Sloan Fellowships for Indian scientists

BOSTON, MS — The Alfred Sloan Foundation has announced its 2018 Sloan Research Fellowship recipients, with several Indian American scientists and researchers honored in seven fields–chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences and physics.

Indian origin researchers were recognized in all but the neuroscience category, with the most coming in physics with three. A total of 126 early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today, the foundation said in a news release.

Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the US and Canada. Among the physics Fellows are Anushya Chandran of Boston University, Arka Majumdar of the University of Washington, and Amar Vutha of the University of Toronto. Chemistry recipients included Rajamani Gounder of Purdue University and Venkat Viswanathan of Carnegie Mellon University.

Nidhi Sahni of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was named a Fellow in the computational and evolutionary molecular biology category.
In computer science, Karthik Sridharan of Cornell University and Finale Doshi-Velez were named Fellows.

Arun Chandrasekhar of Stanford University and Supreet Kaur of U.C. Berkeley were named Fellows in the economics section.
In mathematics, the foundation named Boston University’s Jennifer Balakrishnan and Arul Shankar of the University of Toronto as Fellows, and Vinayak Agarwal of the Georgia Institute of Technology was named a Fellow in the ocean sciences section.

Winners receive $65,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.