This text was up to date on April 23 to mirror the promotion of Gosha Geogdzhayev from alternate to winner of the Gates Cambridge Scholarship.
MIT seniors Gosha Geogdzhayev and Sadhana Lolla have received the distinguished Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which gives college students a possibility to pursue graduate examine within the subject of their selection at Cambridge College within the U.Ok.
Established in 2000, Gates Cambridge gives full-cost post-graduate scholarships to excellent candidates from nations outdoors of the U.Ok. The mission of Gates Cambridge is to construct a world community of future leaders dedicated to bettering the lives of others.
Gosha Geogdzhayev
Initially from New York Metropolis, Geogdzhayev is a senior majoring in physics with minors in arithmetic and pc science. At Cambridge, Geogdzhayev intends to pursue an MPhil in quantitative local weather and environmental science. He’s keen on making use of these topics to local weather science and intends to spend his profession growing novel statistical strategies for local weather prediction.
At MIT, Geogdzhayev researches local weather emulators with Professor Raffaele Ferrari’s group within the Division of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and is a part of the “Bringing Computation to the Local weather Problem” Grand Challenges challenge. He’s at present engaged on an operator-based emulator for the projection of local weather extremes. Beforehand, Geogdzhayev studied the statistics of fixing chaotic techniques, work that has lately been revealed as a first-author paper.
As a recipient of the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Company (NOAA) Hollings Scholarship, Geogdzhayev has labored on bias correction strategies for local weather knowledge on the NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory. He’s the recipient of a number of different awards within the subject of earth and atmospheric sciences, notably the American Meteorological Society Ward and Eileen Seguin Scholarship.
Exterior of analysis, Geogdzhayev enjoys writing poetry and is actively concerned along with his residing neighborhood, Burton 1, for which he has beforehand served as flooring chair.
Sadhana Lolla
Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in pc science and minoring in arithmetic and literature. At Cambridge, she’s going to pursue an MPhil in know-how coverage.
Sooner or later, Lolla goals to steer conversations on deploying and growing know-how for marginalized communities, reminiscent of the agricultural Indian village that her household calls residence, whereas additionally conducting analysis in embodied intelligence.
At MIT, Lolla conducts analysis on protected and reliable robotics and deep studying on the Distributed Robotics Laboratory with Professor Daniela Rus. Her analysis has spanned debiasing methods for autonomous automobiles and accelerating robotic design processes. At Microsoft Analysis and Themis AI, she works on creating uncertainty-aware frameworks for deep studying, which has impacts throughout computational biology, language modeling, and robotics. She has introduced her work on the Neural Info Processing Methods (NeurIPS) convention and the Worldwide Convention on Machine Studying (ICML).
Exterior of analysis, Lolla leads initiatives to make pc science training extra accessible globally. She is an teacher for sophistication 6.s191 (MIT Introduction to Deep Studying), one of many largest AI programs on the planet, which reaches hundreds of thousands of scholars yearly. She serves because the curriculum lead for Momentum AI, the one U.S. program that teaches AI to underserved college students without cost, and he or she has taught a whole bunch of scholars in Northern Scotland as a part of the MIT World Instructing Labs program.
Lolla was additionally the director for xFair, MIT’s largest student-run profession truthful, and is an government board member for Subsequent Sing, the place she works to make a cappella extra accessible for college students throughout musical backgrounds. In her free time, she enjoys singing, fixing crossword puzzles, and baking.
