Board approves eight new faculty appointments
The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of eight faculty members, including three full professors and five assistant professors.
Professor
Abhishek Bhattacharjee, in computer science, specializes in computer architecture. His appointment is effective Sept. 1, 2026.
Bhattacharjee comes to Princeton from Yale University, where he has taught since 2019, most recently as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science. Prior to that, he taught at Rutgers University from 2010 to 2018 and was a C.V. Starr Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute from 2017 to 2019. Bhattacharjee’s industry engagements include work as a researcher in Intel’s VSSAD group and Strategic CAD Labs in 2007 and 2008.
His research interests include memory address translation, virtual memory, computer and operating systems and brain sciences. Bhattacharjee’s work has been integrated into commercial operating systems, chips and microprocessors produced by companies including NVIDIA and Meta.
His research has received grants from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, Meta and Intel, among many others. He received an NSF Career Award in 2013 and an ACM SIGARCH Maurice Wilkes Award in 2023. He served as associate editor of ACM Transactions on Computer Systems from 2021 to 2022.
He is the author of more than 70 journal, conference and workshop papers and a textbook, “Architectural and Operating System Support for Virtual Memory” (2017), co-authored with NVIDIA scientist Daniel Lustig. He holds three patents and has served on the program committees and presented at numerous conferences around the world.
Bhattacharjee earned a Ph.D. from Princeton and a B.Eng. from McGill University.
Will Dobbie, in economics, specializes in labor economics. His appointment is effective July 1, 2026.
Dobbie returns to Princeton, where he began his academic career, after teaching at Harvard University as a professor of public policy since 2019.
At Princeton, he was an assistant professor of economics and public affairs from 2013 to 2019. He was a visiting research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in 2019 and a visiting assistant professor at Columbia Graduate School of Business in 2018 and Harvard Kennedy School from 2015 to 2016.
Dobbie’s work focuses on poverty, including the labor market consequences of bad credit reports and issues of racial bias in criminal justice. His research has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the Russell Sage Foundation and others, including projects in collaboration with Crystal Yang, who also joins the University from Harvard on July 1, 2026 (see below).
Dobbie has served as an editor of the Review of Economics and Statistics since 2021. He is a research associate at NBER, a research affiliate at CESifo, a research fellow at the IZA Institute of Labor Economics and an affiliate of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab.
His academic honors include a 2019 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, a 2017 Distinguished CESifo Affiliate Award and Princeton's 2016 Jonathan Edwards Bicentennial Preceptorship. He has authored peer-reviewed articles in journals including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the Journal of Labor Economics.
Dobbie earned a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.A. from the University of Washington and a B.A. from Kalamazoo College.
Crystal Yang, in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, specializes in public law, criminal justice, economics, race and public policy, and data science. Her appointment is effective July 1, 2026.
Yang comes to Princeton from Harvard Law School, where she has taught since 2014, most recently as the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law. She was also a Stephen Friedman Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in 2018, a visiting professor of law at the New York University School of Law in 2017 and a visiting associate research scholar at Princeton in 2016. From 2014 to 2015, Yang worked as a special assistant United States attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts.
Her research interests include empirical law and economics, with a focus on racial bias in criminal justice and algorithmic fairness. She has frequently collaborated with economist Will Dobbie, who also joins the University on July 1, 2026 (see above).
Yang has written journal articles, law reviews and working papers in publications including the Review of Economics and Statistics, the New England Journal of Medicine and the Michigan Law Review.
She is a research associate at NBER and has co-directed its Crime Working Group since 2021. She serves on the editorial board of the American Economic Journal: Economic Policy and was co-editor of the Journal of Public Economics from 2021 to 2024. From 2018 to 2021, she was also a director at the American Law and Economics Association. She is a recipient of a 2023 Early Career Scholars Medal from the American Law Institute.
Yang earned a Ph.D., A.B. and A.M. from Harvard University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
Assistant professor
Claire Bedbrook, in the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, joins the faculty in July 2026. Bedbrook, who specializes in neuroscience, bioengineering, genetics and aging, holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and a B.S. from the University of California-Berkeley.
Chris Hamilton, in astrophysical sciences, joins the faculty in August 2026. Hamilton specializes in gravitational dynamics and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and an M.Math and B.A. from the University of Oxford.
Kaiyi Jiang, in the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, joins the faculty in July 2026. Jiang specializes in bioengineering and holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.Eng. from Rice University.
Ravi Nath, in molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, joins the faculty in July 2026. Nath, who specializes in the genetics of aging and neurobiology of aging, holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology and a B.A. from Vanderbilt University.
Ewin Tang, in computer science, joins the faculty in September 2026. Tang specializes in quantum computing and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Washington and a B.S. from the University of Texas at Austin.
