All Fellowship applicants are notified by mail of the Foundation's action on their application on or before April 1. Notable Fellows Lars Bildsten, Director, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara Manjul Bhargava, Fields Medalist 2014 Eric Boe, NASA Astronaut Stephen P. Boyd, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University Ed Boyden, 2016 Breakthrough Prize James E. Brau Mung Chiang, Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor at Princeton University, 2013 Alan T. Waterman Award recipient Isaac Chuang, Quantum computing pioneer Kevin M. Esvelt Doyne Farmer, an originator of econophysics Mike Farmwald, Founder of Rambus Alex Filippenko, Richard & Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences and Professor of Astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley Kathleen Fisher, Deputy Director at DARPA's Information Innovation Office and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University Alice P. Gast, President, Imperial College of London Kenneth M. Golden, Fellow of Explorers Club Leonidas J. Guibas, researcher in computational geometry and Paul Pigott Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University Nathan Lewis, Professor, California Institute of Technology Kevin Karplus, Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz David Kriegman, researcher in computer vision and Professor of Computer Science at University of California, San Diego Peter Hagelstein, Inventor, X-ray laser Danny Hillis, Inventor, entrepreneur, and author Andrew Houck, Quantum Computist Tianhui Michael Li, first Data Scientist in residence at Andreessen Horowitz, founder of The Data Incubator Po-Shen Loh, Coach of USA International Mathematical Olympiad Team and Professor of Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University Derek Lidow, Founder of iSuppli Corp. Robert Lourie, Head of Futures research at Renaissance Technologies John C. Mather, Nobel Laureate 2006 Mike Montemerlo, Winning Team Leader, DARPA Grand Challenge 2005 Nathan Myhrvold, Founder, Intellectual Ventures, former CTO, Microsoft Dianne P. O'Leary, applied mathematician Sabrina Pasterski, Young Physicist General Ellen M. Pawlikowski, Commander, Air Force Material Command Emma Pierson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University Joseph Polchinski, Fundamental Physics Prize 2017 William H. Press, Former Deputy Director for Science and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory Robert Sedgewick, William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University Katelin Schutz Kenneth L Shepard Ray Sidney, Google entrepreneur Alfred Spector, CTO of Two Sigma and former VP of Research at Google Rich C. Staats, Commanding General, United States Army Reserve Innovation Command Robert Tarjan, Turing Award 1986 Astro Teller, Director, Google X Michael Telson, Former CFO at the Department of