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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2024!

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Photo by DESIGNECOLOGIST on Unsplash

by Amanda Diehl

May 16, 2024

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Congratulations to everyone graduating in the 2023–24 academic year! We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next. 

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Headshots courtesy of the researchers; collage by Olivia Verdugo

Doctor of Philosophy

  • Chelsea Barabas (MAS)
  • Huili Chen (MAS)
  • Kyung Yun Choi (MAS)
  • Keeley Erhardt (MAS)
  • Don Derek Haddad (MAS)
  • Yixi Liu (EECS)
  • Isabella Loaiza-Saa (MAS)
  • David Ramsay (MAS)
  • Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar (MAS)
  • Tony Shu (MAS)
  • Michael Skuhersky (BCS)
  • Praneeth Vepakomma (MAS)
  • Zeguan Wang (MAS)
  • Randi Williams (MAS)
  • Seong Ho Yeon (MAS)

Masters of Science or Engineering

  • Max Addae (MAS)
  • Eden Adler (MEng, EECS)
  • Ayesha Ali (MEng, EECS)
  • Nicole Bakker (MAS)
  • Claire Bao (MEng, EECS)
  • Shelley Choi (MEng, EECS)
  • Chelsi Cocking (MAS)
  • Gauri Gupta (MAS)
  • Samantha Gutierrez-Arango (MAS)
  • Joshua Herrera (MEng, EECS)
  • Lindong Huang (MAS)
  • Kyuho Jang (MAS)
  • Ila Kumar (MAS)
  • Charles Lu (MAS)
  • Natasha Maniar (MEng, EECS)
  • Nazish Naeem (MAS)
  • Matthew Nay (MEng)
  • Naana Obeng-Marnu (MAS)
  • Preet Patel (MAS)
  • Ritik Patnaik (MEng, EECS)
  • Anita Podrug (MEng, EECS)
  • Simeon Radev (MAS)
  • Cecilé Sadler (MAS)
  • Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo (MAS)
  • Siddharth Somasundaram (MAS)
  • Leonard Vibbi (MAS)
  • Thais Xisto (MAS)
  • Aaron Young (MEng, EECS)
  • Boyu Zhang (MAS)
  • Caroline Zhang (MAS)
  • Wazeer Zulfikar (MAS)

Key to abbreviations:

Past Member
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Chelsea Barabas
Former Research Assistant
Project Research

Curriculum: Power + AI

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Huili Chen
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Designing Personalized AI Agents to Foster Human-Human Connections

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Kyung Yun Choi
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Keeley Erhardt
Research Assistant
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Don Derek Haddad
Research Assistant
Project Research

Capturing the Moon: Assessing virtual reality for remote Lunar geological fieldwork

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Isabella Loaiza-Saa
Former Research Assistant
Project Research

Voyage Viewer

Voyage Viewer is an online, open source interactive tool especially designed to visualize and study human mobility and migration.
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David Ramsay
Research Assistant
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Smart Eyewear Research Platforms

Smartglasses are increasingly popular because the face is an ideal location for continuously monitoring environmental and physiological sig…
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Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
Research Assistant
Project Research

Resilience Across Scales

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Tony Shu
Research Assistant
Past Member
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Michael A. Skuhersky
Former Research Assistant
Project Research

The QTY code: A simple tool for protein design

Structure and function studies of membrane proteins, particularly G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) and multipass transmembrane proteins,…
Past Member
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Praneeth Vepakomma
Former Research Assistant
Project Research

QCSF: Parallel Combinatorial Optimization without needing Submodularity

Classes of set functions along with a choice of ground set are a bedrock to determine and develop corresponding variants of greedy algorith…
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Zeguan Wang
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Randi Williams
Former Research Assistant
Archived
Project Research

AI for Wellbeing - A middle school AI curriculum

AI for Wellbeing is a 30-hour curriculum for middle school students exploring conversational AI and design justice through hands-on activit…
Archived
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Seong Ho Yeon
Research Assistant
Past Member
Person People
Max Addae
Former Research Assistant
Project Research

VocalCords: Exploring Tactile Interaction with the Singing Voice

The close relationship between touch, gesture, and sound plays a critical role in expressive musical performance. Many acoustic instruments…


Past Member
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Eden Adler
Project Research

Teaching AI and Robotics through digital storybooks

Today's children will live in a world saturated with artificial intelligence. Understanding the key idea behind the functioning of intellig…
Person People
Ayesha Ali
Project Research

Scaling Privacy Preserving Payments in a Centralized Digital Currency

This project is working on understanding and implementing privacy preserving payments in CBDC. After surveying privacy techniques from cryp…
Person People
Nicole Bakker
Research Assistant
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Claire Bao
Project Research

Bitcoin Security in Absence of Block Rewards

In 2016, a research paper by Carlsten et. al proposed a specific type of mining attack that could occur once block subsidies disappear call…


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Chelsi Cocking
Research Assistant
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Illuminate

What would it be like if we could see our movement? Illuminate (2023, Chelsi Alise Cocking) is an interactive art installation in whic…
Past Member
Person People
Gauri Gupta
Former Research Assistant
Project Research

First 100 days of pandemic; an interplay of pharmaceutical, behavioral and digital interventions - A study using agent based modeling

The challenge of understanding pandemics, illustrated by the recent COVID-19 outbreak, has significantly impacted global health and economi…
Person People
Samantha Gutierrez-Arango
Research Assistant
Project Research

Pharmamusicology: Exploring the Impact of Music on the Physiology and Psychology of Mental Health

As of 2020, approximately 40 million adults, or 18.1% percent of the adult population, in the United States suffer from anxiety disorders, …
Person People
Lingdong Huang
Research Assistant
Project Research

ColloGraphy

ColloGraphy (colloquy+calligraphy) is a tangible way to interact and communicate with another person from a different time, whether a loved…
Person People
Kyuho Jang
Research Assistant
Person People
Ila Kumar
Research Assistant
Project Research

Technology for Resilient Youth: Fostering emotional expression and social connectedness amongst at-risk young adults

​We are working to design healing socio-digital interventions with and for youth who have experienced traumatic events in their homes, e.g.…
Person People
Charles Lu
Research Assistant
Person People
Natasha Maniar
Project Research

MemPal: Wearable Cognitive Assistant for Aging Population

Older adults have increasing difficulty with prospective and retrospective memory, hindering their abilities to perform daily activities an…


Person People
Nazish Naeem
Research Assistant
Project Research

FuseBot: RF-Visual Mechanical Search

FuseBot is a robotic system that can efficiently find and retrieve both RFID tagged and untagged target objects in line-of-sight, non-line-…
Person People
Naana Obeng-Marnu
Research Assistant
Project Research

Conversation Theme Sorting

We further explore conversation visualization as a method of extracting and translating meaning for third party audiences who wish to bette…
Person People
Preet Patel
Research Assistant


Person People
Cecilé Sadler
Research Assistant
Project Research

Dreaming through Code

Dreaming through Code Designing creative learning workshops for local organizations committed to introducing technology to kids in a n…
Person People
Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo
Research Assistant
Publication Research

Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-Art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations

Shuvo, I. I., Shah, A., Dagdeviren, C.†, “Electronic Textile Sensors for Decoding Vital Body Signals: State-of-the-art Review on Characterizations and Recommendations”, https://doi.org/10.1002/aisy.202100223, Advanced Intelligent Systems, 4, 2100223, 2022.


Person People
Siddharth Somasundaram
Research Assistant
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Using Shadows in Space-Time to See Hidden Objects

The goal of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is to image objects that lie outside the camera’s field of view. We use two-bounce light to pe…


Person People
Leonard Vibbi
Research Assistant
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Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT)

The Community Dialogue Data Trust (CODIDT) is an interactive digital platform designed to empower participants in facilitated dialogues wit…


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Thais Xisto
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Brazilian Creative Learning Network / Aprendizagem Criativa no Brasil

The Brazilian Creative Learning Network (BCLN -- https://aprendizagemcriativa.org/) is a grassroots movement that promotes and supports the…
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Boyu Zhang
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Sleep and Epilepsy: Demystifying the thousand-year-long conundrum

According to WHO, epilepsy is the fourth most common neurological disease globally. CDC statistics show that 1 in 26 individuals in the U.S…


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Wazeer Zulfikar
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Memoro: Wearable Personal Memory Assistant

​People have to remember an ever-expanding volume of information. To help with this, we developed Memoro, a wearable and audio-based person…




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