Two Carnegie Mellon Professors Win Sloan Research Fellowships

Two Carnegie Mellon University faculty members have been awarded 2016 Sloan Research Fellowships. Computer scientist Abhinav Gupta and mathematician Wesley Pegden are among 126 early-career scientists and scholars from 52 colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada who will receive $55,000 to further their research. Abhinav Gupta and Wesley Pegden "Getting early-career support can be a make-or-break moment for a young scholar,” said Paul L. Joskow, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. "In an increasingly competitive academic environment, it can be difficult to stand out, even when your work is first rate. The Sloan Research Fellowships have become an unmistakable marker of quality among researchers. Fellows represent the best-of-the-best among young scientists. Gupta, an assistant professor of robotics , specializes in computer vision and large-scale visual learning.