Energy UROPs

These students’ projects are generously supported by the Friends of MITEI UROP, which includes MITEI members Shell, ExxonMobil, and Chevron, as well as MITEI donors.

Research projects

Spring semester Nuclear materials for fusion Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Michael Short, Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Direct supervisor

Zoe Fisher, PhD Student, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Summer semester Reading the radiation damage “tea leaves” to predict the “fate” of nuclear structural materials Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Michael Short, Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Direct supervisor

Alicia Elliott, Graduate Student, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Research projects

Spring semester Techno-economic analysis for green hydrogen production Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Techno-economic analysis for green hydrogen production through electrolyzer and balance of plant modeling

Advisor

Amos Winter, Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Samuel Heath, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Research projects

Independent activities period semester ML research for autonomous accelerated materials discovery device Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Alexander Siemenn, Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering

Research projects

Spring semester Agentic AI for streamlining the power generator interconnection process Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Saurabh Amin, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Direct supervisor

Rahman Khorramfar, Senior Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Energy Initiative

Research projects

Summer semester Creating a handheld device to analyze copper Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Jeffrey Grossman, Director of the Tata-MIT Alliance; Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Direct supervisor

David Cohen-Tanugi, Venture Builder, Research Laboratory of Electronics

Research projects

Independent activities period semester Accelerated discovery of perovskite solar cells using drop-casted samples Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Brian Anthony, Principal Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Nicky Evans, Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering

Spring semester Translating high-throughput perovskite screening to stable device fabrication Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Brian Anthony, Principal Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Nicky Evans, Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering

Research projects

Independent activities period semester Techno-economic and lifecycle assessment of oxide-electrolyte solid-state batteries Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Sili Deng, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Jakob Wegmueller, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Spring semester Techno-economic and lifecycle assessment of oxide-electrolyte solid-state batteries Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Sili Deng, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Jakob Wegmueller, Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering

Research projects

Spring semester Global climate policy scholars program: Promoting low-carbon technologies Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Bethany Patten, Executive Director, MIT Climate Policy Center

Research projects

Summer semester Accelerating robot learning through human-AI collaborative data collection and AR/VR feedback Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Julie Shah, Department Head and Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Direct supervisor

Jason Liu, Postdoctoral Associate, Aeronautics and Astronautics

Research projects

Summer semester Enhancing modeling of subsurface fluid flow in fractured rocks through machine learning Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Ruben Juanes, Professor, Earth, Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Direct supervisor

Hannah Lu, Postdoctoral Associate, CEE; Lluis Salgo-Saldago, PhD Student, CEE

Research projects

Spring semester Characterizing the contextual reinforcement learning task space Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Cathy Wu, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Direct supervisor

Jung-Hoon Cho, PhD Candidate, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research projects

Summer semester Data center co-location with renewable energy facilities Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Data center co-location with renewable energy facilities: Policy implication and generation capacity analysis

Advisor

Yifu Ding, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Energy Initiative

Research projects

Spring semester The Global Clean Tech Acceleration Platform (GCTAP) Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Bethany Patten, Executive Director, MIT Climate Policy Center

Research projects

Independent activities period semester Developing a thermo-acoustic sensing platform Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Developing a thermo-acoustic sensing platform for health assessment and lifetime extension of lithium-ion batteries

Advisor

Martin Bazant, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics

Direct supervisor

Young Ko, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering; Leah Soldner, PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Spring semester Developing a thermo-acoustic sensing platform Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Developing a thermo-acoustic sensing platform for health assessment and lifetime extension of lithium-ion batteries

Advisor

Martin Bazant, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics

Direct supervisor

Young Ko, PhD Student, Mechanical Engineering; Leah Soldner, PhD Student, Chemical Engineering

Research projects

Summer semester Reimagining nuclear waste as a valuable energy resource Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Haruko Wainwright, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Eng, Civil and Environmental Eng

Direct supervisor

Dauren Sarsenbayev, Graduate Student, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Research projects

Spring semester Copper-gallium composites for power enhanced thermal resonators Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Michael Strano, Professor, Chemical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Seyedshahabaldin Amirabadi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemical Engineering

Research projects

Summer semester Techno-economic modeling of biomass supply chains

Advisor

William H. Green, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Hoyt Hottel Professor, Chemical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Spyridon Gkousis, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Energy Initiative

Research projects

Summer semester Scrap metal classification for recycling Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Elsa Olivetti, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Direct supervisor

David Cohen-Tanugi, Venture Builder, Research Laboratory of Electronics

Research projects

Spring semester Analyzing the effects of molten salt impurities on corrosion of FeCr Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Michael Short, Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Direct supervisor

Nayoung Kim, PhD Student, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Research projects

Summer semester Calibrated uncertainty for spatial AI in climate and energy systems Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Fabio Duarte, Associate Director, Senseable City Lab; Lecturer, Urban Studies and Planning

Direct supervisor

Peng Luo, Postdoctoral Fellow, Senseable City Lab

Research projects

Independent activities period semester Redesigning MaBI decarbonization web app Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Christoph Reinhart, Professor, Architecture

Research projects

Summer semester Decarbonizing the archipelago: Indonesia’s net-zero transition Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Catherine Wolfram, Professor, Sloan School of Management

Direct supervisor

Michael Scarlett, Graduate Student, Sloan School of Management

Research projects

Spring semester Synthesizing and tuning 2D perovskite materials to advance energy efficiency Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

William A. Tisdale, Professor, Chemical Engineering

Direct supervisor

Maya Chattoraj, Graduate Student, Chemistry

Research projects

Summer semester Domain adversarial neural networks for fusion diagnostics Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Michael Short, Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering

Direct supervisor

Rian Chandra, Postdoctoral Associate, Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Research projects

Spring semester Distributed solar and electric vehicles as climate adaptation tools for energy-insecure households Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Paolo Santi, Principal Research Scientist, Senseable City Lab

Direct supervisor

Pei Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Senseable City Lab

Summer semester Distributed solar and electric vehicles as climate adaptation tools for energy-insecure households Sponsor Friends of MITEI UROP

Advisor

Paolo Santi, Principal Research Scientist, Senseable City Lab

Direct supervisor

Pei Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Senseable City Lab

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