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 ...
Daisy Green
Daisy is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science working in the Electromechanical Systems Group.Her research is focused on the signal processing and analysis required to create new systems for the automation of energy conservation and for providing actionable insight into the operation of an electrical system and its individual loads. MATLAB was essential to her understanding of machine learning concepts.Her work usesphysics-informed machine learning techniques to identif ...
Fiona Grant
Fiona is a PhD student mechanical engineering. Her research Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab focuses on designing low-cost, solar-powered drip irrigation systems for small farms in the Middle East, North Africa, and East Africa. Her goal is to improve and expand the optimization design tool for drip irrigation systems, using a modular design tool that facilitates rapid iterations and improvements. In order to identify further cost-saving design configurations, she is working on co-o ...
Baoliang Ge
Baoliang is a PhD student in mechanical engineering whose research focuses on developing novel label-free microscopy techniques for biological imaging and material inspection. He recently developed a polarization interference microscopy called Quantitative Polarization Interference Microscopy (QPIM). This novel optical imaging technique realized single-shot quantitative polarization imaging, which can capture and analyze the high-speed dynamics happened in anisotropic samples. With QPIM, he c ...
Hannah Feldstein
Hannah is a PhD student in mechanical engineering whose research is centered on the fundamental design, optimization, and device integration of dynamically reconfigurable micro-scale fluid droplet morphologies for biomedical sensing and imaging. Being able to determine whether bacteria are alive or dead has important implications for rapid detection of pathogenic bacteria presence and the quantification of antibiotic effectiveness. This can be accomplished through sensing optical changes.Hann ...
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 ...