Posted 2/6/2024, 9:50:00 PM
MIT Names 6 Graduate Students as 2024 AI Fellows for Innovations in Sustainability, Robotics, and Fraud Detection
- Six MIT graduate students named 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows to conduct AI/ML research toward commercialization with support from Pillar VC and MIT Deshpande Center
- Fellows pursuing innovations in areas like recyclable plastics, dexterous robot hands, detecting financial fraud, grid integration of renewables, interpretable neural representations, and multimodal AI for engineering design
- Yasmeen AlFaraj focusing on sustainable plastics and composites using ML for molecular design
- Ruben Castro Ornelas designed dexterous robotic hand for domestic and industrial applications
- Keeley Erhardt developing ML to uncover influence campaigns and crypto fraud in finance, energy, and security sectors