Oliver Xie
Oliver Xie is a PhD candidate whose research interests are focused on block copolymers and the unique properties arising from their self-assembled morphologies. With the support of his second MathWorks Fellowship, Oliver will build on his previous research achievements using MATLAB tools to explore polymer sequence morphology relationships. His objectives include a novel reinterpretation of polymer sequences as not simply a series of chemicals but rather as both a signal with a spectrum, and ...
Arjav Shah
Arjav Shah is a PhD candidate whose research focuses on developing sterility testing methods for cell and gene therapies for human disease. Specifically, Arjav is working on new strategies to make biomanufacturing safer through the real-time detection of adventitious agents, such as viruses, at various points in the manufacturing process. With the support of his second MathWorks Fellowship, Arjav is pursuing a highly promising novel application of nanopore sensors to fingerprint viruses. The ...
Devosmita Sen
Devosmita Sen is a PhD candidate whose research aims to quantify the topology-property relationships in polymer networks, their fracture properties, structure, and dynamics. A MathWorks Fellowship will support Devosmita’s ongoing work to develop MATLAB-based models of complex polymer networks and create a topological framework for modeling dynamic polymer networks, which can adapt and transform through stimuli-induced bond exchanges. Her goal is to better understand the useful macroscopic p ...
Juliet Okorie
Juliet Okorie is a PhD candidate whose research interests focus on characterizing the energy production and storage capacity of electrodes. Specifically, Juliet is working to optimize a scalable electrochemical cell for methane oxidative coupling (MOC), a process that could potentially convert the greenhouse gas methane into higher-value carbon molecules for jet fuel in a clean and energetically feasible way. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, Juliet will continue her work to model t ...
Kariana Moreno Sader
Kariana Moreno Sader is a PhD candidate whose research explores new strategies for decarbonizing the trucking sector, a crucial but challenging part of the economy to decarbonize in the interest of mitigating climate change. Kariana’s previous work included investigations of battery electric and hydrogen approaches. Her second MathWorks Fellowship will enable her to extend this work to liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHCs), which could be substantially more cost- effective than battery e ...
Lexy LeMar
Lexy LeMar is a PhD candidate in atmospheric chemistry whose primary research interests are in the process of oxidation. Specifically, Lexy studies the oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmospheric aqueous phase through laboratory research and MATLAB-based mechanistic modeling. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, she will utilize her novel model to obtain kinetic parameters from chamber and bulk aqueous phase experiments and gain new mechanistic insights on oxidati ...
Nicholas King
Nicholas King is a PhD candidate whose primary interests are in transport phenomena and soft matter and in creating computational models for medical applications. His current research, supported by a MathWorks Fellowship, explores disease-fighting leukocytes (white blood cells) in the immune system with the goal of advancing the development of leukocyte-based drug carriers. Specifically, Nicholas is developing a new biophysical model of leukocyte extravasation, which describes the migration o ...
Chinmay Gangal
Chinmay Gangal is a PhD candidate whose research examines flow-induced crystallization (FIC) in polymers using computational methods. Specifically, he is developing computational methodologies to study the first stage of FIC, the flow-enhanced nucleation (FEN) of crystals in polymers, a process with relevance to a number of important industrial processes such as the fabrication of fibers, films, packaging, and composites. A MathWorks Fellowship will support Chinmay’s ongoing research to und ...
Nathan Ewell
Nathan Ewell is a PhD candidate whose research interests focus on aerosol filtration and developing improved respiratory PPE technology, such as facemasks and respirators, essential tools for mitigating the spread of viral diseases such as Covid-19. Specifically, Nathan is working to develop PPE tools made from electro-spun nanofiber nonwoven materials that improve efficacy, manufacturing cost, and sustainability. He has successfully demonstrated an alternative to the traditional N95 technolo ...
Lauren Clarke
Lauren Clarke is a PhD candidate whose research focuses on electrochemical methods for carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and concentration, with the goal of mitigating emissions during the transition to a carbon-constrained, renewable-energy economy. Electrochemical approaches may enable lower energy CO2 separations than current processes, as well as direct integration of renewables, modular deployment, and safer operation. A MathWorks Fellowship will enable Lauren to explore the processes that co ...