Chandrayaan-3 Mission: 🇮🇳Vikram soft-landed on 🌖, again! Vikram Lander exceeded its mission objectives. It successfully underwent a hop experiment. On command, it fired the engines, elevated itself by about 40 cm as expected and landed safely at a distance of 30 – 40 cm away.

📢Stanford MS&E is hiring!📢 We're seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor to help us push the frontiers of Management Science & Engineering, broadly defined. Review begins Nov 3, apps due Dec 15. Happy to answer questions! Please spread the word! msande.stanford.edu/get-involved/s…

Time to celebrate some friends: My good friend, former chief economic advisor of India, and currently a Director at the IMF has a new podcast:

The AI bill of rights, coauthored by my old old friend Suresh Venkatasubramanian (mostly in the sky now) , has made its way into an executive order. That’s incredible regulatory impact, on one of the most salient issues of our time!

Team USA won four medals again at #ioi2024 -- congratulations Agastya, Brian, Rain, Rohin and thanks to all the coaches: stats.ioinformatics.org/results/2024 pic.x.com/x03ciamykf

As a coach for the US IOI team, I’ve been motivated for a long time to create models which can perform at the level of the most elite competitors in the world. Check out our research blog post - with enough samples, we achieve gold medal performance on this year’s IOI and ~14/15

Comments welcome on my plan for our introductory optimization class: Allow use of LLMs for HWs & lab exam; Have in-class midterm/final be minor variants of HW problems; short individual oral to discuss lab exam. Goal: see if they can explain and adapt their answers without LLMs.

Stanford MS&E has an unusual faculty search this year: Teaching Professor with focus on Entrepreneurship. Happy to answer questions over DM. PhD in a related field is required. Really exciting opportunity to shape a premier entrepreneurship curriculum. msande.stanford.edu/get-involved/s…

Yet another awesome (but this time local) TCS opportunity: 🥳We're hosting TOCA-SV at Stanford on Nov 8th🥳 Free registration and everything else you always wanted to know about the 11th TOCA-SV: sites.google.com/cs.stanford.ed…

Introducing Carl, the first AI system to create a research paper that passes peer review. Carl's work was just accepted at an @ICLR_conf workshop on the Tiny Papers track. Carl forms new research hypotheses, tests them & writes up results. Learn more: autoscience.ai/blog/meet-carl…

Proud to be a Harvard parent and Stanford alum/faculty. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/15/lev…

And this is how a technology developed to circumvent government control becomes the ultimate vehicle for crony capitalism: nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/…

My heart goes out to colleagues at Harvard and all the students affected by Trump’s campaign against Harvard. This campaign has no basis in law, facts, morality, or national self interest. If any Harvard colleagues need assistance (within the bounds of law), please let me know

Fully agree with Steve Pinker in that Harvard (and Stanford) have committed minor sins of calibration. But the current assault on Harvard and higher education is malicious and deranged; standing by and watching is not an option. nytimes.com/2025/05/23/opi…

People are worried that US universities will lose their edge because of Trump. Will not happen. We will work 25 hours, redouble mentoring efforts for PhD students, give them place to sleep on our couch and seat at our table. As my college friends would say: Khatola Yahin Bichega.

All five US participants (including Agastya Goel) won a gold at the International Physics Olympiad. Congratulations to the team and the coaches! aapt.org/aboutaapt/U-S-…

Today President Donald J. Trump & WHOSTP47 were proud to welcome the 2025 World Champion USA Physics Team to the The White House! These incredible geniuses DOMINATED at the International Physics Olympiad in July, bringing home a record FIVE gold medals — the greatest performance in team history. 🇺🇸💪