Affiliate Faculty
I’m interested in how increasingly capable AI systems can participate in the scientific process, improving “traditional” tasks such as simulation, modeling, and inference, while also enabling qualitatively new modes of scientific investigation. This includes using AI to generate and test models, developing scalable inference techniques, and probing the limits of automated scientific reasoning. I view physics—which has been the focus of much of my work—as a particularly useful domain for this, offering a well-defined sandbox spanning theory, computation, and experiment for developing and testing methods with broader applicability across the natural sciences.
I’m also interested in meta-scientific questions about how technological progress shapes what research is possible, how increasingly powerful AI capabilities are reshaping scientific practice, and the evolving relationship between academic and industry research.