MIT Mathematics Department

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.” The other two 2026 Clay Research Awards have been awarded to Yu Deng (BS, MIT) and Zaher Hani (long-time derivation of Boltzmann

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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.” The other two 2026 Clay Research Awards have been awarded to Yu Deng (BS, MIT) and Zaher Hani (long-time derivation of Boltzmann

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