MIT senior Sadhana Lolla has gained the distinguished Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which presents college students a possibility to pursue graduate examine within the discipline of their selection at Cambridge College within the U.Okay.

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

Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in laptop 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 growing expertise for marginalized communities, reminiscent of the agricultural Indian village that her household calls house, 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 automobiles 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 Info Processing Techniques (NeurIPS) convention and the Worldwide Convention on Machine Studying (ICML). 

Outdoors of analysis, Lolla leads initiatives to make laptop science schooling 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 totally free, and she or he has taught lots 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 govt 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. 

“Between Sadhana’s spectacular analysis within the Distributed Robotics Group, her volunteer instructing with Momentum AI, and her internship and extracurricular experiences, she has developed the abilities to be a frontrunner,” says Kim Benard, affiliate dean of distinguished fellowships in Profession Advising and Skilled Growth. “Her work at Cambridge will permit her the time to consider decreasing bias in programs and the moral implications of her work. I’m proud that she can be representing MIT within the Gates Cambridge neighborhood.”