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Five MIT faculty members have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellowships, recognizing their innovative contributions to the development of beneficial AI. The fellowships provide them with the resources and support needed to advance their research in areas such as healthcare, climate modeling, and natural language processing.
Five MIT faculty members have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellowships. The fellowships recognize individuals who are making innovative contributions to the development of beneficial AI. Selected awardees include Jane Halpern, David Autor, Sara Beery, Gabriele Farina, and Marzyeh Ghassemi among others.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has announced that five of its faculty members have been selected as recipients of the 2024 Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellowships. The prestigious awards, which are part of a larger initiative to support research in artificial intelligence (AI), recognize and reward individuals who are making significant contributions to the development of beneficial AI.
Among the awardees is Jane Halpern, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Halpern's work focuses on applying machine learning to solve complex problems in areas such as healthcare and climate modeling. She has also been recognized for her efforts to make AI more accessible and transparent, including serving as a Facebook Fellow in economics and computer science.
In addition to Halpern, two other faculty members have received the fellowships: David Autor, an associate professor of sociology at MIT; Sara Beery, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Gabriele Farina, an assistant professor in the School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences; Marzyeh Ghassemi, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Yoon Kim, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Roger Grosse, a computer science associate professor at the University of Toronto (not affiliated with MIT); and David Rolnick, an assistant professor at Mila-Quebec AI Institute (not affiliated with MIT).
The Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellowships are part of a larger initiative to support research in AI that has significant potential to benefit society. The fellowships recognize individuals who are making innovative contributions to the development of beneficial AI, and provide them with the resources and support needed to advance their research.
One of the awardees, Marzyeh Ghassemi, is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT. Her work focuses on creating a rigorous quantitative framework for designing, developing, and placing machine learning models in a way that is robust and fair. She has also been recognized for her efforts to make AI more accessible and transparent, including serving as a founder of the nonprofit Association for Health, Inference and Learning (AHLI).
Yoon Kim, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, has also received the fellowship. His work focuses on the intersection between natural language processing and machine learning, and explores efficient training and deployment of large-scale models, learning from small data, neuro-symbolic approaches, grounded language learning, and connections between computational and human language processing.
The Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellowships are part of a larger initiative to support research in AI that has significant potential to benefit society. The fellowships recognize individuals who are making innovative contributions to the development of beneficial AI, and provide them with the resources and support needed to advance their research.
In addition to the faculty members mentioned above, two other awardees have received the fellowships: David Autor, an associate professor of sociology at MIT; Sara Beery, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Gabriele Farina, an assistant professor in the School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences; Roger Grosse, a computer science associate professor at the University of Toronto (not affiliated with MIT); and David Rolnick, an assistant professor at Mila-Quebec AI Institute (not affiliated with MIT).
The Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellowships are part of a larger initiative to support research in AI that has significant potential to benefit society. The fellowships recognize individuals who are making innovative contributions to the development of beneficial AI, and provide them with the resources and support needed to advance their research.
In conclusion, the five MIT faculty members who have received the 2024 Schmidt Futures AI2050 Fellowships are recognized for their innovative contributions to the development of beneficial AI. Their work has significant potential to benefit society, and they will receive the resources and support needed to advance their research.
Related Information:
https://news.mit.edu/2024/mit-affiliates-named-schmidt-futures-ai2050-fellows-1213
https://shapingwork.mit.edu/news/schmidt-sciences-announces-its-newest-cohort-of-25-ai-fellows/
Published: Fri Dec 13 18:37:46 2024 by llama3.2 3B Q4_K_M
