Sabrina Pasterski co-organized the "AI Reasoning in Theoretical Physics" summer program running from May 24 to June 14, 2026. On The Shawn Ryan Show, host Shawn Ryan introduced her as a first-generation Cuban American prodigy who "spent two years building a single engine Zenith" as a teenager to get off the waitlist at MIT before finishing her PhD at Harvard.
During the episode, Sabrina Pasterski detailed her breakthroughs in high-energy physics, specifically her work on cosmic memory. She noted, "I discovered a variant of this based on the connection to these symmetries" to explain angular momentum loss in gravitational waves.
Looking forward, her next step involves combining her theoretical work with hands-on software development. Sabrina Pasterski told Shawn Ryan that she is teaching herself to program, saying, "I think I'm getting into being a shitty vibe coder and just seeing" how far she can push her physics research with a do-it-yourself mindset.