Ulri Lee
Ulri Lee is a Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research integrates microfluidics and analytical chemistry to build new bioanalytical microfluidic tools to understand the environment and human health. As a doctoral candidate, Ulri developed a novel open-microfluidic patterning method that utilizes surface tension forces to form biological cell-laden hydrogel layers; the resulting multi-gel and multi-cell 3D structures have a wide ...
Michael Kitcher
Michael D. Kitcher is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research examines spin transport and chiral interactions in magnetic materials with the goal of developing next-generation spintronic devices. Specifically, Michael’s work is centered on understanding and manipulating noncollinear spin textures—such as domain walls, spin waves, and skyrmions—which hold great promise as building blocks for energy-efficient spintronics. For his doctoral research, he stud ...
Timothy Holder
Timothy Holder is an MIT-IBM Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research lies at the intersection of psychophysiological engineering and affective computing. Specifically, Timothy is working to develop wearable, noncontact, and remote psychophysiological sensor systems for use in a wide range of dyadic, affective, and citizen science contexts. The aim of these systems is to quantitatively detect the psychophysiological states of humans and animals as they interact to form relationships a ...
Amy Rae Fox
Amy Rae Fox is a METEOR and School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research centers on the role of cognition in information visualization and diagrammatic reasoning. At MIT, Amy is investigating interactive visualization to address a central challenge in visualization research and design: the common belief that extracting insights from visual data is easy when, in fact, we rely on years of explicit training and implicit exposure. Amy’s doctoral research examined the i ...
Suhas Eswarappa Prameela
Suhas Eswarappa Prameela is a Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow specializing in the advancement of metallic and ceramic materials for extreme dynamic environments. Their research combines high-throughput experiments, advanced manufacturing techniques, and innovative alloy design methods to engineer resilient materials tailored for applications such as space structures and reusable rocket engines, ensuring their durability in high-temperature, shock-p ...
Matthew Clarke
Matthew Clarke is an MIT-Boeing Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research focuses on aircraft design, aerodynamics and aeroacoustics, and the optimization of electric vehicles for regional and urban air mobility (UAM). As a doctoral candidate, Mathew worked on synthesizing a multi-fidelity approach for predicting the performance and acoustic footprint of electric short/vertical takeoff and landing aircraft (eS/VTOLs), balancing fast, iterative design with high-resolution analyses withi ...
Steven Ceron
Steven Ceron is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research interests encompass the design, fabrication, and control of robot swarms at the macro- and micro-length scales. His doctoral research focused on simulation and physical implementations of macro-scale and micro-scale robot swarms and explored how interactions between agents’ physical features and their surrounding environment could be exploited to enable navigation, object manipulation, and dispersion. H ...
Molly Carton
Molly Carton is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research interests lie at the interface of computational design of materials, fabrication, and robotics. She uses algorithmic design and computational fabrication to generate architected materials and mechanisms with new mechanical properties and to explore how those properties can be deployed to create sensors, actuators, and robotic and deployable systems. Her research includes designing scalable simulation tech ...
Sofia Arevalo
Sofia Arevalo is a School of Engineering Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellow whose research uses experimental and computational methods to assess and develop novel biomaterials for use in tissue engineering. Her doctoral research explored a family of polymers with useful attributes that could enhance function and longevity in the body. Sofia’s work demonstrated the validity of using nano-indentation for characterizing medical-grade polymers, and her insights into the nano-mechanical propertie ...
Paul Zhang
Paul is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science. His research is focused on developing high-quality meshes that are typically required to solve complicated partial differential equations numerically. He currently uses MATLAB to prototype frame field algorithms and to study their application to hexahedral meshing. More specifically, he uses MATLAB’s symbolic differentiation to derive vector calculus expressions and to create concise yet massively vectorized implementatio ...