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Aviral Kumar named AI2050 Fellow for 2024
This year’s cohort consists of 25 recipients, including five senior scholars and 20 early career investigators.
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Aviral Kumar / Image - Carnegie Mellon University
The AI2050 initiative, which is supported by Schmidt Sciences, has selected Aviral Kumar, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University, as one of 25 fellows for the 2024 cohort, which includes 20 early-career researchers and five senior scholars who will receive up to $12 million in funding to advance artificial intelligence for societal benefits.
An IIT alumnus, Kumar, joined Carnegie Mellon’s School of Computer Science in 2023, and was recognized for his innovative work in reinforcement learning and decision-making. His research primarily focuses on offline reinforcement learning, scaling up reinforcement learning techniques, and exploring the intersection between reinforcement learning and foundation models.
Before joining Carnegie Mellon, Kumar earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2023. He received the CV Ramamoorthy Distinguished Research Award, which honors one student annually for exceptional contributions to new research areas in computer science. Additionally, Kumar was the recipient of the Apple PhD Fellowship and the Facebook PhD Fellowship.
Kumar is among a diverse group of researchers aiming to address a wide array of issues, from drug discovery in Africa to advancing particle physics. He will join an international community of 71 researchers from 37 institutions across seven countries to share findings and collaborate on projects.
The AI2050 program, co-founded by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt, challenges researchers to tackle major scientific questions and technical challenges with AI. Fellows are expected to contribute solutions to 10 “hard problems” in the evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, with the goal of leveraging AI to improve human welfare.
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