17–22 May 2026
C.I.D
Europe/Zurich timezone

Sustainable data transformation strategies for particle and field data in modeling free-electron lasers

THP2071
21 May 2026, 16:00
2h
C.I.D

C.I.D

Deauville, France
Board: Thursday roquefort: RB15
Poster Presentation MC2.A06: Free Electron Lasers (FELs) Poster session

Speaker

Pardis Niknejadi (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

Description

Scientific data is commonly stored in formats such as CSV for small to medium datasets, HDF5 for complex hierarchical structures, and NetCDF for gridded and temporal variables. These formats provide robust mechanisms for structured storage, preparing hierarchical or multidimensional data for machine learning (ML) models and GPU-accelerated computation. However, often they incur substantial transformation overhead. Recent studies have demonstrated the promise of tailored data-transformation and encoding approaches in scientific domains. In particular, convolutional autoencoder–based compression of 3D particle-tracking data can achieve significant reductions in post-processing as well as storage requirements while keeping the essential spatial features for downstream workflows. This work discusses the potential of domain-specific encoding strategies for interfacing particle and field data across different simulation tools, with the goal of enhancing the scalability and integration of scientific data into more sustainable workflows and future machine learning pipelines.

Funding Agency

The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) - 13K2500200 -PEARLS

Paper status Resubmitted proceeding files received and assigned to an editor. Accepted.

Author

Pardis Niknejadi (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY)

Co-authors

Josephine Prochnow (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Lucas Schaper (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY) Naman Bhalla (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Dr Simran Gurdasani (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) Dr Valerie Lang (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)

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