--- title: MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows description: Five MIT faculty members and two alumni were named to the 2026 cohort of Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows. Sendhil Mullainathan is a Senior Fellow, researching... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/mit-affiliates-named-2026-schmidt-sciences-ai2050-fellows-fumibk4gy twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows | daily.dev og:description: Five MIT faculty members and two alumni were named to the 2026 cohort of Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows. Sendhil Mullainathan is a Senior Fellow, researching... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/mit-affiliates-named-2026-schmidt-sciences-ai2050-fellows-fumibk4gy og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/fUMiBK4GY.png og:image:alt: MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows **[MIT News](https://daily.dev/sources/mit)** · 5 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Five MIT faculty members and two alumni were named to the 2026 cohort of Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows. Sendhil Mullainathan is a Senior Fellow, researching how AI-detected patterns can become testable theories. Early Career Fellows Alex Damian, Bailey Flanigan, Yunha Hwang, and Manish Raghavan will work on topics including AI model training, structured public input for lawmakers, determining biological enzyme functions, and mitigating negative effects of widespread AI reliance. Alumni Irene Chen, Allison Koenecke, and former postdoc Juan Carlos Perdomo were also named fellows. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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