Indian American Researchers Receive $75,000 Sloan Fellowships

Four Indian American researchers — Aayush Jain, Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla, Aditi Raghunathan (Carnegie Mellon University), and Anand Natarajan (MIT) — were named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows, each receiving a two-year, $75,000 award from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Their work spans cryptography, statistics and predictive learning, AI reliability, and quantum complexity, and their selection among 126 fellows highlights growing Indian-origin influence in computing and adjacent scientific fields.