MIT senior Sadhana Lolla has gained the distinguished Gates Cambridge Scholarship, which presents college students a chance to pursue graduate research within the discipline of their alternative at Cambridge University within the U.Ok.
Established in 2000, the Gates Cambridge Scholarship presents full-cost post-graduate scholarships to excellent candidates from international locations exterior of the U.Ok. The mission of the scholarship is to construct a world community of future leaders dedicated to bettering the lives of others.
Lolla, a senior from Clarksburg, Maryland, is majoring in pc science and minoring in arithmetic and literature. At Cambridge, she is going to pursue an MPhil in know-how coverage.
In the long run, Lolla goals to steer conversations on deploying and creating know-how for marginalized communities, comparable to the agricultural Indian village that her household calls residence, whereas additionally conducting analysis in embodied intelligence.
At MIT, Lolla conducts analysis on secure 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 Research 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 offered her work on the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) convention and the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
Outside of analysis, Lolla leads initiatives to make pc science schooling extra accessible globally. She is an teacher for sophistication 6.s191 (MIT Introduction to Deep Learning), one of many largest AI programs on the planet, 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 lots of of scholars in Northern Scotland as a part of the MIT Global Teaching Labs program.
Lolla was additionally the director for xFair, MIT’s largest student-run profession honest, and is an govt board member for Next 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 impressive research in the Distributed Robotics Group, her volunteer teaching with Momentum AI, and her internship and extracurricular experiences, she has developed the skills to be a leader,” says Kim Benard, affiliate dean of distinguished fellowships in Career Advising and Professional Development. “Her work at Cambridge will allow her the time to think about reducing bias in systems and the ethical implications of her work. I am proud that she will be representing MIT in the Gates Cambridge community.”