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Seven MIT-affiliated researchers named 2026 AI2050 Fellows
- •Five MIT faculty members and two alumni joined the cohort announced by Schmidt Sciences.
- •Senior Fellow Sendhil Mullainathan will study how AI-detected patterns can be translated into testable theories.
- •Four early-career fellows from MIT will research AI training, public input for lawmakers, biological enzyme functions and the effects of widespread AI reliance.
- •MIT alumni Irene Chen and Allison Z. Koenecke were also named early-career fellows; former MIT postdoc Juan Carlos Perdomo was named as well.
By Amanda Moore | Jane Halpern | MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science