Ke Fang, assistant professor of physics, and Xiangyao Yu, assistant professor of computer sciences, two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty, are among 126 scientists selected as Sloan Research Fellows.
Awarded annually since 1955 to the brightest young scientists across the United States and Canada, the two-year Sloan Fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career researchers.
“Sloan Research Fellowships are extraordinarily competitive awards involving the nominations of the most inventive and impactful early-career scientists across the U.S. and Canada,” says Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in UW News. “We look forward to seeing how fellows take leading roles shaping the research agenda within their respective fields.”
This year’s winners will receive two-year fellowships for $75,000 to further their innovative research.
Using data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and Fermi Large Area Telescope along with numerical simulations, Ke Fang studies the origin of subatomic particles — like neutrinos — that reach Earth from across the universe, according to UW-Madison, while Xiangyao Yu works on database systems, focusing on database hardware, databases built to be used by cloud-based applications and streamlining combined processes of updating and analyzing data in large databases.
Founded in 1934, the Sloan Foundation is a not-for-profit institution dedicated to improving the welfare of all through the advancement of scientific knowledge.
