Five UNM PA faculty selected for Genesis Mission
July 27, 2026
Researchers at The University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Lab are developing a new artificial intelligence framework that could transform how scientists search for some of the rarest events in the universe by recovering faint signals that conventional methods often discard.
The project, Learning Beyond Threshold: AI-Driven Signal Extraction for Rare-Event Searches, is one of nearly 300 selected as part of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Genesis Mission, which brings together DOE’s world-class scientific capabilities, advanced AI, high-performance computing, and the nation’s leading researchers to transform how scientific discovery is conducted and strengthen American leadership in science and technology.
The nine-month, $750,000 project is led by Physics and Astronomy Professor Dinesh Loomba, along with co-investigators including Dr. Ralph Massarczyk at LANL, and Professors Greg Taylor and Huaiyu Duan, Associate Professor Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, and Research Professor Jayce Dowell at UNM.
Read the UNM Newsroom article here: news.unm.edu/news/unm-researchers-selected-for-u-s-does-genesis-mission
