science Labs empowered by HPC and Intelligent Agents.

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2025

December 2025 • News

NSDF Participates in Expert Panel on Sustainable AI and HPC at SC25

NSDF participated in expert panel on Sustainable AI and HPC at SC25.

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2025

October 2025 • News

NSDF Impacting Lives through Fellowship

NSDF's Fellowship Program supports exceptional students and researchers advancing knowledge and innovation.

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2025

October 2025 • News

Autonomous Powder Diffraction on POWGEN

NSDF × INTERSECT returned to ORNL to execute a second AI-guided powder diffraction experiment on POWGEN.

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2025

September 2025 • News

NSDF Presents Federated Learning Tutorial at MICCAI 2025

NSDF presented at MICCAI 2025 a tutorial on the COmprehensive Federated Ecosystem (COFE) for medical imaging.

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2025

August 2025 • News

NSDF Presents Partnerships and Scientific Advancements at TEAMS Summit

NSDF presented partnerships and scientific advancements at the Tennessee Advanced Materials Summit (TEAMS) in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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2025

June 2025 • News

NSDF Member Aashish Panta Selected for NASA JPL Internship

NSDF member Aashish Panta accepted into a NASA JPL summer internship working on machine learning, LLMs, and climate science.

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2025

June 2025 • News

NSDF and INTERSECT Showcase Breakthrough in AI-Guided Autonomous Experiments

NSDF and INTERSECT showcase AI-guided autonomous experiments with runtime steering, pinpointing spin flop transitions in hematite.

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2025

June 2025 • News

NSDF Leads Tutorial at IPDPS 2025

NSDF leads a tutorial at IPDPS 2025 on strategies for large-scale data analysis using the National Science Data Fabric.

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2025

May 2025 • Events

NSDF All Hands Meeting 2025

The fifth NSDF All-Hands Meeting gathers new and existing members in San Diego, CA to address challenges of data democratization.

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2025

May 2025 • News

NSDF Team Named Finalist in SCALE Challenge at CCGrid 2025

NSDF team named finalist in the SCALE Challenge at CCGrid 2025 for scalable climate data analysis.

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2024

October 2024 • News

NSDF Selects Largest-Ever Cohort of Fellows to Champion Data Democratization at SC24 and SIGHPC Annual Meeting

NSDF selects fifteen NSDF Fellows for SC24, more than doubling last year's cohort, to champion data democratization.

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2024

September 2024 • News

NSDF SC24 Fellows

NSDF is accepting applications for fellows to attend SC24 in Atlanta, GA, with travel support up to $2,000.

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2024

May 2024 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Thomas Hauser

Thomas Hauser, director of CISL at NSF NCAR, presents on research computing and data services for the Earth system science community.

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2024

April 2024 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series

Tutorial on using NSDF services for end-to-end analysis and visualization of large scientific data, presented by Dr. Michela Taufer and Dr. Valerio Pascucci.

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2024

February 2024 • Events

NSDF All Hands Meeting 2024

The fourth NSDF in-person meeting held in San Diego, California featuring keynotes on the Proto-OKN Fabric and research software engineering.

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2023

December 2023 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Joel Brock

Dr. Joel Brock, Director of CHESS, presented 'Big Data at Synchrotron X-ray User Facilities: Challenges and Opportunities' as part of the NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series.

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2023

November 2023 • News

NSDF Announces SC23 Travel Award Winners

The NSDF Pilot introduced the winners of its inaugural SC travel awards, enabling students and early career researchers to attend SC23 in Denver.

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2023

November 2023 • News

Meet the NSDF Team at SC23

Join NSDF at SC23 in Denver for two panels and a BoF on data democratization, converged computing, and the National Science Data Fabric.

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2023

October 2023 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Gwen Jacobs

Gwen Jacobs, Director of Cyberinfrastructure at University of Hawaii, presented 'Cyberinfrastructure in Paradise' as part of the NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series.

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2023

May 2023 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Ana Persic

Ana Persic of UNESCO presented 'The Pathway to Implementing the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science' as part of the NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series.

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2023

April 2023 • Events

NSDF All Hands Meeting — April 2023

The third NSDF in-person all hands meeting was held at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, featuring a keynote by Maria Elena Monzani on dark matter detection with LUX-ZEPLIN.

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2023

March 2023 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Federica Legger

Federica Legger of INFN presented 'Large (Hadron Collider) and Big (Data Science)' as part of the NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series.

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2023

March 2023 • News

NSDF at Women in Data Science (WiDS) Stanford 2023

Michela Taufer moderated a panel on Data Democratization at the WiDS Stanford 2023 Conference.

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2022

October 2022 • Events

NSDF All Hands Meeting — October 2022

The second NSDF in-person all hands meeting was held at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, in conjunction with the IEEE eScience conference.

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2022

May 2022 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Ian Foster

Ian Foster of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory presented 'A Global Research Data Platform: How Globus Services Enable Scientific Discovery' as part of the NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series.

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2022

April 2022 • Events

NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series: Ryan Abernathey

Ryan Abernathey of Columbia University presented 'Pangeo Forge — Crowdsourcing Analysis Ready Data in the Cloud' as part of the NSDF Distinguished Speaker Series.

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2022

April 2022 • News

Two NSDF Posters Accepted at HPDC 2022

Two posters featuring new NSDF services were accepted at the 2022 ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing.

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2022

February 2022 • Events

NSDF All Hands Meeting — February 2022

The first NSDF in-person all hands meeting was held at the Scientific Computing Institute, University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

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2021

December 2021 • News

NSDF Plugin First Release

The first release of the NSDF Plugin enables communication between the Open Storage Network and the Open Science Grid federations.

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2021

November 2021 • Events

Valerio Pascucci Presents NSDF at APS Scientific Computation Seminar

Valerio Pascucci presented 'The National Science Data Fabric: Democratizing Data Access for Science and Society' at the APS Scientific Computation Seminar at Argonne National Laboratory.

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2021

October 2021 • News

NSF Awards $5.6 Million for National Science Data Fabric Pilot

The NSF awarded a $5.6 million pilot project to the University of Utah's SCI Institute to build the National Science Data Fabric, democratizing access to large-scale scientific data.

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