Carissma McGee
Carissma McGee is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research is focused on high-contrast imaging and exoplanet characterization. As a MathWorks Fellow, Carissma will pursue several goals connected to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. The goal of Carissma’s work, which draws significantly on MATLAB, is to ensure precise mass measurements and optimize observational strategies for the mission using a combination of advanced optical systems, deformable mirrors, and soph ...
Devang Sehgal
Devang Sehgal is a PhD candidate in medical engineering and medical physics whose research aims to improve the clinical utility of electrical stimulation techniques for the treatment of neurological disorders. Specifically, Devang seeks to address the shortcomings of current trial- and-error-reliant methods by building a deeper understanding of the neurophysiological effects of stimulation and the brain network dynamics underlying diseases. He is testing a new multisite stimulation approach t ...
Mahmudul (Ridul) Islam
Mahmudul (Ridul) Islam is a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering whose research aims to improve understanding of the properties and structure of metal alloys. Specifically, Ridul is examining the chemical short-range order of high-entropy alloys (HEA) to better understand and harness valuable characteristics of HEAs, such as mechanical strength and hardness, wear and corrosion resistance, and radiation damage resistance. His current work involves large-scale atomistic simulation ...
Yuexuan (Vincent) Zu
Yuexua (Vincent) Zu is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering whose research is focused on engineering microorganisms for the renewable production of biofuels. Specifically, Vincent aims to engineer cells capable of converting renewable feedstocks into intracellular lipids with high titer, productivity, and yield. Supported by a MathWorks Fellowship, he will use MATLAB-based in silico metabolic models to explore a novel co-feeding approach, pairing glucose with the less-preferred substrates. ...
Nomi Yu
Nomi Yu is a graduate student in mechanical engineering whose research utilizes deep learning techniques to innovate the mechanical design process and to expand AI capabilities in design and manufacturing. As a MathWorks Fellow, Nomi will pursue two primary projects with the objective of creating models of additive manufacturing processes to predict the “manufacturability” of various geometries and incorporating these models in generative design tools. The first project aims to build a di ...
Rachel Zale
Rachel Zale is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research is focused on the physiology of the cardiovascular system and the global vascular effects of mechanical circulatory support (MCS). As a MathWorks Fellow, Rachel will pursue several objectives: to understand the impact of continuous-flow percutaneous ventricular assist device (pVAD) support on renal and cerebral autoregulatory function; to determine the impact of cardiogenic shock (CS) and added pVAD support on the distrib ...
Evan Massaro
Evan Massaro is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research focuses on finding fast and efficient Monte Carlo algorithms to model and simulate rarefied gas dynamics. As a MathWorks Fellow, Evan will work to validate and characterize a new model that addresses specific drawbacks of the direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) algorithm. DSMC is the current state-of-the-art and runs on US Department of Energy supercomputers to model atmospheric entry of hypersonic flights; however, whe ...
Abhishek Mukherjee
Abhishek Mukherjee is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science. His research aims to broaden the understanding of strain engineering in 2D materials to develop hyperspectral IR photodetectors that leverage the flexoelectric effect. Abhishek is investigating the effect of engineered in situ strain on semiconductors to break inversion symmetry and enhance the photogalvanic effect (PGE) in novel material candidates. PGE enables light-to-current efficiency exceeding the Shoc ...
Thomas W. O. Varnish
Thomas W. O. Varnish is a PhD candidate in nuclear science and engineering whose research focuses on magnetic reconnection, an explosive reconfiguration of magnetic field topology in a plasma that rapidly dissipates magnetic energy by heating and accelerating the plasma. Specifically, Thomas is exploring a special case of this process known as guide-field magnetic reconnection, in which a component of the magnetic field is directed out of the plane of reconnection. As a MathWorks Fellow, he i ...
Chenghao Guo
Chenghao Guo is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research is in combinatorial statistics. As a MathWorks Fellow, Chenghao will expand his work to address challenges at the interface of computation and statistics on networks. His current work includes an exploration of graphs and hypergraphs, which are fundamental structures in numerous fields. Hypergraphs generalize graphs, with hyperedges consisting of subsets of the vertices; Chenghao is working to determ ...