Your week at a glance
- Small group — you facilitate Group 2 · Lyra on Day 3 (Evaluation).
- Job talk — Day 6 (Sat, Jun 27), 3:00 PM · Room B · Alder 103.
- Poster — Day 7 (Sun, Jun 28) · Session B (10:30–11:30 AM).
Ayush Noori is a Rhodes Scholar, D.Phil. student in the Computational Health Informatics Lab at the University of Oxford, and visiting PhD student in the Zitnik Lab at Harvard Medical School. Motivated by personal experiences, Ayush develops AI technologies that advance the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of neurological disorders and other unsolved medical conditions. His research efforts have produced over 40 peer-reviewed papers, including 14 first or co-first author works, published in Cell, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Aging, npj Digital Medicine, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, and other venues. Ayush received a Bachelor’s in Computer Science and Neuroscience and a concurrent Master’s in Computer Science from Harvard University, where he was a John Harvard Scholar, received the Frothingham Scholarship, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He is a Cosmos Fellow at Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in AI and also holds the Encode: AI for Science PhD Fellowship.
Awards & honors
Recognition
- Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes Trust (2024)
- Barry Goldwater Scholarship, Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation (2024)
- Elected Member, Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha Iota of Massachusetts, Harvard) (2025)
- Encode: AI for Science PhD Fellowship, Pillar VC / ARIA / DSIT (18 fellows, top 2.8%) (2025)
- Cosmos Fellowship, Cosmos Institute / Laboratory for Human-Centered AI, University of Oxford (~2% acceptance) (2026)
- Murray Speight Research Grant, Rhodes Trust (2026)
- Early Career Researcher Mobility Award, Oxford-Berlin Research Partnership (2026)
- Paul Revere Frothingham Scholarship Prize, Harvard College (2025)
- Banga Social Innovation Thesis Award, Harvard College (2025)
- John Harvard Scholarship, Harvard College (2024)
- Y Combinator Summer Fellows Grant (2025)
- Coca-Cola Scholar (1 of 150 from 93,075 applicants), Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation (2020)
- New York Times Gold Medal Portfolio, Scholastic Art & Writing Awards (2020)
- Regeneron Science Talent Search Top 300 Scholar, Society for Science (2020)
- Intel ISEF Finalist (2019)
- Scale Medicine Prize, Evolved 2024 Biology x ML Hackathon (2024)
- Second Place, FutureHouse Invitational Hackathon (2024)
- Second Place, GEM Pitch Competition, ICLR 2025 (2025)
- Patient Safety Technology Challenge Winner, Stanford TreeHacks (2023)
In the news
Featured in
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- Ayush Noori '20: The Love of Discovery
- Ayush Noori - Rhodes Scholar bio (Class of 2025)
- Harvard Seniors with Concentrations in Neuroscience Named Rhodes Scholars
- Ayush Noori Selected as a Rhodes Scholar