MIT school members Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright are amongst 188 scientists, artists, and students awarded 2024 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Basis. Working throughout 52 disciplines, the fellows had been chosen from virtually 3,000 candidates for “prior profession achievement and distinctive promise.”

Every fellow receives a financial stipend to pursue impartial work on the highest degree. Since its founding in 1925, the Guggenheim Basis has awarded over $400 million in fellowships to greater than 19,000 fellows. This 12 months, MIT professors had been acknowledged within the classes of neuroscience, physics, and knowledge science.

Roger Levy is a professor within the Division of Mind and Cognitive Sciences. Combining computational modeling of huge datasets with psycholinguistic experimentation, his work furthers our understanding of the cognitive underpinning of language processing, and helps to design fashions and algorithms that may permit machines to course of human language. He’s a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Analysis Fellowship, the NSF College Early Profession Improvement (CAREER) Award, and a fellowship on the Heart for Superior Examine within the Behavioral Sciences.

Tracy Slatyer is a professor within the Division of Physics in addition to the Heart for Theoretical Physics within the MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and House Analysis. Her analysis focuses on darkish matter — novel theoretical fashions, predicting observable indicators, and evaluation of astrophysical and cosmological datasets. She was a co-discoverer of the enormous gamma-ray buildings generally known as the “Fermi Bubbles” erupting from the middle of the Milky Method, for which she obtained the New Horizons in Physics Prize in 2021. She can also be a recipient of a Simons Investigator Award and Presidential Early Profession Awards for Scientists and Engineers.

Martin Wainwright is the Cecil H. Inexperienced Professor in Electrical Engineering and Laptop Science and Arithmetic, and affiliated with the Laboratory for Data and Resolution Techniques and Statistics and Information Science Heart. He’s focused on statistics, machine studying, data idea, and optimization. Wainwright has been acknowledged with an Alfred P. Sloan Basis Fellowship, the Medallion Lectureship and Award from the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the COPSS Presidents’ Award from the Joint Statistical Societies. Wainwright has additionally co-authored books on graphical and statistical modeling, and solo-authored a ebook on excessive dimensional statistics.

“Humanity faces some profound existential challenges,” says Edward Hirsch, president of the muse. “The Guggenheim Fellowship is a life-changing recognition. It’s a celebrated funding into the lives and careers of distinguished artists, students, scientists, writers and different cultural visionaries who’re assembly these challenges head-on and producing new potentialities and pathways throughout the broader tradition as they accomplish that.”