Xerox Fellowship Program
In 2007, the Xerox Corporation and MIT formed a partnership to support the research of students in the School of Engineering. Supported by a $1 million grant from Xerox, the Xerox Fellowship Program provides financial support for a number of master’s and doctoral degree candidates annually, especially women and other groups traditionally underrepresented in engineering. The fellowship program is part of Xerox’s ongoing support of open innovation and collaborative research worldwide.
The students selected as Xerox fellows continue to work closely with their faculty advisor at MIT, and they gain a second mentor as each is paired with current, practicing engineer at Xerox; the students are also invited to spend the summer working at one of Xerox’s four research centers worldwide. This partnership combines the best of engineering education with the best of engineering practice – a combination that lies at the very heart of the School of Engineering’s educational priorities.
Xerox Fellows have done research in the following areas:
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Green processes and technologies
Understanding environmental impacts over the entire product lifecycle, from raw materials to use by customers and disposal, and on making products and services more environmentally friendly.
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Imaging and smart documents
From the recognition and enhancement of image content to smart document applications such as document summarization, natural language generation and machine translation.
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Nanotechnology and microelectromechanical systems
Projects such as nanostructured materials, microfluidic devices, nanocomposites, microscale heat transfer, and nanomanufacturing in addition to novel 3D polymers and a range of electronic, photonic and magnetic materials, all of which pose exciting possibilities for new devices and applications.
Current and former Xerox Fellows
2012
- Elie Adam, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Qingqing Huang, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Shengxi Huang, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Adriana Schulz, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Theja Tulabandhula, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2011
- Hallie Sue Cho, Mechanical Engineering
- Marzyeh Ghassemi, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Yi Liu, Mechanical Engineering
- Michal Rabani, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Jameson Toole, Engineering Systems Division
2010
- Jelani Nelson, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Katrina Panovich, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Kyoo-Chul (Ken) Park, Mechanical Engineering
- George Whitfield, Materials Science and Engineering
- Kuang Xu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2009
- Rhonda Jordan, Engineering Systems Division
- Biliana Kaneva, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Greg Little, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Amy Mueller, Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Melissa Smith, Materials Science and Engineering
2008
- Michael Bernstein, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Tilke Judd, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Shiyun Ruan, Materials Science and Engineering
- Vijay Shilpiekandula, Mechanical Engineering
- Kaushik Sinha, Aeronautics and Astronautics
- Malima Wolf, Mechanical Engineering
2007
- Amy Banzaert, Mechanical Engineering
- Salvador Barriga, Materials Science and Engineering
- Elizabeth Basha, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Ce Liu, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Robert Mitchell, Materials Science and Engineering
- Hyungbin Son, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
