Seven awarded Sloan Research Fellowships

Seven Princeton scientists have been selected to receive 2010 Sloan Research Fellowships, highly competitive grants given to outstanding scholars who are conducting research at the frontiers of their fields. They are among 118 scientists, mathematicians, engineers and economists chosen for the award from 61 colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Princeton earned the most fellowships of any single-campus institution. The recipients are: • David Blei , an assistant professor of computer science , who is working in the area of machine learning, the goal of which is to develop computer algorithms that discover and take advantage of recurring patterns in data. Among his specific areas of interest is "topic modeling," a field that aims to extract information about the structure and content of written documents and other media. He joined the Princeton faculty in 2006. • Christopher Herzog , an assistant professor of physics , who is part of the high-energy theory group.