Two alumni’s from Indian Institute of Technology in Kanpur and Bombay, have won MacArthur Fellowship this year. The MacArthur fellowships, popularly known as “genius grants,” have been awarded to scholars who showed exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the future.

Prakash is an Assistant Professor in Department of Bioengineering at the Stanford University, and Khot works as a theoretical computer scientist at the New York University.

It includes a stipend of $625,000, given over five years, designed to provide the recipients the flexibility to pursue their activities in absence of specific obligations.

The MacArthur Foundation recognized Prakash for his research which has been “driven by curiosity about the diversity of life forms on our planet and how they work, empathy for problems in resource-poor settings, and a deep interest in democratizing the experience and joy of science globally.”

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By Prakriti Neogi