MIT Students Sunshine Jiang, Rupert Li Win 2 Knight-Hennessy Scholarships for Stanford Graduate Study
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Updated · MIT News · May 14
MIT Students Sunshine Jiang, Rupert Li Win 2 Knight-Hennessy Scholarships for Stanford Graduate Study
1 articles · Updated · MIT News · May 14
Two MIT students — Sunshine Jiang ’25 and Rupert Li ’24 — were named this year’s Knight-Hennessy Scholars, earning up to three years of funding for graduate study at Stanford.
Jiang, a Hangzhou-born MIT graduate completing her master of engineering this month, will begin a Stanford computer science PhD this fall after research in embodied AI and robotics.
Li, from Portland, Oregon, is already pursuing a Stanford mathematics PhD after graduating from MIT in 2024 and later earning a mathematics master’s degree at Cambridge as a Marshall Scholar.
Now in its ninth year, the Knight-Hennessy program is a highly competitive Stanford scholarship, and Li’s selection adds to honors including the Hertz, P.D. Soros and Goldwater awards.
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