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Research Fellow

A Research Fellow is a NIH employee who possesses a doctoral degree and is on a time-limited, renewable appointment. The purpose of the Research Fellowship is to provide junior-level scientists experience in biomedical research while they provide a service relevant to the Institute or Center’s (IC) program needs. The Research Fellow will spend the entire fellowship in laboratory research, while supporting the performance of NIH intramural research. Scientists with considerable experience beyond postdoctoral training may be designated Senior Research Fellows .

To be eligible for a Research Fellowship, a candidate must have demonstrated outstanding scholastic achievement and the ability to conduct successfully, with minimal supervision, a pre-established program in laboratory research.

Because Research Fellows perform services for NIH in addition to the training experience, these positions apply against the IC’s Full-Time Equivalent Employment (FTE) ceiling.

A Research Fellow is a U.S. citizen, U.S. permanent resident (green card, resident alien), or non-resident alien with a valid employment-authorized visa foreign national, who has been appointed to conduct health-related research at a NIH facility. Research Fellow (Visiting Program [VP]) appointments may be renewed; however, the total length of an appointment may not exceed the 5/8 Year Duration Policy . For foreign nationals on a visa, all renewals are subject to applicable visa restrictions.

As part of an effort to attract and retain top-level Research Fellow and Research Fellow (VP) candidates for a variety of different scientific disciplines, the NIH established the following programs:

• Early Independent Scientist : an intramural component of the national NIH Director’s Early Independent Scientist (EIS) Program designed to support recent doctoral graduates in independent positions without the need to train further in a post-doctoral fellowship.
• Independent Research Scholar (IRS) : a new program launched in 2019 focused to build the workforce diversity of independent research scientists.

Both Research Fellows and Research Fellows (VP) are Full-Time Equivalent Employment (FTE) positions.

Approvals (Process)

Research Fellows are appointed using Title 42(g) and approved by the delegated authority in each IC. Research Fellow appointments are traditionally approved by the Scientific Director (SD) for an initial 2-3 year period, but may be made for a shorter period (no less than 3 months). Depending on salary level and other pay components proposed, review and approval may be required from both the IC Title 42 Standing Committee and the NIH Compensation Committee (NCC). Please consult the Title 42 Pay Model for additional information.

For Research Fellows that require clinical credentialing, an additional approval must be received from the Director, CC (or delegate) after recommendation by the Clinical Center (CC) Credentials Committee and the Medical Executive Committee (MEC). For further information, please contact the Office of Credentialing Services, Clinical Center (OCS/CC) at [email protected] or 301-496-5937.

Additional approvals and requirements for Visiting Program fellows can be found at the Division of International Services .

Check Sheets / Checklists

There is currently no Deputy Director for Intramural Research (DDIR) -approved check sheet or checklist for the Research Fellow designation. Individual ICs may have additional requirements and check sheets. Please contact your Administrative Officer (AO) or HR Specialist for additional guidance.

Intramural scientists at the NIH, as is true for all scientists, should be committed to the responsible use of scientific tools and methods to seek new knowledge. While the general principles of scientific methodologies are universal, their detailed application may differ in various scientific disciplines and circumstances. All research staff in the Intramural Research Program should maintain exemplary standards of intellectual honesty in formulating, conducting, presenting, and reviewing research, as befits the leadership role of the NIH.

Within the NIH IRP, the ethical conduct of researchers is governed by the following three disciplines:

• Research Ethics
• Government Ethics

Ethics information may also be available through your specific IC. Please contact your Ethics Counselor for additional guidance.

Pay / Compensation

Pay and compensation for Title 42(g) appointed Research Fellows is based on the Title 42 Pay Model . Research Fellow salary ranges are in Band I. Depending on salary level and other pay components proposed, review and approval may be required from both the IC Title 42 Standing Committee and the NIH Compensation Committee (NCC).

For additional pay and compensation information for Research Fellow (VP) appointments, according to their specific visa requirements, please contact the Division of International Services (DIS) .

Recruitment Process / Appointment Mechanisms

Recruitment of a Research Fellow is made via Title 42(g) .

Sufficient outreach efforts must be taken to assure that a diverse pool of potential candidates (e.g. minorities, women, and individuals with disabilities) is made aware of fellowship opportunities. At a minimum, the candidate must possess a doctoral-level degree from an accredited institution of higher learning, including: Ph.D., M.D., D.V.M., D.D.S., D.M.D., Sc.D., or other research doctoral-degree widely recognized in U.S. academe as equivalent to a Ph.D.

Official position descriptions are not required. However, the supervisor must prepare a narrative statement fully describing the duties and responsibilities required.

Qualifications for a Research Fellow appointment include the following:

• Appointees must be U.S. citizens, U.S. permanent resident (green card, resident alien), or non-resident aliens with a valid employment-authorized visa.
• Candidates must possess a Ph.D., M.D., D.D.S., D.M.D., D.V.M. or equivalent degree in a biomedical, behavioral, or related science, or have been certified by a university as meeting all the requirements leading to such a doctorate.
• Candidates must furnish proof that they meet educational requirements. For most scientists, official transcripts are required. For very senior scientists with established professional reputations who are well known in their fields, a copy of the doctoral degree, and professional license if any, may be sufficient. However, if the diploma does not indicate the field in which the doctorate is awarded (e.g., indicates only Doctor of Philosophy), then copies of transcripts or listings of courses are required.
• Foreign educated scientists from certain countries (e.g., China) may be unable to provide official transcripts. In those rare cases, a copy of the diploma, with official English translation, if necessary, may be accepted. However, if the diploma does not indicate the field in which the doctorate is awarded (e.g., indicates only Doctor of Philosophy), then copies of transcripts or listings of courses, with official translation, are required.
• Foreign education must be evaluated by an accredited organization to ensure that it is comparable to education received in the United States. ICs may wish to consult with the Division of International Services, ORS, and with OIR for preliminary advice on the equivalency of foreign degrees with U.S. doctorates. Simply because a degree is identified as a doctorate does not mean it is equivalent.
• A minimum of two references is required from professionals in the field, attesting to the candidate’s scientific qualifications, credentials, and accomplishments. Additional references may be required depending upon Office of Intramural Research (OIR) policies and the Intramural Professional Designation (IPD) proposed.

In addition to the aforementioned process, the NIH has established two additional recruitment methods as part of an effort to attract and retain top-level candidates for a variety of different scientific disciplines:

• Early Independent Scientist : an intramural component of the national NIH Director’s Early Independent Scientist (EIS) Program designed to support recent doctoral graduates in independent positions without the need to train further in a post-doctoral fellowship. Successful candidates are provided the resources to establish an independent research program, including salary and benefits, support for lab personnel, lab space, supplies, and start-up equipment. For additional information, please visit the Early Independent Scientists page as part of the IRP Web site.
• Independent Research Scholar (IRS) : a new program launching in 2019 focused to build the workforce diversity of independent research scientists.

Research Fellow appointments are made via Title 42(g) and renewed in 1-year increments, according to the 5/8 Year Duration Policy . The maximum length of this fellowship is eight years, and the duration is determined by the length of time spent at NIH in all fellowship capacities, unless the scientist is approved for tenure-track or another staff NIH appointment. For foreign nationals on a visa, all renewals are subject to applicable visa restrictions.

A Research Fellow is not granted independent resources by their Institute, except for Early Independent Scientists.

Termination

Research Fellow appointments may be terminated before their expiration date for cause (e.g., personal or scientific misconduct), unsatisfactory performance, or administrative reasons, including but not limited to, programmatic changes and/or budgetary considerations. Terminations of a Research Fellow must follow the policies and processes appropriate to the Title 42(g) appointment mechanism.

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Research Fellow

Key skills:

• A Higher Degree ( PhD / DPhil / MD ) in a relevant field
• Drive to lead and conduct research
• High level subject expertise and research experience
• Good record of published research
• Well-developed communication skills, able to write reports, papers , and funding proposals
• Driven and self-motivated; able to work independently and under pressure

Typical job titles: Research Fellow, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, [named scheme] Research Fellow

A Research Fellow is a position where you get to lead research, in some cases for the first time. Research Fellows propose their own research project and have to secure funding to undertake it, acting as a Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-Investigator for that project. This could be the entire role or it could also include work in another research group too.

It is one of the ways you progress in a university research career from being a postdoctoral researcher who works within a research group. Research Fellows differ from lecturers and many other mid-career positions in universities because the primary role is to conduct research and commitments to teaching or administration are limited.

There is a wide range of titles for these posts, partly dependent on who is funding them. Although most will be employed by a university, an external funder may ultimately pay for this to happen. The Royal Society’s University Research Fellowship scheme is an example, but many other funders, including Research Councils and other Academies , offer similar schemes. It is also possible for a Research Fellow to be funded by the university or research institution itself.

There is also a range in seniority of Research Fellow positions, ranging from Junior Research Fellow, Research Fellow, Senior Research Fellow to Principal Research Fellow (and occasionally even Professorial Research Fellow). What is common is that the researcher is funded mainly to undertake research.

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Imogen Gingell finished her PhD in fusion plasma physics at Warwick in 2013, and went on to join space physics groups in London before establishing herself as a research fellow at Southampton in 2019. Her research tackles the interaction between Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind, especially at shockwaves where the solar wind slows from super-sonic to sub-sonic speeds.

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(1) Description

The Senior Research Fellow position is the highest non-faculty research position at Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). The criteria for appointment to Senior Research Fellow are sufficient independence, stature, and national or international reputation in the field to qualify for a tenured appointment at a major research university.

Senior Research Fellows conduct independent research necessary to the intellectual pursuits of a department or research center. This appointment comes with principal investigator rights and does not require close faculty supervision. A need for this appointment must be demonstrated by the department or center. (Note: When a Senior Research Fellow is hired to work in a center, the appointing unit must be a department, not the center itself, and all the search procedures outlined in 13.H.4 (“Steps: Appointment to Senior Research Fellow”) must be followed, including a departmental vote.) The appointment is contingent on funding and space, and Senior Research Fellows must be self-funded through grants on a continuing basis.

The appointment is of unspecified duration and implies that the University anticipates a continuing need for the individual’s services, but in the event that the need or funding disappears and no suitable alternative employment is available within the University, the appointment may be terminated on ordinarily twelve months’ notice from the point that the individual’s funding runs out. In such cases, the individual retains his/her/their appointment until the termination date, but the FAS has no financial responsibility for the individual from the point that the funding has run out.

Feedback on performance will be provided on an annual basis. The appointment is ordinarily full-time; exceptions must be justified. Under no circumstances will such an appointment be made for a project or program wholly dependent upon the presence or continuing interest of a single faculty member.

The Office for Faculty Affairs, in conjunction with the divisional deans and the John A. Paulson Dean of SEAS, will monitor appointments in this category regularly, reviewing numbers in rank, length of service, salary ranges, etc.

Note: Members of the FAS and University community are expected to familiarize themselves with, and conform to, Harvard policies on teaching, research, and service, as appropriate to their position. Please see Chapter 2, “FAS and University Policies,” for more information.

In keeping with Harvard University’s Intellectual Property policies ( https://otd.harvard.edu/ ) and other research policies, faculty and researchers are expected to sign electronically the Harvard University Participation Agreement by the start of their appointment .

Senior Research Fellows are paid at a rate commensurate with experience, in consultation with the assistant dean for faculty affairs.

(3) Search Flowchart: Senior Research Fellow (SRF)

(4) Steps: Appointment to Senior Research Fellow

(5)  dossier checklist:  appointment to senior research fellow.

Please securely send an electronic copy of the preliminary dossier to the assistant dean for the division (AD). Please follow HUIT’s recommended practices for secure document transfer (e.g., Accellion Kiteworks, encryption, etc.), which can vary by user platform. To facilitate storing and sharing of files, please name the file as follows: a) alpha-numeric characters only (no dashes, commas, slashes, etc.)  b) [Last Name] [First Name] [Department Name] SRF dossier [numerical Month, Date, and Year of dossier submission: XX YY ZZ]. E.g., Smith John Psychology SRF dossier 1 4 15.  c) If a dossier is revised and resubmitted, please repeat the original title, followed by “rev” and [Month of resubmission] [Date of resubmission] [Year of resubmission].  E.g., Smith John Psychology SRF dossier 1 4 15 rev 1 15 15.

After the offer is finalized, please send 1 electronic PDF copy of the final dossier to the Appointments Office in the Office for Faculty Affairs via Aurora. Please use the naming convention outlined above. Departments should retain documents according to practices recommended by Harvard Archives at https://grs.harvard.edu/ (please log in).

______1.     Authorization letter for the search.

______2.     If the search was not targeted, the Departmental EEO Report displaying aggregate demographic data from the search, available through ARIeS.

______3.     Case statement (including department/SEAS area vote by name).  Note: The case statement must include a description of all efforts to identify candidates from diverse populations, including women and minorities.

______4.    Candidate’s curriculum vitae , including details of the candidate’s Harvard affiliation, if any, and a list of publications.

______5.    Research statement.

______6.    Information on current and pending funding.

______7.    A copy of the letter soliciting evaluations from external letter writers and the recipient list (see Sample Table ), indicating who did and did not reply.

______8.   Eight to ten external letters.

______9.   Copies of all advertisements, if applicable.

Note: The candidate should not solicit student (or postdoc) letters, and any unsolicited student (or postdoc) letters will not be included in the dossier.

To be added to the final dossier after the offer is finalized:

_____10.      A copy of the offer letter and all subsequent emendations to it.

_____11.     A copy of the candidate’s letter of acceptance.

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About Graduate Research Fellowship Program

The Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math (STEM) at accredited US institutions .  Refer to the NSF GRFP program page  for guidelines, announcements, and other programmatic information.

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The GRFP module and supporting systems allow for:

• Applicants  to apply to the GRFP through an online application available in the application module. Applicants can complete, review, and check the status of their application through this module. The annual application period opens in late July each year and closes in mid-October .
• Reference Writers  to submit letters of reference for GRFP Applicants through the Reference Letter Submission (RLS) module in Research.gov. All reference letters must be submitted to NSF by the deadline in October.
• Reviewers  to evaluate assigned applications online based on NSF’s merit review criteria of Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts. Review panels are conducted virtually each year in January.
• Graduate Research Fellows  to manage their Fellowship Status and report the progress of their graduate studies via an annual activity report submitted online in the Fellows module. Fellowship Offers are announced annually in late March/early April.  New Fellows must accept their award and declare their Fellowship Status by the deadline published in the Fellowship Offer letter. Current Fellows are notified by email of the deadline to submit their Annual Activity Report and declare their Fellowship Status.
• GRFP Officials  to manage the activities of Fellows at their institution. Officials approve change requests in Fellowship Status and field of study as well as Fellowship institution transfers through the GRFP Officials module. GRFP Officials are required to submit Completion and Program Expense Reports for  current Fellows  at their institutions each Fall. Officials certify progress and submit Grants Roster Reports for  all Fellows  at their institutions each Spring.

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• Reference the  GRFP  site for detailed information about program eligibility and application requirements. This site also has information for Reviews and links to the Reviewer Registration site .
• Reference  Account Resources  for help registering, logging in and managing your profile in Research.gov. All GRFP Applicants, Fellows, Reference Writers, Reviewers, and Officials must register and sign in to Research.gov to access their respective functions.
• If these resources have not addressed your needs, please reference the GRFP Contact page .

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Research fellow profiles on this page:

Ruchir Agarwal | Marlene Amstad | Ed Balls | Edoardo Campanella  |  Camilla Cavendish |  Michal Halperin | Jane S. Hoffman | Ira Jackson | Timothy Massad | Wake Smith | Edwin Truman |  Sir Paul Tucker | Shlomit Wagman | Antonio Weiss  | Peter Zemsky

Ruchir Agarwal

Ruchir Agarwal is an economist at the IMF, where he has worked in several advanced economies, emerging markets, and frontier economies. Most recently, he facilitated the multilateral response to COVID-19 as the Head of the IMF Global Health and Pandemic Response Task Force. He was also the head of delegation to the G20 Joint Finance & Health Task Force. Prior to that he was the lead economist for India during COVID-19; the lead economist for Mongolia’s economic reform program during its 2017-18 crisis; as well as the lead economist for Sweden, Lebanon, and Bhutan. He also served in the financial crisis management division, where he worked on the implementation of the Cyprus rescue package during the European debt crisis, and on financial sector reforms in several crisis cases. His research on electronic money, negative interest rate policy, finance & trade solutions to fight the pandemic, and the role of talent in advancing innovation and long-run growth has been cited by the Financial Times, WSJ, New York Times, The Economist, Washington Post, etc. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 2012—where he also won the Allyn A. Young Prize for excellence in teaching. As a Research Fellow at M-RCBG he will focus on “Financing Global Goods.” The project will explore ways to increase strategic investments in global goods (such as pandemic prevention, frontier science, and climate security) that benefit every nation. His project is sponsored by Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor and Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government.

Marlene Amstad

Marlene Amstad is economics and finance professor at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, the Co-Director of its Fintech Center at the Shenzhen Finance Institute and serves as Vice-Chair of the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA). As the former deputy director at the Swiss National Bank she headed the investment strategy and financial market analysis unit.  Marlene also worked at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Credit Suisse and the Swiss Economic Institute. She served as adviser to over ten Asian central banks and coordinated the Asian Bond Fund (ABF) initiative of EMEAP (Executives' Meeting of East Asia-Pacific Central Banks). Marlene regularly holds research fellowships at central banks, most recently with the Bank of Japan, Bank of Finland and BIS and is a fellow at ABFER (Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research). Marlene’s research focuses on international finance and monetary economics. Her research is published in refereed and policy-oriented journals. She is the coeditor of “Central Bank Digital Currency and Fintech in Asia” with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) covering contributions by eight Asian central banks, IMF, BIS and Luohan Academy. Her latest book is “The Handbook of China’s Financial System” including banking, bonds, the stock market, asset management, the pension system, and financial technology (forthcoming Nov 2020, in Princeton Press).  Marlene is an expert in developing new economic indicators based on big data for policy makers and investors. Working at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, she created the “Fed New York staff underlying inflation gauge (UIG)” which is published monthly. She built a quantitative credit rating system for corporate clients at Credit Suisse, and at Swiss Economic Institute a recession indicator based on company surveys. As a Senior Fellow at M-RCBG, her research was on data innovation and financial regulation. Her faculty sponsor was Ken Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard University. E-mail: [email protected]

Ed Balls was UK Shadow Chancellor from 2011 to 2015 and co-chaired the Inclusive Prosperity Commission with former US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, which reported in January 2015. He served in the British Cabinet as Education Secretary (2007-2010). He was previously the UK Minister for Financial Services (2006-2007) and the Chief Economic Adviser to the UK Treasury (1997-2004), during which time he was the Chair of the IMFC Deputies and UK G20 Deputy. He was the Labour & Co-operative Member of Parliament for Morley and Outwood (2010-2015) and MP for Normanton (2005-2010). As Chief Economic Adviser to the Treasury (1997-2004), Balls led the design of policies including independence of the Bank of England, the New Deal jobs programme, the Five Tests Euro assessment, Sure Start, tax credits and the national minimum wage. As a Treasury Minister, he was commissioned by the G7 Finance Ministers to prepare a report with Sir Jon Cunliffe (now deputy Governor of the Bank of England) on Economic Aspects of the Israel-Palestine conflict. At the Department for Children, Schools and Families, Balls brought together schools and children's policy for the first time in the Children's Plan and pushed through radical and progressive policies including raising the education and training age to 18, reform of the social work profession, establishing the support staff negotiating body and extra investment in youth services and short breaks for disabled children and their families. As Shadow Chancellor, he was awarded the Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year and the Political Studies Association Politician of the Year. Balls received his MPA from HKS in 1990, was a teaching fellow in Harvard’s Department of Economics (1989-90), and was a leader writer and columnist at the Financial Times (1990-94) where he was the WINCOTT Young Financial Journalist of the Year. He has also written regularly for the Guardian, New Statesman and Tribune and co-authored a number of books, papers, articles and pamphlets. His faculty sponsor is Lawrence Summers, Charles W. Eliot University Professor of Harvard University and Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Email: [email protected]

Edoardo Campanella

Edoardo Campanella is an economist and author. He works as senior global economist at UniCredit Bank and he recently published with Marta Dassu’ Anglo Nostalgia: the Politics of Emotion in a Fractured West (Oxford University Press). He writes globally syndicated columns for Project Syndicate, and his writings have appeared, among the others, in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, Survival and many other media outlets. Edoardo is also David Rockefeller Fellow of the Trilateral Commission, where he co-directed the Taskforce on Global Capitalism in Transition — co-chaired by Carl Bildt (former Swedish PM), Kelly Grier (US Chair and Americas Managing Partner, Ernest & Young) and Takeshi Ninami (CEO of Suntory Group). He previously worked for the economic research departments of the World Trade Organisation, the World Economic Forum and the Italian Senate. In 2016, he was a shortlisted author for the Bracken Bower Prize, awarded by the Financial Times and McKinsey to promising writers under the age of 35. He holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School that he attended on a Fulbright scholarship. While at Harvard, he was awarded the Certificate for Teaching Excellence for his teaching activity. He is also affiliated with ISPI, the Aspen Institute, the Centre for the Governance of Change of IE University in Madrid and the Council for Italy and the United States. He was an M-RCBG Senior Fellow 2021-2023. Email: [email protected]

Camilla Cavendish

Camilla Cavendish is an award-winning journalist and commentator who sits as an independent peer, Baroness Cavendish of Little Venice, in the UK House of Lords. She is the author of  Extra Time: Ten Lessons for an Ageing World , published by Harper Collins May 2019. She was a senior advisor to Prime Minister David Cameron, as Head of the Policy Unit in Number Ten Downing Street. She received her MA from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and her MPA from the Kennedy School, where she was a Kennedy Memorial Trust Scholar. She has expertise on a wide-range of policy issues, including healthcare. She was the author of the Cavendish Review, An Independent Review into Healthcare Assistants and Support Workers in the NHS and social care settings, commissioned by the UK Government in 2013. She has been a Non-Executive Director of the Care Quality Commission, the UK’s hospital and care home regulator. She is best known as the author of the UK government’s “sugar tax” on sugary drinks, announced in 2016 to counter obesity, and for her work on child protection. As Assistant Editor and OpEd columnist for The Times newspaper, her campaign to expose miscarriages of justice in family courts convinced the Brown government to legislate, to open those courts to the media. She is the recipient of the Paul Foot/Private Eye award for investigative journalism; Campaigning Journalist of the Year and Wincott Senior Financial Journalist.  She is published regularly in The Sunday Times and The Financial Times, appears regularly on BBC and ITV television, and has presented programmes for BBC Radio 4 on topics including the age divide and air pollution. She is chair of Frontline, a pioneering non-profit which recruits and trains high performing graduates to be social workers. She started her career at McKinsey & Co and went on to be CEO of a public-private joint venture which regenerated London’s south bank area. Her current research is entitled:  The coming demographic challenge, the emergence of the “Super Old”, and the need for new conceptual frameworks . Her faculty sponsor is Jeff Liebman, Malcolm Wiener Professor of Public Policy. Email:  [email protected]

Michal Halperin

Michal Halperin is a legal expert in the fields of competition, antitrust laws and regulation. Between 2016 and 2021 she was the Director-General of the Israeli Competition Authority.  She led the Competition Authority in merger review, criminal and administrative enforcement, advocacy for the promotion of competition, and economic research. In her term as head of the Competition Authority she instituted a reform of the Israeli Competition Law; created the Advocacy arm of the Competition Authority and built multi-disciplinary working teams. Under her guidance, the Authority transformed to become a key player in almost every economic reform in Israel. Some of the markets in which she was able to promote competition are the cellular, natural gas, dairy, and financial payment markets. Michal Halperin also led the Competition Authority’s criminal prosecution and administrative enforcement in landmark cases against cartels and dominant entities such as the elevator companies, the natural gas monopoly (Chevron) and Facebook.  Prior to her term as Director-General of the Competition Authority, she was head of the Competition and Antitrust Group at Meitar Law. Michal Halperin also previously held the position of Chief Legal Advisor at the Israel Competition Authority (then Israel Antitrust Authority) where she headed a team of 25 legal professionals. From 2000 -2001, she was a Special Legal Advisor at Mintz Levin in Boston.  She began her professional career as an intern in the Supreme Court of Israel, and was then a lawyer in Erdinast, Ben Nathan, Toledano & Co. Advocates, becoming a partner there after five years. Michal Halperin is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. She was an M-RCBG Senior Fellow from 2021-2023. Email: [email protected]

Jane S. Hoffman

Jane S. Hoffman is a former New York public official and author. Her latest book “Your Data, Their Billions-Unraveling and Simplifying Big Tech” was chosen as a top ten non-fiction book by Amazon and an “Editor’s Choice.”  The book outlines the datafication of our lives and the digital marketplace. She has served as Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner for the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs. Hoffman was a Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor and also served as Commissioner of Public Authority Reform in New York. She founded and chaired the Presidential Forum on Renewable Energy, a non-profit that created the first-ever national presidential debate on energy security and climate. Her first book “Green-Your Place in the New Energy Revolution” detailed a renewable energy plan for the United States and was excerpted in Scientific American. She previously served as Deputy Commissioner to the United Nations, Consular Corps and International Business where she conducted an nationally awarded economic impact study. She was President of the Sister City Program, a nine country cultural exchange. Hoffman has served on more than ten boards and commissions including Northwestern University from which she holds a B.S. She previously served as an Advanced Leadership Fellow and Senior Fellow at Harvard University. As an M-RCBG Research Fellow she will focus on corporate social responsibility. Her faculty sponsor is John Haigh, Co-Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government and Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Email: [email protected]

Ira Jackson

Ira Jackson has served in a wide range of leadership positions in the public, the private, academic and nonprofit sectors. He has extensive experience in a variety of roles in higher education at four private and two public universities (Harvard, Claremont, Brandeis, MIT, Arizona State and the University of Massachusetts Boston). Ira served as a top aide to two big city mayors (Newark and Boston), and helped to create the training program for big city mayors at Harvard’s Institute of Politics. He has been dean of both a school of business (Peter Drucker School of Management at the Claremont Colleges) and a school of public policy (McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies at UMass Boston) and was director of the HKS Center for Business and Government. Earlier, he was Senior Associate Dean of HKS during its formative growth years, and oversaw the design and construction of HKS's new building and creation of its Forum.  As Massachusetts Commissioner of Revenue and as executive vice president of a global commercial bank (BankBoston), he earned a reputation as an innovator and creative problem solver. Ira continues to play an active role in civic affairs and philanthropy. He is a co-founder of the Commonwealth Summit, a strategic planning retreat for leaders in Massachusetts, and the Civic Action Project, that trains a diverse cross-section of current public and private and next generation leaders to build mutual trust, encourage collaboration, and become successful change agents. He teaches, writes and consults on strategy, leadership and social change, with a focus on corporate purpose and issues of race, class and social justice. As a Research Fellow at M-RCBG, Ira will focus on public-private partnerships that work -- and why?  Building upon the example of Massachusetts becoming the Silicon Valley of life sciences through an intentional public-private-academic partnership, are there lessons to be learned about how similar approaches might capture other emerging sectors such as cleantech, and might address intractable issues such as closing the racial wealth gap, where neither business nor government alone is capable of providing solutions?  Emails: irajackson2020@gmail ; [email protected]

Timothy Massad

Timothy Massad is the Director of the M-RCBG Digital Assets Policy Project. He is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Massad served as Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014-2017. Under his leadership, the agency implemented the Dodd-Frank reforms of the over-the-counter swaps market and harmonized many aspects of cross-border regulation, including reaching a landmark agreement with the European Union on clearinghouse oversight. The agency also declared virtual currencies to be commodities, introduced reforms to address automated trading and strengthened cybersecurity protections. Previously, Mr. Massad served as the Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity, he oversaw the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the principal U.S. governmental response to the 2008 financial crisis. During his tenure, Treasury recovered more on all the crisis investments than was disbursed. Mr. Massad was with the Treasury from 2009 to 2014 and received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the Department’s highest honor, in recognition of his achievements. Prior to his government service, Mr. Massad was a partner in the law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP. His practice included corporate finance, derivatives and advising boards of directors. He served primarily in New York but also managed the firm’s Hong Kong office from 1999 to 2002 and worked in its London office. Mr. Massad helped draft the original ISDA standard agreements for swaps. Mr. Massad has a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Mr. Massad was an M-RCBG Senior Fellow 2017-20. His faculty sponsor was Professor Jason Furman, Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard Kennedy School . His current work is focused on public policy issues pertaining to digital assets. Email: [email protected]

Mr. Massad’s recent writings include the following: 

It’s Time to Strengthen the Regulation of Crypto-assets, published by The Brookings Institute, March 2019, available at https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Economis-Studies-Timothy-Massad-Cryptocurrency-Paper.pdf

“Is Facebook Libra A Betrayal of Satoshi Nakamoto’s Vision?”, Fortune, July 15, 2019, available at https://fortune.com/2019/07/15/facebook-libra-coin-cryptocurrency-hearing/

"Facebook’s Libra 2.0:  Why you might like it even if we can’t trust Facebook,” June 2020, available at https://www.brookings.edu/research/facebooks-libra-2-0/

Wake Smith is a Lecturer in Yale College, where he teaches what is understood to be the world’s first undergraduate survey course on climate engineering. The core of that course was published in book form in March 2022 by the Cambridge University Press under the title Pandora’s Toolbox: The Hopes and Hazards of Climate Intervention. As a Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, he has published papers on the aeronautics, costs, and deployment logistics of stratospheric aerosol injection as well as on the proper governance of research into these technologies. He finished his business career in private equity with New York based New State Capital. He previously served as: Chairman and President of Pemco World Air Services; Chief Operating Officer of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings; and President of the flight training division of Boeing. He holds a BA in History from Yale and an MBA from Harvard. E-mail: [email protected]

Edwin M. Truman

Edwin (Ted) M. Truman was a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) from 2001 until December 31, 2020. In 2013 he became a non-resident senior fellow. Before joining PIIE, he was assistant secretary for international affairs at the U.S. Treasury from 1998 to January 2001. He returned to the Treasury as counselor to the secretary from March 2009 to May 2009. Prior to his service at the Treasury, he was director of the division of international finance at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from June 1977 until October 1998 and economist on the Federal Open Market Committee (1983 to 1998). He joined the staff of the Federal Reserve in 1972 while on leave from Yale University where he was on the faculty of the economics department (1967 to 1974). He received his PhD in economics from Yale in 1967, his B.A. from Amherst College in 1963, and an honorary L.L.D. from Amherst in 1988.  He is an international macro-economist having published on international economic policy coordination, international financial crises, exchange rates, sovereign wealth funds, anti-money laundering, inflation targeting, the International Monetary Fund, and European economic integration. In addition to teaching at Yale, he taught off and on at Amherst College and Williams College (2006 to 2018).  He served on numerous international working groups and as an alternate member of the Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (1994 to 1998). He was an M-RCBG Senior Fellow 2021-2023. Email: [email protected]

Sir Paul Tucker

Sir Paul Tucker is a research fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government who writes at the intersection of political economy and political philosophy. He is the author of Unelected Power (Princeton University Press, 2018) and Global Discord (PUP, fall 2022). His other activities include being a senior fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University; president of the UK’s National Institute for Economic and Social Research; a director at Swiss Re; a member of the Board of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, and a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation. For over thirty years he was a central banker, and a member of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee from 2002. He was Deputy Governor from 2009 to late 2013, including serving on the Financial Policy Committee (vice chair) and Prudential Regulatory Authority Board (vice chair). Internationally, he was a member of the steering committee of the G20 Financial Stability Board, and chaired its Committee on the Resolution of Cross-Border Banks to solve “too big to fail”. He was a member of the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements, and was chair of the Basel Committee for Payment and Settlement Systems from April 2012. After leaving central banking, he was chair of the Systemic Risk Council from December 2015 to August 2021. Email: [email protected] ; website: http://paultucker.me/

Shlomit Wagman

Dr. Shlomit Wagman was the Director-General of the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authority (IMPA), a financial regulator and law enforcement agency, from 2016 to 2022, and the Acting Director-General of the Israel Privacy Protection Authority from 2019 to 2021. She was the Head of the Israeli delegation to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing watchdog from 2016 to 2022, and also served as a Co-Chair of its operational working group, a member of the Steering Group, and was a nominee for Presidency. She led major national reforms, most recently regulating cryptocurrencies, and the historic accession of Israel to the FATF as a member country, after an evaluation process in which Israel was placed among the top three most effective countries in the world. Under her leadership, IMPA doubled its size and exposed hundreds of money laundering and terrorism financing cases, which led to the crackdown of major criminal organizations and the seizure of billions of illicit funds. IMPA further received various awards, including the Egmont’s Global Best Financial Investigation (2016, 2021) and recognition by the FATF as one of the three most effective FIUs worldwide. Dr. Wagman worked in the private sector with leading law firms, including Wachtell Lipton in NYC and Gross-Hodak in Israel. She is the co-editor of the book "Cybercrime" (NYU Press, 2007), with Prof. Jack Balkin et al. She served as an adjunct lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Raichman University (2007-2012) and was a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School (2003-2007). She holds J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School (2007, 2005) and a joint LL.B. and B.A. degree (magna cum laude) in law and business management from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2001). She clerked for the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, Prof. Aharon Barak. She is a research fellow at the M-RCBG and a visiting researcher at the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard Law School. Email: [email protected]

Antonio Weiss

Antonio Weiss is currently a Research Fellow at M-RCBG. He served as Counselor to the Secretary at the United States Department of the Treasury, where he worked on domestic and international issues related to financial markets, regulatory reform, job creation, consumer finance, and broad-based economic growth. Since joining the Obama Administration, he served as the point-person on the debt crisis in Puerto Rico, working closely with members of Congress to pass legislation to allow an orderly restructuring of the Commonwealth’s debt. This has been called the most significant piece of economic legislation in 2016. Mr. Weiss led Treasury’s debt management team that oversees the Nation’s finances and initiated the most comprehensive review of the Treasury market in nearly two decades. Mr. Weiss advised the Secretary on the implementation of financial regulatory reform and policy issues related to financial stability, including the work of the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s review of potential threats to financial stability arising from asset management products and activities. Mr. Weiss coordinated the Department’s housing finance policy efforts and oversaw the Department’s housing programs aimed at assisting struggling homeowners, which received additional funding during his tenure at Treasury.  Mr. Weiss also led Treasury's review of developments in fintech, including the publication of a white paper on marketplace lending, which made several recommendations to enhance consumer and small business protections in this emerging sector. In recognition of his achievements at Treasury, Mr. Weiss was presented the Alexander Hamilton Award, which is the Department’s highest honor. Prior to joining Treasury, Mr. Weiss served in various leadership roles at Lazard in New York and Europe, including as Global Head of Investment Banking from 2009 to 2014. He has advised many of the world’s leading corporations on their most significant strategic decisions.  From 2000 to 2009, Mr. Weiss was based in Paris, where he was Vice Chairman of European Investment Banking and subsequently Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions. Mr. Weiss is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Director of the Volcker Alliance and the French-American Foundation.  He was Publisher of the leading literary quarterly, The Paris Review. Mr. Weiss earned his bachelor’s degree from Yale College and M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and Loeb Fellow.  He was an M-RCBG Senior Fellow from 2017-2019. Email:  [email protected]

Peter Zemsky

Peter Zemsky a Research Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government Harvard Kennedy School and the Eli Lilly Chaired Professor of Strategy and Innovation at INSEAD. He has deep expertise in how organizations leverage technology advances especially in digital and AI for value creation, including extensive experience with edtech innovation. He is currently researching the role of government in better aligning AI and tech innovations from the private sector with overall social value creation. Professor Zemsky served as Deputy Dean and Dean of Innovation at INSEAD from 2013 to 2023. He has led all major departments at the school including the flagship MBA Programme, Executive Education, Fundraising, and Faculty & Research. He oversaw the development of a wide range of edtech innovations including immersive VR case studies, customized online corporate development programs, and most recently a virtual strategy assistant utilizing generative AI. Professor Zemsky is a leading scholar in the economics of strategy, where he develops rigorous analyses of topics such as disruptive technologies, the trade-offs between value creation and value capture, and the choice of generalist versus specialist strategies. His doctoral students have been recognized three times for having the best dissertation in strategy by the Academy of Management. He serves on the board of Clairvest (TSX: CVG), a leading mid-market Canadian private equity management firm. He holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania where he was recognized as the outstanding graduating economics major and a Ph.D. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Every year, Kellogg offers a limited number of Research Fellow opportunities. These are full-time staff positions that last either 1 or 2 years during which the Fellows gain exposure to current academic research at Kellogg as well as hands-on experience assisting those projects. These are excellent opportunities for anyone who is considering applying to a PhD in a discipline related to business research.

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(Top, from left) Jonathan Long, Diyi Yang, and Susan Clark. (Bottom, from left) Priyanka Raina, Li-Yang Tan, and Ching-Yao Lai. (Image credit: Francine Freeman/Courtesy of Diyi Yang/Courtesy of Susan Clark/Courtesy of Priyanka Raina/Rod Searcey/Matthew Edwards)

Six Stanford faculty members are among the recipients of 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships , which recognize talented scientists in the United States and Canada.

“Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving the nominations of the most inventive and impactful early-career scientists across the U.S. and Canada,” said Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in the announcement. “We look forward to seeing how fellows take leading roles shaping the research agenda within their respective fields.”

The two-year fellowship is available to early-career scientists and offers $75,000 to help advance their research. The Sloan Research Fellowship was established in 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports scientific advancement. A total of 247 Stanford faculty have received the award, including this year’s winners.

The 2024 Sloan Research Fellows from Stanford are:

• Susan E. Clark , assistant professor of physics in the School of Humanities and Sciences
• Ching-Yao Lai , assistant professor of geophysics in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability and member of the  Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME)
• Jonathan Z. Long , assistant professor of pathology in Stanford Medicine , member of  Stanford Bio-X , the Cardiovascular Institute , the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance , the Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI) , and the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute and institute scholar at Sarafan ChEM-H .
• Priyanka Raina , assistant professor of electrical engineering in the School of Engineering
• Li-Yang Tan , assistant professor of computer science in the School of Engineering
• Diyi Yang , assistant professor of computer science in the School of Engineering

To be eligible for the fellowship, scholars must do research in the following scientific disciplines and technical fields: chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Candidates are nominated by fellow scientists and the winners are selected by independent panels of senior scholars based on each candidate’s research accomplishments, creativity, and potential to become a leader in their field.

For more information, visit the  Sloan Research Fellowship site . Nominations for the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowships will open on July 15, 2024.

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The prestigious, full-time, Research Fellowship Program provides intelligence professionals with the opportunity for academically rigorous and innovative research on topics critical to intelligence and national security priorities.  

The NIU Research Fellowship Program is under the Ann Caracristi Institute for Intelligence Research (CIIR). 

Fellowship participants benefit from a rich academic environment and access to NIU’s wide range of resources, including a large catalog of open-source research databases. Participants also receive guidance from CIIR’s staff of research methodologists and subject matter experts, and funding for travel and research.

Attention: Research Fellowship Program Application are due April 1, 2024

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During the 12-month tenure of the Fellowship, analysts will be freed from routine duties and based away from their home offices, working individually or collaboratively on research projects. Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to think critically, research and write effectively, and work independently. Upon successful completion of the program, participants will receive a National Intelligence University Fellow certificate.

The Fellowship Program offers an unparalleled opportunity to interact with senior leaders of the Intelligence Community on substantive issues. Fellows are encouraged to discuss and share their research with their Fellowship cohort, NIU faculty and students, and the broader IC and academia. 

Having time to think broadly about strategic topics facing the world today is something not enough people are able to enjoy. Loved being part of this team and look forward to continued collaborations. Overall, I can’t think of any place I would have preferred to be for 2020. 

2020-21 Air Force Fellow Ph.D. in Mathematics

The Fellowship will culminate in the following: Finalize an academic, peer-review quality  research monograph  that is the length of a journal article, book chapter, or book. | Orchestrate an NIU seminar. | Publish an article with the National Intelligence Press. | Present preliminary or final research findings in a Research Fellows presentation for an appropriate senior-level IC audience. 

It’s thrilling to have the time and resources to explore innovative ways to solve the Intelligence Community’s stickiest problems. As a Research Fellow you get access to senior leaders and faculty who help guide, inform, and sponsor your work. NIU’s Research Fellows program is evidence the Intelligence Community walks the talk about seeking creativity and innovation from its workforce.

2020-21 Federal Bureau of Investigation Fellow

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The Fellowship will culminate in the following:

• Exceptional applicants will have research interests that align with a Research Center.
• All candidates are required to possess an active TS/SCI clearance , including passing a polygraph exam, graduate degree from an accredited institution of higher education, and GS rank of 13 or above (or equivalent grade or military rank).
• Application packages should be submitted electronically in PDF format to the following address.

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Sloan Research Fellowships

2024 fellows, 2024 sloan research fellows.

Congratulations to the Sloan Research Fellows of 2024. The following 126 early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Winners receive $75,000, which may be spent over a two-year term on any expense supportive of their research.

Kwabena Bediako, University of California, Berkeley

Juan-Pablo Correa-Baena, Georgia Institute of Technology

Yael David, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Lisa Fredin, Lehigh University

Stephen D. Fried, Johns Hopkins University

Kandis Leslie Gilliard-AbdulAziz, University of California, Riverside

Stavroula K. Hatzios, Yale University

Abigail Knight, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Chong Liu, The University of Chicago

Zhenfei Liu, Wayne State University

Jonathan Z. Long, Stanford University

Jarad A. Mason, Harvard University

Lea Nienhaus, Florida State University

Rodrigo Noriega, University of Utah

Zachariah A. Page, The University of Texas at Austin

Shahar Sukenik, University of California, Merced

Alexandra Velian, University of Washington

Vojtech Vlcek, University of California, Santa Barbara

Wenjing Wang, University of Michigan

Xiao Wang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sidney M. Wilkerson-Hill, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Xin Yan, Texas A&M University

Yang Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara

COMPUTER SCIENCE

Jacob D. Andreas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Nathan Beckmann, Carnegie Mellon University

Adam M. Belay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Aaron Bernstein, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Katherine (Katie) L. Bouman, California Institute of Technology

Simon Shaolei Du, University of Washington

Daniel Genkin, Georgia Institute of Technology

Nika Haghtalab, University of California, Berkeley

Nan Jiang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Chi Jin, Princeton University

Rene F. Kizilcec, Cornell University

Aleksandra Korolova, Princeton University

Courtney Y. Paquette, McGill University

Priyanka Raina, Stanford University

Arvind Satyanarayan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Adriana Schulz, University of Washington

Yakun Sophia Shao, University of California, Berkeley

Justine Sherry, Carnegie Mellon University

Virginia Smith, Carnegie Mellon University

Li-Yang Tan, Stanford University

Diyi Yang, Stanford University

Xiangyao Yu, University of Wisconsin, Madison

EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE

Roxanne Beltran, University of California, Santa Cruz

Natalie Cohen, University of Georgia

Travis A. Courtney, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

Orencio Duran Vinent, Texas A&M University

Kaitlyn Gaynor, University of British Columbia

Ching-Yao Lai, Stanford University

Marianna Linz, Harvard University

Dipti Nayak, University of California, Berkeley

Sunyoung Park, The University of Chicago

Penny Wieser, University of California, Berkeley

Zoë B Cullen, Harvard University

Eduardo Dávila, Yale University

Ellora A. Derenoncourt, Princeton University

Laura Doval, Columbia University

Maryam Farboodi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kilian Huber, The University of Chicago

Ryota Iijima, Yale University

Ludwig Straub, Harvard University

MATHEMATICS

Alex Blumenthal, Georgia Institute of Technology

Theodore D. Drivas, Stony Brook University

Zhou Fan, Yale University

Elena Giorgi, Columbia University

Benjamin D. Grimmer, Johns Hopkins University

Boris Leonidovich Hanin , Princeton University

Matthew Harrison-Trainor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jiaoyang Huang, University of Pennsylvania

Yuehaw Khoo, The University of Chicago

Daniel Lacker, Columbia University

Michael Lindsey, University of California, Berkeley

Daniel Litt, University of Toronto

Jinyoung Park, New York University

Sarah Peluse, University of Michigan

Samuel Punshon-Smith, Tulane University

Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University

Ananth Shankar, Northwestern University

Junliang Shen, Yale University

Antoine Song, California Institute of Technology

Melanie Weber, Harvard University

Ian M. Zemke, Princeton University

NEUROSCIENCE

Vineet Augustine, University of California, San Diego

Wilma A. Bainbridge, The University of Chicago

SueYeon Chung, New York University

Anne Draelos, University of Michigan

Meng-meng Fu, University of California, Berkeley

Stephanie Gantz, University of Iowa

Theanne N. Griffith, University of California, Davis

Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, University of California, San Francisco

Justus M. Kebschull, Johns Hopkins University

Preeya Khanna, University of California, Berkeley

Jacqueline M. Kimmey, University of California, Santa Cruz

Jonathan Lynch, Johns Hopkins University

Zachariah M. Reagh, Washington University in St. Louis

Monique L. Smith, University of California, San Diego

Gaia Tavoni, Washington University in St. Louis

Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam, University of Delaware

Meg Younger, Boston University

Kate D. Alexander, University of Arizona

Soonwon Choi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Martin Claassen, University of Pennsylvania

Susan E. Clark, Stanford University

Chuanfei Dong, Boston University

Chunhui Du, Georgia Institute of Technology

Ke Fang, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Maya Fishbach, University of Toronto

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Cornell University

Chao-Ming Jian, Cornell University

Chenhao Jin, University of California, Santa Barbara

Daniel Lecoanet, Northwestern University

Zhen Liu, University of Minnesota

Xiao Luo, University of California, Santa Barbara

Lee McCuller, California Institute of Technology

Karan K. Mehta, Cornell University

Abdoulaye Ndao, University of California, San Diego

Lina Necib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Hadi Nia, Boston University

Geoff Penington, University of California, Berkeley

Alexander Philippov, University of Maryland, College Park

Vikram Ravi, California Institute of Technology

Andrew Vanderburg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suyang Xu, Harvard University

Yahui Zhang, Johns Hopkins University

What They Do

What does a Research Fellow do?

A research fellow is an academic researcher who conducts research and analysis of comprehensive literature, data, and results and provides literature reviews. He/She supervises research assistants and recruits study participants to interview them for a particular study. To become a research fellow, a candidate should have a doctorate in a relevant discipline and publish peer-reviewed papers. Also, a research fellow can be an independent investigator or be supervised by a principal investigator.

• Responsibilities
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• Types of Research Fellow

Research fellow responsibilities

As a research fellow, key responsibilities include designing and implementing independent research studies, managing data analysis and dissemination, and collaborating with other researchers. According to Dr. Phillis Sheppard , E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair and Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture and Womanist Thought at Vanderbilt University, "Position yourself. Write and publish directly and clearly in your field of study and adjacent areas." Additionally, they suggest that research fellows "create a plan with vision for the career you think you want." Therefore, a research fellow's role is not only to conduct research but also to actively contribute to the field and plan for their future career development.

Here are examples of responsibilities from real research fellow resumes:

• Collaborate with software engineers to automate identification of 15N- and 13C- labele LC-MS features.
• Process and manage GIS databases to contribute towards research in human transportation behavior.
• Manage investigator initiate and cooperative group correlative studies to identify biomarkers to ascertain tumor burden and clinical outcomes in lymphoma.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data through statistical software SAS and SPSS.
• Conduct sampling, PCR, data analysis and oral presentations of the work
• Implement python and C++ codes for numerical computation of transport properties in models and materials.
• Perform molecular biology experiments, DNA and RNA purification and biochemical assays.
• Use windows and Linux platforms.
• Analyze 3-D flight kinematics using MATLAB.
• Used python scripting language to optimize workflow.
• Prepare and submit funding proposals to DARPA and NSF.
• Utilize CRISPR technology to introduce MED12 mutations to human primary myometrial cells.
• Purify the carbohydrate-metabolizing enzymes and analyze the f soluble carbohydrates by HPLC, TLC.
• Secure approval for animal work (IACUC) and use of control materials (IRB).
• Compare quantitative PCR and digital droplet PCR; find that relative expression levels with both techniques are comparable.

Research fellow skills and personality traits

We calculated that 10 % of Research Fellows are proficient in Patients , Research Projects , and Data Analysis .

We break down the percentage of Research Fellows that have these skills listed on their resume here:

Developed psychological screening process for breast clinic patients to identify patients in distress and provide subsequent consultation and ongoing treatment.

Supported time-sensitive scholarly research by authoring research projects, conducting literature reviews, collecting and analyzing data, and preparing manuscripts.

Developed automated data analysis routines, based on anti-correlative measurement strategies to differentiate instrument systematic error from physical mirror surface attributes.

Managed laboratory cell culture operations, including training lab personnel, writing protocols, and performing necessary troubleshooting and maintenance tasks.

Coordinated interdisciplinary research between the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the College of Science and Technology.

Utilized CRISPR technology to generate MED12 exon 2 deletion mutations in colon cancer cells.

Most research fellows use their skills in "patients," "research projects," and "data analysis" to do their jobs. You can find more detail on essential research fellow responsibilities here:

Communication skills. To carry out their duties, the most important skill for a research fellow to have is communication skills. Their role and responsibilities require that "medical scientists must be able to explain their research in nontechnical ways." Research fellows often use communication skills in their day-to-day job, as shown by this real resume: "created templates for research procedures, purchase orders, data collection, and communication. "

Observation skills. Another essential skill to perform research fellow duties is observation skills. Research fellows responsibilities require that "medical scientists conduct experiments that require monitoring samples and other health-related data." Research fellows also use observation skills in their role according to a real resume snippet: "translated clinical observations into developmental research and new approaches for novel immunotherapy vaccines and cancer therapeutics. "

All research fellow skills

The three companies that hire the most research fellows are:

• Emory Healthcare 133 research fellows jobs
• Emory University 106 research fellows jobs
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 73 research fellows jobs

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Research fellow vs. postdoctoral associate.

A postdoctoral associate is responsible for researching to support scientific claims and theories by collecting evidence and information to answer scientific questions. Postdoctoral associates must have excellent communication skills , both oral and written, to interact with people and document investigation findings. They also utilize laboratory tools and equipment for scientific researches, conduct field investigations, and interview participants. A postdoctoral associate designs comprehensive research models to discuss results with the panel and the team efficiently and accurately.

There are some key differences in the responsibilities of each position. For example, research fellow responsibilities require skills like "rna," "public health," "past work," and "animal models." Meanwhile a typical postdoctoral associate has skills in areas such as "tip," "biomedical," "mit," and "rna-seq." This difference in skills reveals the differences in what each career does.

Research fellow vs. Staff scientist

The primary role of a Staff Scientist is to develop and manage scientific research projects with minimal supervision. They are also responsible for the technical and budgetary aspects of scientific research projects.

While some skills are similar in these professions, other skills aren't so similar. For example, resumes show us that research fellow responsibilities requires skills like "patients," "immunology," "cell biology," and "python." But a staff scientist might use other skills in their typical duties, such as, "molecular biology," "project management," "product development," and "pcr."

Research fellow vs. Scientist

A scientist is responsible for researching and analyzing the nature and complexities of the physical world to identify discoveries that would improve people's lives and ignite scientific knowledge for society. Scientists' duties differ in their different areas of expertise, but all of them must have a broad comprehension of scientific disciplines and methods to support their experiments and investigations. They collect the sample for their research, record findings, create research proposals, and release publications. A scientist must know how to utilize laboratory equipment to support the study and drive results efficiently and accurately.

There are many key differences between these two careers, including some of the skills required to perform responsibilities within each role. For example, a research fellow is likely to be skilled in "immunology," "cell biology," "python," and "nih," while a typical scientist is skilled in "molecular biology," "java," "product development," and "laboratory equipment."

Research fellow vs. Postdoctoral research associate

A postdoctoral research associate is responsible for assisting the educational institution's research department, writing research reports, analyzing research methods, and collecting information and related studies to support the research claims. Postdoctoral research associates must have excellent communication skills , both oral and written, reporting research updates to the research head, performing adjustments as needed, and gaining more expertise on the subject by brainstorming and discussing strategic procedures for the study. They may also conduct field investigation or coordinate with other institutions for additional reference, depending on the research's scope and limitation.

Types of research fellow

• Graduate Research Student
• Research Technician
• Research Scientist

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What Similar Roles Do

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• What a Research Chemist Does
• What a Research Internship Does
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• What a Research Project Coordinator Does
• What a Research Scientist Does
• What a Research Specialist Does
• What a Research Technician Does

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Research Fellowships for Young Scientists

• Doctoral Course (DC) Research Fellowships
• Postdoctoral (PD) Research Fellowships
• Restart Postdoctoral (RPD) Research Fellowships
• Cross-border Postdoctoral (CPD) Fellowships 

Fellowship Categories

• PhD holders without Japanese nationality or permanent residency status in Japan may apply for JSPS Invitational Fellowships for Research in Japan.

Starting date of fellowship tenure

• DC and PD Research Fellowships: April 1
• RPD Research Fellowships; April, July, October or January of next year (optional)
• CPD Research Fellowships: October 1 of the first year of PD fellowships

How to apply

• PD (Japanese)
• RPD (Japanese)
• CPD (Japanese)

Application Period (From applying organizations to JSPS)

• DC (FY2025)
• PD (FY2025)
• RPD (FY2025)

Screening Process

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PD and DC Research fellowships

RPD Research fellowships

CPD Research fellowships

Screening policy

Obligations and compliance rules (main items).

• JSPS Research Fellows must observe the conditions stipulated in the JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientist’s compliance rules and procedural guidelines (“Guidelines”) during the fellowship tenure. 
• Except in cases of suspension of fellowship for childbirth/childcare or due to illness/injury, fellows must focus on their research based on the research plan stated in their application form during the fellowship tenure.
• Fellows must submit required reports by the stipulated deadlines.
• In principle, fellows may not have any status other than a JSPS Research Fellow with a few exceptions. If they accept a full-time position or an equivalent job, JSPS may disqualify the fellow and terminate the fellowship.
• Fellows may receive a salary or a wage, or obtain other equivalent financial assistance under the conditions JSPS stipulates.
• JSPS has a set of requirements for research funding support other than the monthly stipends and Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows that Fellows may receive during their fellowship tenure. Fellows are not allowed to receive certain funds, including those provided by the national government for the purpose of supporting living expenses, and student loans from the Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), during their fellowship tenure. For details, see III-14 in the Guidelines.

Number of Applications and Selections FY2024

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Harvard Radcliffe Institute Announces 2024–2025 Fellows

Contact: Mac Daniel Associate Director of Communications Harvard Radcliffe Institute [email protected] 857-303-0205

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (May 10, 2024)—Harvard Radcliffe Institute today announced its historic 25th anniversary class of fellows, marking a quarter century of pathbreaking interdisciplinary study.

A yearlong Radcliffe fellowship provides recipients the rare opportunity to pursue ambitious projects in the unique environment of the Institute. Each fellowship class is drawn from some of the most thoughtful and exciting contemporary scholars in the humanities, sciences, social sciences, and arts—along with writers, journalists, playwrights, and other distinguished professionals. This year, Radcliffe accepted just 3.3 percent of applicants for the 2024–2025 fellowship class.

The work that the incoming fellows will undertake reflects our times: 

• Using AI to diagnose inefficiencies and biases in judicial systems 
• Preparing for an emergent epidemic in substance abuse disorders in women and girls 
• Using the James Webb Space Telescope to reveal cosmic history and predict the formation of dark matter
• Drawing on over a decade of research on Martin Luther King Jr. to write a book that will shed new light on King’s political philosophy

“As a former fellow and dean of the Institute, I know firsthand the impact that a Radcliffe fellowship can have. In the current moment, I have never felt more certain that Radcliffe’s approach—its embrace of interdisciplinary research and discourse across difference—is crucial to generating transformative art, scholarship, and writing” said Tomiko Brown-Nagin , dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, and professor of history in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. “This talented class of fellows promises to do great things that will deeply impact how we live in today’s world.”

This year’s Radcliffe fellows will be part of a unique interdisciplinary and creative community that will step away from routines to tackle projects that they have long wished to move forward. Throughout the academic year, fellows convene regularly to share their work in progress with the community and public. With access to Harvard’s unparalleled resources, Radcliffe fellows develop new tools and methods, challenge artistic and scholarly conventions, and illuminate the past, present, and future. Alumni are quick to say it was the best year of their career.

The incoming 2024–2025 fellowship class includes the following fellows:

Theo Anthony , the Mildred Londa Weisman Fellow and a Radcliffe-Film Study Center fellow, plans to spend his year working on a feature-length documentary about water management in Chicago. The film navigates the tension between our current climate crisis and “the eternal truth” of a changing climate throughout Earth’s history, told through a detailed case study of Chicago’s Deep Tunnel Project. Anthony is a filmmaker from upstate New York whose work has won awards at the Sundance Film Festival. Anthony’s Rat Film premiered to critical acclaim at Festival del film Locarno and had a broadcast premiere on PBS’s Independent Lens in 2018. His follow-up, Subject to Review , produced for ESPN’s 30 for 30 series, played at the 2019 New York Film Festival and was broadcast nationally later that year.

Daniel L. Chen , the Evelyn Green Davis Fellow and a professor at the Institute of Advanced Study at the Toulouse School of Economics in France, will continue his research into using artificial intelligence to diagnose inefficiencies and biases in judicial systems. Using data from courts worldwide, Chen is working on a book that will provide a comprehensive analysis covering predictive analytics for identifying judicial bias, field experiments on enhanced court efficiency, and insights into human interactions with AI, all aimed at strengthening justice and the rule of law.

Shelly F. Greenfield , the Mary Beth and Chris Gordon Fellow, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, the Kristine M. Trustey Endowed Chair of Psychiatry, and chief academic officer at McLean Hospital, will explore a narrowing gender gap in the prevalence of substance use disorders over the past three decades. These include alcohol, opioids, and cannabis, with rising rates in women and girls across race, ethnicity, and lifespan and resulting in serious substance-related health and social consequences, all exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Greenfield’s research will not only examine this trend but also explore the lack of gender-specific treatment for girls and women and seek policy solutions to overcome barriers to prevention and treatment.

Jodi Schneider , the Perrin Moorhead Grayson and Bruns Grayson Fellow, will examine how social media and hyperpolarized sources of news are contributing to a widespread distrust of science. The project will culminate in a series of articles showing how social media impacts fact formation, comparing partisan news systems that amplify versus self-correct and envisioning how to improve the resiliency of online networks in overcoming information disorder so we can all agree on facts. Schneider is an associate professor of information sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where she directs the Information Quality Lab. She studies the science of science through the lens of arguments, evidence, and persuasion.

Tracy R. Slatyer , the Edward, Frances, and Shirley B. Daniels Fellow and a theoretical physicist who works on particle physics, cosmology, and astrophysics, will research the mysterious nature and interactions of dark matter by studying the possible signature of new physics in astrophysical and cosmological data. She was the co-discoverer of the giant structures known as “Fermi bubbles.” These gamma-ray structures emerge above and below the center of the Milky Way and span a total length of about 50,000 light-years.

Jonathan Sterne , the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Fellow and James McGill Professor of Culture and Technology at McGill University, is concerned with the cultural dimensions of communication technologies. One of his major ongoing projects has involved developing the history and theory of sound in the modern west, which he will bring to his work at Radcliffe. He will undertake an integrative study of the cultural politics of machine-learning systems that process, analyze, or produce sound. His work brings sonic AI more fully into the conversation in critical AI studies and interdisciplinary media studies.

Brandon M. Terry , the Joy Foundation Fellow, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University, and codirector of the Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, will work on a book about Martin Luther King Jr.’s political philosophy and ethics, based on over a decade of teaching and writing about King’s political thought.

The Radcliffe-Salata Climate Justice Fellows for 2024–2025 are the following:

Holly Buck , from the University at Buffalo, who will write an interview-based book examining how rural communities engage with technology-oriented visions of the future, central to confronting climate change. 

Rachel Morello-Frosch , from the University of California, Berkeley, who will expand and develop new scientific projects, including environmental health and epidemiological studies, to explain the health and equity benefits of climate change policies (e.g., retirement of fossil fuel plants, reduction of oil and gas development, and nature-based solutions). Her work will be integrated with novel research translation strategies, including the development of online decision-making tools and journalistic storytelling for diverse audiences with the goal of reshaping regulatory decision-making and policy to better integrate and advance sustainability and environmental justice goals.

A full list of incoming 2024–2025 Radcliffe fellows can be found here .

About Harvard Radcliffe Institute

The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary exploration. We bring students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines. For more information, visit www.radcliffe.harvard.edu .

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Research Fellows Program at Microsoft Research India

Region: Asia-Pacific

Research Fellows Program

The RF applications and nominations deadline for Fall 2024 is extended to 16th February 2024. Note: Filling the above mentioned Microsoft Form is mandatory for all applicants for consideration.

The Research Fellows (RF) Program at Microsoft Research India (MSRI) exposes bright, young minds in India to world-class research and the state-of-the-art technology. The program prepares students for careers in research, engineering, as well as entrepreneurship. MSR India has some of the best researchers pushing the frontiers of computer science and technology. Research Fellows have contributed to all aspects of the research lifecycle, spanning ideation, implementation, evaluation, and deployment.

People at Microsoft Research India: Link

MSR Research Fellows Alumni:

• Joined top PhD programs at universities such as MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, CMU, IISc, etc.
• Started companies such as Everwell, Capillary, and Ola!
• Are working at Microsoft (India and US) in development positions.

Eligibility

Candidates should have completed BS/BE/BTech or MS/ME/MTech in Computer Science or related areas, graduating by summer 2024. We evaluate candidates based on a combination of factors including academic performance, raw smarts, development skills, and proven ability or aptitude for research and software development. Microsoft offers an inclusive work environment, and we value diversity in our workforce.

Research Fellows Roles

Selected candidates spend 1 to 2 years at MSR India. Different roles require a different combination of skills. Current and past RFs have worked on: solving deep theoretical problems, pushing the boundaries of AI, designing new programming languages, field work in rural India, prototyping communication and sensing hardware, optimizing database queries, and building software systems. Regardless, they all consistently aim to create academic, industry and societal impact. Be sure to tell us what excites you most!

Hear from  Shruti Rijhwani , a graduate of MSR India’s Research Fellow program who is currently doing her PhD at the Carnegie Mellon University on this episode of the Microsoft Research India podcast.

For any queries, contact:  [email protected] . Please ensure you have read the FAQs below before reaching out.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is the location? A. The Research Fellows will be working out of the Microsoft Research (Lavelle Road office) in Bangalore.

Q. I am a pre-final year student with all degree requirements complete already. Am I eligible to apply now? A. No, you must be graduated at the time of joining.

Q. I graduated several years ago. Am I eligible to apply? A. While this program is designed for people graduated within the past 3 years, anyone is eligible to apply.

Q. I am a PhD student/graduate. Am I eligible to apply? A. No, PhD students or graduates are not eligible.

Q. I am not from a Computer Science background. May I still apply? A. Yes! Research Fellows at Microsoft Research are from varying backgrounds, including and not limited to design, economics, electronics, linguistics, psychology, and social sciences!

Q. I am an international student. Am I eligible to apply? Am I eligible to be nominated? A. Yes, we accept international applications. No, you are not eligible to be nominated.

Q. What is the difference between a referral, a letter of recommendation, and a nomination? A. A referral is when you ask someone you know at the company you are applying to, for better visibility to the recruiter. For this particular role, we do not check referrals. A letter of recommendation is taken from someone who can strongly vouch for your work, for example the manager from your current company or a professor you have closely collaborated with. A nomination for this program is done only by the HOD of the Computer Science (CS) department where they think that you are one of best fits for this program from your university. Note: The HOD of CS need not necessarily know the candidate being nominated personally. Moreover, the HOD of CS is free to nominate people from other departments too.

Q. Will applying with a referral improve my chances? A. For this particular role – Research Fellows, we do not check any referrals.

Q. Does a nomination guarantee an interview call? A. Although a nomination will not guarantee an interview, nominated candidates will be given priority during the initial screening process.

Q. I got nominated by my institute. Do I still need to apply on the portal? A. Yes, you must go through the exact same process as everyone else.

Q. I got nominated by my institute. Do I still need to fill the Microsoft form? A. Yes, you must go through the exact same process as everyone else.

Q. I graduated recently. Am I eligible to get nominated? A. No, only current final year students are eligible to get nominated.

Q. I am a final year student but I did not get nominated by my university. Am I eligible to apply? A. Yes! We highly encourage everyone interested in the program to apply.

Q. I am from another department which is closely related to Computer Science. Can the head of my department nominate me? A. No, only the HOD of the Computer Science department can nominate people, but they are free to nominate people from any department.

Q. What if my institute does not have a Computer Science department? A. If your institute does not have a Computer Science (CS) department, then you can be nominated by the director of your institute. Please ensure that they include a statement in the PDF file attesting that your institute does not have a CS department.

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Research Institute for Collections Fellows 2024 announced 

13 May 2024

The Research Institute for Collections has appointed four fellows to visit UCL to conduct research on topics using UCL’s archives, rare books, records, and museum collections.

Prejudice in Power Fellow

Dr Ishita Marwah’s project ‘A Touch of Force’ will use material from the Galton Laboratory Collection and the Galton Archive.

Liberating the Collections Fellows

Raffaella Fryer-Moreira will work with Guarani and Kaiowá indigenous communities and the Grant Museum of Zoology Collections at UCL.

Dr Liz Bruchet’s project, ‘Embodied Narratives: illuminating mental health and disability in an art school archive’, will delve into the archival records of the Slade School of Fine Art to explore the experiences of disability and mental health within the context of art education.

Special Collections Visiting Fellow

Helen Strong’s project ‘Exploring the Historical Roots and Evolution of Forest School Camps in the UK’ will look at the Forest School movement, which focuses on outdoor learning for personal growth.

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The UCL Research Institute for Collections is a virtual centre for scholarship, pedagogy and impact based around UCL’s exceptional range of collections.

Read the full announcement on the Research Institute for Collections website .

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Four from MIT named 2024 Knight-Hennessy Scholars

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MIT senior Owen Dugan, graduate student Vittorio Colicci ’22, predoctoral research fellow Carine You ’22, and recent alumna Carina Letong Hong ’22 are recipients of this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholarships. The competitive fellowship, now in its seventh year, funds up to three years of graduate studies in any field at Stanford University. To date, 22 MIT students and alumni have been awarded Knight-Hennessy Scholarships.

“We are excited for these students to continue their education at Stanford with the generous support of the Knight Hennessy Scholarship,” says Kim Benard, associate dean of distinguished fellowships in Career Advising and Professional Development. “They have all demonstrated extraordinary dedication, intellect, and leadership, and this opportunity will allow them to further hone their skills to make real-world change.”

Vittorio Colicci ’22

Vittorio Colicci, from Trumbull, Connecticut, graduated from MIT in May 2022 with a BS in aerospace engineering and physics. He will receive his master’s degree in planetary sciences this spring. At Stanford, Colicci will pursue a PhD in earth and planetary sciences at the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability. He hopes to investigate how surface processes on Earth and Mars have evolved through time alongside changes in habitability. Colicci has worked largely on spacecraft engineering projects, developing a monodisperse silica ceramic for electrospray thrusters and fabricating high-energy diffraction gratings for space telescopes. As a Presidential Graduate Fellow at MIT, he examined the influence of root geometry on soil cohesion for early terrestrial plants using 3D-printed reconstructions. Outside of research, Colicci served as co-director of TEDxMIT and propulsion lead for the MIT Rocket Team. He is also passionate about STEM engagement and outreach, having taught educational workshops in Zambia and India.

Owen Dugan, from Sleepy Hollow, New York, is a senior majoring in physics. As a Knight-Hennessy Scholar, he will pursue a PhD in computer science at the Stanford School of Engineering. Dugan aspires to combine artificial intelligence and physics, developing AI that enables breakthroughs in physics and using physics techniques to design more capable and safe AI systems. He has collaborated with researchers from Harvard University, the University of Chicago, and DeepMind, and has presented his first-author research at venues including the International Conference on Machine Learning, the MIT Mechanistic Interpretability Conference, and the American Physical Society March Meeting. Among other awards, Dugan is a Hertz Finalist, a U.S. Presidential Scholar, an MIT Outstanding Undergraduate Research Awardee, a Research Science Institute Scholar, and a Neo Scholar. He is also a co-founder of VeriLens, a funded startup enabling trust on the internet by cryptographically verifying digital media.

Carina Letong Hong ’22

Carina Letong Hong, from Canton, China, is currently pursuing a JD/PhD in mathematics at Stanford. A first-generation college student, Hong graduated from MIT in May 2022 with a double major in mathematics and physics and was inducted into Sigma Pi Sigma, the physics honor society. She then earned a neuroscience master’s degree with dissertation distinctions from the University of Oxford, where she conducted artificial intelligence and machine learning research at Sainsbury Wellcome Center’s Gatsby Unit. At Stanford Law School, Hong provides legal aid to low-income workers and uses economic analysis to push for law enforcement reform. She has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals, served as an expert referee for journals and conferences, and spoken at summits in the United States, Germany, France, the U.K., and China. She was the recipient of the AMS-MAA-SIAM Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research, the highest honor for an undergraduate in mathematics in North America; the AWM Alice T. Schafer Prize for Mathematical Excellence, given annually to an undergraduate woman in the United States; the Maryam Mirzakhani Fellowship; and a Rhodes Scholarship.

Carine You ’22

Carine You, from San Diego, California, graduated from MIT in May 2022 with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering and computer science and in mathematics. Since graduating, You has worked as a predoctoral research assistant with Professor Amy Finkelstein in the MIT Department of Economics, where she has studied the quality of Medicare nursing home care and the targeting of medical screening technologies. This fall, You will embark on a PhD in economic analysis and policy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She wishes to address pressing issues in environmental and health-care markets, with a particular focus on economic efficiency and equity. You previously developed audio signal processing algorithms at Bose, refined mechanistic models to inform respiratory monitoring at the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, and analyzed corruption in developmental projects in India at the World Bank. Through Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow, she taught computer science to Israeli and Palestinian students in Jerusalem and spearheaded an online pilot expansion for the organization. At MIT, she was named a Burchard Scholar.

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Lawrence Chillrud and Essien Taylor Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

The five-year fellowship is awarded to outstanding students pursuing a graduate degree in stem.

Northwestern Engineering electrical and computer engineering PhD students Lawrence Chillrud and Essien Taylor have been awarded US National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowships in recognition of their demonstrated potential for significant research achievements.

The highly selective Graduate Research Fellowship program awards a five-year fellowship to outstanding individuals pursuing a full-time, research-based graduate degree in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. The students will receive three years of financial support, including an annual stipend.

Lawrence Chillrud

Chillrud is developing machine learning methods for applications in biomedical imaging. He aims to create robust uncertainty quantification techniques for medical imaging models and to design reliable algorithms that can assist doctors and patients in making informed decisions.

“Knowing when to trust these complex predictive models in high-stakes clinical settings is of critical importance,” Chillrud said. “If a model could reliably estimate its case-by-case uncertainty, clinicians could have a better understanding of how to integrate model predictions in data-driven decision-making, and patients could be better informed and in control of their disease and treatment plan.”

Chillrud is working on two research projects. In his radiological work, he is developing models that seek to predict the presence or absence of important brain tumor biomarkers in a patient’s MRI scan. In pathology, Chillrud is investigating computational techniques to help renal pathologists identify patients most at risk of kidney transplant failure.

Chillrud earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Columbia University in 2020. Prior to joining Northwestern, Chillrud was a senior programmer in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. His research into the development of interpretable machine learning methods for assessing complex mixtures of environmental exposures in epidemiological studies with mentor Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou ignited Chillrud’s passion for research and inspired him to pursue a PhD.

“I feel tremendously lucky to have been awarded the fellowship and believe that it speaks more to the exceptional support and mentorship I have received over the years from advisers, colleagues, teachers, friends, and family, than it does say anything about me personally,” Chillrud said. “I am also hugely grateful to the NSF for their support during this early and exciting stage of my career.

Katsaggelos is the Joseph Cummings Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and (by courtesy) professor of computer Science at Northwestern Engineering and professor of radiology at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine . Cooper is the director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine’s Center for Computational Imaging and Signal Analytics in Medicine and associate professor of pathology and preventive medicine at Feinberg and (by courtesy) associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.

Essien Taylor

Taylor investigates computer architecture and aims to reduce energy consumption in power-constrained embedded systems, including electronic medical implants and mobile phones.

“Understanding the energy consumption of microprocessors requires detailed models that take a large amount of time and labor to create,” Taylor said. “My current work will generate these complex models in a fraction of the time and effort, allowing us to rapidly explore countless research avenues.”

In 2023, the financial support of his GEM Fellowship afforded Taylor the opportunity to intern with Cadence Design Systems Inc., which aided his approach to electronics design.

Taylor is also a member of the Karsh STEM Scholars Program at Howard University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering. The program provides full scholarships for undergraduate students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines and support for underrepresented minorities completing graduate programs in STEM.

“My experience as a Karsh STEM Scholar at Howard University was crucial in developing my passion for research,” Taylor said.

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Unveiling 'Ronda Girls of Pateros': Marielle Marcaida's Impact as a UW Libraries Research Communication and Equity Fellow

Marielle Marcaida, a PhD student in Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, was recently honored as one of this year's UW Libraries Research Communication and Equity Fellows during a reception held on Thursday, May 9.

The UW Libraries Research Communication and Equity Fellowship , designed for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) graduate students, requires Fellows to create and exhibit a physical artifact visually communicating their research. This opportunity not only raises the visibility of their work on campus but also helps them develop skills for communicating research in public formats.

At the reception, Marielle unveiled her project titled "Ronda Girls of Pateros." This project explores the human rights activism of mothers of drug war victims under the Duterte administration’s “war on drugs” in the Philippines. Through a digital booklet, Marielle intricately delves into the often-overlooked narratives and experiences of women affected by this controversial campaign, highlighting their resilience and grassroots initiatives like the Ronda ng Kababaihan (Patrol of Women) in Pateros City.

The artifacts from all 2024 Fellows, including Marielle's project, are currently on display in the UW Libraries Research Commons and are also available online .

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