Logan Engstrom
Logan is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science. His research focuses on intersecting areas in traditional machine learning, deep learning, and statistical analysis. He is particularly interested in making machine learning more robust and reliable and in making AI more human aligned. Much of his research focuses on adversarial examples or imperceptibly changed inputs that can induce worst-case behavior in machine learning systems. He recently completed a statistical anal ...
Li Clement
Clement is a PhD student in aeronautics and astronautics working on aviation automation problems at the MITInternational Center for Air Transportation. His PhD topic involves investigating high-level aviation automation in dynamic and stochastically varying environments. In particular, he is focusing on automated situation awareness and decision making with regards to airborne trajectory prediction. He is investigating data analytics approaches, usingMATLAB tools, for mining large sets of air ...
Ximo Gallud Cidoncha
Ximo is a PhD student in aeronautics and astronautics conducting research at the intersection of numerical modeling and physics of nanoscale engineering devices. A frequent MATLAB user, he is working on a problem related to the numerical analysis of the shapes of small liquid menisci stressed under very high electric fields to evaporate ions. As these ions fly away, they produce thrust, hence a rocket can be constructed under this principle. This is difficult to analyze since the scales chang ...
Cécile Chazot
Cécile is a PhD student in materials science and engineering. Her research is focused on the creation of new methods for manufacturing high-performance polymer and composite materials in a rapid, energy-efficient manner. Specifically, she studies interfacial polymerization (IP), a process by which a polymer is formed at the interface between two immiscible liquids (often water and an organic solvent), each containing one type of reactive species (initiator or monomer). She uses MATLAB to ena ...
Katherine Carroll
Katherine is a master’s student in aeronautical and astronautical engineering and member of the Engineering SystemsLaboratory. A longtime MATLAB and Simulink user, her current research involves population modeling and simulation of pedestrian activity through transit environments. She is implementing agent-based modeling and simulation in order to capture the emergent phenomena of population groups moving across complex sites, both here on Earth and on Mars. She has used MATLAB to numerical ...
Roberto Brenes
A PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science, Roberto is a member of the Organic and Nanostructured Electronics Lab. He uses MATLAB’s versatile Partial Differential Equation (PDE), Global Optimization, and ParallelComputingToolboxes to solve, model, and fit the group’s experimental data sets on carrier recombination and diffusion in semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. Leveraging the PDE Toolbox, his most recent work, “AccurateDetermination of Semiconductor Di ...
Nicolas Arango
Nicolas is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science whose research focuses on medical imaging technology. He is trying to solve challenging MRI problems by creating and distributing the hardware and computational tools needed for simultaneous optimization of coil geometries, encoding field patterns, and received-signal reconstruction algorithms. He has observed that the steps, or modules, that make up most MRI sequences often have conflicting patient-specific field pattern ...
Mohammad AlAdwani
Mohammad is a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering whose research is focused on explaining and predicting biodiversity changes using mathematical models. Specifically, his goal is to provide closed-form solutions using computational methods in order to skip the impossible task of simulating all possible parameter values and combinations and to establish rigorous and testable estimates about the probability of persistence of species. He is developing his own code and integrating ...
Shashank Agarwal
Shashank is a PhD student in mechanical engineering whose research primarily focuses on the development of reduced-order, rate-dependent methods for a variety of granular intrusion problems, such as meteorite impacts and animal and vehicular locomotion in sands and deserts (a field referred to as terramechanics). He uses large-scale, detailed numerical simulations to understand the physics of such scenarios, which in turn allows him to develop robust reduced-order models that can be run in re ...
Bernardo Aceituno - Cabeza
Bernardo is a PhD student in mechanical engineering whose research examines the synthesis of robust strategies for grasping and dexterous manipulation. Specifically, he is examining the problem of caging, a geometric property by which a set of fingers manipulate an object by trapping it rather than immobilizing it. He has developed an explicit optimization approach to formulate the caging condition as a convex mixed-integer optimization problem. This was the first of its kind, since caging ha ...