Dean Andrea Goldsmith and Vice Dean Antoine Kahn are proud to recognize the following faculty for their outstanding teaching during the fall 2021 semester, as determined by overall course ratings by students.

Danqi Chen has been awarded the 2022 Sloan Fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. She is among 118 early-career scholars who represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Winners receive $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.

Ryan Adams, a professor of computer science, agrees that these machines are the foundation of the modern economy, but he thinks there is a lot of room for improvement.

In Jimmy Wu’s apartment, a scrum of mini robots bump, swerve, and zip chaotically across a tabletop. It looks like an aggressive bumper car rally, but within a few minutes, order emerges.

Since arriving at Princeton last year, Felix Heide has unveiled a flock of new cameras that push the edge of the visual world.

Olga Russakovsky’s Princeton Visual AI Lab develops artificial intelligence (AI) systems with new capabilities in computer vision, including automated object detection and image captioning.

Bruce Arden developed foundational computer programming techniques that popularized computing in later decades. He led Princeton from the mainframe era to the personal computer era and was instrumental in creating the computer science department. He died Dec. 8, 2021, at 94. The above ran in the April 10, 1985, issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. Photo by Robert P. Matthews.

Professor Mark Braverman is recognized for contributions to computational complexity, information theory, and algorithmic mechanism design. Professor Elad Hazan is recognized for contributions to efficient algorithms for convex and nonconvex optimization. Professor Szymon Rusinkiewicz is recognized for contributions to acquisition, representation, analysis, rendering, and fabrication of 3D models.

When Yuri Pritykin first arrived at Princeton in 2008 as a computer science Ph.D. candidate, he had little interest in studying life sciences. Today as an assistant professor with a foot in both the computer science department and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Pritykin is using math and computer science to solve biology’s biggest mysteries.

Radhika Nagpal, who joins the Computer Science and Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering faculty in January 2022, has been recognized by Newsweek as one of “America’s Great Disrupters”. She is recognized for her work on groups of robots to perform tasks too dirty, dull, or dangerous for people to do.

Two Princeton seniors concentrating in computer science have been have been named Schwarzman Scholars for 2022. The Schwarzman Scholarship covers the cost of graduate study and living toward a one-year master’s program at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

When Mona Singh was in high school, she spent two summers conducting research in an immunology lab at the nearby University of Alabama at Birmingham. Singh was an excellent student, and her family hoped she would follow in her father’s footsteps and become a medical doctor. She was interested in the questions of biology and medicine that the lab pursued, but her heart wasn’t in it. Deep down, she wanted to become a math professor — not a doctor. “To be honest, I don’t know if I understood what being a math professor really meant,” she said. “I just knew I liked math.”