IIT alumna Shana Moothedath bags NSF’s junior faculty award

Moothedath is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at the Iowa University.

Shana Moothedath / LinkedIn/@Shana Moothedath

The United States National Science Foundation has awarded the prestigious CAREER Award to Iowa State University Assistant Professor Shana Moothedath.

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of 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 CAREER award is the NSF’s most prestigious honor to support junior faculty.

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Moothedath, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, received the award for research on developing multi-task learning algorithms that leverage problem structures to enable efficient, privacy-preserving learning in dynamic systems.

As part of her CAREER project, Moothedath intends to boost engagement in STEM education with an integrated education plan providing a pathway for K-12 to college students to receive rigorous math training and hands-on experience, including coding skills for machine learning-based intelligent system design.

This project will be funded by NSF’s Division of Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems.

Moothedath holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Engineering from Kerala University and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

She joined Iowa University in 2021, after completing her post-doctoral research at the University of Washington,

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