In the Lab is a Columbia News series devoted to the interesting work—scientific, humanities-based, or interdisciplinary—of faculty and students.
John Labbate is part of Columbia Engineering’s Fusion Research Center, which is focused on clean energy’s next frontier.
To improve quantum computers, Zhenjie Yan wants to understand how to efficiently shuttle quantum information.
After a family history of cancer, a former New York City law firm partner takes on BRCA2 research at Columbia.
Professor Andrew Blumberg is part of a team that tested AI’s upper limits by asking it to answer unsolved math problems.
Lalitha Vasudevan directs MASCLab, a hub for creating, curating, and supporting multimodal and digital scholarship.
Graduate student Aaron Holman talks about trapping single atoms and putting them to work in emerging quantum technologies
When is learning possible? For Moïse Blanchard, a postdoc at the Data Science Institute, the question is mathematical.
During her postdoc at the Data Science Institute, Shir Raviv has explored how to align algorithms with public values.
Claudio Lomnitz’s work on disappearance dates back to 2019, and the lab is expanding his efforts.
Doctoral candidate Anna Vannucci’s new research uses AI to predict kids’ mental health outcomes.
![This artist's illustration depicts a reconstruction of what the Firefly Sparkle galaxy looked like about 600 million years after the big bang if it wasn’t stretched and distorted by a natural effect known as gravitational lensing. This concept is based on images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford [STScI]).](/sites/news.columbia.edu/files/styles/cu_crop/public/content/firefly-sparkle.png.webp?itok=1m8z66F6 "This artist's illustration depicts a reconstruction of what the Firefly Sparkle galaxy looked like about 600 million years after the big bang if it wasn’t stretched and distorted by a natural effect known as gravitational lensing. This concept is based on images and data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. (NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford [STScI]).")
Iyer, a NASA Hubble fellow at Columbia, has also developed an AI-powered search tool for astronomers.
Daisy Kalra has spent her Columbia postdoc in Illinois, supporting the University and the Fermilab in the search for new neutrinos.