(April 6, 2026)
Prof David Shih's recent project using AI was featured in an Apr 6 Rutgers Today article:
https://www.rutgers.edu/news/when-your-research-partner-actually-artificial-intelligence
The article titled "When Your Research Partner Is Actually Artificial Intelligence" describes David's use of Claude Code, an agentic AI system, to help simplify complex mathematical ezpressions. David (and Claude) demonstrated their approach on two problems in high-energy physics and found that their machine learning (ML) method produced results that were far superior to previous ML-based methods.
David, a member of the Physics and Astronomy department and the Director of the NHETC, realizes that research in physics as well as other fields will be changed by the ever advancing AI systems becoming available and is working to train his junior colleagues to work with these useful tools.
