illustration of a machine with cds and thumb drives going in one side and cloud computing coming out the other side. — Computer scientists at Princeton helped build a globally distributed system of servers that was instrumental in the development of cloud computing and streaming. Illustration by Kouzou Sakai, for the Office of Engineering Communications

How a band of engineers anticipated the cloud and remade the internet

Sebastian Seung standing in front of lab equipment

Seung wins 2026 Pradel Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences

A map of the United States illustrating the depth of groundwater across the country. — Image by Yueling Ma et al./Princeton University

Detailed map reveals groundwater levels across the U.S.

Portraits of Kyle Jamieson and Prateek Mittal — Kyle Jamieson, left. Photo by David Kelly Crow. Prateek Mittal, right. Photo by Olga Koleeny.

Jamieson, Mittal named IEEE Fellows

Three grasshoppers with spread wings pinned to a white sheet.

Never mind how grasshoppers hop. These engineers watch them fly.

A magnifying glass focused on a string of blue text within a field of white text

New tool narrows the search for ideal material structures

Aerial view of Princeton's campus. — Photo by Ryan Halbe, Office of Communications

Four projects selected for 2025 Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund awards

Serving our Nation and the World

How our research empowers your life

Photo of Ariane Adcroft.

Undergraduate

Ariane Adcroft: Fresh thinking in building efficiency

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Portrait of Ofir Press.

Postdoc

Ofir Press: Benchmarking and improving AI systems

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Portrait of Kirill Sirik.

Undergraduate

Kirill Sirik: Using math to identify, quantify, and plan for uncertainty

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Portrait of Keerthana Nallamotu.

Graduate Student

Keerthana Nallamotu: Computing to predict and prevent drug toxicity

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Engineering tours

Join us for an in-person, student-led tour of the engineering school.

February 18

12:00 pm

Molecular Attoscope: Pulse Shape Spectroscopy of Electronic Coherence

February 20

4:00 pm

Princeton Research Day – Undergraduate Edition

March 03

12:15 pm

Recommendations in the NYC High School Match (and other high-stakes settings)

March 04

12:00 pm

Active Colloids in Nematic Liquid Crystals for Bio-Inspired Materials Assembly

March 27

3:00 pm

Convex Optimization Based Optimal Control