Yao Lai 9/18/25 Yao Lai 9/18/25 Yongji’s paper “Discovery of Unstable Singularities” is now on arXiv. Our multistgae NN helped discovery a family of new solutions to century-old problems in fluid dynamics. Read More Yao Lai 8/14/25 Yao Lai 8/14/25 Yao co-organized a Summer School at the Princeton Math Department and taught a lecture series on neural networks. Exciting to discuss how AI can facilitate accurate numerics for mathematical proofs. Read More Yao Lai 3/13/25 Yao Lai 3/13/25 Yongji’s paper was published in Science! Vast amounts of Earth data and AI uncovered constitutive laws of polar ice that differ from the commonly assumed forms in conventional models. Read More Yao Lai 6/21/24 Yao Lai 6/21/24 Congratulations to Josh for being elected as a Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Graduate Fellow! Read More Yao Lai 4/17/24 Yao Lai 4/17/24 Congratulations to Yuno for winning the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, that supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants. Read More Yao Lai 2/20/24 Yao Lai 2/20/24 Yao is honored to receive the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship! This wouldn't be possible without our amazing group members and colleagues' nomination. Read More Yao Lai 1/31/24 Yao Lai 1/31/24 Congratulations to Olivia on winning the Early Career Investigator Award from the APS Group on the Physics of Climate! Read More Yao Lai 6/16/23 Yao Lai 6/16/23 Yongji Wang’s paper on asymptotic self-similar blow-up profile for 3D axisymmetric Euler equations using neural networks is published in Physical Review Letters! Read More Yao Lai 6/1/23 Yao Lai 6/1/23 Our group has just moved to Stanford!! We look forward to getting to know colleagues on the West Coast and exploring collaborations! Read More Yao Lai 5/31/23 Yao Lai 5/31/23 Yao received the Research Scholar Award from Google Research! Read More Yao Lai 5/31/23 Yao Lai 5/31/23 Evan Chandran was awarded the Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics for his independent research and excellence in course work. Congrats Evan! Read More Yao Lai 3/17/23 Yao Lai 3/17/23 Our project “Singularities in Incompressible Flows” led by Ionescu, Lai, Buckmaster, Gomez Serrano, and Jia received the NSF Focused Research Groups (FRG) grant in the Mathematical Sciences. Read More Yao Lai 2/27/23 Yao Lai 2/27/23 Yao leads a NSF-NERC collaborative project to study Greenland meltwater pathways using machine-learning and physics-based models. Read More Yao Lai 1/25/23 Yao Lai 1/25/23 Yao’s research featured in the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning News: Ching-Yao Lai yields machine learning to explore ice sheet physics Read More Yao Lai 6/1/22 Yao Lai 6/1/22 Yuno Iwasaki was awarded the Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics for her independent research and excellence in course work. Congrats Yuno!! Read More Yao Lai 5/31/22 Yao Lai 5/31/22 Charlie Cowen-Breen received the Sigma Xi Book Award in the Math Department for his senior thesis research. Congratulations and we are so proud! Read More Yao Lai 5/26/22 Yao Lai 5/26/22 Yongji Wang gave a great invited talk “Physics-informed neural networks for solving 3-D Euler equation” at the Mathematics, Physics & Machine Learning webinar! Check out the recorded simnar here. Read More Yao Lai 4/12/22 Yao Lai 4/12/22 Quanta article featuring our work by Yongji, Tristan, and Javi, using physics-informed neural networks to shed new light to a century-old mystery- singularity formation for the 3D Euler equations. Read More Yao Lai 12/10/21 Yao Lai 12/10/21 Excited for our Princeton Center for Theoretical Science workshop: Physics in the Ground Beneath our Feet- Applications of statistical and nonlinear physics in earth sciences (Jan 5-7, 2022) Read More Yao Lai 8/20/21 Yao Lai 8/20/21 What do the universal dynamics of ice-sheet surface relaxation tell us about transmissivity deep beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet? Check out the HMEI story about our paper in Nat. Commun. Read More Older Posts
Yao Lai 9/18/25 Yao Lai 9/18/25 Yongji’s paper “Discovery of Unstable Singularities” is now on arXiv. Our multistgae NN helped discovery a family of new solutions to century-old problems in fluid dynamics. Read More
Yao Lai 8/14/25 Yao Lai 8/14/25 Yao co-organized a Summer School at the Princeton Math Department and taught a lecture series on neural networks. Exciting to discuss how AI can facilitate accurate numerics for mathematical proofs. Read More
Yao Lai 3/13/25 Yao Lai 3/13/25 Yongji’s paper was published in Science! Vast amounts of Earth data and AI uncovered constitutive laws of polar ice that differ from the commonly assumed forms in conventional models. Read More
Yao Lai 6/21/24 Yao Lai 6/21/24 Congratulations to Josh for being elected as a Stanford Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) Graduate Fellow! Read More
Yao Lai 4/17/24 Yao Lai 4/17/24 Congratulations to Yuno for winning the 2024 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, that supports outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants. Read More
Yao Lai 2/20/24 Yao Lai 2/20/24 Yao is honored to receive the 2024 Sloan Research Fellowship! This wouldn't be possible without our amazing group members and colleagues' nomination. Read More
Yao Lai 1/31/24 Yao Lai 1/31/24 Congratulations to Olivia on winning the Early Career Investigator Award from the APS Group on the Physics of Climate! Read More
Yao Lai 6/16/23 Yao Lai 6/16/23 Yongji Wang’s paper on asymptotic self-similar blow-up profile for 3D axisymmetric Euler equations using neural networks is published in Physical Review Letters! Read More
Yao Lai 6/1/23 Yao Lai 6/1/23 Our group has just moved to Stanford!! We look forward to getting to know colleagues on the West Coast and exploring collaborations! Read More
Yao Lai 5/31/23 Yao Lai 5/31/23 Yao received the Research Scholar Award from Google Research! Read More
Yao Lai 5/31/23 Yao Lai 5/31/23 Evan Chandran was awarded the Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics for his independent research and excellence in course work. Congrats Evan! Read More
Yao Lai 3/17/23 Yao Lai 3/17/23 Our project “Singularities in Incompressible Flows” led by Ionescu, Lai, Buckmaster, Gomez Serrano, and Jia received the NSF Focused Research Groups (FRG) grant in the Mathematical Sciences. Read More
Yao Lai 2/27/23 Yao Lai 2/27/23 Yao leads a NSF-NERC collaborative project to study Greenland meltwater pathways using machine-learning and physics-based models. Read More
Yao Lai 1/25/23 Yao Lai 1/25/23 Yao’s research featured in the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning News: Ching-Yao Lai yields machine learning to explore ice sheet physics Read More
Yao Lai 6/1/22 Yao Lai 6/1/22 Yuno Iwasaki was awarded the Allen G. Shenstone Prize in Physics for her independent research and excellence in course work. Congrats Yuno!! Read More
Yao Lai 5/31/22 Yao Lai 5/31/22 Charlie Cowen-Breen received the Sigma Xi Book Award in the Math Department for his senior thesis research. Congratulations and we are so proud! Read More
Yao Lai 5/26/22 Yao Lai 5/26/22 Yongji Wang gave a great invited talk “Physics-informed neural networks for solving 3-D Euler equation” at the Mathematics, Physics & Machine Learning webinar! Check out the recorded simnar here. Read More
Yao Lai 4/12/22 Yao Lai 4/12/22 Quanta article featuring our work by Yongji, Tristan, and Javi, using physics-informed neural networks to shed new light to a century-old mystery- singularity formation for the 3D Euler equations. Read More
Yao Lai 12/10/21 Yao Lai 12/10/21 Excited for our Princeton Center for Theoretical Science workshop: Physics in the Ground Beneath our Feet- Applications of statistical and nonlinear physics in earth sciences (Jan 5-7, 2022) Read More
Yao Lai 8/20/21 Yao Lai 8/20/21 What do the universal dynamics of ice-sheet surface relaxation tell us about transmissivity deep beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet? Check out the HMEI story about our paper in Nat. Commun. Read More
