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Congratulations to MAS students recognized with fellowships for the 2025–26 academic year

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by Diana Sikar

Sept. 8, 2026

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The MIT Media Lab is proud to celebrate the graduate students who have been awarded fellowships for the 2026 academic year, recognizing their outstanding research and contributions across the Lab.

New Fellowships

Samantha Gutierrez (Biomechatronics)  — Arango Surpina and Panos Eurnekian Biotechnology Fund Fellowship

Sergio Mutis (Critical Matter), Rachel Poonsiriwong (Cyborg Psychology) — Vest, Crown, and Independence (VCIE) Fellowship

Hyeokjun Yoon (Conformable Decoders) — MIT HEALS Graduate Fellowship

Quincy Kuang (Tangible Media), Bhavana Bheem, Michelle Kim (Fluid Interfaces), Nina Masuelli (Opera of the Future), Sally Ahmed (Fluid Interfaces)— Presidential Fellowship

Cassandra Overney (MIT Center for Constructive Communication) — MAD Design Fellowship

Lancelot Blanchard (Responsive Environments)— Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) Fellowship

Zoe Lee Miyako, Anthony Baez (Cyborg Psychology), Ivan Ren — NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

Fellowship Renewals and Multi-Year Fellowships

Dong Won Lee (Personal Robots)— Amazon AI Fellowship

Shrihari Viswanath (Conformable Decoders), Anku Rani (Multisensory Intelligence) — Tata Center for Technology and Design Fellowship

Valdemar Danry (Fluid Interfaces)— Google Fellowship

Cathy Fang (Fluid Interfaces)— Apple Fellowship

Constanze Albrecht (Cyborg psychology)— German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action Fellowship

Tzofi Klinghoffer (Camera Culture) — National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship

Nikhil Behari (Camera Culture)— NASA Fellowship

Siddharth Somasundaram, Charles Lu, Nelson Hidalgo Julia (Affective Computing), Antonis Christou (Opera of the Future), David Dai (Multisensory Intelligence)— NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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