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The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced Feb. 16 that it has awarded Sloan Research Fellowships to eight MIT professors in the MIT Media Lab and in the departments of Biology, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemical Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Mathematics. The fellowships, which honor pre-tenure faculty members, will support their research with two-year, $75,000 awards.
“The Sloan Research Fellowship Program recognizes and rewards outstanding early-career faculty who have the potential to revolutionize their fields of study,” according to the Sloan Foundation.
Fadel Adib, associate professor and Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization, directs the Signal Kinetics group at the MIT Media Lab. His group invents, builds, and deploys wireless and sensor technologies to address complex problems in society, industry, and ecology. His team’s work focuses on bringing wireless capabilities to extreme domains like the ocean and
Taiwan-born UCLA professor awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship
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Chang Kai-wei (張凱崴) / CNA file photo
Los Angeles, Feb. 17 (CNA) Chang Kai-wei (張凱崴), an assistant professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), has been granted a 2021 Sloan Research Fellowship by the university s Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for his research into artificial intelligence (AI).
Chang, 35, an assistant professor of computer science at UCLA s Samueli School of Engineering, conducts broad research into AI, machine learning and natural language processing, the university said in a statement issued on Feb. 16. With the exponential growth of text data available in various domains, language processing techniques have been incorporated into many real-world applications used by billions around the world, the statement said.
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Elisabeth Krause, an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy and Department of Physics, are two of 128 researchers from the United States and Canada to be awarded 2021 Sloan Research Fellowships.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation annually awards two-year $75,000 fellowships to early-career faculty with doctoral or equivalent degree in mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, molecular biology, neuroscience or a related field. The fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by pre-tenure scientists with outstanding potential, according to the foundation. It is critical for our early-career researchers to receive recognition of their talent as well as support for their work, said
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