California: Several Indian American scientists and researchers were honoured with Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's research fellowships. The foundation names Fellows in chemistry, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, computer science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, ocean sciences and physics.
Indian origin researchers were recognized in all but the neuroscience category, with the most coming in the field of physics with three. A total of 126 scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today, the foundation said.
Among the physics Fellows are Anushya Chandran of Boston University, Arka Majumdar of the University of Washington, and Amar Vutha of the University of Toronto. Chemistry recipients included Rajamani Gounder of Purdue University and Venkat Viswanathan of Carnegie Mellon University. Nidhi Sahni of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was named a Fellow in the computational and evolutionary molecular biology category. In computer science, Karthik Sridharan of Cornell University and Finale Doshi-Velez were named Fellows.
Arun Chandrasekhar of Stanford University and Supreet Kaur of U.C. Berkeley were named Fellows in the economics section. In mathematics, the foundation named Boston University’s Jennifer Balakrishnan and Arul Shankar of the University of Toronto as Fellows. And Vinayak Agarwal of the Georgia Institute of Technology was named a Fellow in the ocean sciences section.
