Professor Ryan Adams, Ph.D. is a Professor of Computer Science and Machine Learning Researcher at Princeton University. Ryan completed his Ph.D. in Physics under David MacKay at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Cambridge Scholar and a member of St. John’s College. From 2011 to 2016, he was an Assistant Professor at Harvard University in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. In 2015, Ryan sold the company he co-founded, Whetlab, to Twitter (now X) and spent three years in industry at Twitter and Google before joining the faculty at Princeton in 2018. Professor Adams received the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship.
