Hyeonseok Kim
Hyeonseok Kim is a PhD candidate whose research interests are focused on in-space manufacturing of nanosatellite (CubeSat) hardware, with the goal of delivering innovative, lower-cost technologies to democratize access to space. Specifically, he is addressing the challenge that a majority of CubeSats have no means of propulsion, which greatly limits their capabilities. Supported by a MathWorks Fellowship, Hyeonseok will expand his work on 3D-printed electrospray thrusters for CubeSats that ar ...
Daniel Pfrommer
Daniel Pfrommer is a PhD candidate in electrical engineering and computer science whose research seeks to advance the theoretical analysis and algorithmic development of high- dimensional control systems. As a MathWorks Fellow, Daniel will focus on the approximation of classical control algorithms by neural network-based models. His current work aims to develop new methods for learning latent state representations in high-dimensional, partially observed dynamical systems, performing filtering ...
Akash Ball
Akash Ball is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering whose research aims to use machine learning and computational chemistry to discover novel materials for applications in water desalination, industrial water treatment, and rare earth element recovery. Specifically, he is working to identify materials with unprecedented water permeation and ion-separation performance and creating models to explain how to optimize the transport properties of porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are c ...
Yuheng Yang
Yuheng Yang is a PhD student in electrical engineering and computer science whose research is focused on the development of end-to-end security verification frameworks for hardware designs. With the support of a MathWorks Fellowship, Yuheng will work to bridge the gap between computer architecture and formal verification, making formal tools easily accessible to hardware designers, including tools for both the early and later register-transfer level (RTL) stages. Currently, he is exploring ve ...
Andres Garcia Jimenez
Andres Garcia Jimenez is a PhD candidate in aeronautics and astronautics whose research interests lie at the intersection of materials science, mechanics, and aerospace engineering. Specifically, Andres is working to elucidate the mechanisms that drive frictional ignition of engineering alloys in high-pressure oxygen environments, such as those encountered in next- generation staged combustion rocket engines. These engines offer propellant efficiency without sacrificing thrust capability but ...
Hao Tang
Hao Tang is a PhD candidate in materials science and engineering whose research is focused on developing and applying computational methods to simulate physical systems ranging from quantum defects and functional alloys to electronic devices. A second MathWorks Fellowship will enable Hao to extend his work, which draws significantly on MathWorks toolkits for modeling, simulations, data analysis, and visualization. His recent and current projects include: the refinement of a new reinforcement ...
Evan King
Evan King is a PhD student in civil and environmental engineering whose research is focused on quantifying how mountainous watersheds control the supply of water and its quality to dependent downstream communities. Specifically, Evan investigates how landscape properties, such as topography, geology, and vegetation type, influence key hydrologic-biogeochemical processes. Evan’s current work, centered on the Sierra Nevada and the Rocky Mountains, explores how subsurface structure combines wi ...
Akshat Zalte
Akshat Zalte is a PhD student in chemical engineering whose research involves innovative molecular representations for application to machine learning in chemistry. His research also spans process modeling and techno-economic analysis of future fuel systems to decarbonize long-haul trucking. As a MathWorks Fellow, Akshat will pursue research in two primary areas: making key improvements to Chemprop and evaluating various liquid energy carriers for their potential value in long-haul trucking. ...
Jacob Toney
Jacob Toney is a PhD candidate in chemical engineering whose research aims to develop machine learning-accelerated quantum chemistry tools. As a MathWorks Fellow, Jacob will pursue several objectives, the first of which is building deep-learning models to predict these catalyst structures and their reactive intermediates. He has already created a model capable of predicting ligand denticity and coordinating atoms with very high accuracy. Jacob is building tools to characterize the transition ...
Mohua Das
Mohua Das is a PhD candidate in mechanical engineering whose research is in the field of non- Newtonian fluid dynamics. As a MathWorks Fellow, she will pursue the following project: a study of strain-controlled, optimally windowed chirp rheometry. The goal of the project is to establish guidelines for selecting appropriate chirp parameters, enabling accurate and efficient capture of the rapidly evolving properties of transient materials. Understanding the microstructural changes that soft mat ...