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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Axel Feldmann
Axel Feldmann is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research aims to address hardware-level performance bottlenecks in many commonly used numeric algorithms. As a MathWorks Fellow, Axel will expand his successful work creating hardware accelerators specifically designed for sparse linear algebra. Axel has already designed two accelerators—Spatula and Azul—that are over 200× faster than CPUs and GPUs on linear solvers. The efficiency and scalability of th ...
Kota Kondo
Kota Kondo is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research is focused on autonomous multi-agent trajectory planning for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). As a MathWorks Fellow, Kota will expand his innovative work to develop planners capable of supporting complex missions that demand intricate coordination between multiple agents. His achievements include major contributions to RMADER, a multi-agent trajectory planner that generates collision-free trajectories even when commu ...
Regina Lee
Regina Lee is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research at MIT’s Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) Lab aims to measure extremely small space-time vibrations from gravitational waves from sources such as black hole mergers. As a MathWorks Fellow, Regina will focus on modeling, construction, and testing of suspension prototypes with the aim of designing the next generation of LIGO suspensions. A key aspect of her work is creating accurate analytical mod ...