MIT faculty and alumni named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
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MIT News reports that Schmidt Sciences named five MIT faculty members and two alumni to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows.
The faculty are Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang and Manish Raghavan. The alumni are Irene Chen and Allison Z. Koenecke, and former postdoc Juan Carlos Perdomo is also named.
Schmidt Sciences announces the fellowship annually. Each fellow works on an AI2050 project tied to the initiative's question of what AI should achieve by 2050.
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- MIT News · AIOfficialMIT faculty and alumni named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
AIFive MIT faculty members and two alumni were named to the 2026 cohort of AI2050 Fellows, an annual honor announced by Schmidt Sciences. The fellows include Sendhil Mullainathan, Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang and Manish Raghavan, plus alumni Irene Chen and Allison Z. Koenecke and former postdoc Juan Carlos Perdomo. Each fellow works on an AI2050 project tied to the initiative's question of what AI should achieve by 2050.
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