Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships 2013 The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation congratulates the winners of the 2013 Sloan Research Fellowships. These 126 early-career scholars represent the most promising scientific researchers working today. Their achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders in the U.S. and Canada. Since 1955, Sloan Research Fellows have gone on to win Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, National Medals of Science, John Bates Clark Medals, and numerous other distinguished awards. CHEMISTRY Anastassia N. Alexandrova University of California, Los Angeles Erin E. Carlson Indiana University Patrick Charbonneau Duke University Christopher Ré Anna K. Wienhard University of Wisconsin, Madison Princeton University Ruslan Salakhutdinov Robert Young University of Toronto University of Toronto University of South Florida Bianca Schroeder Wei Zhang Gregory J. Dick University of Toronto Columbia University Simha Sethumadhavan OCEAN SCIENCES Cameron H. Ainsworth University of Michigan Lekelia Danielle Jenkins Julianne Gibbs-Davis Fei Sha University of Alberta University of Southern California COMPUTATIONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Hairong Guan Vinod Vaikuntanathan University of Cincinnati Bree Aldridge University of Toronto Loren McClenachan Tufts University Colby College Nilay Hazari Ryan Williams Yale University Stanford University Nuno Bandeira Mary I. O’Connor University of California, San Diego University of British Columbia Martín Tresguerres Columbia University Ramesh Jasti Boston University ECONOMICS James Carothers Matthew Law Jan De Loecker Sophie Dumont Princeton University University of California, San Francisco David Donaldson Jason Ernst Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of California, Los Angeles A. James Link Frederico Finan Princeton University University of California, Berkeley Gevorg Grigoryan Connie Lu Yuriy Gorodnichenko University of Minnesota University of California, Berkeley Stephen Maldonado Emir Kamenica University of Michigan The University of Chicago Wei Min Fuhito Kojima Columbia University Stanford University Elizabeth Nolan Anna Mikusheva Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology Khalid Salaita Bruno Strulovici Emory University University of California, Irvine Wen Li Wayne State University Jennifer Schomaker University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Washington Dartmouth College Ryan Hernandez University of California, San Francisco Seyoung Kim University of Washington David T. Johnston Harvard University University of California, San Diego Jacob R. Waldbauer The University of Chicago PHYSICS Dorian Abbot The University of Chicago Tamara Bogdanovi Georgia Institute of Technology Carnegie Mellon University Charlie Conroy Julius Lucks University of California, Santa Cruz Cornell University Elena D’Onghia Remo Rohs University of Wisconsin, Madison University of Southern California John P. Davis Northwestern University Daniela Witten University of Alberta University of Washington Rouven Essig MATHEMATICS Yi Xing Stony Brook University University of California, Los Angeles Taylor Hughes Dwight Seferos Zeev Dvir University of Toronto Princeton University Sara Skrabalak Jacob Fox Indiana University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sara Aton Yale University Uttam Tambar Joshua E. Greene University of Michigan Rachel Mandelbaum University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Boston College Joshua Buckholtz Carnegie Mellon University Adrian Ioana Harvard University Matteo Mariantoni Adam Wasserman University of California, San Diego Jessica Cantlon University of Waterloo Purdue University Gautam Iyer University of Rochester Nikhil Padmanabhan Daniel Weix Carnegie Mellon University Mark Churchland Yale University University of Rochester Sarah C. Koch Columbia University Ryan Patterson Wei Zhang Harvard University Surya Ganguli California Institute of Technology University of Colorado, Boulder Alex V. Kontorovich Stanford University Yale University Naveen Reddy Eva Zurek Lisa Giocomo University of California, Riverside University of Buffalo, SUNY Swastik Kopparty Stanford University COMPUTER SCIENCE Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Elena Gracheva Jianfeng Lu Dayu Lin David James Brumley Carnegie Mellon University Krzysztof Gajos Duke University Hoai-Minh Nguyen University of Minnesota Harvard University Andrew Putman Björn Hartmann University of California, Berkeley Nicholas Harvey University of British Columbia Derek W. Hoiem Rice University Pavlo Pylyavskyy University of Minnesota Yanir Rubinstein University of Maryland, College Park University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Sachin R. Katti Sug Woo Shin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University Jeffrey Streets Caitlin Kelleher University of California, Irvine NEUROSCIENCE Yale University New York University Alexander Maier Vanderbilt University Sotiris Masmanidis University of California, Los Angeles Abigail Person University of Colorado, Denver Vanessa Ruta University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Liang Jiang Rahul Roy University of California, Los Angeles Jack Clayton Sankey McGill University Eva-Maria Schötz University of California, San Diego Nathaniel Stern Northwestern University Jesse Thaler Massachusetts Institute of Technology Zheng Wang Rockefeller University University of Texas, Austin Anne Taylor David Weld University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill University of California, Santa Barbara Wei Wei Jing Xia The University of Chicago University of California, Irvine Washington University in St. Louis Arthur Szlam Svetlana Lazebnik The City College of the City University of New York Megan Williams Xi Yin University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign University of Utah Harvard University Michael Lustig David Treumann Ilana Witten Jiangfeng Zhou University of California, Berkeley Boston College Princeton University University of South Florida Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs… There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different. (Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 1941) The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is a philanthropic, not-for-profit grantmaking institution that supports original research and broad-based education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economic performance. For more information visit www.sloan.org.