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Project Lead: Dr. Joshua Elliott
Sponsoring Organization: DARPA
Website: https://www.darpa.mil/program/synergistic-discovery-and-design
Project Synopsis: SD2 will address the problem of design in domains that lack complete models. SD2 aims to develop data-driven methods to automatically discover models and refine designs in parallel and at scale. To ensure realism, the project will use challenge problems drawn from cutting-edge domains. By the end of the program, SD2 plans to provide new data-driven methods to accelerate discovery and design, and create a cloud-based, open data exchange for research communities in complex domains.