Two Indian American university professors are among the first five recipients of Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellows for 2005, it was announced on Thursday.
The two Indian Americans – Subhash Khot and Radhika Nagpal – along with Fredo Durand, Dan Klein and Wei Wang were selected from a pool of 110 nominees representing universities across the United States.
The fellowship award, under which each recipients will get a cash grant of $200,000 to pursue their innovative research work in computer science, is a new programme that honours early-career university professors showing exceptional talent for novel research and thought leadership in their discipline.
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