Nathi Magubane, Penn Today
The University of Pennsylvania’s Jason Altschuler, César de la Fuente, Liang Wu, and Anderson Ye Zhang have each been selected to receive a 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship, which recognizes early-career scientists in North America. They are among 126 Fellows, chosen from more than 1,000 nominees, who will receive the two-year, $75,000 research fellowship, according to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Jason Altschuler is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School. He also holds secondary appointments in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering and the Department of Computer and Information Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Science and is a member of the Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences group in the School of Arts & Sciences. His research interests lie at the interface of mathematical optimization, probability, and machine learning, with a focus on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms. Altschuler has been named a fellow for his contributions to the field of mathematics.
César de la Fuente is a Presidential Associate Professor at the Department of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine, with secondary appointments in Penn Engineering and Penn Arts & Sciences. The de la Fuente Lab pioneered the first AI-designed antibiotic with in vivo efficacy, launching AI-driven antibiotic discovery, and has identified more than a million new antimicrobial compounds. His work has accelerated antibiotic discovery, cutting preclinical candidate identification from years to hours and turning decades of research into hours. De la Fuente has won more than 80 awards, appeared as an invited speaker at more than 300 talks, is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and is a National Academy of Medicine Emerging Leader. He has authored more than 170 publications and holds multiple patents. de la Fuente has been named a Sloan Fellow for his contributions to the field of chemistry.