The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has announced a new postdoctoral fellowship programme aimed at advancing artificial intelligence applications across disciplines, supported by a $20 million gift from Parviz Tayebati.
The Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme will welcome an inaugural cohort of up to six postdocs for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal for a second term. The programme will focus on AI for addressing the most challenging problems in select scientific research areas, and on AI for music composition and performance.
Candidates will work on projects in one of six disciplinary areas:
- Biology/bioengineering
- Brain and cognitive sciences
- Chemistry/chemical engineering
- Materials science and engineering
- Music
- Physics
Each fellow will have a faculty mentor in the disciplinary area as well as in AI.