SangKyeun Kim, a research scientist in our group and a staff research physicist at PPPL, has received the 2026 Early Career Scientist Prize for the Commission on Plasma Physics from the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).
Dr. Andy Rothstein has successfully defended his thesis "Controlling Tokamak Instabilities with ECH and Data-Driven Methods," this 2026.
Prof. Egemen Kolemen has been awarded a Genesis Mission grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to build multimodal world models for fusion plasmas. He is one of four Princeton faculty members selected under the initiative.
Watch Andy Rothstein (G5) present advances in resilient tokamak operation at the IPAM Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy Workshop.
Watch Professor Kolemen present an overview of AI for fusion energy research at the IPAM Multi-Fidelity Methods for Fusion Energy Workshop.
In a recent MIT Technology Review article, Prof. Egemen Kolemen weighs in on a new Nature Energy study projecting slow cost declines for fusion power, urging caution when extrapolating from historical trends.
Dr. Dario Panici has successfully defended his thesis, "Advancing Stellarator Equilibrium and Optimization: Verification, Near-Axis Constraints, and Deflation Techniques," this 2026.
Watch Professor Kolemen discuss how AI is transforming fusion energy research. He highlights the group's work on robust diagnostics, plasma prediction for ITER, reinforcement learning control at KSTAR and DIII-D, and the latest advances in foundation modeling and automated analysis.
Read about our new research recently published in Nature Communications. The work proposes an AI system that synthesizes missing sensor data in fusion reactors by analyzing other available measurements, reducing the number of sensors needed while making future fusion power plants more reliable and affordable.
We had the pleasure of sharing our group table with DOE Secretary Chris Wright and his wife, Liz, for a lively and memorable conversation on fusion and AI — just one of the many perks of being a Princeton grad student!
The DESC development team participated in the 2025 Princeton Open Hackathon, where they collaborated with members of Princeton's research computing team as well as Nvidia engieers to improve the performance of the code through parallelization
Luc Harbers wins Sigma Xi award during class day 2025 for his outstanding academic achievement in MAE. Luc has worked with Francisco Saenz on a liquid coil stellarator for his senior thesis, confirming field shape and current behavior with a prototype slice of the proposed reactor design.