I engage with the public through classroom visits, opinion pieces, and lively presentations related to my research. I also advocate for the importance of open access to scientific data, and participate in strategic planning for the AI/ML and particle physics communities.
Public Events
- “Deep Learning + Deep Thinking = Deeper Understanding“, Advanced Studies Gateway Public Talk, Facility for Rare Isotope Beams, November 2026
- “Predictably Uncertain: Academic Publishing in the Era of AI“, Virtual Salon, Annual Reviews, March 2026
- “AI for Physics Discovery“, Conversation with Nabil Laoudji, Discovery Engines, August 2025
- “Physics, AI, and the Future of Discovery“ (with France Córdova, Walter Copan, Valerie Browning, and Evgeni Gousev), AIP Foundation Live Event, American Institute of Physics, April 2024
- “Predictably Uncertain: A Physicist’s Perspective on AI Policy“, Off the Record Foreign Policy Association Lecture, New York City Bar Association, March 2024
- “Collision Course: Artificial Intelligence meets Fundamental Physics“, Keynote Presentation, Tommy Flowers Network Conference, October 2020
- “Confronting the Invisible Universe“, Public Talk, Aspen Center for Physics, March 2017
- “The Higgs Boson: Triumph of the Standard Model“, 24th Annual Kavli Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Sciences, U.C. Irvine, November 2012
Advocacy
- “Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits: A muon collider“, New Scientist, December 2025
- “Transcript of Physics, AI, and the Future of Discovery“ (with France Córdova, Walter Copan, Valerie Browning, and Evgeni Gousev), Physics Today 77(11):30 (2024)
- “Expanding the Space of Machine Learning for Physics“, APS Topical Group on Data Science Newsletter, Winter 2023
- “Designing an AI Physicist“, Opinion Viewpoint, CERN Courier, September 2021
- “Slow and Steady“ (with Matthew Strassler), Correspondence, Nature Physics 15:725 (2019)
- “The Future of Particle Physics is ‘Open’“, Guest Blog Post, The Cylindrical Onion, CMS Experiment, December 2017
Essays
- “Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI): Infusing physics intelligence into artificial intelligence“ (with Mike Williams and Marisa LaFleur), AI Magazine, February 2024
- “Deep Learning + Deep Thinking = Deeper Understanding“ (with Mike Williams), Physics@MIT Journal, Fall 2023
- “Listening for Dark Matter from the Basement of Building 24“ (with Lindley Winslow), Physics@MIT Journal, Fall 2019
- “Guest Case Study 6: Particle Collisions“ (with Felice Frankel), Picturing Science and Engineering, MIT Press, 2018
Strategic Planning
- “The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)“, Report from a National Science Foundation Workshop, September 2025
- “Exploring the Quantum Universe: Pathways to Innovation and Discovery in Particle Physics“, Report of the Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel (P5), December 2023
- “Snowmass Theory Frontier: Collider Phenomenology (TF07)“ (with Fabio Maltoni and Shufang Su), Report for the US Community Study on the Future of Particle Physics, October 2022