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MIT Alum Awarded 2025 MacArthur “Genius Grant” MIT alumna and mathematician Lauren K. Williams PhD ’05 has won a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship.Read more.

Lauren K. Williams PhD ‘05 has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow for "significant contributions to numerous mathematical fields, including cluster algebras, representation theory, and algebraic geometry.”

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Researchers glimpse the inner workings of protein language models MIT researchers used sparse autoencoders to shed light on the inner workings of protein language models, an advance that could streamline the process of identifying new drugs or vaccine targets.

By using a sparse autoencoder, Prof Berger and
@bergerlab.bsky.social students uncover how protein language models make predictions."Identifying features that protein language models track has the potential to reveal novel biological insights from these representations." @mitscience.bsky.social