Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships 2015

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2015 Sloan Research Fellowships. These 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. Since 1955, Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win 43 Nobel Prizes, 16 Fields Medals, 65 National Medals of Science, 14 John Bates Clark Medals, and numerous other distinguished awards.

CHEMISTRY Corina E. Tarnita Boris Bukh OCEAN SCIENCES Princeton University Carnegie Mellon University Nandini Ananth Cole Trapnell Jonathan Chaika Danielle Dixson Cornell University University of Washington University of Utah Georgia Institute of Technology Shannon Boettcher Harris Wang Jian Ding Jennifer Jacquet University of Oregon Columbia University The University of Chicago New York University Kevin Brown Amy Williams Jörn Dunkel Karen G. Lloyd Indiana University Cornell University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Tennessee James Cahoon David Geraghty Douglas McCauley University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill COMPUTER SCIENCE Boston College University of California, Santa Barbara Brandi Cossairt Ryan Adams Jennifer Hom Christopher Reinhard University of Washington Georgia Institute of Technology Harvard University Columbia University Jennifer A. Dionne Sébastien Bubeck Tasho Kaletha Alyson Santoro Stanford University University of Maryland Center for Princeton University Harvard University Environmental Science Aaron Esser-Kahn Isil Dillig Lin Lin University of California, Irvine University of Texas, Austin University of California, Berkeley Themistoklis Sapsis Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zahra Fakhraai Prabal Dutta Emmy Murphy University of Pennsylvania University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stephanie Waterman University of British Columbia Alison Fout Natalie Enright Jerger Vivek Shende University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Toronto University of California, Berkeley PHYSICS Danna Freedman Emily Fox Andrew Snowden Northwestern University University of Washington University of Michigan Christine A. Aidala Naomi Ginsberg Shyam Gollakota Jacob Tsimerman University of Michigan University of California, Berkeley University of Washington University of Toronto Ariel Amir Artur Izmaylov J. Alex Halderman Vlad Vicol Harvard University University of Toronto University of Michigan Princeton University James Analytis Hemamala Karunadasa James Hays Melanie Matchett Wood University of California, Berkeley Stanford University Brown University University of Wisconsin, Madison Pascal Audet Amber Krummel Percy Liang Hau-tieng Wu University of Ottawa Colorado State University Stanford University University of Toronto Alyson Brooks Thomas Maimone Shachar Lovett Ting Zhou Rutgers, The State University University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego Northeastern University of New Jersey Neal Mankad Ariel Procaccia Xinwen Zhu Fiona Burnell University of Illinois at Chicago Carnegie Mellon University California Institute of Technology University of Minnesota Michael Neidig Thomas Ristenpart Shane Davis University of Rochester University of Wisconsin, Madison NEUROSCIENCE University of Virginia Bradley Pentelute Aaron Roth Helen Bateup Lukasz Fidkowski Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Pennsylvania University of California, Berkeley Stony Brook University Michael Pluth Thomas Rothvoss Steve Chang Raphael Flauger University of Oregon University of Washington Yale University Carnegie Mellon University Jennifer Prescher Daniel Wigdor Damon Clark Ryan Foley University of California, Irvine University of Toronto Yale University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Mohammad Hafezi Toru Shiozaki ECONOMICS John Cunningham Northwestern University Columbia University University of Maryland, College Park Andrea Tao Eric Budish Lindsey Glickfeld Gregg Hallinan University of California, San Diego The University of Chicago Duke University California Institute of Technology Hao Xu Benjamin Handel Viviana Gradinaru Michael Kesden Georgia State University University of California, Berkeley California Institute of Technology University of Texas at Dallas Oleg Itskhoki Michael Halassa Heather Knutson COMPUTATIONAL & Princeton University New York University California Institute of Technology EVOLUTIONARY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Greg Kaplan Shantanu Jadhav Thomas E. Kuhlman Princeton University Brandeis University University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Alan Boyle Magne Mogstad Julie Lefebvre Wei Li University of Michigan The University of Chicago University of Toronto Rice University Ian Ehrenreich Suresh Naidu Polina V. Lishko Vladimir Manucharyan University of Southern California Columbia University University of California, Berkeley University of Maryland, College Park Mitchell Guttman Paul Niehaus Brian J. O’Roak Kater Murch California Institute of Technology University of California, San Diego Oregon Health & Science University Washington University in St. Louis Michael Harms Heidi L. Williams Stephanie Palmer Smadar Naoz University of Oregon Massachusetts Institute of Technology The University of Chicago University of California, Los Angeles Jennifer Phillips-Cremins Kang-Kuen Ni MATHEMATICS Marcos Sotomayor University of Pennsylvania Ohio State University Harvard University Peter Ralph Ben Adcock Bradley Voytek Tiffany A. Shaw University of Southern California Simon Fraser University University of California, San Diego Columbia University Padmini Rangamani Richard Bamler Melissa Warden Kai Sun University of California, San Diego University of California, Berkeley Cornell University University of Michigan Michael C. Schatz Jacob Bedrossian Jeffrey M. Yau Pedro Vieira Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory University of Maryland, College Park Baylor College of Medicine University of Waterloo

Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs… There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. (Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 1941) The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics. www.sloan.org