Prof. Anton Bernshteyn (left) and Prof. Ernest Ryu (right)
UCLA Math Professors Anton Bernshteyn and Ernest Ryu have been awarded the 2025 Sloan Research Fellowship. Bernshteyn and Ryu are two of the six UCLA professors selected among 126 scientists and scholars for this prestigious honor, ranking UCLA No. 1 among public colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada in the number of new honorees.
The Sloan Research Fellowships are one of the most competitive and prestigious awards available to early-career researchers in chemistry, computer science, Earth system science, economics, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Fellows receive a two-year, $75,000 award to support their research from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which was established in 1934.
“Bernshteyn specializes in descriptive set theory (a branch of mathematical logic) and combinatorics, focusing on their interactions and connections to other fields, such as computer science and dynamical systems. Through his research, he aims to develop versatile tools that yield explicit, constructive solutions to combinatorial problems across various mathematical disciplines. In particular, he explores how techniques from distributed computing— the area of computer science concerned with decentralized networks — can be applied in descriptive set theory and beyond. Bernshteyn is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award.”
“Ryu is an applied mathematician working in the areas of optimization and machine learning. His research analyzes the family of acceleration mechanisms — of which the most commonly known are momentum-based techniques in machine learning optimizers — with the ambitious goal of formulating a grand unified theory of acceleration. Ryu is the recipient of the INFORMS Optimization Society Young Researchers Prize.”
Read the full UCLA Newsroom article here.
