Aaron Garrison
Aaron Garrison is a PhD student in chemical engineering whose research seeks to develop the fundamental theory enabling predictive simulations for high-throughput discovery of materials. Specifically, Aaron’s research employs data science and machine learning-assisted computational chemistry to more efficiently explore vast numbers of chemical candidates. His work is focused on density functional theory, a powerful technique in computational chemistry for the prediction of material properti ...
Wenyuan (Roger) Hou
Wenyuan (Roger) Hou is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research interests are focused on design and structures for emerging propulsion applications. Roger has used MATLAB to model structural evolution processes during melt-based additive manufacturing of oxide dispersion-strengthened superalloys, a novel class of high-temperature materials with potential applications in reusable staged-combustion rocket engines. Supported by his second MathWorks Fellowship, he will build ...
Louis DeRidder
Louis DeRidder is a PhD candidate in medical engineering and medical physics whose research aims to develop a closed-loop drug delivery system for chemotherapy drugs. With the support of his second MathWorks Fellowship, Louis will continue an ambitious research program to bring the novel drug-delivery system, Closed-Loop Automated Drug Infusion (CLAUDIA) regulator, to the clinic. CLAUDIA measures the concentration of a drug and then inputs that value into a control algorithm that adjusts the ...
Jianqiao Cui
Jianqiao Cui is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering whose research is focused on the field of plant nanobionics, in which nanomaterials are integrated with living plants to impart nonnative functions or enhance nonnative functions. Supported by a MathWorks Fellowship, Jianqiao will pursue her broad interests in nanoparticle-plant interactions, with the goal of furthering the development of nanobionic plants that could replace conventional electronic and plastic devices for environmental s ...
Myrella Vieira Cabral
Myrella Vieira Cabral is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research focuses on aerothermoelastic analysis for hypersonic flows. The external skin of hypersonic vehicles, primarily composed of panels and reinforcement structures, may experience complex flow interactions due to nonlinearities arising from aerodynamics, structure, and high-temperature gradients. Therefore, it is crucial to understand and predict the aeroelastic response to optimize the structural design and t ...
Mayuri Sridhar
Mayuri Sridhar is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science who focuses on privacy-preserving computation. As a MathWorks Fellow, Mayuri will expand her work on providing statistical guarantees regarding robustness and security for algorithms in realistic deployed settings. Her recent work focuses on PAC privacy, where she has shown the intrinsic relationship between the stability of algorithms and their potential for privatization. This work provides a tight theoretical ...
Adriana Mitchell
Adriana Mitchell is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research is centered on autonomous visual navigation for spacecraft. Visual navigation is a powerful tool for planetary landings but is restricted in its application due to its susceptibility to variations in illumination conditions. To address this challenge, Adriana is developing algorithms for robust navigation under variable illumination conditions, focusing specifically on terrain-relative navigation during planeta ...
Randall A. Pietersen
Randall A. Pietersen is a PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering whose research focuses on creating new deep-learning tools and hyperspectral imaging analysis techniques for USAF airfield damage assessment and the detection of unexploded explosives (UXO). A previous MathWorks Fellowship enabled Randall to validate the principles of his automated sensor calibration methodology and evaluate the process; a second MathWorks Fellowship will support his ongoing efforts to develop synt ...
Dat Quok Ha
Dat Quok Ha is a PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering whose research focuses on topology optimization and increasing access to generative design tools through frameworks that actively involve humans. Dat uses a combination of computational mechanics, optimization, and AI tools in his work and has exclusively relied on MATLAB. Supported by his second MathWorks Fellowship, Dat will continue his research with extensions to his Human-Informed Topology Optimization (HiTop) framewor ...
Anantha Narayanan Suresh Babu
Anantha Narayanan Suresh Babu is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research is focused on stochastic modeling and Bayesian learning of sea ice dynamics, as well as scientific deep learning and neural closure modeling for ocean dynamics. Anantha’s second MathWorks Fellowship will enable him to extend this work. His first focus will be utilizing a MATLAB-based Gaussian mixture model filtering and model learning framework for discriminating between competing sea ice model formula ...