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POTSDAM -- Ashwin Ajit '22 of Potsdam, NY, a double major in computer science and mathematics, was named a Goldwater Scholar for the spring 2020 semester at Clarkson University. Ajit is an Honors …
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POTSDAM -- Ashwin Ajit '22 of Potsdam, NY, a double major in computer science and mathematics, was named a Goldwater Scholar for the spring 2020 semester at Clarkson University.
Ajit is an Honors student double majoring in computer science and mathematics, and a member of the Clarkson School, the University's early college program. He is from Potsdam, NY.
Ajit's academic achievements are outstanding. In 2018, at the age of 16, Ajit completed an apprenticeship at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Since fall 2018, Ajit has been a researcher in the Terascale All-Sensing Research Studio (TARS) at Clarkson, a lab that has produced two other Goldwater Scholars in the past three years.
Through his research at TARS, Ajit has published a first author paper at AIVR 2019, receiving the Best Student Paper Award. He has also produced a second author publication at the same venue and has achieved the remarkable feat of publishing two peer-reviewed publications while still in Clarkson's early-college program, The Clarkson School. Ajit has been accepted to Cornell University where he plans to attend school in the fall. Ajit's application was supported by Sean Banerjee, Natasha Banerjee, and Athanasios Iliopoulos (Naval Research Laboratory).
Including this year's scholars, 44 Clarkson University students have received this highly coveted award since the scholarships were first awarded in 1989. This is the 21st consecutive year that at least one Clarkson student has received a Goldwater Scholarship.
The Goldwater Scholarship is the most prestigious award in the United States given to undergraduates studying in mathematics, science and engineering. It is given to sophomores and juniors who demonstrate "outstanding potential." There were only 396 scholarships awarded for the 2019-2020 academic year.
The Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation is a federally endowed agency established in 1986. The scholarship program honoring Senator Barry M. Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.
