The Princeton University Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of eight new faculty members. The appointments include three full professors and five assistant professors.
Abhishek Bhattacharjee will join the Department of Computer Science as a professor, with his appointment effective September 1, 2026. Bhattacharjee comes to Princeton from Yale University, where he served as the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Computer Science since 2019. He previously taught at Rutgers University and was a C.V. Starr Visiting Fellow at the Princeton Neuroscience Institute. His research covers memory address translation, virtual memory, computer and operating systems, and brain sciences. Bhattacharjee’s work has been used in commercial products by companies such as NVIDIA and Meta. He has received grants from organizations including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
Will Dobbie will return to Princeton as a professor in economics starting July 1, 2026. Dobbie specializes in labor economics and most recently taught public policy at Harvard University since 2019. Previously, he was an assistant professor at Princeton and held visiting positions at Columbia Graduate School of Business and Harvard Kennedy School. His research addresses poverty, labor markets, and racial bias in criminal justice.
Crystal Yang will become a professor in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs on July 1, 2026. She specializes in public law, criminal justice, economics, race and public policy, and data science. Yang joins from Harvard Law School where she was most recently Bennett Boskey Professor of Law.
Five assistant professors have also been appointed:
– Claire Bedbrook will join the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics in July 2026.
– Chris Hamilton will join astrophysical sciences in August 2026.
– Kaiyi Jiang will be part of the Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute starting July 2026.
– Ravi Nath will join molecular biology and the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics in July 2026.
– Ewin Tang will start with computer science in September 2026.
President Christopher L. Eisgruber said: “The appointment of these distinguished scholars reflects our ongoing commitment to excellence across disciplines.”
