February 15, 2023
UW laptop scientist Leilani Battle and UW mathematician Jonathan Zhu have been named Sloan Fellows.College of Washington
Two College of Washington college members have been awarded early-career fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Basis. The brand new Sloan Fellows, introduced Feb. 15, are Leilani Battle, an assistant professor within the Paul G. Allen Faculty of Laptop Science & Engineering, and Jonathan J. Zhu, an assistant professor within the Division of Arithmetic.
Open to students in eight scientific and technical fields — chemistry, laptop science, Earth system science, economics, arithmetic, neuroscience and physics — the fellowships honor these early-career researchers whose achievements mark them among the many subsequent technology of scientific leaders.
The 126 Sloan Fellows for 2023 have been chosen in coordination with the analysis neighborhood. Candidates are nominated by their friends, and fellows are chosen by impartial panels of senior students primarily based on analysis accomplishments, creativity and potential to turn out to be a pacesetter of their area. Every fellow will obtain $75,000 to use towards analysis endeavors.
This yr’s fellows come from 54 establishments throughout america and Canada, spanning fields from evolutionary biology to knowledge science.
Battle is an assistant professor of laptop science and co-leads the Interactive Knowledge Lab. Her analysis investigates the interactive visible exploration of large datasets and stands on the intersection of a number of educational disciplines, together with healthcare, enterprise and local weather science.
“What piqued my curiosity in knowledge science was the juxtaposition of the unimaginable energy of present instruments and their underutilization by the overwhelming majority of information analysts on this planet,” Battle stated. “Why are we not making higher use of those instruments? This sparked a multi-year journey to raised perceive why folks use or don’t use numerous knowledge science instruments and the way these instruments might be made accessible to and efficient for a wider vary of customers.”
Zhu is an assistant professor in arithmetic. His analysis explores the idea and geometry of surfaces ruled by their curvature, and the way these surfaces work together with the house round them. Mathematical notions of curvature kind the language by which many pure phenomena are described, cell membranes, cleaning soap movies, and the construction of spacetime by way of common relativity.
“Arithmetic, and particularly geometry, is throughout us,” Zhu stated. “By rigorously finding out seemingly on a regular basis phenomena — akin to cleaning soap bubbles — we’re in a position to develop profound mathematical theories, which have functions to phenomena which are in any other case impossibly out of attain, akin to black holes. In doing so, we create fully new ideas by which to know the world we dwell in.”
For extra data, contact Battle at [email protected] or Zhu at [email protected].
Tag(s): Faculty of Arts & Sciences • Faculty of Engineering • Division of Arithmetic • Jonathan Zhu • Leilani Battle • Paul G. Allen Faculty of Laptop Science & Engineering