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Jad Abou Ali ’26Chemical Engineering Advisor: Martin Bazant, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics Lithium-ion battery recycling (Spring and Fall 2025) |
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Andrew Acevedo ’27Chemical Engineering Advisor: Ariel Furst, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Optimization of growth conditions for increased methane production in Methanogens (Spring 2025) |
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Eyimofe Adebayo ’26Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Cristina Rea, Principal Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Developing deep learning models for predicting disruptions in tokamak plasmas (Spring 2025) |
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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 (Spring 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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Mairin Castellano ’28Undeclared Advisor: Vladimir Bulovic, Director, MIT.nano; Professor, Electrical Engineering Optimizing scalable slot die coating for perovskite solar cell applications (Spring 2025) |
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Monica Chan ’25Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Cathy Wu, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Quantifying controllable congestion on real-world highway networks (Spring 2025) |
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Disha Chauhan ’26Computer Science, Data Science, and Economics Advisor: Cathy Wu, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Deep learning for operating renewable energy systems (Fall 2025) |
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Franklin Chen ’28Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Cristina Rea, Principal Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Machine learning for fusion: Real-time plasma equilibrium reconstruction in tokamaks (Fall 2025) |
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Mia Chen ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Andrew Seltzman, Research Scientist, Plasma Science Fusion Center Design and evaluation of gas atomization system for rapid prototyping of metal alloy (Spring 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) Advisor: William H. Green, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Hoyt Hottel Professor, Chemical Engineering Time-series clustering for efficient energy grid planning (Spring and Summer 2025) |
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Jacob David ’26Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Cathy Wu, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Steering generative microscopic traffic simulation for controllable congestion (Fall 2025) |
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Ebonee Davis ’27Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: William H. Green, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Professor, Chemical Engineering Building a surrogate model for AI data center flexibility analysis using open-source datasets (Fall 2025) |
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An Dinh ’27Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Grossman, Director of the Tata-MIT Alliance; Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Custom multimodal model for intelligent copper scrap classification (Fall 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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Kelsey Fontenot ’26Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Autonomous slide handling and exchange for materials discovery research (Fall 2025) |
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Jessica Giang ’26Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Jeffrey Grossman, Professor, Materials Science and Engineering Automated metal recycling and sorting (Summer 2025) |
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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 (IAP and Spring 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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Lucy Gray ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Dick Yue, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Power extraction for ocean wave energy technology (Summer 2025) |
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Lucy Greenup ’28Nuclear Engineering, Materials Science Advisor: Michael Short, Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering Characterization of point defects in vitreous silica using TGS and changes to radiation-induced attenuation at cryogenic temperatures for optical fibers (Fall 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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Natalie Hatzigeorgiou ’28Mechanical Engineering Advisor: William H. Green, Director, MIT Energy Initiative; Professor, Chemical Engineering Identifying and evaluating the relevant cost drivers to develop enhanced geothermal systems (Fall 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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 (IAP, Spring, and Summer 2025) |
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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 (IAP and Spring 2025) |
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Nithya Kothnur ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Wesley Harris, Professor, Aeronautics and Astronautics Wind tunnel testing solar panel geometries to mitigate dust soiling (Fall 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) Using Bayesian optimization to control and optimize parameters for slot-die coating of FAPbI-based perovskite solar cells (Spring and Summer 2025) |
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Trent Lee ’26Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Sustainable Development Advisor: Sili Deng, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Techno-economic and lifecycle assessment of oxide-electrolyte solid-state batteries (Fall 2025) |
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Graciela Leon ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Exploring phase stability of CsPbI3 perovskites using organic ligands (IAP 2025) |
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Erick Liang ’26Nuclear Science and Engineering, Physics Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Andrew Seltzman, Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Utilizing lattice-based support structures to improve part accuracy in laser powder (Spring 2025) Advisor: Cristina Rea, Principal Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Phase-dependent disruption prediction using machine learning models in tokamak plasmas (Fall 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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Eda Lozada ’27Chemistry Advisor: Troy Van Voorhis, Professor, Chemistry Hafnium Oxynitride cluster expansion ground state search (Summer 2025) |
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Ruth Lu ’26Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Cathy Wu, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Understanding the contextual reinforcement learning problem for eco-driving (Fall 2025) |
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Nate Martinez ’27Physics Advisor: Alex Tinguely, Group Leader, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Upgrading Altator (Fall 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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Katie Molina-Salazar ’28Chemical-Biological Engineering Advisor: Brian Anthony, Principal Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering High-throughput synthesis and characterization of novel functional materials (Fall 2025) |
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Isha Narang ’27Chemical Engineering Advisor: Martin Bazant, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics Microstructural optimization of LMFP as cathode material for li-ion batteries (Spring 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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Vinn Nguyen ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Amos Winter, Professor, Mechanical Engineering System-level optimization of green hydrogen production through electrolyzer and balance of plant modeling (Fall 2025) |
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Mohamed Yassen Noureldaiem Eltayeb ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Michael Strano, Professor, Chemical Engineering Ambient temperature harvesting through a gallium-copper thermal resonator (Fall 2025) |
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James Orth ’28Physics Advisor: Michael Short, Professor, Nuclear Science and Engineering Automated analysis of void swelling in candidate fusion structural materials (Fall 2025) |
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Mairin O’Shaughnessy ’27Computer Science and Engineering Advisor: Martin Bazant, Professor, Chemical Engineering, Mathematics Learning the material physics of graphite electrodes through image inversion (Spring 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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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? (Summer 2025) |
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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 (IAP 2025) |
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Robert Romani ’28Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Leslie Norford, Professor, Architecture Quantifying the energy saving potentials in MIT classrooms (Summer 2025) |
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Andrew Sachwitz ’28Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making Advisor: Saurabh Amin, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Natural gas pipeline database construction (IAP 2025) |
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Fiona Shangguan ’27Chemical Engineering Advisor: William Tisdale, Professor, Chemical Engineering Synthesizing and tuning 2D perovskite materials to advance energy efficiency (Summer and Fall 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) Advisor: Bethany Patten, Executive Director, MIT Climate Policy Center Communicating climate policy: Electricity pricing and emerging issues (Fall 2025) |
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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 (Summer and Fall 2025) |
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Catherine Tang ’25Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Cathy Wu, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Long horizon driving trajectory prediction with transformers (Spring 2025) |
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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 (Summer and Fall 2025) |
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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 (Summer 2025) |
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José Vargas ’27Physics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor: Anuradha Annaswamy, Senior Research Scientist, Mechanical Engineering Machine learning for energy forecasting (IAP 2025) |
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Marc Vidal ’27Mechanical Engineering Advisor and Direct Supervisor: David Fischer, Research Scientist, Plasma Science and Fusion Center Superconducting magnetic levitation suit and sleigh for educational and fusion-related purposes with science communication research (Fall 2025) |
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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 (IAP and Spring 2025) |
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Josephine Williams ’26Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Advisor and Direct Supervisor: Samantha Coday, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Characterization of GaN monolithic bidirectional switches for power converters (Fall 2025) |
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Zaire Williams ’27Aerospace Engineering Advisor: Tonio Buonassisi, Professor, Mechanical Engineering Refinement of autonomous furnace subsystem for sustainable materials discovery (Fall 2025) |