Boris

Hanin

Associate Professor of Operations Research and Financial Engineering

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Research interests: Deep learning, probability, and spectral asymptotics.

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

A person (face not visible) wearing a white lab coat and blue disposable gloves holds a square lab plate in their left hand. Their right hand holds a pair of tweezers which they are using to pick up one of several small green plants on the plate. — Jonathan Conway, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received an innovation grant for the project “Engineering symbiotic plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture.” Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Since 2008, innovation funds have fostered research in AI fairness, sustainable agriculture, drug discovery and more

Three researchers stand in front of a white board discussing mathematics written on the board. — Boris Hanin, talking here with postdoctoral researchers Gage DeZoort and Mufan Li, is applying his background in mathematical physics to understand the structural properties of large neural networks that power AI systems. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Statistics start to untangle AI networks

Trio of headshots. — Three engineering professors have been named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows. Boris Hanin, left; Chi Jin, center (photos by David Kelly Crow). Aleksandra Korolova, right (photo courtesy of Korolova).

Three faculty members named Sloan Research Fellows

Graphic with text "Commendation for Outstanding Teaching".

Faculty commended for outstanding teaching

This June, 60 graduate students came to Princeton from more than 20 institutions in six countries to learn from academic and industry experts in machine learning theory. Photos by Frank Wojciechowski

Machine Learning Theory Summer School fosters research community in a fast-growing field

Sherrerd Hall

Operations Research and Financial Engineering

Developing mathematical and computational tools for making decisions under uncertainty