Nine from MIT named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows
9 members of the MIT college are amongst 126 early-career researchers honored throughout seven fields with 2023 Sloan Analysis Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Representing the departments of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chemistry, Economics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Mathematics, and Physics, the honorees will every obtain a two-year, $75,000 fellowship to advance their analysis.
Together with this yr’s recipients, a complete of 318 MIT college have obtained Sloan Analysis Fellowships for the reason that first fellowships have been awarded in 1955.
Luca Carlone is the Leonardo Profession Improvement Affiliate Professor within the Division of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a principal investigator within the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS). He’s the director of the MIT SPARK Lab, which works on the reducing fringe of robotics and autonomous techniques analysis. Carlone researches human-level notion and world understanding on cell robotics platforms (drones, self-driving autos, floor robots) working in the actual world. His analysis consists of nonlinear estimation and probabilistic inference, numerical and distributed optimization, and geometric laptop imaginative and prescient utilized to sensing, notion, and decision-making in single and multi-robot techniques. Carlone was not too long ago chosen to the editorial board of the Worldwide Journal of Robotics as a senior editor and named an affiliate fellow class of 2023 within the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli is the Jeffrey Cheah Profession Improvement Chair in Engineering within the Division of Supplies Science and Engineering and an investigator within the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. His analysis pairs computational design with machine studying to speed up the invention of recent supplies. Utilizing theoretical and experimental information, Gómez-Bombarelli and his analysis lab colleagues relate the composition and construction of molecules and solids to their efficiency and determine candidates for sensible functions. They’ve used the strategy to design new types of zeolites, for instance — a category of porous minerals utilized in industrial functions — for particular, climate-change-focused functions, comparable to cleansing up exhaust from autos. Different functions embody therapeutic peptides, electrolytes for batteries, inorganic oxides for sustainable catalysis, carbon-capture supplies, and sustainable polymers.
Jeremy Hahn ’13 is the Rockwell Worldwide Profession Improvement Assistant Professor of Arithmetic. His analysis is in algebraic topology and homotopy concept. With collaborators, he has accomplished work in equivariant chromatic homotopy concept, the classification of high-dimensional manifolds, and the redshift conjectures in algebraic Ok-theory. He hopes to raised perceive the conduct of recent invariants of ring spectra, comparable to syntomic and prismatic cohomology.
Song Han, {an electrical} engineeering and laptop science (EECS) affiliate professor, proposed the “Deep Compression” method that’s broadly used for environment friendly synthetic intelligence computing, and “Environment friendly Inference Engine” that first introduced weight sparsity to trendy AI chips, which influenced NVIDIA’s Ampere GPU. He launched the TinyML analysis that brings deep studying to internet-of-things gadgets, enabling studying on the sting. His work on hardware-aware neural structure search (once-for-all community) allows customers to design, optimize, shrink, and deploy AI fashions to resource-constrained {hardware} gadgets. Han obtained greatest paper awards at ICLR and FPGA, college awards from Amazon, SONY, Fb, NVIDIA, and Samsung, NSF CAREER Award, “35 Innovators Below 35” by MIT Know-how Overview, and “AIs 10 to Watch: The Way forward for AI” award by IEEE.
Erin Kara is the Class of 1958 Profession Improvement Assistant Professor of Physics and a member of the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. An observational astrophysicist who’s working to grasp the physics behind how black holes develop and have an effect on their environments, she additionally works to develop new and future area missions. Kara is a NASA taking part scientist of the XRISM Observatory, to launch later this yr, and is the deputy principal investigator of the AXIS Probe Mission Idea.
Jonathan Ragan-Kelley SM ’07, PhD’14 is the Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor in EECS. He’s affiliated with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), the place his analysis focuses on laptop graphics, compilers, domain-specific languages, and high-performance techniques. Whereas finishing his PhD at MIT in 2014 beneath the supervision of professors Frédo Durand and Saman Amarasingh, Ragan-Kelley was instrumental in growing the language and compiler Halide, “a language for quick, moveable computation on photographs and tensors” that has grow to be the “trade normal for computational pictures and picture processing.” Quick and environment friendly, Halide was created to make writing high-performance picture processing code on trendy machines extra seamless. His earlier work on the language Lightspeed has been an instrumental software in producing movies, and for these efforts he was a finalist for a technical Academy Award.
Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, an assistant professor in physics, focuses on the event of laser spectroscopy strategies to analyze the properties of subatomic particles utilizing atoms and molecules made up of short-lived radioactive nuclei. His experimental work supplies distinctive details about the basic forces of nature, the properties of nuclear matter on the limits of existence, and the seek for new physics past the Customary Mannequin of particle physics.
Tobias Saltz, the Fortress Krob Profession Improvement Assistant Professor of Economics, works within the area of empirical industrial group. His principal analysis pursuits are decentralized markets, platforms, and intermediaries. A latest space of focus of his analysis agenda are transportation markets. In a separate line of analysis, he research the financial and regulatory implications of the rising abundance of shopper information and advances in synthetic intelligence which might be enabled by these information.
Alison Wendlandt, theGreen Profession Improvement Assistant Professor of Chemistry,focuses on the event of selective, catalytic reactions utilizing the instruments of natural and organometallic synthesis and bodily natural chemistry. Mechanistic examine performs a central function within the improvement of those new transformations. Her initiatives contain the design of recent catalysts and catalytic transformations, the identification of essential functions for selective catalytic processes, and the elucidation of recent mechanistic ideas to develop highly effective current catalytic response manifolds.
“Sloan Analysis Fellows are shining examples of revolutionary and impactful analysis,” says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Basis. “We’re thrilled to assist their groundbreaking work and we sit up for following their continued success.”
Many younger researchers awarded the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship have gone on to grow to be distinguished figures in science: 56 fellows have obtained a Nobel Prize of their respective area, 17 have received the Fields Medal in arithmetic, and 22 have received the John Bates Clark Medal in economics, together with each winner since 2007.