Abhijit Banerjee, HST faculty member Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons (left to right) are new members of the National Academy of Sciences.
Photos (l-r): Bryce Vickmark, Allegra Boverman, courtesy of the Summons Lab
Faculty members Abhijit Banerjee, Bonnie Berger, and Roger Summons elected by peers for outstanding contributions to research.
Sandi Miller | Department of Mathematics
On April 27, the National Academy of Sciences elected 120 new members and 26 international associates, including three professors from MIT — Abhijit Banerjee; Bonnie Berger, an HST faculty member; and Roger Summons — recognizing their “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research.” Current membership totals 2,403 active members and 501 international associates, including 190 Nobel Prize recipients.
The National Academy of Sciences is a private, nonprofit institution for scientific advancement established in 1863 by congressional charter and signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln. Together, with the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medicine, the 157-year-old society provides science, engineering, and health policy advice to the federal government and other organizations.
Bonnie Berger is the Simons Professor of Mathematics, holds a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and is a member of the HST faculty. She is the head of the Computation and Biology group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). She is also an associate member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
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