Uyen Mai named Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Jamie Saxon, Office of Communications
Twelve scholars from disciplines spanning engineering, the sciences, and the social sciences have been named Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows at Princeton.
Uyen Mai joins the Department of Computer Science, where she plans to leverage her expertise in species evolution to develop more realistic models of cancer evolution. Mai holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of California-San Diego and a B.S. in computer science from Portland State University. She is advised by Ben Raphael, professor of computer science.
Uyen Mai, Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Photo courtesy of Uyen Mai.
Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows are poised to become leaders in their fields, said Dean of the Faculty Gene Jarrett, who called the fellows program “an outstanding demonstration of Princeton’s ability to attract the most promising researchers from all sectors of society and all parts of the world.”
The Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows program is intended to recognize and support outstanding scholars who have been historically and are presently underrepresented in the academy or in certain disciplines. Financial support is provided for up to two years at full salary.
