Chengcheng Huang earned a selective Swartz Foundation Fellowship

Chengcheng Huang, a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Mathematics, is one of just two individuals in the United States awarded the Swartz Foundation Fellowship.

Huang will receive an $100,000 award for the first year of the fellowship and could see it renewed for an additional $100,000 in the second year. The computational neuroscientist studies neuron networks to model how the brain perceives information from the external world. In particular, she focuses on perception of pitch in hearing.