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Jeremy Hahn shares one of the 2026 Clay Research Awards with Robert Burklund, Ishan Levy and Tomer Schlank for their disproof of Ravenel's Telescope conjecture. Pretty much an MIT quartet, with two BS, two PhD, one Visiting Professor, and one tenured associate professor from MIT among them!

The other two 2026 Clay Research Awards have been awarded to Yu Deng (BS, MIT) and Zaher Hani (long-time derivation of Boltzmann equation from hard sphere dynamics), and to Tuomas Orponen, Pablo Shmerkin, Hong Wang (PhD, MIT), and Joshua Zahl (proofs of Furstenberg set conjecture in 2D and the Kakeya conjecture in 3D).

Read more about Jeremy's award at the Clay Mathematics Institute.

Congratulations to Jeremy and all the other recipients!

Ankur Moitra has been awarded the 2026 W. Wallace McDowell Award from the IEEE Computer Society.

The McDowell Award is given yearly to individuals for outstanding recent theoretical, design, educational, practical, or other similar innovative contribution that falls within the scope of IEEE Computer Society interest. His citation reads “For groundbreaking contributions to high-dimensional learning —spanning mixture models, robust statistics, and quantum systems.”

Read more about Ankur’s award at the IEEE Computer Society.

Congratulations, Ankur!

Adityanarayanan “Adit” Radhakrishnan has been awarded the Edmund F. Kelly Research Award.

Periodically, our department gives this award to one or several junior faculty members "in recognition of work that applies mathematical methods in a new area or that offers a fundamentally new perspective on a classical problem."

This award was established in honor of former Liberty Mutual CEO and President Edmund "Ted" Kelly, who received his PhD under the supervision of Prof. Sigurdur Helgason in 1970.

Congratulations, Adit!