MIT senior Sadhana Lolla has received the distinguished Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which presents college students a possibility to pursue graduate research within the area of their selection at Cambridge College within the U.Okay.

Established in 2000, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship presents full-cost post-graduate scholarships to excellent candidates from international locations outdoors of the U.Okay. The mission of the scholarship is to construct a worldwide community of future leaders dedicated to bettering the lives of others.

Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in laptop science and minoring in arithmetic and literature. At Cambridge, she’s going to pursue an MPhil in know-how coverage.

Sooner or later, Lolla goals to guide conversations on deploying and growing know-how for marginalized communities, resembling the agricultural Indian village that her household calls dwelling, whereas additionally conducting analysis in embodied intelligence.

At MIT, Lolla conducts analysis on protected and reliable robotics and deep studying on the Distributed Robotics Laboratory with Professor Daniela Rus. Her analysis has spanned debiasing methods for autonomous automobiles and accelerating robotic design processes. At Microsoft Analysis and Themis AI, she works on creating uncertainty-aware frameworks for deep studying, which has impacts throughout computational biology, language modeling, and robotics. She has introduced her work on the Neural Data Processing Methods (NeurIPS) convention and the Worldwide Convention on Machine Studying (ICML). 

Outdoors of analysis, Lolla leads initiatives to make laptop science training extra accessible globally. She is an teacher for sophistication 6.s191 (MIT Introduction to Deep Studying), one of many largest AI programs on the earth, which reaches thousands and thousands of scholars yearly. She serves because the curriculum lead for Momentum AI, the one U.S. program that teaches AI to underserved college students without cost, and she or he has taught a whole bunch of scholars in Northern Scotland as a part of the MIT World Educating Labs program.

Lolla was additionally the director for xFair, MIT’s largest student-run profession honest, and is an govt board member for Subsequent Sing, the place she works to make a cappella extra accessible for college students throughout musical backgrounds. In her free time, she enjoys singing, fixing crossword puzzles, and baking. 

“Between Sadhana’s spectacular analysis within the Distributed Robotics Group, her volunteer instructing with Momentum AI, and her internship and extracurricular experiences, she has developed the talents to be a frontrunner,” says Kim Benard, affiliate dean of distinguished fellowships in Profession Advising and Skilled Improvement. “Her work at Cambridge will enable her the time to consider decreasing bias in techniques and the moral implications of her work. I’m proud that she can be representing MIT within the Gates Cambridge group.”