Laura Fleig, a first-year PhD student in the Johns Hopkins Department of Computer Science, has been awarded a three-year fellowship through the highly competitive National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP).
The NSF-GRFP is the oldest graduate fellowship of its kind, offering significant financial and developmental support to graduate students who are pursuing research-based degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. It is one of the nation’s most prestigious fellowship programs, providing financial support to outstanding students who have demonstrated potential for significant achievements in research.
Affiliated with the Laboratory for Computation Sensing and Robotics and the Malone Center for Engineering in Healthcare, Fleig focuses on integrating AI and robotics into high-stakes environments like healthcare, with a particular interest in system-level impacts on workflows and collaboration between clinicians, patients, and intelligent systems.
“I’m very grateful to be awarded this fellowship, and I’m excited for the opportunity to continue growing as a researcher,” says Fleig, who is advised by John C. Malone Associate Professors of Computer Science Mathias Unberath and Chien-Ming Huang.
Additionally supported by the Whiting School’s Percy Pierre Doctoral Fellowship, Fleig was selected for the GRFP from a highly competitive pool of nearly 14,000 applicants nationwide based on her intellectual merit and potential to contribute to scientific innovation.
Learn more about this year’s NSF-GRFP award offers here.