Recent Publications
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for a full list.
- Anna Thomas, Georgios Zaverdinos, Petros Mandalis, Andreas Orfanoudakis, Akihiro Takino, Sohum Patnaik, David J. Kraus, Panos Kostopoulos, Caroline Cotto, Nikos Tsiaparas, Dan Jurafsky, Aadit Patel. Expert-guided Bayesian optimization for sustainable protein design. NeurIPS, 2026. Also presented at AI for Science Workshop at ICML 2026.
- Anna Thomas*, Sohum Patnaik*, Caroline Cotto, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling. TasteBench: multimodal benchmark for sensory prediction, from molecules to sustainable foods. NeurIPS (spotlight), 2026. Also presented at AI for Science Workshop at ICML 2026.
- Bianca Datta, Markus J. Buehler, Yvonne Chow, Kristina Gligorić, Dan Jurafsky, David L. Kaplan, Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro, Giorgia Del Missier, Lisa Neidhardt, Karim Pichara, Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling, Miek Schlangen, Skyler R. St. Pierre, Ilias Tagkopoulos, Anna Thomas, Nicholas J. Watson, Ellen Kuhl. Artificial intelligence for food innovation. Nature Food, 2026.
- Anna Thomas, Adam Yee, Andrew Mayne, Maya Mathur, Dan
Jurafsky, Kristina Gligorić. What can large language models do for
sustainable food? ICML, 2025. Also presented at Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning Workshop at ICLR 2025, AI & Scientific Discovery Workshop at NAACL 2025 (selected for oral presentation), and Pangborn Sensory Science Symposium 2025 (selected for oral presentation).
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Anna Thomas, Jessica Hope, and Maya Mathur.
Documentary films can increase nationwide interest in plant-based
food.
Nature Food, 2025. Cover of September 2025 issue. Also presented at the American Causal Inference Conference, 2024.
Teaching
- Spring 2026. Course assistant for CS 106EA. Exploring Artificial Intelligence. Instructor: Patrick Young.
- Fall 2025. Course assistant for CS 171 / ECON 115 / DATASCI 161 / BUSGEN 108. Causality, Decision Making, and Data Science. Instructors: Guido Imbens and Mary Wootters.
