Adji Bousso Dieng

Assistant Professor

Contact

406 Computer Science

ad6725@cs.princeton.edu

(609) 258-5935

Ph.D., Columbia University, 2020

Research Areas

Short Bio

I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University where I lead Vertaix on research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. I am affiliated with the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI). I am also a Research Scientist at Google AI and the founder and President of the nonprofit The Africa I Know. I have been named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Futures and the Annie T. Randall Innovator of 2022 for my research and advocacy by the American Statistical Association. I received my PhD from Columbia University where I was advised by David Blei and John Paisley. My doctoral work received many recognitions, including a Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning, a rising star in Machine Learning nomination by the University of Maryland, and a Savage Award from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, for my doctoral thesis. I hail from Kaolack, Senegal.

A full list of publications is available here.

Website: vertaix.princeton.edu

Other Affiliations

Related News

February 4, 2025

Adji Bousso Dieng honored by the Materials Research Society

The Materials Research Society has named Adji Bousso Dieng an Early Career Distinguished Presenter.

January 22, 2025

Adji Bousso Dieng recognized by The Africa Report

Adji Bousso Dieng, expert in artificial intelligence, has been recognized by The Africa Report magazine as one of 10 African Scholars to Watch in 2025.

January 29, 2024

Researchers harness large language models to accelerate materials discovery

Princeton researchers have created an artificial intelligence tool to predict the behavior of crystalline materials, a key step in advancing technologies like batteries and semiconductors.

January 4, 2023

Artificial intelligence enters a new era

For artificial intelligence to realize its potential — to relieve humans from mundane tasks, make life easier, and eventually invent entirely new solutions to our problems — computers will need to surpass us at two things that we humans do pretty well: see the world around us and understand our language.

November 8, 2022

Dieng awarded AI2050 Early Career Fellowship

Schmidt Futures has awarded Adji Bousso Dieng an AI2050 Early Career Fellowship for her work at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences.

May 10, 2021

Adji Bousso Dieng on AI, breaking barriers, and computing as empowerment

Adji Bousso Dieng wants to create artificial intelligence that can understand the mechanisms underlying complex systems and have a level of control over their behavior — work that could impact fields including science, health care and automated systems.