Stewart Isaacs
Stewart Isaacs is an MIT-Boeing Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in aeronautics and astronautics whose research is focused on decentralized energy systems for a just and sustainable energy transition. Specifically, Stewart seeks to develop novel energy technologies, including decentralized design and production of solar technologies, that are optimized for community and application-specific use. His doctoral research examined the impact of dust and other aerosols on ...
Alvin D. Harvey
Alvin D. Harvey is an MIT-Boeing Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow and a citizen of the Navajo (Diné) Nation who is focused on Indigenous research methodologies and methods in aeronautics engineering. Alvin’s doctoral thesis was shaped by several goals: co-creating and applying Diné and Indigenous pillars of knowledge in aeronautics and astronautics; developing Indigenous space ethics, astrophilosophy, astrobiology, and shared engineering methodology; and capacit ...
Mohammad Charara
Mohammad Charara is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in mechanical engineering whose research explores the mechanics of topological metamaterials with the aims of expanding the design space of these metamaterials, understanding how their mechanics translate into realistic structural specimens, and elucidating their special wave-control properties. In his doctoral research, Mohammad expanded the field on multiple fronts by developing realistic ...
Juan Cervino
Juan Cervino is an MIT-IBM Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in electrical engineering whose research is focused on developing intelligent systems that are efficient under scale, robust to perturbations, and flexible to heterogeneity. Specifically, Juan’s work concentrates on the introduction of requirements to perform machine learning over graphs. As a doctoral student, Juan’s notable achievements included the development of a methodology to train graph neural networks on a sequenc ...
Sara Cerasoli
Sara Cerasoli is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in civil and environmental engineering specializing in natural climate solutions and ecohydrology. Her research focuses on optimizing soil, plant, and water resources for climate change mitigation while addressing the interconnected challenges of food security, ecosystem preservation, and water scarcity. Sara’s work integrates ecohydrology, economic modeling, dynamical systems theory, stocha ...
Paula Cárdenas-Hernández
Paula Cárdenas-Hernández is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in civil and environmental engineering. In her doctoral work, Paula investigated the degradation of anthropogenic contaminants, such as explosives, in soils and groundwater and developed predictive models for their breakdown under natural and remediation conditions. Her research will focus on how plants and microbes increase the availability of critical nutrients in soils. Specifi ...
Outman Akouissi
Outman Akouissi is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow in mechanical engineering whose research is focused on translational bioelectronics, with an emphasis on minimally invasive technologies such as ingestible and wearable medical devices. As a doctoral student, Outman developed novel peripheral nerve implants for advanced neuromodulation therapies, coinvented hydrogel-based actuation and thin-film 3D microelectrode arrays for neural spheroid e ...
Gyutae (Jack) Park
Gyutae (Jack) Park is a PhD candidate in nuclear science and engineering whose research is focused on the design and optimization of microreactors, also known as nuclear batteries (NB), a potentially critical source of carbon-free energy that is smaller than a traditional reactor. Specifically, Jack is pursuing the design optimization of two NB design concepts: a sodium-cooled, graphite-moderated, thermal-spectrum microreactor and an organic-cooled (hydrocarbons), water-moderated thermal-spec ...
Andres Garcia Coleto
Andres Garcia Coleto is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research in the field of integrated silicon photonics aims to deliver new applications in virtual reality, 3D printing, and medical tools. Specifically, Andres is working on novel integrated visible- light modulators based on liquid-crystal material. As a MathWorks Fellow, Andres will pursue several aligned projects, including the development of a novel integrated-photonics-based augmented-reality dis ...
Haike Xu
Haike Xu is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research is focused on analyzing and designing algorithms. With the vast amount of data generated and collected today, nearest-neighbor search algorithms find applications in various domains, from constructing information retrieval systems to enhancing large language models for improved factuality. Supported by a MathWorks Fellowship, Haike will expand on his successful work on the nearest neighbor search problem ...