My first piece at Quanta Magazine is out! Cryptography and other fields in TCS holds a lot of promise for helping us understand how LLMs and other AI models work, and I’m excited to continue following this in the coming years.
What do a group researchers do with 200k GPU hours from NVIDIA worth around a million dollars? They train a bunch of AI models on fake people from Arizona, of course!
Hubble is a new open source model suite appearing at ICLR this month. Read the full story here: www.science.org/content/arti...
For many, the end of the year is an opportunity to catch up on reading or to purchase books as gifts. In 2025, a number of authors joined the Tech Policy Press podcast, providing fresh insights into how technology interacts with people, politics, and power. Check out the list:
For my first clip in @sciam.bsky.social, I spoke with Rahul Ilango about defining an entirely new notion of Zero Knowledge Proofs and its connections to century-old math. Check out my coverage on his @focs2025.bsky.social paper here: www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... #zeroknowledge #zk #cs
I am at the @aaas.org Annual Meeting today and tomorrow, and I’m always looking to talk computer science, tech, math, AI, and #SciComm with people. Come find me! #AAASmtg
I’m also on a panel tomorrow talking about science journalism and @aaasmassmedia.bsky.social:
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Deportations and denials of entry. Visa delays. Researchers avoiding US meetings. It’s been bubbling up for a while, but the international collaboration crisis in science is here. My latest Op-Ed for @undark.org undark.org/2026/01/01/o...
Many non-US-citizen researchers are (understandably!) hesitant to go on the record about this, but I am interested in knowing and writing more about it. If you want to chat about the state of research in the US, please reach out! Signal in bio. #science #ScienceSky #highered