This text was up to date on April 23 to mirror the promotion of Gosha Geogdzhayev from alternate to winner of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.

MIT seniors Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla have gained the celebrated Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which provides college students a possibility to pursue graduate examine within the discipline of their alternative at Cambridge College within the U.Ok.

Established in 2000, Gates Cambridge provides full-cost post-graduate scholarships to excellent candidates from international locations exterior of the U.Ok. The mission of Gates Cambridge is to construct a worldwide community of future leaders dedicated to enhancing the lives of others.

Gosha Geogdzhayev

Initially from New York Metropolis, Geogdzhayev is a senior majoring in physics with minors in arithmetic and pc science. At Cambridge, Geogdzhayev intends to pursue an MPhil in quantitative local weather and environmental science. He’s fascinated about making use of these topics to local weather science and intends to spend his profession creating novel statistical strategies for local weather prediction.

At MIT, Geogdzhayev researches local weather emulators with Professor Raffaele Ferrari’s group within the Division of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and is a part of the “Bringing Computation to the Local weather Problem” Grand Challenges undertaking. He’s at the moment engaged on an operator-based emulator for the projection of local weather extremes. Beforehand, Geogdzhayev studied the statistics of fixing chaotic programs, work that has lately been revealed as a first-author paper.

As a recipient of the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Company (NOAA) Hollings Scholarship, Geogdzhayev has labored on bias correction strategies for local weather information on the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He’s the recipient of a number of different awards within the discipline of earth and atmospheric sciences, notably the American Meteorological Society Ward and Eileen Seguin Scholarship.

Exterior of analysis, Geogdzhayev enjoys writing poetry and is actively concerned together with his dwelling neighborhood, Burton 1, for which he has beforehand served as ground chair.

Sadhana Lolla

Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in pc science and minoring in arithmetic and literature. At Cambridge, she’s going to pursue an MPhil in expertise coverage.

Sooner or later, Lolla goals to steer conversations on deploying and creating expertise for marginalized communities, akin to the agricultural Indian village that her household calls residence, whereas additionally conducting analysis in embodied intelligence.

At MIT, Lolla conducts analysis on protected and reliable robotics and deep studying on the Distributed Robotics Laboratory with Professor Daniela Rus. Her analysis has spanned debiasing methods for autonomous autos and accelerating robotic design processes. At Microsoft Analysis and Themis AI, she works on creating uncertainty-aware frameworks for deep studying, which has impacts throughout computational biology, language modeling, and robotics. She has offered her work on the Neural Data Processing Techniques (NeurIPS) convention and the Worldwide Convention on Machine Studying (ICML). 

Exterior of analysis, Lolla leads initiatives to make pc science training extra accessible globally. She is an teacher for sophistication 6.s191 (MIT Introduction to Deep Studying), one of many largest AI programs on the earth, which reaches hundreds of thousands of scholars yearly. She serves because the curriculum lead for Momentum AI, the one U.S. program that teaches AI to underserved college students at no cost, and he or she has taught tons of of scholars in Northern Scotland as a part of the MIT World Educating Labs program.

Lolla was additionally the director for xFair, MIT’s largest student-run profession truthful, and is an government board member for Subsequent Sing, the place she works to make a cappella extra accessible for college kids throughout musical backgrounds. In her free time, she enjoys singing, fixing crossword puzzles, and baking.