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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) hold great promise for accelerating scientific discovery and heightening creativity.   The new Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at MIT focuses on AI for addressing the most challenging problems in select scientific research areas, and AI for music composition and performance.   The program concentrates on work that brings cutting edge AI to bear on research in science or music, to advance both the research area and the development of relevant AI methods.

Candidates will be working on projects at the forefront of one of the six research areas of: Biology/Bioengineering, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, Materials Science and Engineering, Music, or Physics.   Each fellow in the program will have a faculty mentor in the research area as well as in AI.   A key aspect of the program, and of the candidate selection process, is identifying a match with a MIT faculty mentor in the research area, and an additional mentor with relevant interests who works in AI.   In the application form, applicants provide names of faculty at MIT that are closest to their proposed work, both in the research area and in AI.

MIT seeks outstanding candidates for the 2025-26 program.   Participants need to have received their doctoral degree prior to starting the program and must start no later than September 1, 2025, for this program cycle.   The Fellowship term is 12 months, possibly renewable for second term.   Visa sponsorship is not available.

Fellows that are accepted into the program will be awarded a stipend starting at $75,000 annually, plus MIT benefits.   The program will also provide recipients with travel grants for academic conferences as well as computer access and various programmatic activities.

Applicants must register at https://scc-postdoc.mit.edu/tayebati/register.tcl
Applicants must provide a one-page research statement, a CV, and two letters of recommendation, as well as the additional requested information in the application form.   Preference will be given to applicants who have not been a student or researcher at MIT in the previous two years.   To receive full consideration, applications must be completed by December 31, 2024.

MIT is an equal employment opportunity employer.   All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, ancestry, or national or ethnic origin.   MIT's full policy on Nondiscrimination can be found here.

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