Jia Deng

Professor of Computer Science

Research interests: Computer vision and machine learning; achieving human-level visual understanding by integrating perception, cognition, and learning.

A woman in a lab coat and safety goggles prepares to place a test tube into a machine for analysis. — As part of her research on lunar cement, Ph.D. student Sophia Bergen uses an optical emission spectrometer to measure the concentrations of different ions in a sample. Photo by Tori Repp/Fotobuddy

Innovation grants could help build a moon base, block food-borne illness, and map the brain

Cube of cubes depicting lots of images of airplanes all fitting into a single abstract structure. — Intellectual connections sparked at Princeton inspired the creation of ImageNet, a comprehensive computer vision database that would lead to a paradigm shift in machine learning. Illustration by Bumper DeJesus

In the hallways of Princeton, a fascination with the human mind unlocked the power of deep learning

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

Tiled array of computer generated photorealistic graphical images of 3D natural scenes. — Princeton researchers have developed an open-source software system that generates an infinite number of photorealistic scenes of the natural world, an advance that could improve the training of autonomous cars and other robots. Image courtesy the researchers

Engineers look to an old source to empower the future of computer vision

Princeton-HBCU partnerships launch first research projects

Zachary Teed, Claire Wayner win top Princeton honors

Computer Science

Leading the field through foundational theory, applications, and societal impact