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 ...
James H. Zhang
James H. Zhang is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research aims to develop interfacial solar evaporators as an alternative, cost-effective method of producing clean water. His previous MathWorks Fellowship enabled James to design experimental systems and transport modeling to better understand the performance of solar evaporators for desalination applications. With a second MathWorks Fellowship, James will extend this work, exploring the mechanisms underlying relevant phenomen ...
Zhiping He
Zhiping He is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, Zhiping will address the challenges in spintronics with numerical and
theoretical modeling methods. His recent and current projects include: establishing the theoretical foundation for magnetic dynamics of a noncollinear antiferromagnet, a highly promising material in computer memory and logic applications; experimental investigations of the transport property of mag ...
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz
Sebastian (Sebo) Diaz is a PhD candidate in medical engineering and medical physics whose research interests are focused on developing innovative techniques for fetal imaging and addressing the challenges of imaging in pregnancy. Specifically, Sebo is working on new motion-compensation techniques and a fetal motion analysis framework, both of which draw extensively on MATLAB. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, he will pursue several objectives, including the development of a data-dri ...
Hannah Jackson
Hannah Jackson is a PhD candidate in medical engineering and medical physics whose research is focused on improved treatment approaches for drug-resistant epilepsy using a recently developed implantable device to deliver micro-doses of drugs to small regions of the brain. Supported by her second MathWorks Fellowship, Hannah will continue to hone her novel device and improve its clinical translation. Her immediate objective is to optimize seizure detection algorithms to ensure compatibility ac ...
Simo Pajovic
Simo Pajovic is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research addresses challenges in nanophotonics and light-matter interactions, with critical applications in energy efficiency and medical imaging. As a MathWorks Fellow, he will focus on understanding electromagnetic nonreciprocity in the context of radiative heat transfer, which may unlock exciting opportunities in engineering emitters and absorbers violating Kirchhoff’s law of thermal radiation, in addition to unidirectional ...
Samuel (Sam) Dutra Gollob
Sam Dutra Gollob is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research centers on soft robotics and actuation system design. He has made important contributions to the model-informed design of novel, vacuum-powered soft actuators for medical applications, as well as the design of fuel-based power systems for pneumatics. With the support of a second MathWorks Fellowship, he aims to develop a generalized model of the multi-physics relationships between pneumatic actuators, pneumatic contr ...
Ilan M. L. Upfal
Ilan M. L. Upfal is a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering whose research focuses on sustainable energy system design. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, Ilan will expand his work in wind farm design and translate those efforts into industry-ready MATLAB tools. His research aims to consider collective flow control in the optimization of wind farm layouts. Ilan’s work could include two valuable outcomes: a gradient-based optimization approach utilizing automatic differ ...
Alexander A. Velberg
Alexander A. Velberg is a PhD student in nuclear science and engineering whose research lies at the interface of machine learning and nonlinear plasma dynamics. Specifically, Alex aims to develop a systematic program of data-driven equation discovery for plasma physics. His work builds on recent research demonstrating that it is possible to discover a known reduced plasma model from first-principles simulation data. Alex is exploring how to extend this methodology to the discovery of equation ...
Erik Helstrom
Erik Helstrom is a PhD candidate in civil and environmental engineering whose research explores the atmospheric oxidation of organic compounds with a focus on the formation of fine particulate matter (PM). Supported by a MathWorks Fellowship, Erik will pursue several innovative projects in instrument development and laboratory oxidation, including the development of a total suspended organic carbon instrument for laboratory use; comprehensive comparison of different mass spectrometric measure ...