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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...