Regular biography
Adji Bousso Dieng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. She leads Vertaix, a research initiative at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the natural sciences. Dieng is affiliated with the High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI) and serves as a Research Scientist at Google AI. She is also the founder and President of the nonprofit The Africa I Know. Dieng received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, advised by David Blei and John Paisley. Her research areas include machine learning, computational biology, and natural language processing. She has been recognized for her work and advocacy, including being named an AI2050 Early Career Fellow by Schmidt Futures and the Annie T. Randall Innovator of 2022 by the American Statistical Association.
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Adji Bousso Dieng is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, specializing in Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and Natural Sciences. Her research focuses on advancing probabilistic modeling, inference, and generative methods, with applications in materials science, clinical prediction, and text-to-image generation. She develops novel techniques for diversity evaluation, latent variable collapse avoidance, and consistency regularization. Her work includes deep contextual embedding for clinical data, large language models for materials property prediction, and generative adversarial networks for complex polymer synthesis. Dieng's contributions span both theoretical and applied aspects of machine learning, emphasizing robustness, generalization, and cultural competence in AI systems.