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 ...
Benjamin (Jiahong) Zhang
Benjamin is a PhD student in computational science and engineering. His research is focused on establishing a unifying framework for understanding and producing new computational methodology for rare event simulation, data assimilation, and Bayesian inference. He uses MATLAB to prototype new methods for rare event simulation, finding them by leveraging mathematical principles used in proofs and repurposing them for computation. Benjamin earned a BS in engineering physics and BA in applied mat ...
Joy Zeng
Joy is a PhD student in chemical engineering. Her research is focused on the electrochemical transformation of carbon dioxide to fuels and/or commodity chemicals. She is focused on cobalt phthalocyanine, a transition metal complex that when immobilized onto carbonaceous supports acts as a catalyst with high selectivity and activity for the electroreduction of carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide. She uses MATLAB to model the interplay between mass transport and reaction network kinetics to all ...
Isabelle Su
Isabelle is a PhD student in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Her research uses computational methods to understand and validate the mechanical properties of silk and spider webs that have been observed in biological experiments. She is currently developing an algorithm to accurately quantifies a 3D spider web geometry using the MATLAB Image Processing Toolbox. She has also used MATLAB to sonify 3D spider web data in order to visualize through sight and sound the complex ...
Kate Reidy
Kate is a PhD student in materials science and engineering. Her research is focused on understanding the coupling and interfacial phenomena between two-dimensional (2D) layered materials and their 3D bulk material adjuncts for the continued and rapid development of devices that utilize 2D materials. She has used MATLAB to process in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) videos, as well as to analyze 2D material thickness and absorption resonances. This provides her with dynamic ...