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Cornell’s Sanjiban Choudhury wins NSF career award
Award supports robotics research helping machines learn new skills from people, with education programs included.
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Pranavi Sharma - Sat, 31, Jan 2026
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Sanjiban Choudhury / Cornell University
Sanjiban Choudhury, an Indian-origin assistant professor of computer science at Cornell University, has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development Award to support his research on robots that learn new skills in humanlike ways.
Choudhury is among three early-career Cornell faculty members to receive the award, announced Jan. 29. The program provides a minimum of $400,000 over five years to support research and education by faculty considered potential academic leaders, according to the NSF.
Choudhury is an assistant professor in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science. His project focuses on developing robots that can learn new tasks by observing people, attempting tasks themselves and improving based on feedback.
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Most robots today can only perform tasks that are pre-programmed and struggle in unfamiliar situations. Choudhury’s research aims to address those limits by enabling robots to adapt and learn in real-world environments. The work is intended to make robots more flexible and useful in settings such as homes, hospitals and agriculture.
The project also includes an educational component, as required by the NSF program. Choudhury’s plans include interactive robotics activities for K-12 students and the creation of online resources designed to broaden access to science, technology, engineering and mathematics education and robotics research.
The NSF program supports early-career faculty who “have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to lead advances in the mission of their department or organization,” the foundation said.
Choudhury earned his BTech and MTech degrees from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He later received a master’s degree and doctorate from Carnegie Mellon University.
The Faculty Early Career Development Award, often called the CAREER award, is among the NSF’s most competitive grants for junior faculty.
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