Professors Decebal Mocanu and Alexandre Tkatchenko have recently received awards from Google to finance their research on machine learning. 

Understanding complex biological systems 

Allostery is a fascinating phenomenon in biology where a small change in one part of a molecule, like a mutation or a shift in shape, can affect another part of the same molecule, even if they are far apart. Some of these changes are difficult to explain, involving effects that seem to travel long distances within the molecule.