India, Oct. 23 -- A Princeton PhD whose research the Nobel committee reportedly cited has applied for more than 2,300 jobs in about two years without landing a steady one, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Pakistan's Daily Jang, citing the Journal, said the Nobel committee cited his ice-formation work as an example of machine learning in science when announcing the 2024 physics prize.

He began with pharmaceutical research roles and national laboratory postdocs, then widened his search to software engineering and food-preparation jobs, including at a company that sells frozen crab cakes, the Journal reported.

From January 2026 he worked part-time at $70 an hour for a startup that hires specialists to train AI, but his hours swung widely...