Undergraduate research

2025 Projects

	Aitor Arrese-Igor ’27 Computer Science Advisor and Direct Supervisor: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management; Deputy Director for Research, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Stochastic electricity prices and the value of storage
	Rakibul Chowdhury ’25 Mechanical Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Steven Leeb, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Course 6.131: Discontinuous mode boost converter led driver laboratory construction
	Theodore Dahl ’28 Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Ruaridh Macdonald, Energy Systems Research Lead, MIT Energy Initiative Direct Supervisor: Taemin Heo, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Energy Initiative Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP The role of wake steering in decarbonized electricity systems
	John Dranchak ’28 Mathematics Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Direct Supervisor: Nicky Evans, Postdoctoral Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Creating a cost-effective stability testing tool for AST in solar panels
	Deniz Erus ’25 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Tomás Palacios, Director, 6-A MEng Thesis Program; Professor, Electrical Engineering Direct Supervisor: John Niroula, Postdoctoral Associate, Palacios Group Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Next generation thermal management for RF GaN-on-silicon HEMTs
	Javier Gil ’26 Chemical-Biological Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Jean-Francois Hamel, Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Biocatalytic enhancement of CO2 capture using recombinant carbonic anhydrase
	Angela Guo ’28 Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, Mathematics Advisor and Direct Supervisor: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management; Deputy Director for Research, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Stochastic electricity prices and the value of storage
	Rachel Jiang ’27 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: William H. Green, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Hoyt Hottel Professor, Chemical Engineering Direct Supervisor: Guiyan Zang, Research Lead, MIT Energy Initiative Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Identification of the steel decarbonization options for different regions
	Jackson Kay ’27 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Direct Supervisor: Aleks Siemenn, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Machine learning research for autonomous accelerated materials discovery device
	Danielle Knutson ’27 Urban Studies and Planning with Computer Science Advisor: Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Direct Supervisor: Vineet Jagadeesan Nair, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Employing advanced statistical and machine learning methods to enhance a novel distributed energy resource database
	Greta Lawler ’27 Materials Science and Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Giuseppe Romano, Research Scientist, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Inverse design of phase changing materials for building applications
	Ronaldo Lee ’28 Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Direct Supervisor: Nicky Evans, Postdoctoral Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Understanding the impact of environmental parameters during fabrication for highly reproducible perovskite solar cells
	Graciela Leon ’27 Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Direct Supervisor: Basita Das, Postdoctoral Associate, Research Laboratory of Electronics Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Exploring phase stability of CsPbI3 perovskites using organic ligands
	Taylor McAndrew ’28 Finance, Computer Science, Economics, and Data Science Advisor and Direct Supervisor: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management; Deputy Director for Research, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Flexibility of existing hydro facilities in New York and New England
	Mitav Nayak ’26 Finance Advisor and Direct Supervisor: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management; Deputy Director for Research, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Economic/financial analysis of a nuclear powered hydrogen and ammonia production facility
	Joshua Rivera Camacho ’27 Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Matteo Bucci, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering Direct Supervisor: Matthew Hughes, Postdoctoral Associate, Nuclear Science and Engineering Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Experimental investigation of the natural convective heat transfer in the presence of bubbles
	Andrew Sachwitz ’28 Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Saurabh Amin, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Direct Supervisor: Malo Lahogue, Graduate Student, Civil and Environmental Engineering Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Natural gas pipeline database construction
	Jose Vargas ’27 Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Direct Supervisor: Vineet Jagadeesan Nair, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Machine learning for energy forecasting
	Audrey Wei ’27 Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Wojciech Matusik, Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Direct Supervisor: Crystal Owens, Postdoctoral Fellow, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Sponsor: Friends of MITEI UROP Digitize soft solids via visual computing