Princeton University

Ahmadi’s research formalizes decision-making through mathematics, creating tools that advance artificial intelligence, control systems, machine learning and data-driven discovery.

Li received the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for her memoir “Things in Nature Merely Grow” and has won numerous awards for her novels and short story collections. She teaches creative writing at Princeton.

Martonosi’s research on computer architecture and hardware design has fueled broad and lasting improvements in the performance, energy efficiency and security of computer systems, from mobile phones to data centers.

A towering figure in the scholarship of the modern African novel and postcolonial literature, Gikandi brings a global perspective to the humanities. He is the founding director of the Princeton African Humanities Colloquium. 

Schoop, a solid-state chemist, draws from chemistry and physics to find new quantum materials. She leads the Princeton Center for Complex Materials.

Stone's fluid dynamics research connects engineering to chemistry, physics, and biology, with subjects including microdevices, swimming bacteria, flows of polymeric materials and respiratory virus transmission.

Okeke-Agulu is a celebrated artist, critic, curator and historian of African and African Diaspora art. He is director of Princeton’s Africa World Initiative.

Griffiths’ research explores how studying AI can help us understand human cognition, and vice versa. His new book, “The Laws of Thought,” tells the story of using mathematics to explain how we think.

An innovative scholar of visual culture and a founder of Black European Studies, Campt explores the tactile and sonic registers of images and contemporary art. She fosters collaborative creative expression as director of Princeton Atelier. 

Narayanan studies the societal impact of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Ramaswami, who also leads the M.S. Chadha Center for Global India, pioneered the science of sustainable urban infrastructure systems and its translation to policy-making.

Ellis works with archives and contemporary Native communities to illuminate lesser-known histories of early Indigenous America.

Lee’s research on Congressional politics and policymaking helps the public and scholars understand and address pressing issues in American democracy.

Fuentes studies the behavior, biology, and cultures of humans, our evolutionary ancestors, and other species we interact with, offering integrative insights that counter more simplistic narratives of the human experience.

2023 Global Economy Prize winner Wantchekon came of age as a pro-democracy student activist in Benin. 

Rustow uses machine learning to decipher thousands of Arabic and Hebrew fragments preserved in a medieval Cairo synagogue.