Frédéric Gibou is one among only 116 outstanding young scientists, mathematicians, and economists nationwide who has been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for this year. The total of these grants came to $5.2 million.

Gibou, an assistant professor with joint appointments in the departments of computer science and mechanical and environmental engineering, joined the UCSB faculty in 2005. He specializes in designing new computational algorithms for computer-visualized images, such as medical images, the structure of materials, or computer graphics.

The Sloan fellowships allow flexible funding—$45,000 over a two-year period—for just about anything of research interest to the Fellows, according to an announcement by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.