Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a PhD candidate in medical engineering and medical physics whose research interests are focused on developing innovative techniques for fetal imaging and addressing the challenges of imaging in pregnancy. Specifically, Sebo is working on new motion-compensation techniques and a fetal motion analysis framework, both of which draw extensively on MATLAB. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, he will pursue several objectives, including the development of a data-dri ...
Hannah Jackson
Hannah Jackson is a PhD candidate in medical engineering and medical physics whose research is focused on improved treatment approaches for drug-resistant epilepsy using a recently developed implantable device to deliver micro-doses of drugs to small regions of the brain. Supported by her second MathWorks Fellowship, Hannah will continue to hone her novel device and improve its clinical translation. Her immediate objective is to optimize seizure detection algorithms to ensure compatibility ac ...
Simo Pajovic
Simo Pajovic is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research addresses challenges in nanophotonics and light-matter interactions, with critical applications in energy efficiency and medical imaging. As a MathWorks Fellow, he will focus on understanding electromagnetic nonreciprocity in the context of radiative heat transfer, which may unlock exciting opportunities in engineering emitters and absorbers violating Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, in addition to unidirectional ...
Ilan M. L. Upfal
Ilan M. L. Upfal is a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering whose research focuses on sustainable energy system design. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, Ilan will expand his work in wind farm design and translate those efforts into industry-ready MATLAB tools. His research aims to consider collective flow control in the optimization of wind farm layouts. Ilan’s work could include two valuable outcomes: a gradient-based optimization approach utilizing automatic differ ...
Samuel (Sam) Dutra Gollob
Sam Dutra Gollob is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research centers on soft robotics and actuation system design. He has made important contributions to the model-informed design of novel, vacuum-powered soft actuators for medical applications, as well as the design of fuel-based power systems for pneumatics. With the support of a second MathWorks Fellowship, he aims to develop a generalized model of the multi-physics relationships between pneumatic actuators, pneumatic contr ...
Erik Helstrom
Erik Helstrom is a PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering whose research explores the atmospheric oxidation of organic compounds with a focus on the formation of fine particulate matter (PM). Supported by a MathWorks Fellowship, Erik will pursue several innovative projects in instrument development and laboratory oxidation, including the development of a total suspended organic carbon instrument for laboratory use; comprehensive comparison of different mass spectrometric measure ...
Alexander A. Velberg
Alexander A. Velberg is a PhD student in nuclear science and engineering whose research lies at the interface of machine learning and nonlinear plasma dynamics. Specifically, Alex aims to develop a systematic program of data-driven equation discovery for plasma physics. His work builds on recent research demonstrating that it is possible to discover a known reduced plasma model from first-principles simulation data. Alex is exploring how to extend this methodology to the discovery of equation ...
Jasmine Jerry Aloor
Jasmine Jerry Aloor is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research bridges aerospace engineering, robotics, AI, and control. Supported by her second MathWorks Fellowship, she will pursue studies of system- and fleet-level objectives, including fairness and efficiency for highly decentralized execution settings, such as those enabled by multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods. Her previous projects include studies examining whether agents can learn to be fair, espe ...
Jimin Kwag
Jimin Kwag is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering whose research is focused on the self- assembly of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs). As a MathWorks Fellow, Jimin will explore the fundamental principles of self-assembly in lead sulfide (PbS) NCs, which exhibit appealing properties such as a direct optical band gap, multiple exciton generation, and infrared absorption. By manipulating the NC size, core shape, and organic ligand chemistry, it is possible to tune their chemical, o ...
Sanghyun Park
Sanghyun Park is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research focuses on developing long-acting implantable systems to enhance patient acceptability and adherence to treatment, particularly addressing preventive healthcare for HIV, tuberculosis, malaria, and contraception for family planning. As a MathWorks Fellow, he is developing biodegradable osmotic pumps that have demonstrated the ability to provide constant drug release through osmosis- driven mechanical infusion and become ...