Scientific Outputs

This page highlights a selection of outputs from our awardees—ranging from research papers and open-source code to datasets, tools, and reports—that reflect our commitment to curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. We invite you to explore their contributions to science and a thriving world.

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Astrophysics & Space

arXiv | Jan 7, 2026

The Lazuli Space Observatory: Architecture & Capabilities
- Arpita Roy,
- Stuart Feldman,
- Pete Klupar,
- John DiPalma,
- Saul Perlmutter,
- Ewan S. Douglas,
- Greg Aldering,
- Gabor Furesz,
- Patrick Ingraham,
- Gudmundur Stefansson,
- Douglas Kelly,
- Fan Yang Yang,
- Thomas Wevers,
- Nicole Arulanantham,
- James Lasker,
- Mickael Rigault,
- Everett Schlawin,
- Sander R. Zandbergen,
- S. Pete Worden,
- Ramya Anche,
- Heejoo Choi,
- Ian J.M. Crossfield,
- Kevin Derby,
- Jerry Edelstein,
- Mike Eiklenborg,
- Suvi Gezari,
- Paul Giuliano,
- Justin Hom,
- Taylor J. Hoyt,
- Hyukmo Kang,
- Daewook Kim,
- Keerthi Kunnumkai,
- Leander Lacroix,
- Jared R. Males,
- Thomas J. Maccarone,
- Kian Milani,
- Timothy N. Miller,
- Kelsey Lynn Miller,
- Pierre Nicolas,
- Antonella Palmese,
- Jason Pero,
- Laurent Pueyo,
- Stephanie Rinaldi,
- David J. Sand,
- Christian Schneider,
- Sanchit Sabhlok,
- Arfon Smith,
- Irina I. Stefan,
- Saraswathi Kalyani Subramanian,
- Kyle Van Gorkom,
- Andre F. Wong,
- Jaegun Yoo,
- Md Abdullah Al Zaman,
- Lazuli Science Team
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,
- Sanmi Koyejo
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,
- Sara Beery,
- Maxim Larrivée,
- David Rolnick
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,
- Anjalie Field
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,
- Anjalie Field
AI & Advanced Computing

Transactions on Machine Learning Research | Sep 23, 2025

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability
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
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

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,
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
AI & Advanced Computing

GitHub, HuggingFace, Flatiron | Dec 11, 2024

Multimodal Universe

Strategic Grants
- Eirini Angeloudi,
- Jeroen Audenaert,
- Micah Bowles,
- Benjamin M. Boyd,
- David Chemaly,
- Brian Cherinka,
- Ioana Ciuca,
- Miles Cranmer,
- Aaron Do,
- Matthew Grayling,
- Erin Elizabeth 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 Thibaut Meyer,
- Liam Holden Parker,
- Helen Qu,
- Jeff Shen,
- Michael J. Smith,
- Connor Stone,
- Mike Walmsley,
- John F. Wu
Climate

arXiv | Dec 5, 2024

Samudra: An AI Global Ocean Emulator for Climate

VESRI/M2LiNES
- Surya Dheeshjith,
- Adam Subel,
- Alistair Adcroft,
- Julius Busecke,
- Carlos Fernandez-Granda,
- Shubham Gupta,
- Laure Zanna
Climate

National Science Review | Oct 22, 2024

Low Latency Carbon Budget Analysis Reveals a Large Decline of the Land Carbon Sink in 2023.

VESRI/CALIPSO
- Piyu Ke,
- Philippe Ciais,
- Stephen Sitch,
- Wei Li,
- Ana Bastos,
- Zhu Liu,
- Yidi Xu,
- Xiaofan Gui,
- Jiang Bian,
- Daniel S. Goll,
- Yi Xi,
- Wanjing Li,
- Michael O'Sullivan,
- Jefferson Goncalves De Souza,
- Pierre Friedlingstein,
- Frédéric Chevallier
Astrophysics & Space

arXiv | Sep 18, 2024

Subaru PFS publication on Denoising Stellar Spectra

VIA
- Balázs Pál,
- László Dobos
Astrophysics & Space

SPIE | Jul 18, 2024

Cryoscope Pathfinder: wide-field optical performance validation in the lab

VIA
- Nicholas Earley,
- Jason Fucik,
- Lauren Fahey,
- Mitsuko Roberts,
- Roger Smith,
- Mansi Kasliwal
Science Systems

PNAS | Jul 16, 2024

Algorithm-assisted discovery of an intrinsic order among mathematical constants

Polymaths
- R. Elimelech,
- O. David,
- C. De la Cruz Mengual,
- R. Kalisch,
- W. Berndt,
- M. Shalyt,
- M. Silberstein,
- Y. Hadad,
- I. Kaminer
Science Systems

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces | Jul 16, 2024

Inkjet Printing of Nanoscale Functional Patterns on 2D Crystalline Materials and Transfer to Soft Materials

Polymaths
- Juan C. Arango,
- Chris J. Pintro,
- Anamika Singh,
- Shelley A. Claridge
Science Systems

Systematic Biology | Jun 27, 2024

Phylo2Vec: a vector representa2on for binary trees

Polymaths
- Matthew J Penn,
- Neil Scheidwasser,
- Mark P Khurana,
- David A Duchêne,
- Christl A Donnelly,
- Samir Bhatt
Science Systems

Nature | Jun 24, 2024

Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis

Schmidt Science Fellows
- Anthony W. Waddle,
- Simon Clulow,
- Amy Aquilina,
- Erin L. Sauer,
- Shannon W. Kaiser,
- Claire Miller,
- Jennifer A. Flegg,
- Patricia T. Campbell,
- Harrison Gallagher,
- Ivana Dimovski,
- Yorick Lambreghts,
- Lee Berger,
- Lee F. Skerratt,
- Richard Shine
Science Systems

Science | May 17, 2024

Delocalized, asynchronous, closed-loop discovery of organic laser emitters

AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Felix Strieth-Kalthoff,
- Han Hao,
- Vandana Rathore,
- Joshua Derasp,
- Théophile Gaudin,
- Nicholas H. Angello,
- Martin Seifrid,
- Ekaterina Trushina,
- Mason Guy,
- Junliang Liu,
- Xun Tang,
- Masashi Mamada,
- Wesley Wang,
- Tuul Tsagaantsooj,
- Cyrille Lavigne,
- Robert Pollice,
- Tony C. Wu,
- Kazuhiro Hotta,
- Leticia Bodo,
- Shangyu Li,
- Mohammad Haddadnia,
- Agnieszka Wołos,
- Rafał Roszak,
- Cher Tian Ser,
- Carlota Bozal-Ginesta,
- Riley J. Hickman,
- Jenya Vestfrid,
- Andrés Aguilar-Granda,
- Elena L. Klimareva,
- Ralph C. Sigerson,
- Wenduan Hou,
- Daniel Gahler,
- Slawomir Lach,
- Adrian Warzybok,
- Oleg Borodin,
- Simon Rohrbach,
- Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling,
- Chihaya Adachi,
- Bartosz A. Grzybowski,
- Leroy Cronin,
- Jason E. Hein,
- Martin D. Burke,
- Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Biosciences

Engineering Biology Metrics and Technical Standards for the Global Bioeconomy | May 6, 2024

Engineering Biology Metrics and Technical Standards for the Global Bioeconomy

Biosciences
- Freemont, P.S.,
- Ni, C.,
- Aurand, E.,
- Chang, M.W.,
- Hook-Barnard, I.,
- Malley, J.,
- Romantseva, E.,
- Strychalski, E.,
- Vavitsas, K.
Climate

The Cryosphere | Apr 18, 2024

Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic

VESRI/SASIP
- Charlotte Durand,
- Tobias Sebastian Finn,
- Alban Farchi,
- Marc Bocquet,
- Guillaume Boutin,
- Einar Ólason
Biosciences

Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | Jan 1, 2024

Accelerating the Bioeconomy Through a Pre-Competitive Knowledgebase for Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology

Biosciences
Astrophysics & Space

readthedocs | Jul 19, 2023

Sorcha Solar System simulations

VIA
- Pedro Bernardinelli,
- Aidan Berres,
- Ricardo Bánffy,
- Colin Orion Chandler,
- Carl Christofferson,
- Sam Cornwall,
- Siegfried Eggl,
- Grigori Fedorets,
- Matt Holman,
- Lynne Jones,
- Mario Jurić,
- Jeremy Kubica,
- Jake Kurlander,
- Michael S. P. Kelley,
- Conor MacBride,
- Shannon Matthews,
- Steph Merritt,
- Joachim Moeyens,
- Joe Murtagh,
- Shantanu Naidu,
- Drew Oldag,
- Brian Rogers,
- Meg Schwamb,
- Colin Snodgrass,
- Max West,
- Dave Young
Biosciences

Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research | Jun 1, 2023

Feedstocks of the Future for a Circular U.S. Bioeconomy

VIFF
- Raymond RedCorn,
- Genevieve Croft,
- Rachel McGill,
- John Reich
AI & Advanced Computing

Science Robotics | Apr 19, 2023

Robust flight navigation out of distribution with liquid neural networks

AI2050
- Makram Chahine,
- Ramin Hasani,
- Patrick Kao,
- Aaron Ray,
- Ryan Shubert,
- Mathias Lechner,
- Alexander Amini,
- Daniela Rus
AI & Advanced Computing

arXiv | Nov 16, 2022

Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

AI2050
- Percy Liang,
- Rishi Bommasani,
- Tony Lee,
- Dimitris Tsipras,
- Dilara Soylu,
- Michihiro Yasunaga,
- Yian Zhang,
- Deepak Narayanan,
- Yuhuai Wu,
- Ananya Kumar,
- Benjamin Newman,
- Binhang Yuan,
- Bobby Yan,
- Ce Zhang,
- Christian Cosgrove,
- Christopher D. Manning,
- Christopher Ré,
- Diana Acosta-Navas,
- Drew A. Hudson,
- Eric Zelikman,
- Esin Durmus,
- Faisal Ladhak,
- Frieda Rong,
- Hongyu Ren,
- Huaxiu Yao,
- Jue Wang,
- Keshav Santhanam,
- Laurel Orr,
- Lucia Zheng,
- Mert Yuksekgonul,
- Mirac Suzgun,
- Nathan Kim,
- Neel Guha,
- Niladri Chatterji,
- Omar Khattab,
- Peter Henderson,
- Qian Huang,
- Ryan Chi,
- Sang Michael Xie,
- Shibani Santurkar,
- Surya Ganguli,
- Tatsunori Hashimoto,
- Thomas Icard,
- Tianyi Zhang,
- Vishrav Chaudhary,
- William Wang,
- Xuechen Li,
- Yifan Mai,
- Yuhui Zhang,
- Yuta Koreeda
Science Systems

Science | Oct 6, 2022

Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms

Polymaths
- Jiliang Hu,
- Daniel R. Amor,
- Matthieu Barbier,
- Guy Bunin,
- Jeff Gore
Biosciences

Schmidt Sciences | Apr 14, 2022

The U.S. Bioeconomy: Charting a Course for a Resilient and Competitive Future

Biosciences

Scientific Outputs

The Lazuli Space Observatory: Architecture & Capabilities

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

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

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

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

FTorch: a library for coupling PyTorch models to Fortran

Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability

Multimodal Universe

Samudra: An AI Global Ocean Emulator for Climate

Low Latency Carbon Budget Analysis Reveals a Large Decline of the Land Carbon Sink in 2023.

Subaru PFS publication on Denoising Stellar Spectra

Cryoscope Pathfinder: wide-field optical performance validation in the lab

Algorithm-assisted discovery of an intrinsic order among mathematical constants

Inkjet Printing of Nanoscale Functional Patterns on 2D Crystalline Materials and Transfer to Soft Materials

Phylo2Vec: a vector representa2on for binary trees

Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis

Delocalized, asynchronous, closed-loop discovery of organic laser emitters

Engineering Biology Metrics and Technical Standards for the Global Bioeconomy

Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic

Accelerating the Bioeconomy Through a Pre-Competitive Knowledgebase for Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology

Sorcha Solar System simulations

Feedstocks of the Future for a Circular U.S. Bioeconomy

Robust flight navigation out of distribution with liquid neural networks

Holistic Evaluation of Language Models

Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms

The U.S. Bioeconomy: Charting a Course for a Resilient and Competitive Future