Research to tackle pressing problems

Award winners

At Demo Day, Fellows present five-minute project pitches and submit their research. Judges evaluate submissions based on a rubric measuring progress made, potential impact, and presentation quality.

Summer ’26 Research Scholars

June  - Aug, 2026

Adhi

AI & Economics

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Emily

Food security & chemistrY

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Vivan

health & Computer science

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Mysha and Manraj

global health & medicine

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Keon

global health & math

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Alice

Health & Chemistry

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Summer ’26 Special Awards

In addition to the Research Scholars awarded and supported by Non-Trivial, further awards for exceptional Fellowship projects are made available by trusted organizational partners doing frontier work in high-impact fields. These awards include research publication and translation support and career mentorship, prizes of up to $1,500, and public recognition and validation that Fellows can leverage for future university and professional applications. Our 2026 winners were:
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- Faunalytics Award to Viyom Mittal for Using Climate Projections to Predict Heat Stress in Chickens
- Animal Charity Evaluators Award to Esther Hobbs for Mapping Optimal Areas for Chicken-Based Food Waste Diversion
- Institute for AI Policy and Strategy Award to Adhithiya Balamurugan for AI Labor Stress Test  
- METR Awards to Boden Moraski for Evaluating AI Moral Character Through Revealed Preferences and Yuhang Wu for  Analysis of Abstention Sensitivity to Prompt Perturbations
- MATS Research Award to Josh Karthikeyan for Explanation Is Not Intervention
- BlueDot Award to YuHan ChenHe for Biosecurity Middleware: Self-Degrading High-Risk Proteins
- Cambridge Biosecurity Hub Award to Anand Swaroop for Bias from Population Incompleteness in Epidemic Inference
- 80,000 Hours Awards to Kaeyura Puram for Yes/No to How Much: Designing a Quantitative Dengue NS1 Test, Reid Kawaja for Testing Consciousness Indicators in Language Models, and Yuliia Tertyshnyk for Evaluating Pre-Intervention Diagnostics for Steering

Summer ’25 Research Scholars

June 9 - Aug 31, 2025

James

Climate change

Lee

Meta Science

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Mija

Ml & Game Theory

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Mohammed

global health & WellBeing

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Rajarshi

global health & WellBeing

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Maanav

global health & well-being

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Summer ’24 Winners

Jul 8 - Aug 30, 2024

Winter ‘23 Winners

Oct 30 - Dec 22, 2023

Summer ‘23 Winners

Jul 10 - Sep 1, 2023

Spring ‘23 Winners

Feb 27 - Apr 14, 2023

Pilot Fellowship Winners

Nov 21 - Dec 22, 2022