Four University of Wisconsin-Madison professors received fellowships promoting early career scientists’ fundamental research Tuesday, according to a release.
The professors each received a $50,000 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. Sloan awards a two-year fellowship to 126 researchers across the country “in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions to their field,” according to the foundation’s website.
“These researchers are pushing the boundaries of scientific knowledge in unprecedented ways,” Sloan Foundation president Dr. Paul Joskow said in the release.
Grant-receiver Sushmita Roy is a biostatistics and medical informatics assistant professor at UW-Madison. Roy’s lab researches different types of molecular entities and “gene regulation,” which controls what set of genes are expressed at any point in time and space.
Computer sciences assistant professor Shan Lu said she is interested in software reliability and concurrent software systems on her UW-Madison profile page.
Samuel Stechmann and Jun Yin are mathematics assistant professors. Yin works with quantum physics and the random matrix theory, and Stechmann focuses on applied math and atmospheric science.
“For more than half a century, the Sloan Foundation has been proud to honor the best young scientific minds and support them during a crucial phase of their careers when early funding and recognition can really make a difference,” Joskow said.
