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Initiative aims to make Princeton a leader in AI accelerated engineering
Sept. 18, 2024
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Written by Allison Gasparini

As a part of a broad set of investments around artificial intelligence, Princeton University has launched AI for Accelerating Invention, an initiative to achieve faster breakthroughs across engineering disciplines, including biomedicine, robotics and nuclear fusion.

Bringing together board games and machine learning: Owen Travis finds when it's best to Go with your gut
Aug. 29, 2024
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Written by Allison Gasparini

Owen Travis, ’24, began playing Go in middle school after a friend took him to the Evanston Go Club in Illinois. In 2016, the AlphaGo computer program beat top player Lee Sedol at the strategy board game and Travis, who remembers reading about the defeat, found himself interested in the intersection of Go and machine learning. 

Summer spotlight: Gan Luyang
Aug. 7, 2024
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Written by Allison Gasparini

Robotic arms are already common in factories, where they paint or weld parts, pick items from conveyor belts, and stack products. But how can we move robotic arms out of controlled settings and into our everyday lives, where they can perform common tasks like dishwashing or grocery shopping? Gan Luyang ‘26, is spending her summer tackling this question and gaining research experience in the Princeton Vision & Learning Lab. 

Kim Kreiss wants to use data analysis to help inform public policy
July 19, 2024
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Written by Allison Gasparini

By the time she arrived at Princeton to start her MPA, Kim Kreiss was already prepared to begin an SML certificate to compliment her degree. “Before I got to campus, the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning was definitely on my radar,” said Kreiss.

Michael Skinnider wins 'Young Explorer Award' grand prize
July 1, 2024

Michael Skinnider, an assistant professor in the Princeton Branch of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and participating faculty at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning Princeton, received the 2023 NOMIS & Science Young Explorer Award grand prize at a ceremony at…

CSML participating faculty receive innovation funds from Princeton Engineering
June 26, 2024

In 2018, Olga Russakovsky, an associate professor of computer science, received an Innovation Research Grant from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. With her colleague, computer science professor Arvind Narayanan, the funding allowed Russakovsky and her team to develop an open-source tool that uncovers biases in visual data sets, as…

SML certificate student among Princeton graduates honored for excellence in teaching
May 29, 2024

Jamie Chiu, a second-year Ph.D. student in psychology and certificate student in the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, was recognized for her work as a preceptor in “From Animal Learning to Changing People’s Minds,” taught by Yael Niv, professor of psychology and neuroscience. 

Alumni spotlight: Shea Minter applies machine learning methods to understand political extremism
May 28, 2024
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Written by Allison Gasparini

Now a Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department at Georgetown University, Minter, class of 2019, is using statistical methods to study right wing extremism – their political behavior and interaction with democracy. 

CSML and PICSciE hold first joint graduate certificate colloquium in statistics and machine learning and computational science and engineering
May 20, 2024

On April 24, the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) and the Princeton Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (PICSciE) teamed up to host their first ever joint graduate certificate colloquium. 

Generative AI models can be used for optimization in complex tasks
May 3, 2024
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Written by Allison Gasparini

On April 23, Mengdi Wang, associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, gave a seminar at the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning on diffusion models, how they work, and how they can be used to solve complex tasks.