Austin Aguilar
Austin Aguilar is a Software Engineer for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Austin helps develop and maintains a variety of user facing applications that allow researchers to focus on their science rather than data discovery. Austin is also very passionate about researching and developing agentic AI workflows to be leveraged within the scope of science.
Session
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility Data Center (ADC) capable of supporting scalable, secure, and reproducible engagement with atmospheric research data is evolving towards AI-ready ecosystem. We will discuss architectural designs utilized in production scientific data setting including open-source technologies to further multi-agent coordination, agentic retrieval-augmented generation (A-RAG), shared contextual memory via vector stores, and model-agnostic inference orchestration within Kubernetes infrastructure. We will go over ARM's foundational stack designed to support agentic AI workflows for data discovery, metadata research, reasoning, and user engagement. Additionally, we will go over architectural decisions, trade-offs, and security measures pertinent to research computing environments with some demonstrations.