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Drone-assisted lasers pinpoint harmful gas leaks, attracting NSF funding
April 16, 2024

The project, led by Gerard Wysocki, an expert in laser-based spectroscopic systems, will improve the environmental monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions and toxic air pollution around cities or industrial facilities and provide new tools for rapidly assessing disaster sites, such as…

Grad alum Avi Wigderson wins Turing Award for groundbreaking insights in computer science
April 11, 2024

The Turing Award is considered the highest honor in computer science, often called the “Nobel Prize of Computing.”

Wigderson, the Herbert H. Maass Professor in the Institute for Advanced Study’s School of Mathematics, earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1983 in what was then the Department of…

Can language models read the genome? This one decoded mRNA to make better vaccines.
April 8, 2024

That code contains instructions for all of life’s functions and follows rules not unlike those that govern human languages. Each sequence in a genome adheres to an intricate grammar and syntax, the structures that give rise to meaning. Just as changing a few words can radically alter the impact of a sentence, small variations in a biological…

Defense backs pioneering research into machine learning for biological networks
March 20, 2024

Mengdi Wang will lead the AI and reinforcement learning thrust of a collaborative project that won a $7.5 million grant from the Defense Department's Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative. The project will seek to understand causal relationships in complex biological networks using advanced machine learning techniques, with major implications for everything from genomics to global health.

Advanced optics reveal how cells and molecules squirm, pulse and ooze
March 11, 2024

The research team of Tian-Ming Fu is developing new electronic devices to manipulate and study molecules in their native environment.

Built for AI, this chip moves beyond transistors for huge computational gains
March 6, 2024

The new hardware reimagines AI chips for modern workloads and can run powerful AI systems using much less energy than today’s most advanced semiconductors, according to Naveen Verma, professor of electrical and computer engineering. Verma, who will lead the project, said the advances…

Goldsmith, pioneer in mobile technology, named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
Feb. 22, 2024

Goldsmith, dean of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science and Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was recognized for her pioneering work in wireless communications and information theory. In…

Machine learning expert Chi Jin named Sloan Research Fellow
Feb. 21, 2024

The Arthur P. Sloan Foundation has named Chi Jin a 2024 Sloan Research Fellow, recognizing his expertise and leadership in machine learning.

Wentzlaff and Wysocki promoted to full professor
Feb. 16, 2024

Wentzlaff, a computer architecture expert, studies a range of issues that impact the future of computing. His research explores what computer architectures will look like after the end of Moore’s Law,…

Quantum engineering expert Stephen Lyon wins Schowalter Award
Feb. 1, 2024

Lyon, a professor of electrical and computer engineering, focuses on harnessing quantum mechanical effects for information processing, with a special focus on the use of silicon and helium as a quantum computing platform. By coating silicon chips with superfluid helium (cooled to near…

Yasaman Ghasempour named Air Force young investigator
Jan. 10, 2024

Ghasempour, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, was one of 48 researchers selected for the program this…

Yan Huo *94 Fellowship drives research in wireless communication, quantum technology and solar energy
Dec. 22, 2023

Atsutse Kludze focuses on high-speed and efficient system architectures for future communication and sensing networks, especially within the millimeter wave and sub-terahertz frequency range. His work applies electromagnetic and wireless communication theory to experimental evaluation and prototyping. He is also a Semiconductor Research…