Nine Indian Americans named Sloan Research Fellows

9 Indian-Americans and one Australian-Indian were among the total 126 fellows announced by the Sloan Foundation

Indian-American Sloan Research fellows 2024 /

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the annual list of Sloan Research Fellows for 2024, which includes 10 early-career Indian American researchers.

A total of 126 Fellows of the 2024 cohort have been selected from a diverse range of institutions across the US and Canada, including large public university systems, Ivy League institutions, and small liberal arts colleges.

The fellows represent the most talented scientists currently employed in the field. They receive $75,000 each which can be used for any expenses related to their research over two years. The annual scholarships have been in place since 1955.

The Indian American fellows are— Priyanka Raina, Stanford University and Arvind Satyanarayan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Computer Science); Dipti Nayak, University of California, Berkeley (Earth System Science); Aaditya Ramdas, Carnegie Mellon University, and Ananth Shankar, Northwestern University (Mathematics); Vineet Augustine, University of California, San Diego; Vijay Mohan K Namboodiri, University of California, San Francisco; and Preeya Khanna, University of California, Berkeley (Neuroscience); and Karan K. Mehta, Cornell University (Physics).

Priyanka Raina / stanford.edu

Priyanka Raina teaches electrical engineering as an assistant professor at Stanford University. She graduated from IIT Delhi with a BTech in electrical engineering in 2011 and completed her SM and PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT in 2013 and 2018 respectively.

Arvind Satyanarayan / MIT

Arvind Satyanarayan is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT, where he directs the visualization group at the MIT CSAIL.

Dipti Nayak / berkeley.edu

Dipti Nayak serves as an assistant professor of molecular and cell biology at University of California, Berkeley. From 2015 to 2019, she was a Carl R. Woese postdoctoral fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Simons Foundation fellow at the Life Sciences Research Foundation.

Aaditya Ramdas / stat.cmu.edu

Aaditya Ramdas teaches statistics and machine learning as an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University. He was among the first people to be inducted into the COPSS Leadership Academy.

Ananth Shankar / ls.wisc.edu

Ananth Shankar works at Northwestern University as an assistant professor. In 2012, he received his bachelor of science degree in mathematics and computer science from Chennai Mathematical Institute and completed his PhD at Harvard University in May 2017.

Vineet Augustine / ucsd.edu

Vineet Augustine teaches neurobiology as an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego. In 2013, he graduated with a BS-MS from IISER in Kolkata. In 2019, he completed his PhD at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri / ucsf.edu

Vijay Mohan K. Namboodiri is the Scott Alan Myers Endowed professor at the University of California, San Francisco. He completed his postdoctoral research with Dr. Garret Stuber at UNC-Chapel Hill and the University of Washington Schools of Medicine in 2020. He earned his B.Tech. in engineering physics from IIT-Bombay in 2008 and his PhD in Neuroscience from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2015.

Preeya Khanna / eecs.berkeley.edu

Preeya Khanna teaches computer science and electrical engineering as an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2012 with a BSE in bioengineering and mathematics and from UC Berkeley and UCSF in 2017 with a PhD in the Joint Graduate Group in bioengineering.

Karan K. Mehta / engineering.cornell.edu

Karan K. Mehta teaches electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University as an assistant professor. He finished his PhD in electrical engineering and computer science at MIT in 2017, after earning BS degrees in physics and electrical engineering from UCLA in 2010.

Vikram Ravi / caltech.edu

Notably, Vikram Ravi, an Australian of Indian descent who serves as the assistant professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology was also chosen as a fellow.