Eleven MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Eleven MIT researchers from eight School of Science and School of Engineering departments are among the 126 American and Canadian researchers awarded 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today. New MIT-affiliated Sloan Research Fellows are: Otto X. Cordero, an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering; Vadim Gorin, an assistant professor of mathematics; R. Scott Kemp, an assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering; Yen-Jie Lee, an assistant professor of physics; Gene-Wei Li, an assistant professor of biology; Aleksander Madry, the NBX Career Development Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Ankur Moitra, an assistant professor of mathematics; Yogesh Surendranath, an assistant professor of chemistry; William A. Tisdale, an assistant professor of chemical engineering; Mark Vogelsberger, an assistant professor of physics; and Jing-Ke Weng, the Thomas D. and Virginia W. Cabot Assistant Professor of biology. Awarded annually since 1955, the Sloan Research Fellowships are given to early-career...