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Indian-origin CMU and MIT faculty named Sloan Fellows
The fellowships honor exceptional researchers for their creativity and innovation.
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Rwittika Chakraborty
- Tue, 24, Feb 2026
- 01:23 EST
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Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, Aayush Jain, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla and Aditi Raghunathan, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor Anand Natarajan. / Carnegie Mellon University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Three Carnegie Mellon University faculty members, Aayush Jain, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, and Aditi Raghunathan, along with Massachusetts Institute of Technology associate professor Anand Natarajan, have been honored with 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships.
The fellowships, awarded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, honor exceptional researchers at U.S. and Canadian educational institutions for their creativity, innovation and research accomplishments that make them stand out as the next generation of leaders.
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Recipients receive a two-year, $75,000 fellowship that can be used flexibly to advance the fellow’s research.
Aayush Jain, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at CMU, studies theoretical and applied cryptography and its connections with related areas of theoretical computer science.
His research focuses on the mathematical foundations that make modern cryptography secure, with an emphasis on identifying new and underexplored sources of computational hardness. He also trains graduate students in foundational cryptographic theory.
Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, an associate professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at CMU, addresses foundational challenges in statistical inference and predictive learning in his research.
His work has several applications in machine learning and artificial intelligence, and he specializes in the development of robust frameworks for uncertainty quantification. His research also has utility in financial time-series forecasting and significance testing in causal inference under potential interference.
Aditi Raghunathan, an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at CMU, bases her research on identifying where and understanding why AI systems fail and building models that remain safe, accurate and dependable in real-world settings.
She leads the AI Reliability Lab, which builds reliable, aligned and trustworthy AI through rigorous analysis and principled methods.
Jain, Kuchibhotla and Raghunathan are among the 78 faculty members at Carnegie Mellon who have received the Sloan Research Fellowship since its inception in 1955.
Anand Natarajan is an associate professor in electrical engineering and computer science and a principal investigator in CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) and the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab.
His research focuses on quantum complexity theory, with an emphasis on the power of interactive proofs and arguments in a quantum world.
His work attempts to assess the complexity of computational problems in a quantum setting, determining both the limits of quantum computers’ capability and the trustworthiness of their output.
Natarajan is among the 341 MIT faculty members who have received Sloan Research Fellowships.
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