10 Indian-Americans Win Sloan Research Fellowship

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Out of the 126 researchers receiving prestigious Sloan Research Fellowship in 2024, are 10 Indian American early-career scholars.

Established in 1955, the fellowships honor exceptional US and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders, New York-based Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced.

Indian American fellows are:

Priyanka Raina:  Stanford University (Computer Science)
Raina is an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Her research is on creating high-performance and energy-efficient architectures for domain-specific hardware accelerators.

Arvind Satyanarayan:  Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Computer Science)
Satyanarayan is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at MIT. His research uses interactive data visualization to study intelligence augmentation.

Dipti Nayak: University of California, Berkeley (Earth System Science).
Nayak is Assistant Professor in Molecular and Cell Biology at University of California, Berkeley. Her interest lies in the physiology and evolution of Archaea, specifically members within this domain that produce and consume the greenhouse gas methane.

Aaditya Ramdas: Carnegie Mellon University (Mathematics)
Ramdas, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, in the Departments of Statistics and Machine Learning has research interests in selective and simultaneous inference, sequential uncertainty quantification, and distribution-free black-box predictive inference. His areas of applied interest include neuroscience, genetics and voting.

Ananth Shankar: Northwestern University (Mathematics)
Shankar is an assistant professor at Northwestern University. His research is in arithmetic geometry and number theory, focusing mainly on Shimura varieties and abelian varieties.

Vineet Augustine: University of California, San Diego (Neuroscience)
Augustine is assistant professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, San Diego.

His research has been covered by multiple news outlets including The New York Times, Scientific American and National Public Radio.

Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri: University of California, San Francisco (Neuroscience)
Namboodiri is the Scott Alan Myers Endowed Professor at University of California, San Francisco. His research explores the biological algorithms and neuronal network mechanisms underlying associative learning, memory and decision-making.

Preeya Khanna:  University of California, Berkeley (Neuroscience)
Khanna is assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at University of California, Berkeley. Her research combines sensorimotor systems neuroscience, network modeling, and neurotechnology development

Karan K. Mehta:  Cornell University (Physics)
Mehta is assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University. He is working at the intersection of photonics, atomic physics, and quantum technologies.

Vikram Ravi: California Institute of Technology (Physics).
Ravi is assistant professor of Astronomy at California Institute of Technology. He is exploring and understanding the unseen Universe.