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Princeton AI Sandbox provides secure environment for campus researchers to use LLMs
May 7, 2025

The Princeton AI Sandbox is a new tool from the Office of Information Technology in collaboration with research computing which aims to reduce the security risks posed by using LLMs. The sandbox provides a secure environment for Princeton University researchers to explore and use models for their projects.

Arthur Spirling: advocating for replicability in research using language models
May 2, 2025

“Thinking about scientific transparency in the age of AI is just absolutely crucial,” said Class of 1987 Professor of Politics at the Department of Politics at Princeton University Arthur Spirling.

Students and faculty mingle, reflect on the semester at annual Dinner with a Professor event
April 24, 2025

“Dinner with a Professor serves as a special celebration of the strong connection between SML students and their faculty advisors and mentors.”

Rafael Pastrana: finding efficient geometry for architectural structures with machine learning
April 16, 2025
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Written by Allison Gasparini

Rafael Pastrana, a Princeton University Ph.D candidate in architecture, is at work developing and exploring his own methods of computing structural shapes that are both functional and judicious in the use of materials. “One of the secret sauces powering the methods I work with to create good shapes is machine learning,” said Pastrana. 

Benjamin Eysenbach: designing AI that learns how to make decisions on its own
April 11, 2025

In the same way that a dog can be trained to roll over in exchange for treats, reinforcement learning algorithms can train AI systems to learn to maximize rewards via trial and error. 

Reinforcement learning methods enable AI systems to find strategies that are better than those used by humans, as demonstrated by…

Researchers test latest technology at ‘AI Jam’
March 26, 2025

On Feb. 28, more than 80 researchers from the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and Princeton University gathered together in the Lewis Science Library to test some of the latest artificial intelligence tools.

Naveen Verma: making AI computing more efficient and cost effective
March 11, 2025
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Written by Allison Gasparini

“By leveraging fundamentally different physics, we can better align with the computations AI is doing,” said Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Naveen Verma. “Our work goes all the way from building the circuits that leverage physics in large-scale chips, to building the software.”

Lydia Liu: Rethinking AI’s impact on society through the lens of fairness
Feb. 28, 2025
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Written by Allison Gasparini

Lydia Liu, an assistant professor of computer science at Princeton University, wondered, “If we know there are certain imperfections in the data, can we design algorithms that actively correct for this?”

Elad Hazan: neural architectures inspired by dynamical systems
Feb. 17, 2025
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Written by Allison Gasparini

Princeton University Professor of Computer Science and Director and co-founder of Google AI, Princeton Elad Hazan is researching a different way of designing neural networks. His group’s novel architecture design has been experimentally shown to have the power to bolster the computation performance of large language models. 

Emma Levin: understanding how hurricane activity will change in a warming world
Feb. 7, 2025
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Written by Allison Gasparini

Emma Levin is a second year graduate student in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences who has dedicated herself to research in the pursuit of an increasingly urgent question: How will hurricane activity change in a warming world?