Crystal E. Owens
Crystal E. Owens is a PhD candidate whose research is focused on rheology and advancing our understanding of fluid-solid interactions to create useful new processes and tools. With the support of her second MathWorks Fellowship, Crystal will continue her work to develop rheological measurement tools for a class of non-Newtonian materials known as yield stress fluids. These materials include 3-D printing inks, biomaterials key for tissue engineering, and geofluids such as soil and lava; their ...
Amin Heyrani Nobari
Amin Heyrani Nobari is a PhD candidate whose research focuses on the development of novel machine-learning (ML) models and methods for automating CAD generation. His current work aims to develop generative adversarial networks (GANs) for design generation and conditional GANs for inverse design problems. Promising results of Amin’s research to date include a new GAN- based inverse design synthesis method named PcDGAN, which outperformed state-of-the-art machine-learning methods by 69%, and ...
Andreas Mentzelopoulos
Andreas Mentzelopoulos is a PhD candidate whose research centers on novel applications of machine-learning (ML) techniques to experimental fluid mechanics. Specifically, Andreas studies vortex-induced vibrations (VIV), a canonical engineering problem of great interest to theoreticians because of the complexity of underlying mechanisms and to engineers because of the catastrophic failures that VIVs can cause to marine structures. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, Andreas will pursue ...
Paul Lilin
Paul Lilin is a PhD candidate whose research seeks to uncover the governing properties and mechanisms of drying suspensions of colloidal particles, which are found all around us, from coffee and blood to semiconductor coatings and paints. As a MathWorks Fellow, Paul will be using his custom experimental model system, consisting of a millimetric drop deposited on a flat surface, to investigate the dynamics, fracture patterns, and surprising large-scale bending deformation of colloidal suspensi ...
Suyong Kim
Suyong Kim is a PhD candidate whose research applies optical diagnostics and computational modeling techniques in the fields of energy materials and energy sustainability. As a MathWorks Fellow, Suyong will pursue two primary projects. The first focuses on modeling the combustion of metal fuels as a promising candidate of carbon-neutral energy source. His second project aims at creating a practitioner design tool for an improved charcoal-fired cookstove to protect the health of people who use ...
Xinjie Ji
Xinjie Ji is a PhD candidate in computational fluid dynamics and ocean engineering whose research focuses on biologically inspired underwater propulsion, and more generally, on the use of flexible and morphing structures within a fluid flow. As a MathWorks Fellow, Xinjie will investigate the immersed interface method (IIM) for fluid-body coupling problems within the context of the 2-D incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. This project builds on prior work in which Xinjie and colleagues im ...
Manan Doshi
Manan Doshi is a PhD candidate whose research applies computational science approaches to challenges in ocean and mechanical engineering. Specifically, Manan’s work explores optimal path planning in dynamic ocean environments, Lagrangian analysis of ocean flow, and Lagrangian data assimilation and learning. Manan’s prior work has yielded significant contributions to the field, most notably his discovery of equations governing the optimal collection-time reachability and path planning for ...
Tom Dillon
Tom Dillon is a PhD candidate whose research combines robotics, mechatronics, and medical- imaging to develop computer-assisted and robotic surgical techniques that optimize the treatment of cardiac and endovascular diseases. During a previous MathWorks Fellowship, Tom led the development of FenFit, a computational program for automating the design of patient-specific endovascular grafts for aneurysm surgery, now in clinical testing. With the support of his second MathWorks Fellowship, Tom is ...
Somayajulu (Somu) Dhulipala
Somayajulu (Somu) Dhulipala is a PhD candidate in the field of solid mechanics whose research explores experimental and computational aspects of self-assembled, architected materials. As a MathWorks Fellow, Somu is developing non-periodic self-architected metamaterials with tuneable mechanical properties, which have the potential to offer significant advantages over conventional additive manufactured architected materials, including greater strength and improved scalability. Somu has develope ...
Ippolyti Dellatolas
Ippolyti Dellatolas is a PhD candidate whose research explores multiphase materials composed of constituents of different phases, which have widespread applications in industry, bioengineering, and geophysical flows. Ippolyti’s current work includes an experimental and computational study of the mechanical properties of filler-reinforced hydrogels. The goal of the project is to gain insights into the physical mechanism of reinforcement to guide the design of filler-hydrogel composites with ...