James O'Brien is the recipient of the 2004 Alfred Sloan Fellowship. The Sloan Research Fellowships were established in 1955 to provide support and recognition to young scientists, often in their first appointments to university faculties, who were endeavoring to set up laboratories and establish their independent research projects with little or not outside support. Selection procedures for the Sloan Research Fellowships are designed to identify those who show the most outstanding promise of making fundamental contribiutions to new knowledge. Twenty-six Sloan Fellows have won Nobel Prizes later in their careers, and hundreds have received other honors. O'Brien received his doctorate in computer science from Georgia Tech in 2002.

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