Chung Awarded Aramont Fellowship  for Emerging Science Research

Congratulations to Prof. SueYeon Chung, a recipient of the Aramont Fellowship Fund for Emerging Science Research for “The Physics of Intelligence: Linking Neural Representations and AI Safety and Alignment.”

AI systems increasingly influence decisions that shape human lives and societies, from medicine and science to education, law, and warfare. It is critical to align these systems’ objectives with human values to ensure that they serve human flourishing. This alignment demands a deep understanding of how AI systems represent, process, and act on information, and parallels a longstanding question in computational neuroscience: How does intelligent behavior emerge from patterns of neural activity? By identifying the principles that govern how neural systems organize and transform information, Chung aims to establish a theoretical foundation for intelligent systems that are interpretable, robust, and aligned with human intent.

The Aramont Fellowships are made possible by a generous gift from the Aramont Charitable Foundation and provide critical funding to advance early-career high-risk, high reward science and engineering conducted at Harvard Medical School, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.