Srutarshi is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.

He is a member of the Image and Video Processing Laboratory (IVPL) under supervision of Professor Aggelos K. Katsaggelos. His research interests include image and signal processing, computer vision, and machine learning.

Srutarshi is originally from India and received his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering degree from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India with focus in Control Systems. He further received Masters of Technology degree in Instrumentation from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He also worked for a couple of years as a Research Scientist in Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, India on Electron Particle Accelerators.

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Suman is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

He is working in the Advanced Manufacturing Processing Laboratory (AMPL) under the guidance of Professor Jian Cao and Professor Kornel Ehmann.

Suman is working on the laser-induced plasma micromanufacturing process.

Eve is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University.

She works on data analysis techniques related to the direct detection of gravitational waves and astrophysical implications of gravitational-wave events. Eve is an active member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and has contributed to data analysis for several of LIGO’s past detections. She is also interested in electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational-wave events with transient surveys such as LSST.

Eve graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in physics from the College of William and Mary and began working in Professor Vicky Kalogera’s group at Northwestern University in 2016.

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Danielle Duggins is a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University.

She works on investigating the nucleation and growth of calcium carbonate biominerals in synthetic environments and in sea urchins as a model organism.

She received her BS in Physics in 2012 and worked at Thermo Fisher Scientific (Tewksbury, MA) and at Glassimetal Technology (Pasadena, CA) before starting her Ph.D.

Dale is PhD student in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering. He received his B.S. in Materials Science & Engineering from the University of Florida (2018), with a minor in Physics.

Dale’s research involves utilizing machine learning to perform high-throughput phonon calculations, which allows for cost-effective exploration of materials with interesting thermal properties.

Alex is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University.

He works in the field of galaxy formation, running high resolution hydrodynamic simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies in order to study stellar feedback regulated star formation in galactic disks. He is particularly interested in how bursts of star formation can drive powerful outflows of gas, depleting star forming reservoirs, also known as galactic winds.

He is originally from Austin, Texas and received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics, with a concentration in Astrophysics, from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Wynn is a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Wynn received his B.Sc. in Physics (Astrophysics) from the University of California Santa Cruz.

He works with Prof. Raffaella Margutti to combine multi-wavelength observations (X-ray to radio) of supernova explosions in order to create a complete picture of a star’s final moments before its inevitable destruction. As a member of the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE) transient sky survey, Wynn is passionate about discovering supernovae within the first days after explosion; such observations are pivotal in expanding our limited knowledge of the last stages of stellar evolution in both compact and massive stars.

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Michael completed his Ph.D. in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University.

During his time at Northwestern, he worked on massive black hole binary population studies using computational simulations. His research was geared toward detection and characterization of these galactic center black holes using the Laser Interferometer Space Antennae (LISA), a future space-based gravitational wave observatory.

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Jimmy is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University.

He is supervised by Professor David Schwab and has a broad range of research interests encompassing biophysics, neuroscience, information theory, and machine learning.

He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto where he completed the Mathematics and Physics specialist program with a minor in Philosophy.

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Andrew Lee is a PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
He completed his Bachelors in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2018.

Andrew’s research uses density functional theory combined with machine learning to efficiently search for new potential thermoelectric materials. He is part of the Wolverton Research Group.

Dawning is a Ph.D student in the Department of Chemistry
. She received a Bachelor’s of Science in Chemistry from the University of Hong Kong


Dawning’s research focuses on using a non-linear optical technique called Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopy to study the surface of atmospheric aerosols that are generated in labs and collected from fields, such as different regions in the Amazonian rainforest.These studies can improve our understanding of the formation and evolution of aerosols in the atmosphere, which play an important and yet poorly understood role in climate change and atmospheric chemistry.

Alice is a Ph.D. graduate student in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at Northwestern University, working in the Image and Video Processing Laboratory.

She recently graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she obtained a B.S. in Applied Math, Engineering and Physics  along with a Computer Science minor.

Her research interests lie in the field of machine learning and deep learning.  More specifically, her work examines the use of deep neural network architectures and probabilistic graphical models as an approach to solving new challenges in image processing and analysis.

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David is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

David finished undergrad with a BS in Physics with High Honors from Brandeis University, but was originally a Jazz Performance major at the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music.

David works with Professor Raffaella Margutti on multi-wavelength studies of explosive transients, currently focused on radio and x-ray observations of supernovae that interact strongly with their surrounding environments

Kyle is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.

He earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Physics and Math, and a minor in Computer Science from University of Puget Sound, in 2018.

Kyle leverages data mining techniques and first-principles calculations to discover and study materials that exhibit metal-insulator transitions, a phenomenon by which materials undergo drastic changes in resistivity. These materials are proposed platforms for next-generation low-power electronics.

Stacy is a Ph.D student is Earth and Planetary Sciences.
She received a Bachelors of Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Civil and Environmental Engineering.

Her main research project is a multi-platform analysis of Chicago air quality. She uses models, satellites, and ground-based sensors to characterize Chicago air quality at a neighborhood scale.

She can use this analysis to observe meteorological drivers of pollutant hotspots and test the efficacy of green infrastructure at cleaning air pollution.

Arjun is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Northwestern University.

He is currently a member of the Image and Video Processing Laboratory (IVPL) under the supervision of Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos, which he joined during his first term at Northwestern.  His research interests include computer vision, biomedical signal processing, and machine learning.

Arjun received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering with a focus in Multimedia Signal Processing from Brown University in 2015.

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Neda completed her Ph.D. in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department, under the mentorship of Professor Aggelos Katsaggelos, at Northwestern University.

She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Iran. Her research interests are Machine Learning, Computer Vision, and Signal Processing.

Boris is a Ph.D. student in Seismology in the Department of Earth and Planetary Science at Northwestern University.

His research focuses on the mathematical description of seismic sources. While non-double-couple components may be required to describe complex source processes, they may also be artifacts of the inversion. Boris is studying the conditions under which non-double couple components in seismic moment tensors represent real source processes.

Originally from Munich, Germany, he received his Bachelor in Physics from the University of Colima, Mexico, where he graduated with honors for his thesis about stealth scalar fields in General Relativity.

Elodie is a Ph.D student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She is a member of the Wolverton Research Group.

Niharika completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, at Northwestern University.

She is primarily interested in modeling the evolutionary pathways to ‘stripped-envelope supernovae’ (Types IIb, Ib, and Ic). A systematic analysis of possible evolutionary channels can be used to build a database recording properties of progenitor sequences. Such a database can aid in expediting classification, progenitor identification in pre-supernova images and further detailed follow-up and study. It will be an important tool in analyzing the wealth of data on the transient sky that will be available in the future with the advent of rapid-cadence big-data telescopes like the LSST.

Niharika is also interested in modeling the evolution of binary star systems to investigate the channels and mechanisms governing X-ray binaries and binary compact objects. In the past, she has worked on a wide range of topics from re-ioninzation to galaxy evolution.

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Vivian is a Ph.D. student in Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, at Northwestern University.

Her work involves investigating deep Earth’s structure beneath East Asia by seismological and geophysical methods. She is originally from Taiwan and received her Master’s degree in Geosciences from National Taiwan University.

JaCoya is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Northwestern University.

She graduated from Fayetteville State University (FSU) with a Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics and a Masters of Science degree in Mathematics. 

She’s currently building and using current technologies that facilitate, 6-12 grade students, to create, learn and engage with data science through various disciplines. Her area of interest includes using technologies to improve and enhance methods of instruction and investigating instructional strategies that promote equal access to individuals from cultural diverse populations.

Vicky completed her Ph.D. in the Department of Applied Mathematics at Northwestern University.

She works on mathematical models applied to social systems. Some topics of her work include crime in cities and dynamics of political elections. She received her undergraduate degrees from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in both Mathematical Sciences and Physics.

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Mike is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Northwestern University.

He is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and has multiple research interests in gravitational wave astrophysics ranging from LIGO detector data analysis to source formation channels of gravitational wave events.

He is originally from the southwest suburbs of Chicago and received undergraduate degrees in Astronomy, Physics, and Music Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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