The MIT Media Lab is proud to celebrate the graduate students who have been awarded fellowships for the 2026–27 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) — Vice Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence (VCIE) Fellowship
- Hyeokjun Yoon (Conformable Decoders) — MIT HEALS Graduate Fellowship
- Quincy Kuang (Tangible Media), Bhavana Bheem (Social Algorithms), Michelle Kim (Fluid Interfaces), Nina Masuelli (Opera of the Future), Sally Ahmed (Cyborg Psychology)— Presidential Fellowship
- Cassandra Overney (MIT Center for Constructive Communication) — MAD Design Fellowship
- Lancelot Blanchard (Responsive Environments)— Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) Fellowship
- Zoe Lee Miyako (Space Enabled), Anthony Baez (Cyborg Psychology), Ivan Ren (Responsive Environments), Ashley Neall (Camera Culture)— 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 (Camera Culture), Charles Lu (Camera Culture), Nelson Hidalgo Julia (Affective Computing), Antonis Christou (Opera of the Future), David Dai (Multisensory Intelligence)— NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
- Ayat Abodayeh (Lifelong Kindergarten), Eitan Wolf (Opera of the Future), Ila Kumar (Lifelong Kindergarten) — LEGO Papert Fellowship