08-29

AI for Accelerating Invention: Launch Event

Attendance restricted to Princeton University faculty, staff and students.

AI for Accelerating Invention, a new Princeton AI Lab initiative, integrates artificial intelligence into engineering research, developing new technologies and tools to accelerate the process of invention —  from design, to simulation, to fabrication, to control. 

The launch event begins with introductory remarks by Dean Andrea Goldsmith and co-directors Ryan Adams and Mengdi Wang, followed by faculty lightning talks and a reception.

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Introductory Remarks

• Andrea Goldsmith, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
• Ryan P. Adams, Co-Director of AI for Accelerating Invention, Professor of Computer Science, Associate Chair of Department of Computer Science
• Mengdi Wang, Co-Director of AI for Accelerating Invention, Professor of Computer Science, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML)

Lightning talks featuring Princeton faculty

• Clifford P. Brangwynne, June K. Wu ’92 Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering. Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Bioengineering. Director, Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute.
• Z. Jason Ren, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment.
• Christine Allen-Blanchette, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Statistics and Machine Learning.
• Jaime Fernández Fisac, Assistant Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
• Shantenu Jha, Head, Computational Sciences Department (CSD), Computational Science, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.
• Egemen Kolemen, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment. Director, Program in Sustainable Energy.
• Szymon Rusinkiewicz, David M. Siegel ’83 Professor of Computer Science. Chair, Department of Computer Science. Director, Program in Robotics and Intelligent Systems.
• Kaushik Sengupta, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering.
• Jared Toettcher, Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Bioengineering. Deputy Director, Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute.
• Ellen Zhong, Assistant Professor of Computer Science.

3:30 - 4:30 pm: Reception