Tam Nguyen
Tam is a PhD student in chemical engineering whose research applies systems engineering to solving problems in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with a focus on continuous processes for their potential to decrease costs and increase flexibility. She has constructed a novel kinetic model, written entirely with MATLAB code, for the manufacturing of the most important class of gene therapy products via triple transfection of mammalian cells. She has designed optimal model-based experiments necessary ...
Jerry Ng
Jerry is a PhD student in mechanical engineering whose research focuses on system dynamics and applications control in robotics. In particular, he focuses on lifting linearization techniques for nonlinear dynamical systems to be used for realtime, model predictive control. He has used MATLAB to run simulations and experiment with configurations. Jerry has also served as a TA for the subject Introduction to Robotics, taking MATLAB packages and toolboxes that he uses in his own research and tra ...
Catherine Medlock
Catherine is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science. Her research lies at the intersection of classical signal processing and quantum physics. Being theoretical in nature, her research requires the use of MATLAB tools for simulation and theoretical experimentation, varying parameters and other aspects of a theory to gain insight into the theoretical results. For example, she and her collaborators produced code that takes a non-optimal ROC curve and generates the optimal ...
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 ...