Princeton Computer Science

A heartfelt 'cheers' to @KastnerLab and @SebastianSeung from the PNI community on their @theNASciences election! Congrats!!🍾🥂🎉

Happy birthday, Bob Tarjan! 🎂

Congratulations, Dr. Lu! 🎓🥳

Congratulations to @SebastianSeung on his election to the National Academy of Sciences! 🏆🎉

Final Seminar of 2025-2026 on May 13 with @ProfMonaSingh from @PrincetonCS. Looking forward to hearing her insights at the intersection of computational biology, genomics, and machine learning. Learn more & register: bit.ly/3QMPyin

Congrats, @cindy_x_wu!

After 3 years as a software engineer, Avi Flamholz '07 turned to a new professional focus. He now leads a @RockefellerUniv research group to "provide novel engineering solutions to address climate change." bit.ly/4tvFbhy

Are we done with object detection? What about tiny objects beyond 200 meters? 🔎 Telescope 🔭 addresses long-range perception by explicitly tackling extreme scale imbalance ⚖️ in images. It hinges on a learnable hyperbolic foveation transform from a low-resolution image, magnifying distant regions 🔍 while compressing nearby ones - effectively normalizing object scales with minimal computational overhead. Objects are detected in the transformed (Riemannian) space using a novel bounding box parameterization and are then mapped back to the original image. Project: light.princeton.edu/telescope/

The process has been a great way to learn more about the undergraduate program and gather better data, said Andrés Monroy-Hernández, an associate professor. “We've all learned a lot," he said. "And the changes that are implemented will hopefully make a lasting impact."

This year, the department has been part of an initiative run by @NCWIT aimed at improving student success and broadening participation for undergraduates. The initiative guides a dept team through a strategic planning program that identifies areas for improvement and innovation.

Congratulations to Matt Weinberg on winning the 2026 SIGecom Mid-Career Award! 🏆

Avi Flamholz, COS major from the class of '07, is now a microbiologist @RockefellerUniv. His lab leverages computational tools and microbial biochemistry to improve climate models and find engineering solutions to address climate change. Learn more: bit.ly/4toE42Z

Georgia's voter registration deadline is making headlines in the news this week. Another deadline is looming for state lawmakers: a QR code ballot tabulation ban on 7/1. Prof Emeritus Andrew Appel outlines QR code voter ballot tech insecurities in a new blog post. 🧵👇

Next up in our "Faces of Innovation" series: Adji Bousso Dieng, @PrincetonCS faculty member and leader of Vertaix, a research group at the intersection of AI and the natural sciences. Read more: innovation.princeton.edu/people/adji-bo…

Here's a roundup of the research that will be showcased by Princeton faculty, students, post-docs and research software engineers this week at #ICLR2026 blog.ai.princeton.edu/2026/04/21/pri…

Whither symbols in the era of advanced neural networks? Opinion by Thomas L. Griffiths, Brenden M. Lake (@LakeBrenden), R. Thomas McCoy, Ellie Pavlick, & Taylor W. Webb Free access before June 5: tinyurl.com/37msbyhx

Wu is a Ph.D. student advised by @orussakovsky. Her research focuses on data for efficient multimodal machine learning, developing data-centric approaches that trace model behavior to training data composition and enable scalable, capable, and controllable multimodal systems.

Congrats to to @cindy_x_wu on receiving an @Apple Scholars in AIML fellowship! 🍎 🎉 The fellowship recognizes doctoral students doing innovative research in machine learning and artificial intelligence. bit.ly/3OV0fyP

Congratulations to graduate student Ilya Maier and professors @ben_eysenbach, Christopher Moretti and Kevin Wayne on being awarded Excellence in Teaching Awards from the undergraduate engineering council. 🏆

Excited to be at (my first) #ICLR2026 this week to present work with Tom Griffiths (@cocosci_lab) on efficient exploration for LLM agents 🧵