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Aitor Arrese-Igor ’27Computer Science Advisor and Direct Supervisor: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management; Deputy Director for Research, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Stochastic electricity prices and the value of storage |
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Xander Backus ’26Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making, Mathematics Advisor: Wojciech Matusik, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Acoustic holograms via physics simulation |
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Pratik Bhandari ’26Computer 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 Optimal power generation mix with renewables and energy storage |
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Connor Bushnell ’27Nuclear Science and Engineering Advisor: Haruko Wainwright, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering Fusion waste performance analysis |
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Rakibul Chowdhury ’25Mechanical Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Steven Leeb, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering Discontinuous mode boost converter led driver laboratory construction |
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Colin Clark ’26Electrical Engineering and Physics Advisor: Peter Hagelstein, Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering Automation of optical methods for nuclear track detection |
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Theodore Dahl ’28Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Ruaridh Macdonald, Research Scientist, MIT Energy Initiative The role of wake steering in decarbonized electricity systems Advisor: William H. Green, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Hoyt Hottel Professor, Chemical Engineering Time-series clustering for efficient energy grid planning |
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John Dranchak ’28Mathematics Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Creating a cost-effective stability testing tool for AST in solar panels |
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Deniz Erus ’25Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Tomás Palacios, Director, 6-A MEng Thesis Program; Professor, Electrical Engineering Next generation thermal management for RF GaN-on-silicon HEMTs |
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Noah Fensterheim ’28Undecided Advisor: John Rice, Senior Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Hodoscope optimizations for a magnetic electron recoil gamma ray spectrometer of the SPARC tokamak |
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Jessica Giang ’26Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Grossman, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Automated metal recycling and sorting |
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Javier Gil ’26Chemical-Biological Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Jean-Francois Hamel, Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Biocatalytic enhancement of CO2 capture using recombinant carbonic anhydrase |
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Adam Gilbert-Diamond ’27Mathematics Advisor and Direct Supervisor: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management; Deputy Director for Research, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Profitability of thermal energy system with varied electricity price model parameters |
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Sage Gilbert-Diamond ’26 (Wellesley)Materials Science and Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Grossman, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Cutting costs for copper recycling with sensor fusion |
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Lucy Gray ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Dick Yue, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Power extraction for ocean wave energy technology |
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Angela Guo ’28Artificial 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 Stochastic electricity prices and the value of storage |
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Amelia How ’27Materials Science and Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Cem Tasan, Director, Materials Research Laboratory; Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Hydrogen embrittlement prevention in Ti and Zr alloys |
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Jia Yuan (Amy) Hu ’26Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Marija Ilić, Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems DyMonDS digital twin for modeling basic outcomes in electricity markets |
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Caroline Jiang ’28Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Michael Short, Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering How well can high temperature superconductor tape materials diffuse heat under self-ion irradiation in-situ |
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Rachel Jiang ’27Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: William H. Green, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Hoyt Hottel Professor, Chemical Engineering Identification of the steel decarbonization options for different regions |
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Jeewoo Kang ’27Electrical Engineering Advisor: Tomás Palacios, Director, 6-A MEng Thesis Program; Professor, Electrical Engineering Current collapse measurements of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs at temperatures up to 500°C |
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Jackson Kay ’27Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Machine learning research for autonomous accelerated materials discovery device |
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Danielle Knutson ’27Urban Studies and Planning with Computer Science Advisor: Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Employing advanced statistical and machine learning methods to enhance a novel distributed energy resource database |
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Greta Lawler ’27Materials Science and Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Giuseppe Romano, Research Scientist, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies Inverse design of phase changing materials for building applications |
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Ronaldo Lee ’28Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Understanding the impact of environmental parameters during fabrication for highly reproducible perovskite solar cells Using Bayesian optimization to control and optimize parameters for slot-die coating of FAPbI-based perovskite solar cells |
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Graciela Leon ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Exploring phase stability of CsPbI3 perovskites using organic ligands |
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Audrey Lin ’28Electrical Engineering with Computing Advisor: Marc Baldo, Director, Research Laboratory of Electronics; Professor, Electrical Engineering Fabrication of flexible, conductive MOF arrays for chemical gas sensing |
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Eda Lozada ’27Chemistry Advisor: Troy Van Voorhis, Professor, Chemistry Hafnium Oxynitride cluster expansion ground state search |
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Taylor McAndrew ’28Finance, 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 Flexibility of existing hydro facilities in New York and New England |
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Elijah Mhrous ’27Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Marija Ilić, Adjunct Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Senior Research Scientist, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Stabilizing interconnected microgrids by tweaking line capacitance |
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Mitav Nayak ’26Finance Advisor and Direct Supervisor: John Parsons, Senior Lecturer, Sloan School of Management; Deputy Director for Research, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research Economic/financial analysis of a nuclear powered hydrogen and ammonia production facility |
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Lucas Ospina ’26Chemical Engineering Advisor: William Tisdale, Professor, Chemical Engineering Analysis of nanoscale energy transfer mechanisms in solution-state perovskite nanocrystals |
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Tananya Prankprakma ’26Civil and Environmental Engineering Advisor: Desirée Plata, Director, Climate and Sustainability Consortium; Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering End use of agricultural waste: Fuel or carbon storage? |
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Joshua Rivera Camacho ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Matteo Bucci, Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Associate Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering Experimental investigation of the natural convective heat transfer in the presence of bubbles |
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Robert Romani ’28Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Leslie Norford, Professor, Architecture Quantifying the energy saving potentials in MIT classrooms |
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Andrew Sachwitz ’28Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Saurabh Amin, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Natural gas pipeline database construction |
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Fiona Shangguan ’27Chemical Engineering Advisor: William Tisdale, Professor, Chemical Engineering Synthesizing and tuning 2D perovskite materials to advance energy efficiency |
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Janina Shivdasani ’26 (Wellesley)Economics Advisor: Christopher Knittel, Associate Dean for Climate and Sustainability; Professor, Sloan School of Management Climate policy ecosystem mapping |
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Anoushka Tamhane ’28Climate Systems Science and Engineering, Mathematical Economics Advisor: Saurabh Amin, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Understanding solar and storage allocation in the current Massachusetts grid |
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Megan Tian ’27Computer Science and Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Andreea Bobu, Assistant Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics; Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab Towards autonomous wind farm maintenance: Optimizing uncertainty communication in human-robot teams |
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Edwin Trejo ’27Materials Science and Engineering Advisor: Ericmoore Jossou, Assistant Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Optimizing nickel dewetting on glassy carbon substrate |
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Jose Vargas ’27Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Machine learning for energy forecasting |
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Audrey Wei ’27Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Wojciech Matusik, Joan and Irwin M. (1957) Jacobs Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Digitize soft solids via visual computing |