2025 Report - Publications - Schmidt Sciences

Schmidt Sciences is seeking exceptional academic researchers from a specific and pivotal period in their career. This page highlights a selection of the outputs of our awardees—work that reflects our commitment to curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. We invite you to explore their contributions to science and a thriving world.

Search for anything related to Schmidt publications

Astrophysics & Space

arXiv | Dec 30, 2025

photoD with Rubin’s Data Preview 1: first stellar photometric distances and deficit of faint blue stars. Stellar distances with Rubin’s DP1

LINCC Frameworks
- L. Palaversa,
- E. Donev,
- ?. Ivezi?,
- K. Mrakov?i?,
- N. Caplar,
- M. Juri?,
- T. Jurki?,
- S. Campos,
- M. DeLucchi,
- D. Jones,
- K. Malanchev,
- A.I. Malz,
- S. McGuire,
- B. Abel,
- L. Girardi,
- G. Pastorelli,
- M. Trabucchi,
- S. Zaggia,
- E. Acosta,
- C.L. Adair,
- J. Andrew,
- É. Aubourg,
- A.E. Bauer,
- W. Beebe,
- E.C. Bellm,
- R.D. Blum,
- M.T. Booth,
- A. Boucaud,
- D. Branton,
- D.L. Burke,
- D. Calabrese,
- J.L. Carlin,
- H-F. Chiang,
- Y. Choi,
- A.J. Connolly,
- S. Dagoret-Campagne,
- P.N. Daly,
- F. Daruich,
- G. Daubard,
- E. Dennihy,
- H. Drass,
- O. Eiger,
- A.M. Eisner,
- L.P. Guy,
- J. Hoblitt,
- P. Ingraham,
- F. Jammes,
- B.T. Jannuzi,
- M.J. Jee,
- T. Jenness,
- R.L. Jones,
- C. Juramy-Gilles,
- S.M. Kahn,
- Y. Kang,
- A. Kannawadi,
- L.S. Kelvin,
- I.V. Kotov,
- G. Kovács,
- N.R. Kurita,
- T. Lange,
- D. Laporte,
- J.C. Lazarte,
- S. Liang,
- M. Lopez,
- N.B. Lust,
- M. Lutfi,
- O. Lynn,
- G. Mainetti,
- F. Menanteau,
- M. Miller,
- M. Moniez,
- N. Sedaghat,
- E. Nourbakhsh,
- H.Y. Park,
- J.R. Peterson,
- R. Plante,
- A. Plazas Malagón,
- M.N. Porter,
- K.A. Reil,
- V.J. Riot,
- A. Roodman,
- E.S. Rykoff,
- R.H. Schindler,
- J. Sebag,
- R.A. Shaw,
- A. Shugart,
- K.B. Siruno,
- J.A. Smith,
- J.D. Swinbank,
- J.G. Thayer,
- S. Thomas,
- R. Tighe,
- D.L. Tucker,
- M. Turri,
- E.K. Urbach,
- B. Van Klaveren,
- W. van Reeven,
- C.Z. Waters,
- B. Willman
Astrophysics & Space

arXiv | Dec 30, 2025

Cryoscope: A Cryogenic Infrared Survey Telescope in Antarctica

Cryoscope
- Mansi M. Kasliwal,
- Nicholas Earley,
- Roger Smith,
- Tristan Guillot,
- Tony Travouillon,
- Jason Fucik,
- Lyu Abe,
- Timothee Greffe,
- Abdelkrim Agabi,
- Michael C.B. Ashley,
- Amaury H.M.J. Triaud,
- Samaporn Tinyanont,
- Sarah Antier,
- Philippe Bendjoya,
- Rohan Bhattarai,
- Rob Bertz,
- James Brugger,
- Artem Burdanov,
- Ilaria Caiazzo,
- Benoit Carry,
- Luca Casagrande,
- Brad Cenko,
- Jeff Cooke,
- Kishalay De,
- Richard Dekany,
- Vincent Deloupy,
- Damien Dornic,
- Lauren Fahey,
- Don Figer,
- Kenneth Freeman,
- Danielle Frostig,
- Matthew J. Graham,
- Maximilian Günther,
- David Hale,
- Joss Bland-Hawthorn,
- Giulia Illuminati,
- Jacob Jencson,
- Viraj Karambelkar,
- Renee Key,
- Ryan M. Lau,
- Maggie Li,
- Philip Lubin,
- Reston Nash,
- Don Neill,
- Rishi Pahuja,
- Elena Pian,
- Antonio de Ugarte Postigo,
- Mitsuko Roberts,
- Hector Rodriguez,
- Sam Rose,
- Ashley J. Ruiter,
- François-Xavier Schmider,
- Robert A. Simcoe,
- Robert Stein,
- Olga Suarez,
- Edward N. Taylor,
- Bob Weber,
- Linqing Wen,
- Julien de Wit,
- Ray Zarzaca,
- Jake Zimmer
AI & Advanced Computing

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025

Aligning Compound AI Systems via System-level DPO

Science of Trustworthy AI
- Xiangwen Wang,
- Yibo Jacky Zhang,
- Zhoujie Ding,
- Katherine Tsai,
- Haolun Wu,
AI & Advanced Computing

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025

Open-Insect: Benchmarking Open-Set Recognition of Novel Species in Biodiversity Monitoring

AI2050
- Yuyan Chen,
- Nico Lang,
- B. Christian Schmidt,
- Aditya Jain,
- Yves Basset,
- ,
- Maxim Larrivée,
AI & Advanced Computing

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025

Understanding the Gain from Data Filtering in Multimodal Contrastive Learning

AI2050
- Divyansh Pareek,
- Sewoong Oh,
AI & Advanced Computing

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025

Reasoning as an Adaptive Defense for Safety

AI2050
- Taeyoun Kim,
- Fahim Tajwar,
- ,
- Aviral Kumar
AI & Advanced Computing

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025

FlexOlmo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use

AI2050
- Weijia Shi,
- Akshita Bhagia,
- Kevin Farhat,
- Niklas Muennighoff,
- Pete Walsh,
- Jacob Morrison,
- Dustin Schwenk,
- Shayne Longpre,
- Jake Poznanski,
- Allyson Ettinger,
- Daogao Liu,
- Margaret Li,
- Dirk Groeneveld,
- Mike Lewis,
- Wen-tau Yih,
- Luca Soldaini,
- Kyle Lo,
- Noah A. Smith,
- Luke Zettlemoyer,
- Pang Wei Koh,
- Hannaneh Hajishirzi,
- Ali Farhadi,
- Sewon Min
AI & Advanced Computing

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025

Measuring the Faithfulness of Thinking Drafts in Large Reasoning Models

AI2050
- Zidi Xiong,
- Shan Chen,
- Zhenting Qi,
AI & Advanced Computing

ACL Anthology | Dec 17, 2025

SynthTextEval: Synthetic Text Data Generation and Evaluation for High-Stakes Domains

AI2050
- Krithika Ramesh,
- Daniel Smolyak,
- Zihao Zhao,
- Nupoor Gandhi,
- Ritu Agarwal,
- Margrét Bjarnadóttir,
AI & Advanced Computing

arXiv | Dec 17, 2025

How do we measure privacy in text? A survey of text anonymization metrics

AI2050
- Yaxuan Ren,
- Krithika Ramesh,
- Yaxing Yao,
AI & Advanced Computing

39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 10, 2025

LaViDa: A Large Diffusion Model for Vision-Language Understanding

AI2050
- Shufan Li,
- Konstantinos Kallidromitis,
- Hritik Bansal,
- Akash Gokul,
- Yusuke Kato,
- Kazuki Kozuka,
- Jason Kuen,
- Zhe Lin,
- Kai-Wei Chang,
- Aditya Grover,
- UCLA Panasonic AI Research,
- Adobe Research,
- Salesforce Research
Astrophysics & Space

arXiv | Dec 3, 2025

The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100TB of Astronomical Scientific Data

Subaru PFS Optimization
- The Multimodal Universe Collaboration. Eirini Angeloudi,
- Jeroen Audenaert,
- Micah Bowles,
- Benjamin M. Boyd,
- David Chemaly,
- Brian Cherinka,
- Ioana Ciucă,
- Miles Cranmer,
- Aaron Do,
- Matthew Grayling,
- Erin E. Hayes,
- Tom Hehir,
- Shirley Ho,
- Marc Huertas-Company,
- Kartheik G. Iyer,
- Maja Jablonska,
- Francois Lanusse,
- Henry W. Leung,
- Kaisey Mandel,
- Juan Rafael Martínez-Galarza,
- Peter Melchior,
- Lucas Meyer,
- Liam H. Parker,
- Helen Qu,
- Jeff Shen,
- Michael J. Smith,
- Connor Stone,
- Mike Walmsley,
- John F. Wu
AI & Advanced Computing

arXiv | Sep 18, 2025

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)
- Andrew Ferguson,
- Marisa LaFleur,
- Lars Ruthotto,
- Jesse Thaler,
- Yuan-Sen Ting,
- Pratyush Tiwary,
- Soledad Villar
Science Systems

Science | Sep 18, 2025

Hidden White and Black Feather Layers Enhance Plumage coloration in tanagers and Other Songbirds

Polymaths
- ,
- Rosalyn M. Price-Waldman,
- Jarome R. Ali,
- Allison J. Shultz,
- Benedict G. Hogan
Climate

arXiv | Sep 15, 2025

SamudrACE: Fast and Accurate Coupled Climate Modeling with 3D Ocean and Atmosphere Emulators

Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
- James P. C. Duncan,
- Elynn Wu,
- Surya Dheeshjith,
- Adam Subel,
- Troy Arcomano,
- Spencer K. Clark,
- Brian Henn,
- Anna Kwa,
- Jeremy McGibbon,
- W. Andre Perkins,
- William Gregory,
- Carlos Fernandez-Granda,
- Julius Busecke,
- Oliver Watt-Meyer,
- William J. Hurlin,
- Alistair Adcroft,
- Laure Zanna,
- Christopher Bretherton
AI & Advanced Computing

NeurIPS 2025 AI4Science (Spotlight) | Sep 10, 2025

The More You Automate, the Less You See: Hidden Pitfalls of AI Scientist Systems

AI2050
- Ziming Luo,
- Atoosa Kasirzadeh,
- Nihar B. Shah
Astrophysics & Space

arXiv | Aug 29, 2025

POKEMON: print optimization for kilo-fiber experiments using micro-optics and nanostructures

Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope (LFAST)
- Megan Delamer,
- Suvrath Mahadevan,
- Chad Bender,
- Ceiwynn Longworth,
- Roger Angel,
- Joel Berkson,
- On To Sonja Choi,
- Kathleen Gehoski,
- Andy Monson,
- Chrisitan Schwab
AI & Advanced Computing

arXiv | Aug 20, 2025

Goal Inference from Open-Ended Dialog

AI2050
- Rachel Ma,
- Jingyi Qu,
- Andreea Bobu,
- Dylan Hadfield-Menell
Science Systems

PLOS Computational Biology | Jul 18, 2025

Ten Simple Rules for Navigating AI in Science

AI in Science Fellowship
- Aidan Crilly,
- Alice Malivert,
- Andreas Christ Sølvsten Jørgensen,
- Claire E. Heaney,
- Gema I. Vera Gonzalez,
- Marcus Ghosh,
- Manolo Fernandez Perez,
- Mikael M. Mieskolainen,
- Mohammed Azzouzi,
- Zhenzhu Li
AI & Advanced Computing

Jun 20, 2025

Achieving a Secure AI Agent Ecosystem: a Map of Open Opportunities and Actions for Advancement
- Nicole Nichols,
- Sella Nevo,
- Mark Greaves
Science Systems

PNAS | Apr 22, 2025

A Unified Framework for Hydromechanical Signaling can Explain Transmission of Local and Long-Distance Signals in Plants

Schmidt Science Fellows
- Vesna Bacheva,
- Fulton E. Rockwell,
- Jean-Baptiste Salmon,
- Jesse D. Woodson,
- Margarey H. Frank,
- Abraham D. Stroock
Science Systems

Wiley | Apr 8, 2025

Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Advancing Sustainable and Resilient Agricultural Systems

Schmidt Science Fellows
- Vesna Bacheva,
- Imani Madison,
- Mathew Baldwin,
- Justin Baker,
- Mark Beilstein,
- Douglas F. Call,
- Jessica A. Deaver,
- Kirill Efimenko,
- Jan Genzer,
- Khara Grieger,
- April Z. Gu,
- Mehmet Mert Ilman,
- Jen Liu,
- Sijin Li,
- Brooke K. Mayer,
- Anand Kumar Mishra,
- Juan Claudio Nino,
- Gloire Rubambiza,
- Phoebe Sengers,
- Robert Shepherd,
- Jesse Woodson,
- Hakim Weatherspoon,
- Margaret Frank,
- Jacob L. Jones,
- Rosangela Sozzani,
- Abraham D. Stroock
Astrophysics & Space

Astrobiology | Apr 1, 2025

Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid

Morningstar Mission to Venus
- Daniel Duzdevich,
- Collin Nisler,
- Janusz J. Petkowski,
- William Bains,
- Caroline K. Kaminsky,
- Jack W. Szostak,
- Sara Seager
Climate

Geosciences Model Development | Mar 21, 2025

Spatially varying parameters improve carbon cycle modeling in the Amazon rainforest with ORCHIDEE r8849

Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
- Lei Zhu,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Yitong Yao,
- Daniel Goll,
- Sebastiaan Luyssaert,
- Isabel Martínez Cano,
- Arthur Fendrich,
- Laurent Li,
- Hui Yang,
- Sassan Saatchi,
- Ricardo Dalagnol,
- and Wei Li
AI & Advanced Computing

arXiv | Mar 18, 2025

Defeating Prompt Injections by Design

Science of Trustworthy AI
- Edoardo Debenedetti1,
- Ilia Shumailov,
- Tianqi Fan,
- Jamie Hayes,
- Nicholas Carlini,
- Daniel Fabian,
- Christoph Kern,
- Chongyang Shi,
- Andreas Terzis,
- Florian Tramèr
Climate

One Earth | Mar 15, 2025

Central African biomass carbon losses and gains during 2010–2019

Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
- Zhe Zhao,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Jean-Pierre Wigneron,
- Yidi Xu,
- Jiaying He,
- Wei Li
Science Systems

The Journal of Open Source Software | Mar 6, 2025

FTorch: a library for coupling PyTorch models to Fortran

VISS
- Jack Atkinson,
- Athena Elafrou,
- Elliott Kasoar,
- Joseph G. Wallwork,
- Thomas Meltzer,
- Simon Clifford,
- Dominic Orchard,
- Chris Edsall,
Astrophysics & Space

arXiv | Feb 14, 2025

Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by an SMBH

FutureLens
- Jake Postiglione,
- K. E. Saavik Ford,
- Henry Best,
- Barry McKernan,
- Matthew O'Dowd
AI & Advanced Computing

arXiv | Jan 27, 2025

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

Strategic Grants
- Lee Sharkey,
- Bilal Chughtai,
- Joshua Batson,
- Jack Lindsey,
- Jeff Wu,
- Lucius Bushnaq,
- Nicholas Goldowsky-Dill,
- Stefan Heimersheim,
- Alejandro Ortega,
- Joseph Bloom,
- Stella Biderman,
- Adria Garriga-Alonso,
- Arthur Conmy,
- Neel Nanda,
- Jessica Rumbelow,
- Martin Wattenberg,
- Nandi Schoots,
- Joseph Miller,
- Eric J. Michaud,
- Stephen Casper,
- Max Tegmark,
- William Saunders,
- David Bau,
- Eric Todd,
- Atticus Geiger,
- Mor Geva,
- Jesse Hoogland,
- Daniela Murfet,
- Tom McGrath

2025 Impact Report

photoD with Rubin’s Data Preview 1: first stellar photometric distances and deficit of faint blue stars. Stellar distances with Rubin’s DP1

Cryoscope: A Cryogenic Infrared Survey Telescope in Antarctica

Aligning Compound AI Systems via System-level DPO

Open-Insect: Benchmarking Open-Set Recognition of Novel Species in Biodiversity Monitoring

Understanding the Gain from Data Filtering in Multimodal Contrastive Learning

Reasoning as an Adaptive Defense for Safety

FlexOlmo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use

Measuring the Faithfulness of Thinking Drafts in Large Reasoning Models

SynthTextEval: Synthetic Text Data Generation and Evaluation for High-Stakes Domains

How do we measure privacy in text? A survey of text anonymization metrics

LaViDa: A Large Diffusion Model for Vision-Language Understanding

The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100TB of Astronomical Scientific Data

The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)

Hidden White and Black Feather Layers Enhance Plumage coloration in tanagers and Other Songbirds

SamudrACE: Fast and Accurate Coupled Climate Modeling with 3D Ocean and Atmosphere Emulators

The More You Automate, the Less You See: Hidden Pitfalls of AI Scientist Systems

POKEMON: print optimization for kilo-fiber experiments using micro-optics and nanostructures

Goal Inference from Open-Ended Dialog

Ten Simple Rules for Navigating AI in Science

Achieving a Secure AI Agent Ecosystem: a Map of Open Opportunities and Actions for Advancement

A Unified Framework for Hydromechanical Signaling can Explain Transmission of Local and Long-Distance Signals in Plants

Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Advancing Sustainable and Resilient Agricultural Systems

Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid

Spatially varying parameters improve carbon cycle modeling in the Amazon rainforest with ORCHIDEE r8849

Defeating Prompt Injections by Design

Central African biomass carbon losses and gains during 2010–2019

FTorch: a library for coupling PyTorch models to Fortran

Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by an SMBH

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability