Trevor Long
Trevor is a master’s student in aeronautics and astronautics working on the development of Super-STOL concept for an Urban Air Mobility mission. His specific task is working on the experimental investigation into blown-lift airfoil performance in a new 2′ x 3′ wind tunnel. To perform these tests effectively, he is developing and testing modules for an experiment-driver and data acquisition system based on MATLAB. This system will enable the department to use the new wind tunnel ...
Miles Lifson
Miles is a PhD student in aeronautics and astronautics focusing on space traffic management, space situational awareness, and space sustainability. His research draws on a variety of methods and disciplines to ensure that we, and those who come after us, will be able to continue to enjoy benefits derived from space. His PhD research centers on the development of al ow Earth orbit slotting system using flower constellation theory to coordinate between large numbers of satellites controlled by ...
Wei Liao
Wei is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science who uses microfluidic technology to study an important but often neglected player of neurodegenerative disease, the blood-brain-barrier (BBB). She uses engineered microfluidic tissue culture devices to recapitulate the BBB microarchitecture in vivo with an approach normally called organ-on-a-chip (OOC). OOC platforms are microfluidic cell culture chips that simulate the activities, mechanics and physiological respons ...
Eric Lehnhardt
Eric is a PhD student in biological engineering where he focuses on the bio-directed synthesis and assembly of advanced materials for the direct air capture of carbon dioxide and its conversion to products with a goal of off-setting the net addition of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. He uses MATLAB to monitor flow data to better understand the fraction of carbon dioxide converted into products, and a custom MATLAB script to calculate and visualize the products generated using the materials ...
Abinash Kumar
Abinash is a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. His research involves atomic-scale characterization of materials using scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). He focuses on two aspects of electron microscopy: developing new tools for acquiring high quality data; and extracting local chemical and structural information in materials, using various statistical tools. With the discovery of aberration correctors for electron microscopes, acquiring images ...
Yoonho Kim
Yoonho is a PhD student in mechanical engineering. He developed a submillimeter-scale, soft-bodied continuum robot (a type of slender, thread-like robot) capable of slithering through highly complex and constrained environments, such as the narrow and tortuous vasculature of the human brain.Based on this technology, he is developing a telerobotic neurointerventional platform to enable robotic applications to endovascular neurosurgery and stroke treatments. He uses MATLAB for simulation and qu ...
Ifueko Nosakhare Igbinedion
Ifueko is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computers cience. Her research focuses on how computer scientistscan utilize the power of multi-agent collaboration to coordinate swarms of drones completing classic computer vision tasks with extremely high speed and accuracy. The goal of this work is to develop innovative deep-learning models supported by a backbone of drone swarm perception to provide real-time, deep-learning capabilities for autonomous systems. This approach aims to sh ...
Justin Hou
Justin is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science and a member of the Spintronic Material and Device Group. His research focuses on the theoretical understanding and experimental realization of spintronics. MATLAB has played a significant role in his research, ranging from experimental measurement, data analysis, and visualization to theoretical calculation of electronic bands and theoretical modeling of magnetic dynamics. With the help of the Instrument Control Toolbox, ...
R’mani Haulcy
R’mani is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science. She uses MATLAB to create figures such as confusion matrices, and to perform computations on an emerging area in the speech field that revolves around measuring health-related biomarkers from speech. She plans to use the Statistics and Machine Learning Toolbox to automatically detect cognitive impairment from speech. R’mani earned a BS in electrical engineering from Yale University.
Abhinav Gupta
Abhinav is a PhD student in mechanical engineering and computation who is developing state-of-the-art algorithms and methodologies for uncertainty quantification, Bayesian learning, deep learning, and numerical methods for various ocean applications. His research in the past years has focused on the problem of sustainable fisheries management inIndia. Due to the high-dimensional nature of ocean modeling and the operational requirements of making ocean predictions in real time, legacy codes wr ...