ICDDPS-8Daejeon 2027

Data-Driven Plasma Science

ICDDPS-8

8th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science

5–9 April 2027·KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

Welcome

On behalf of the Executive Scientific Committee, we are delighted to welcome you to the 8th International Conference on Data-Driven Plasma Science (ICDDPS-8), which will be held at KAIST in Daejeon, Republic of Korea, from 5 to 9 April 2027.

Since the first meeting in York in 2018, ICDDPS has brought together the fusion, low-temperature plasma and data-science communities to explore what data-driven methods can do for plasma science. Following ICDDPS-7 in Kiel, the eighth edition brings the series to Korea for the first time — to Daejeon, a research city that is home to national programmes in fusion and a national hub of semiconductor manufacturing science.

The conference is planned as a 4.5-day event in the tradition of the series, with plenary and invited lectures, contributed talks, posters, a School of DDPS tutorial day and an industry–academia session. The conference language is English.

We hope you will join us in Daejeon in cherry-blossom season, and we look forward to welcoming you in person.

Byungjo KimUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)Conference Chair

Sanghoo ParkKorea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Conference Co-chair

Scientific scope

Topics

ICDDPS covers the application of data science to plasma science across fusion, low-temperature and processing plasmas. ICDDPS-8 carries the scope of the series across the six topics below.

01

Fusion & real-time control

Disruption prediction, reinforcement-learning plasma control, tokamak surrogate transport models, KSTAR and ITER data

02

Processing & digital twins

Etch and deposition modelling, virtual metrology, run-to-run and chamber-matching control, semiconductor process data

03

Surrogates & differentiable physics

Neural operators, physics-informed networks, reduced-order models, uncertainty quantification, accelerated kinetic simulation

04

Diagnostics & inverse problems

Image and spectral analysis, tomography, sensor fusion, automated interpretation of high-rate diagnostic streams

05

Data infrastructure & benchmarks

FAIR data practice, cross-section and reaction databases, shared benchmarks, reproducibility in plasma ML

06

Foundation models & autonomous labs

LLM agents for experiment planning, self-driving plasma experiments, active learning and Bayesian optimisation

Important dates

Dates

First announcement
Late 2026
Opening of registration and abstract submission
To be announced
Conference
5–9 April 2027(confirmed)

Further dates will be added to this page as the committee sets them.

The series

Eight editions

  1. 2018YorkUnited Kingdom
  2. 2019MarseilleFrance
  3. 2021Onlinehosted from Osaka
  4. 2023OkinawaJapan
  5. 2024BerkeleyUnited States
  6. 2025Santa FeUnited States
  7. 2026KielGermany
  8. 2027DaejeonRepublic of Korea

ICDDPS began in York in 2018 and has since been held in France, Japan, the United States and Germany, with one online edition hosted from Osaka. Daejeon 2027 is the first edition held in Korea. Previous conferences

Contact

Enquiries

Byungjo KimConference Chairbold.kim@unist.ac.kr

Sanghoo ParkConference Co-chairsanghoopark@kaist.ac.kr

The conference secretariat will be announced. Full contact details