Ethan Almquist
Ethan Almquist is a graduate student in mechanical engineering whose research aims to solve critical challenges in naval ship design and power system diagnostics. Specifically, he is working to create energy-efficient systems that minimize electrical consumption and maximize ship performance. As a MathWorks Fellow, Ethan will develop a behavioral simulation method to permit much faster than real-time emulation of detailed power streams for shipboard power plants. His approach utilizes data fr ...
Mary Dahl
Mary Dahl is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research is focused on the use of small satellites to further our knowledge of the Earth by using onboard AI to improve data collection. Supported by her second MathWorks Fellowship, Mary seeks to improve the way we measure clouds and aerosol interactions to make more accurate climate models by prioritizing and targeting clouds of particular types. The objectives of Mary’s current project are: to design a look-ahead instrume ...
Duo Xu
Duo Xu is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research integrates materials science, heat transfer, and radiation transport in the development of polymer-based materials. His prior research included the creation of a polyethylene-based multifunctional composite material for space exploration; testing and modeling of an olefin block copolymer material for solid-state thermal management by mechanocaloric effect; and demonstrating strain-induced tunable thermal conductivity in the sa ...
Arittaya (Tiya) Boonkird
Arittaya (Tiya) Boonkird is a PhD student in nuclear science and engineering who focuses on the exploration of quantum materials for applications in information and electrical devices. Her prior achievements include developing methodologies for evaluating topological materials, a large class of quantum materials, based on economic and environmental criteria, and identifying the top-200 candidates based on these sustainability considerations, as well as experimental work on the physical proper ...
Frederick Ajisafe
Frederick Ajisafe is a PhD student in aeronautics and astronautics whose research aims to apply space technologies and systems engineering techniques to address challenges on Earth. As a MathWorks Fellow, he will conduct a project evaluating the benefits of satellite-based Earth observation tools in local methane monitoring, as part of policies to address climate and air quality concerns. The project, centered on the Seropédica landfill in Rio de Janeiro, employs an Environment-Vulnerabilit ...
Yi-Hsuan (Nemo) Hsiao
Yi-Hsuan (Nemo) Hsiao is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science who is developing bumblebee-inspired aerial robots powered by artificial soft muscles, with the goal of achieving resilient robotic flight in cluttered environments. Nemo’s second MathWorks Fellowship will allow him to extend his testing and analysis of a 750 mg robot. During the past year, Nemo has worked extensively with engineers from Speedgoat and MathWorks to solve challenges related to on-board sof ...
Miranda Schwacke
Miranda Schwacke is a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering whose research seeks to develop new energy-efficient electrochemical programmable resistors, or electrochemical random-access memory (ECRAM), for physical implementations of neural networks that mimic the connectivity of the brain. Her first MathWorks Fellowship enabled her to explore new approaches to informed ion selection and materials design and to demonstrate a proof-of-concept for ECRAM using Mg2+ as the working io ...
Soumya Sudhakar
Soumya Sudhakar is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research is focused on decision-making algorithms for miniature or long-duration robots that are energy- efficient in actuation and computing. As a MathWorks Fellow, she will investigate new methods for measuring uncertainty in machine learning in a computationally efficient way. To address the high computational costs of current methods, Soumya has proposed a novel method to exploit temporal correlation across the input ...
Zi Yu (Fisher) Xue
Zi Yu (Fisher) Xue is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research addresses the critical need for energy-efficient and high-performance computing systems. Specifically, Fisher’s work focuses on applications of tensor algebra, a computing paradigm used across a wide variety of application domains, including scientific simulations, data analytics, and recommendation systems. As a MathWorks Fellow, Fisher will focus on designing new architectures to better per ...
Leticia Mattos Da Silva
Leticia Mattos Da Silva is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research seeks to advance applications of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDE) in the fields of geometry processing and computer graphics. With the support of her second MathWorks Fellowship, Leticia will explore the use of stochastic differential equations (SDE) associated with a parabolic PDE for an image task application. A second avenue for future work in Leticia’s PhD involves deve ...