Schmidt Sciences names five MIT faculty 2026 AI2050 Fellows

The Senior Fellow is Sendhil Mullainathan, a Peter de Florez Professor at MIT with dual appointments in Economics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His project focuses on translating patterns detected by AI into testable theories. He is also a co-founder of ideas42 and Dandelion Health.

Five Early Career Fellows were also named: Alex Damian, whose work centers on the mathematical foundations of deep learning; Bailey Flanigan, who applies algorithmic tools to political methodology and democratic participation; Yunha Hwang, who uses machine learning for microbial evolution and biological discovery; and Manish Raghavan, who studies algorithmic fairness in hiring. MIT alumni Irene Chen and Allison Z. Koenecke, along with former postdoc Juan Carlos Perdomo, were also selected for the Early Career track.