Two IIT alumni's get prestigious MacArthur fellowship
Indian Institute Of Technology Allumni's Manu Prakash And Subhash Khot Have Won MacArthur Fellowship This Year. The MacArthur Fellowships, Includes A Stipend Of $625,000, Given Over Five Years, Designed To Provide The Recipients The Flexibility To Pursue Their Activities In Absence Of Specific Obligations.
Indian Institute of Technology allumni's Manu Prakash and Subhash Khot have won MacArthur Fellowship this year. The MacArthur fellowships, includes a stipend of $625,000, given over five years, designed to provide the recipients the flexibility to pursue their activities in absence of specific obligations.
Prakash is an Assistant Professor in Department of Bioengineering at the Stanford University, while Khot works as a theoretical computer scientist at the New York University.
It includes a stipend of $625,000, given over five years, designed to provide the recipients the flexibility to pursue their activities in absence of specific obligations.
The MacArthur Foundation recognised Prakash for his research that is “driven by curiosity about the diversity of life forms on our planet and how they work, empathy for problems in resource-poor settings, and a deep interest in democratizing the experience and joy of science globally.”
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