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 | Feb 20, 2026
Redshift Assessment Infrastructure Layers (RAIL): Rubin-era photometric redshift stress-testing and at-scale production
LINCC Frameworks
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AI & Advanced Computing
KatarzynaNowaczykBasinska.pl | Feb 12, 2026
Imaginaries of Immortality in the Age of AI: What We Learned in Poland, India, and China.
AI2050
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Science Systems
University of Washington | Feb 10, 2026
Seeking Reproducible Research Software: How the UW Scientific Software Engineering Center Adopted Pixi
VISS
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Climate
Science Advances | Jan 1, 2026
Advancing global sea ice prediction capabilities using a fully coupled climate model with integrated machine learning
Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
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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
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Astrophysics & Space
arXiv | Dec 30, 2025
Cryoscope: A Cryogenic Infrared Survey Telescope in Antarctica
Cryoscope
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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
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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
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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
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AI & Advanced Computing
39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025
Reasoning as an Adaptive Defense for Safety
AI2050
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AI & Advanced Computing
39th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025) | Dec 17, 2025
FlexOlmo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use
AI2050
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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
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AI & Advanced Computing
ACL Anthology | Dec 17, 2025
SynthTextEval: Synthetic Text Data Generation and Evaluation for High-Stakes Domains
AI2050
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AI & Advanced Computing
arXiv | Dec 17, 2025
How do we measure privacy in text? A survey of text anonymization metrics
AI2050
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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
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Astrophysics & Space
arXiv | Dec 3, 2025
The Multimodal Universe: Enabling Large-Scale Machine Learning with 100TB of Astronomical Scientific Data
Subaru PFS Optimization
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AI & Advanced Computing
Transactions on Machine Learning Research | Sep 23, 2025
Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability
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AI & Advanced Computing
arXiv | Sep 18, 2025
The Future of Artificial Intelligence and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (AI+MPS)
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Science Systems
Science | Sep 18, 2025
Hidden White and Black Feather Layers Enhance Plumage coloration in tanagers and Other Songbirds
Polymaths
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Climate
arXiv | Sep 15, 2025
SamudrACE: Fast and Accurate Coupled Climate Modeling with 3D Ocean and Atmosphere Emulators
Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
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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
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Astrophysics & Space
arXiv | Aug 29, 2025
POKEMON: print optimization for kilo-fiber experiments using micro-optics and nanostructures
Large Fiber Array Spectroscopic Telescope (LFAST)
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Science Systems
PLOS Computational Biology | Jul 18, 2025
Ten Simple Rules for Navigating AI in Science
AI in Science Fellowship
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AI & Advanced Computing
Jun 20, 2025
Achieving a Secure AI Agent Ecosystem: a Map of Open Opportunities and Actions for Advancement
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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
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Science Systems
Wiley | Apr 8, 2025
Transdisciplinary Collaborations for Advancing Sustainable and Resilient Agricultural Systems
Schmidt Science Fellows
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Astrophysics & Space
Astrobiology | Apr 1, 2025
Simple Lipids Form Stable Higher-Order Structures in Concentrated Sulfuric Acid
Morningstar Mission to Venus
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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)
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AI & Advanced Computing
arXiv | Mar 18, 2025
Defeating Prompt Injections by Design
Science of Trustworthy AI
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Climate
One Earth | Mar 15, 2025
Central African biomass carbon losses and gains during 2010–2019
Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
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Science Systems
The Journal of Open Source Software | Mar 6, 2025
FTorch: a library for coupling PyTorch models to Fortran
VISS
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Astrophysics & Space
arXiv | Feb 14, 2025
Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by an SMBH
FutureLens
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AI & Advanced Computing
arXiv | Jan 27, 2025
Open Problems in Mechanistic Interpretability
Strategic Grants
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Climate
arXiv | Dec 25, 2024
Samudra: An AI Global Ocean Emulator for Climate
Virtual Earth Systems Research Institute (VESRI)
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AI & Advanced Computing
GitHub, HuggingFace, Flatiron | Dec 11, 2024
Multimodal Universe
Strategic Grants
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AI & Advanced Computing
NeurIPS 2024 | Nov 7, 2024
Test-Time Adaptation Induces Stronger Accuracy and Agreement-on-the-Line
AI2050
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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
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AI & Advanced Computing
ICLR 2025 | Oct 14, 2024
Context-Parametric Inversion: Why Instruction Finetuning Can Worsen Context Reliance
AI2050
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AI & Advanced Computing
arXiv | Oct 4, 2024
Generative Artificial Intelligence for Navigating Synthesizable Chemical Space
AI2050
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Astrophysics & Space
arXiv | Sep 18, 2024
Subaru PFS publication on Denoising Stellar Spectra
Subaru PFS Optimization
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Astrophysics & Space
SPIE | Jul 18, 2024
Cryoscope Pathfinder: wide-field optical performance validation in the lab
VIA
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Science Systems
PNAS | Jul 16, 2024
Algorithm-assisted discovery of an intrinsic order among mathematical constants
Polymaths
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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
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Science Systems
Systematic Biology | Jun 27, 2024
Phylo2Vec: a vector representa2on for binary trees
Polymaths
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Science Systems
Systematic Biology | Jun 27, 2024
Phylo2Vec: A Vector Representation for Binary Trees
Schmidt Science Polymaths
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Science Systems
Nature | Jun 24, 2024
Hotspot shelters stimulate frog resistance to chytridiomycosis
Schmidt Science Fellows
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Science Systems
Science | May 17, 2024
Delocalized, asynchronous, closed-loop discovery of organic laser emitters
AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship
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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
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Climate
The Cryosphere | Apr 18, 2024
Data-driven surrogate modeling of high-resolution sea-ice thickness in the Arctic
VESRI/SASIP
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AI & Advanced Computing
ICLR 2024 | Apr 14, 2024
Understanding Catastrophic Forgetting in Language Models via Implicit Inference
AI2050
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Science Systems
bioRxiv | Apr 3, 2024
A Tunable and Druggable Mechanism to Delay Forgetting of Olfactory Memories in C. elegans
Schmidt Science Polymaths
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Biosciences
Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | Jan 1, 2024
Accelerating the Bioeconomy Through a Pre-Competitive Knowledgebase for Biomanufacturing and Biotechnology
Biosciences
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Biosciences
Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research | Jun 1, 2023
Feedstocks of the Future for a Circular U.S. Bioeconomy
VIFF
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AI & Advanced Computing
Science Robotics | Apr 19, 2023
Robust flight navigation out of distribution with liquid neural networks
AI2050
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Science Systems
Science | Oct 6, 2022
Emergent phases of ecological diversity and dynamics mapped in microcosms
Polymaths
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Biosciences
Schmidt Sciences | Apr 14, 2022
The U.S. Bioeconomy: Charting a Course for a Resilient and Competitive Future
Biosciences