--- title: Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for... description: Professor Jesse Thaler has been appointed director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), effective August 1, succeeding Professor Bolek Wyslouch.... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/jesse-thaler-named-director-of-the-laboratory-for-nuclear-science-flaxjbmaj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science | daily.dev og:description: Professor Jesse Thaler has been appointed director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), effective August 1, succeeding Professor Bolek Wyslouch.... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/jesse-thaler-named-director-of-the-laboratory-for-nuclear-science-flaxjbmaj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fLaXjbMAj.png og:image:alt: Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Jesse Thaler named director of the Laboratory for Nuclear Science **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Professor Jesse Thaler has been appointed director of the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS), effective August 1, succeeding Professor Bolek Wyslouch. Thaler is a theoretical particle physicist known for combining quantum field theory and machine learning to tackle fundamental physics questions. He previously served as inaugural director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) since 2020, which was recently renewed for five years. At LNS, he plans to advance AI-driven scientific discovery, building on his work applying cutting-edge AI algorithms to collider experiment data and theoretical calculations in particle physics. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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