Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Advances in artificial intelligence hold great promise for accelerating scientific discovery and heightening creativity. The new Tayebati Postdoctoral Fellowship Program at MIT, sponsored by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, 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.
Program Details & Benefits
Candidates will be working on projects at the forefront of one of the six disciplinary areas:
- Biology/Bioengineering
- Brain and Cognitive Sciences
- Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
- Materials Science and Engineering
- Music
- 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 2026-27 program. Participants need to have received their doctoral degree prior to starting the program and must start no later than September 1, 2026, for this program cycle. Each postdoctoral appointment is for 24 months. Fellowships are subject to satisfactory performance, with formal performance reviews conducted annually.
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.
Application Requirements
- One-page research statement
- CV
- Two letters of recommendation
- Additional requested information in the applicant 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, all application materials (including letters of recommendation) must be submitted by December 1, 2025.
Questions? Contact us at scc-postdocs@mit.edu.
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