Alumni

Former IAIFI Fellows

Denis Boyda
Denis Boyda
Research Scientist
Meta AI
boyda@mit.edu
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro
Carolina Cuesta-Lazaro
Assistant Professor (starting in 2026)
NYU
Anna Golubeva
Anna Golubeva
Research Scientist
Anthropic
golubevanna@gmail.com
Di Luo
Di Luo
Assistant Professor
UCLA
diluo@mit.edu
Jessie Micallef
Jessie Micallef
Postdoctoral Scholar
Tufts University
jessie.micallef@tufts.edu
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
Research Scientist
Anthropic
siddharthmishra19@gmail.com
Ge Yang
Ge Yang
Postdoctoral Researcher
MIT
ge.ike.yang@gmail.com

Former Affiliates

Justin Solomon
Justin Solomon

MIT
jsolomon@mit.edu
Haim Sompolinsky
Haim Sompolinsky

Harvard/Hebrew University
hsompolinsky@mcb.harvard.edu

Former Junior Investigators

Ryan Abbott
Ryan Abbott

Columbia University
rabbott@mit.edu
Oreoluwa Alao
Oreoluwa Alao


orealao@mit.edu
Samuel Alipour-Fard
Samuel Alipour-Fard


samuelaf@mit.edu
Donato Jimenez Beneto
Donato Jimenez Beneto


donatojb@mit.edu
Elias Benghiat
Elias Benghiat


elias.benghiat@tufts.edu
Meghana Borse
Meghana Borse

University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez
meghana.borse@upr.edu
Floor Broekgaarden
Floor Broekgaarden


fsbroekgaarden@gmail.com
Salvatore Cali
Salvatore Cali


Cari Cesarotti
Cari Cesarotti

CERN
carissa.cesarotti@cern.ch
Aidan Chambers
Aidan Chambers

MIT
aidandc@mit.edu
Anugrah Chemparathy
Anugrah Chemparathy


anugrah@mit.edu
Shu-Fan Chen
Shu-Fan Chen
Postdoctoral Researcher
Columbia University
peter31406@gmail.com
Blaise Delaney
Blaise Delaney

DIME AI
blaised@mit.edu
Mehmet Demirtas
Mehmet Demirtas

Northeastern
md775@cornell.edu
Rumen Dangovski
Rumen Dangovski
Researcher
Google DeepMind
dangovski@gmail.com
Victor Samuel Pérez Díaz
Victor Samuel Pérez Díaz
PhD Student
NYU
vp2435@nyu.edu
Fiona Daly
Fiona Daly


fionad@mit.edu
Mohit Dighamber
Mohit Dighamber

MIT
mdighamb@mit.edu
Owen Dugan
Owen Dugan

Stanford
odugan@stanford.edu
Arkopal Dutt
Arkopal Dutt

MIT
arkopal@mit.edu
Harold Erbin
Harold Erbin


erbin@mit.edu
Cristiano Fanelli
Cristiano Fanelli
Assistant Professor
William & Mary
cfanelli@wm.edu
Atakan Hilmi Firat
Atakan Hilmi Firat
Postdoc
UC Davis
ahfirat@ucdavis.edu
Katherine Fraser
Katherine Fraser

UC Berkeley
kfraser@berkeley.edu
Lena Funcke
Lena Funcke

MIT
lfuncke@mit.edu
Rikab Gambhir
Rikab Gambhir

University of Cincinnati
gambhirb@ucmail.uc.edu
Ali Ghorashi
Ali Ghorashi
Postdoctoral Researcher
Yale University
ali.ghorashi@yale.edu
Jasmine Gill
Jasmine Gill

Harvard
jasmine.gill@cfa.harvard.edu
Sebastian Gomez
Sebastian Gomez

Harvard
sgomez@cfa.harvard.edu
Qi Guo
Qi Guo


Mark Hamilton
Mark Hamilton


markth@mit.edu
Varun Hariprasad
Varun Hariprasad


varunhpr@mit.edu
Benjamin Harris
Benjamin Harris

Tufts
benjamin.harris@tufts.edu
Dean Hazineh
Dean Hazineh


dhazineh@g.harvard.edu
Arthur Hennequin
Arthur Hennequin

MIT
ahennequ@mit.edu
Adriano Hernandez
Adriano Hernandez

MIT
adrianoh@mit.edu
Daichi Hiramatsu
Daichi Hiramatsu
Assistant Professor
University of Florida
dhiramatsu@ufl.edu
Samuel Homiller
Samuel Homiller

Cornell University
Zhang-Wei Hong
Zhang-Wei Hong


zwhong@mit.edu
Griffin Hosseinzadeh
Griffin Hosseinzadeh
Postdoctoral Research Associate
University of Arizona
griffin0@arizona.edu
Matheus Hostert
Matheus Hostert
Assistant Professor
University of Iowa
matheus-hostert@uiowa.edu
Jared Hwang
Jared Hwang

University of Southern California
jared.hwang@gmail.com
Daniel Johnson
Daniel Johnson

MIT
danjo@mit.edu
Manami Kanemura
Manami Kanemura

Northeastern
kanemura.m@northeastern.edu
Gurtej Kanwar
Gurtej Kanwar

Universität Bern, ITP
kanwar@itp.unibe.ch
Samuel Kim
Samuel Kim


samkim@mit.edu
Ouail Kitouni
Ouail Kitouni

Anthropic
Ouail.kitouni@gmail.com
Patrick Komiske
Patrick Komiske
Research Scientist
River Run Trading
pkomiske@rtwotrading.com
Jeffrey Krupa
Jeffrey Krupa
Research Associate
SLAC
jeffkrupa@gmail.com
Serhii Kryhin
Serhii Kryhin

MIT
serhin@mit.edu
Jeffrey Lazar
Jeffrey Lazar

Harvard
jeffreylazar@fas.harvard.edu
Keiran Lewellen
Keiran Lewellen


Alexander Lin
Alexander Lin

Harvard
alin@seas.harvard.edu
Joshua Lin
Joshua Lin

ANL
joshlin@mit.edu
Yin Lin
Yin Lin
Senior Scientist, Machine Learning
Ventus Therapeutics
ylin910095@gmail.com
Ziming Liu
Ziming Liu


zmliu@mit.edu
Charlotte Loh
Charlotte Loh


cloh@mit.edu
Fernando Romero-Lopez
Fernando Romero-Lopez
Assistant Professor
University of Bern
fernando.romero-lopez@unibe.ch
Andrew Ma
Andrew Ma

MIT
andrewm1@mit.edu
Anindita Maiti
Anindita Maiti

Perimeter Institute
amaiti@perimeterinstitute.ca
Ethan Marx
Ethan Marx

MIT
emarx@mit.edu
Katie Mason
Katie Mason
Internal Consultant
Ab Initio
masonkatie31@gmail.com
Patrick McCormack
Patrick McCormack

MIT
wmccorma@mit.edu
Trevor McCourt
Trevor McCourt


tmccourt@mit.edu
James McGreivy
James McGreivy


mcgreivy@mit.edu
Eric Metodiev
Eric Metodiev
Research Scientist
Renaissance Technologies
eric.metodiev@gmail.com
Joshua Mills
Joshua Mills
Machine Learning Research Scientist
Amazon
josh13905@gmail.com
Matthew Mould
Matthew Mould

MIT
mmould@mit.edu
Nayantara Mudur
Nayantara Mudur

Google
nmudur@g.harvard.edu
Tri Nguyen
Tri Nguyen
Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University
tri.vt.nguyen@gmail.com
Niklas Nolte
Niklas Nolte

Meta AI
nnolte@mit.edu
Curtis Northcutt
Curtis Northcutt
CEO & Co-Founder
Cleanlab, ChipBrain
curtis.northcutt@gmail.com
Victoria Ono
Victoria Ono


victoriaono@college.harvard.edu
Bryan Ostdiek
Bryan Ostdiek

Microsoft
bostdiek@gmail.com
Marco Pretell
Marco Pretell


marco.pretell@tufts.edu
Jian Qian
Jian Qian

NYU Courant Institute
jianqian@mit.edu
Anmol Raina
Anmol Raina


araina@fas.harvard.edu
Dylan Rankin
Dylan Rankin
Assistant Professor
University of Pennsylvania
dsrankin@sas.upenn.edu
Matthew Rosenberg
Matthew Rosenberg

Tufts
matthew.rosenberg@tufts.edu
Gustavo Salinas
Gustavo Salinas
Postdoc
Stockholm University
gsalinas.phys@gmail.com
Nikita Saxena
Nikita Saxena

Tufts
nikitasaxena0209@gmail.com
Andrew Saydjari
Andrew Saydjari
NASA Hubble Fellow
Princeton
aksaydjari@gmail.com
Ralitsa Sharankova
Ralitsa Sharankova


Divij Sharma
Divij Sharma

MIT
d_sharma@mit.edu
Jonathan P Shoemaker
Jonathan P Shoemaker

MIT
jshoe@mit.edu
Michael Skuhersky
Michael Skuhersky


vex@mit.edu
Yiding Song
Yiding Song

Harvard University
yidingsong@college.harvard.edu
Keegan Stoner
Keegan Stoner
Machine Learning Engineer
STR
keeganstoner@gmail.com
Andrew K. Tan
Andrew K. Tan
IAIFI Journal Club Organizer
MIT
aktan@mit.edu
Emmanouil Theodosis
Emmanouil Theodosis


etheodosis@seas.harvard.edu
Vinh Tran
Vinh Tran


vinhtran@mit.edu
Sokratis Trifinopoulos
Sokratis Trifinopoulos

CERN
trifinos@mit.edu
Silviu-Marian Udrescu
Silviu-Marian Udrescu


sudrescu@mit.edu
Julian Urban
Julian Urban
Quantitative Developer
Uniper SE
jmurban@pm.me
Isac Usucachi
Isac Usucachi

University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez
isac.usucachi@upr.edu
Georgios Valogiannis
Georgios Valogiannis
Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Chicago
gvalogiannis@uchicago.edu
Dor Verbin
Dor Verbin

Harvard
dorverbin@seas.harvard.edu
Constantin Weisser
Constantin Weisser
Member of Technical Staff and Employee #1
Haize Labs
weissercn@gmail.com
Chris Whittle
Chris Whittle

MIT
cwhittle@mit.edu
Nate Woodward
Nate Woodward

MIT
nswood@mit.edu
Ray Wynne
Ray Wynne

MIT
wynnera@mit.edu
Jun Yin
Jun Yin
Quantitative Researcher
Jump Trading
junyin1313@gmail.com
Mikaeel Yunus
Mikaeel Yunus


Xiyu Zhai
Xiyu Zhai


xiyuzhai@mit.edu
Gemma Zhang
Gemma Zhang
Applied Scientist
Microsoft
gemmaz@alumni.harvard.edu

Former Visitors

Adam Zacharia Anil
Adam Zacharia Anil

2024 Summer Intern
adamanil@mit.edu
Kaća Bradonjić
Kaća Bradonjić

Hampshire College
kbradonj@mit.edu
Helena Brittain
Helena Brittain

2024 Summer Intern
helenabrittain@college.harvard.edu
Giada Badaracco
Giada Badaracco

MIT
gbadarac@mit.edu
Joaquin de Castro
Joaquin de Castro

Harvard University
jdecastro@college.harvard.edu
Anne Mareike Galda
Anne Mareike Galda

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
agalda@uni-mainz.de
Francisco Galvan
Francisco Galvan

2024 Summer Intern
franciscogalvan@fas.harvard.edu
Eun-Ah Kim
Eun-Ah Kim

Cornell University
ek436@cornell.edu
Ming-Shau Liu
Ming-Shau Liu

University of Cambridge
msl63@cam.ac.uk
Brian Nord
Brian Nord

Fermilab
nord@fnal.gov
Qinyi Sun
Qinyi Sun

MIT
wendysun@mit.edu

Former Summer Students

Amir Abdulgadir
Amir Abdulgadir
2025 MSRP Intern
Howard University
amirabdul2024@gmail.com
Jeremiah Bailey
Jeremiah Bailey
2025 MSRP Intern
Howard University
Jeremiahbailey2024@gmail.com
Sergio Diaz
Sergio Diaz
2022 MSRP Intern
University of Maryland, BC
Derick Flores Madrid
Derick Flores Madrid
2023 MSRP Intern
Indiana Wesleyan University
Zeineb Mezghanni
Zeineb Mezghanni
2023 MSRP Intern
Grinnell College
Terence Oscar-Okpala
Terence Oscar-Okpala
2025 MSRP Intern
Bethune-Cookman University
Pedro Rivera-Cardona
Pedro Rivera-Cardona
2021 MSRP Intern
University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
Nathaniel Santiago
Nathaniel Santiago
2024 MSRP Intern
Northeastern Illinois University
ndsantiago6@neiu.edu
Hang Su
Hang Su
2022 MSRP Intern
University of New Haven
Abby Tejera Rocha
Abby Tejera Rocha
2025 MSRP Intern
Oberlin College
Xinyue Wu
Xinyue Wu
2023 MSRP Intern
University of Rochester
Angie Zaatari
Angie Zaatari
2025 RSI Intern

zangie646@gmail.com

This project is supported by National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement PHY-2019786. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.