MIT faculty and alumni named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Eight MIT faculty members and 22 MIT alumni are among 126 researchers awarded 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with each fellowship providing two years of support and $75,000 to be used flexibly for research.

Eight MIT faculty and 22 MIT alumni are among 126 early-career researchers named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The fellowships honor early-career researchers at U.S. and Canadian institutions for notable research accomplishments and creativity. Each fellow receives a two-year fellowship of $75,000 that can be used flexibly to advance their research. The 2026 MIT faculty recipients work across fields including mathematics, astrophysics, applied biology, computer science, chemistry, operations research, and hardware security. Key details: - Eight MIT faculty and 22 MIT alumni were named among the 126 Sloan Research Fellows for 2026. - Each fellowship provides two years of flexible research support totaling $75,000. - With this group, 341 MIT faculty have received Sloan Research Fellowships since the program began in 1955. - The MIT faculty recipients named in the announcement are Jacopo Borga; Anna-Christina Eilers; Linlin Fan; Yoon Kim; Haihao Lu; Brett McGuire; Anand Natarajan; and Mengjia Yan. - The list of MIT alumni recipients includes Ashok Ajoy; danah boyd; Yuan Cao; Aloni Cohen; Benjamin Eysenbach; Tatsunori B. Hashimoto; Anna Wuttig; and others named in the announcement. Summary: The 2026 Sloan Research Fellowships add to MIT's long record of fellows and provide flexible funding intended to support the recipients' early-career research. How each fellow will use the funds is undetermined at this time.