Yuheng Yang
Yuheng Yang is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science whose research is focused on the development of end-to-end security verification frameworks for hardware designs. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, Yuheng will work to bridge the gap between computer architecture and formal verification, making formal tools easily accessible to hardware designers, including tools for both the early and later register-transfer level (RTL) stages. Currently, he is exploring ve ...
Evan King
Evan King is a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering whose research is focused on quantifying how mountainous watersheds control the supply of water and its quality to dependent downstream communities. Specifically, Evan investigates how landscape properties, such as topography, geology, and vegetation type, influence key hydrologic-biogeochemical processes. Evan’s current work, centered on the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains, explores how subsurface structure combines wi ...
Andres Garcia Jimenez
Andres Garcia Jimenez is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research interests lie at the intersection of materials science, mechanics, and aerospace engineering. Specifically, Andres is working to elucidate the mechanisms that drive frictional ignition of engineering alloys in high-pressure oxygen environments, such as those encountered in next- generation staged combustion rocket engines. These engines offer propellant efficiency without sacrificing thrust capability but ...
Hao Tang
Hao Tang is a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering whose research is focused on developing and applying computational methods to simulate physical systems ranging from quantum defects and functional alloys to electronic devices. A second MathWorks Fellowship will enable Hao to extend his work, which draws significantly on MathWorks toolkits for modeling, simulations, data analysis, and visualization. His recent and current projects include: the refinement of a new reinforcement ...
Akshat Zalte
Akshat Zalte is a PhD student in chemical engineering whose research involves innovative molecular representations for application to machine learning in chemistry. His research also spans process modeling and techno-economic analysis of future fuel systems to decarbonize long-haul trucking. As a MathWorks Fellow, Akshat will pursue research in two primary areas: making key improvements to Chemprop and evaluating various liquid energy carriers for their potential value in long-haul trucking. ...
Mohua Das
Mohua Das is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research is in the field of non- Newtonian fluid dynamics. As a MathWorks Fellow, she will pursue the following project: a study of strain-controlled, optimally windowed chirp rheometry. The goal of the project is to establish guidelines for selecting appropriate chirp parameters, enabling accurate and efficient capture of the rapidly evolving properties of transient materials. Understanding the microstructural changes that soft mat ...
Jacob Toney
Jacob Toney is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering whose research aims to develop machine learning-accelerated quantum chemistry tools. As a MathWorks Fellow, Jacob will pursue several objectives, the first of which is building deep-learning models to predict these catalyst structures and their reactive intermediates. He has already created a model capable of predicting ligand denticity and coordinating atoms with very high accuracy. Jacob is building tools to characterize the transition ...
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 ...