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Bakar Fellows Program Announces 2024 Spark Award Recipients and New Partnership with the Academic Innovation Catalyst
The Bakar Fellows Program is excited to announce that eleven new Faculty Fellows have been selected as part of the 2024 Spark Award cohort. Among these recipients, two are being supported by the Academic Innovation Catalyst, an initiative that has partnered with the Bakar Fellows Program to deliver transformative support for climate tech projects.
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On First Year Anniversary, Bakar Fellows Program Welcomes New Undergraduate Ignite Scholars
Meet the Fall 2023 cohort of the Bakar Ignite Scholars Program.
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Michelle Kiang, Bakar Fellow Advisory Board Member, Featured in Bloomberg
Michelle Kiang is co-founder and Managing Partner of Impact Science Ventures. She was featured at the U.S. National Science Foundation’s first technology startup workshop.
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Meet the Bakar Fellows Program’s 2024 Bakar Prize Winners
We are excited to announce the 2024 cohort of Bakar Prize winners. Click to learn more about their projects and how the Bakar Fellows Program continues to support their efforts.
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Edge in Tech Symposium: Advancing Health Tech for All
Happening March 8: The Bakar Fellows Program is sponsoring Edge in Tech's symposium. Register now and be part of a day filled with inspiring talks, networking opportunities, and a chance to contribute to the critical discourse on health tech innovation for all.
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Pieter Abbeel: Removing a Major Memory Bottleneck for AI Models
Pieter Abbeel co-authored a research paper with a Google data scientist and the CTO of Databricks, Matei Zaharia, demonstrating that by removing a major memory bottleneck for AI models, they could enable models to process millions of words as opposed to hundreds of thousands — the maximum of the most capable models before Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro.
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Bakar Fellow Phil Messersmith Advances Toward Effective IBD Therapies
Phil Messersmith's Bakar project uses inspiration from nature to develop therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.
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