Combining computer science with physics and biology to create breakthroughs that help the world.
About the team
Computer science and natural science are complementary: breakthroughs in one can lead to remarkable advances in the other. The goal of the Applied Science organization at Google is to cross-fertilize these two fields. There are four main efforts in Applied Science: Quantum Computing, Google Accelerated Science, Climate and Energy, and Scientific Computing Tools.
Quantum Computing uses advances in applied physics to push the state-of-the-art in computation. Google Accelerated Science and Climate and Energy do the opposite: they use the latest advances in machine learning and artificial intelligence to accelerate progress in natural sciences, including societally-important areas such as biomedical research and zero-carbon energy sources. Finally, we supply Scientific Computing Tools such as Colab to many internal groups to enhance their data and machine learning productivity.
Research areas
Team focus summaries
Highlighted projects
Leveraging computer vision to mitigate aviation’s climate impact.
Large-scale quantum computer development requires qubits with much lower error rates. Our latest results demonstrate a logical qubit prototype, a milestone on the path toward scalable fault-tolerant quantum computing.
TensorStore, a library designed for storage and manipulation of n-dimensional data, addresses key engineering challenges in scientific computing through better management and processing of large peta-scale datasets and creation of LLMs, such as PaLM.
Quantum technology promises to revolutionize how we learn about the physical world. Researchers have shown that quantum ML algorithms can perform exponentially better than classical learning algorithms at many tasks.
Featured publications
Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 285 (2023)
Energy and Environmental Science (EES) (2022)
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60 (2022), pp. 1-13
Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 92 (2021), pp. 043515
ICML workshop on Climate Change 2021 (2021)