Two Math Concentrators Among 2026 Rhodes Scholars

Congratulations to all the Harvard students named among the American Rhodes Scholar Class of 2026! Among them are two math concentrators, seniors Jay Chooi and Emma Finn.

Jay Chooi, of Malaysia, is a joint computer science and mathematics concentrator. At Harvard, he has worked on AI preparedness and safety. His recent investigation with the MIT Technology Review found that OpenAI products Sora and Chat GPT-5 reproduced caste-based biases widely experienced in India.

Emma Finn, of Annapolis, Maryland, is a dual concentrator in mathematics and classics, completing theses in both disciplines. She will also earn a master’s in statistics this spring via the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Finn plans to spend her first year at Oxford exploring how creativity emerges in biological and mechanical systems while completing a project-based research in statistics course. Her second year will be spent pursuing a master’s in statistics and machine learning.

Read the full article at the Harvard Gazette.