Ramdas Named Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics

Aaditya Ramdas, assistant professor in the Statistics & Data Science and Machine Learning departments, has been named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in Mathematics for 2024.

Fellows are selected on the basis of their independent research accomplishments, creativity and potential to become leaders in the scientific community through their contributions to their field. The fellow receives $75,000 annually for two years to continue their research studies.

Ramdas’s research is on foundational topics in statistical inference and learning, ranging from how modern artificial intelligence systems can quantify uncertainty of their predictions to a new theory of measuring and combining statistical evidence based on game-theoretic principles. These have had direct implications for reproducible research in the sciences, especially psychology, neuroscience and genetics. Ramdas develops “practical theory,” with his algorithms being currently deployed in public-facing software at many tech companies. Meanwhile, his work has also had an impact on the social sciences with the development of new rigorous auditing methodology, which has been applied to elections, real-estate taxation and financial transactions.

Learn more about the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and its fellows at the association’s website.

Read more about the other Carnegie Mellon University Sloan Fellows.