MathWorks Fellows are at the forefront of expanding human knowledge and shaping innovations that elevate our quality of life.
When a fledgling company was looking for its first customer in 1985, MIT agreed to purchase 10 copies of its signature software, MATLAB. Today, more than 4 million people worldwide use MathWorks products, including faculty and students across MIT’s School of Engineering. Founded by Jack Little ’78 and Cleve Moler, MathWorks was designed to provide engineers and scientists with more powerful and productive computation environments. MATLAB enables algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numeric computation. Simulink, another of the company’s signature products, provides a block diagram environment for simulation and model-based design of multidomain and embedded engineering systems.
MathWorks continues to make a significant impact at MIT through its generous gift of fellowships to MIT School of Engineering. To date, nearly 400 MathWorks Fellows—each utilizing MATLAB or Simulink—have driven discovery and innovation across diverse engineering disciplines. As CEO Jack Little put it, they are “increasing human knowledge and profoundly improving our standard of living.”
Get to Know Our Fellows
Ready to geek out on some mind-blowing research? Our MathWorks fellows are redefining what’s possible in engineering, and their stories highlight how these fellowships are fueling a new generation of thinkers and creators. If you want to learn more about the grad students behind it all, check out their bios here.
Eligibility and Application Requirements
Contact your department administration to apply for this fellowship.
Eligibility and preference
• Continuing graduate students in the School of Engineering
• Preference for graduate students who are active users of MATLAB and/or Simulink
• Previous MathWorks fellowship recipients may reapply
• Students enrolled in professional master’s programs are not eligible for this fellowship
• First-year graduate students are not eligible for this fellowship
Application requirements
• CV
• A two-page research statement from the nominee highlighting how MathWorks software has advanced the student’s research and their contributions to the MathWorks community
• A letter of recommendation from the student’s research advisor
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Accelerating the pace of engineering
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