Graduate Fellows

2006 FELLOWSHIPS

Provost's Fellows

	Vinay Agarwal, Electrical and Computer Engineering Research interests: Digital and Analog VLSI Design and microfabrication.
	Eleanor Pritchard, Biomedical Engineering Research interests: Scaffolds for slow release drug delivery and tissue engineering/organ replacement.

Dean's Fellows

	Jennifer Hogan, Biomedical Engineering Research interests: Silk-resilin block co-polymers as part of a soft-body robot design.
	Christina Lewis, Chemical and Biological Engineering Research interests: nucleic acid hybridization-based assembly of genetically modified and antibody conjugated viral nanotemplates onto barcoded colloidal microparticles to develop novel means for high throughput environmental and biological threat detection.
	Eugene Morgan, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research interests: spatial variability of submarine landslides.
	Thomas Oommen, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research interests: Regional characterization for seismic hazard using satellite remote sensing and machine learning algorithms.

2005 FELLOWSHIPS

Provost's Fellows

	Ricardo Fernandes, Chemical and Biological Engineering Research interests: Catalysts for the conversion of NOx gases to N2
	Caprice Gray, Mechanical Engineering Research interests: Acquisition and analysis of fluorescence images of thin slurry films used for planarizing microelectronic device materials.
	Sarah Sundelacruz, Biomedical Engineering Research interests: Development of biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

Dean's Fellows

	Ali Akanda, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research interests: Use of remote-sensing data and seasonal climate forecast to improve water resource management
	John Hugg, Computer Science Research interests: Feasibility of using techniques from the field of computational geometry to improve the results of high-dimensional data clustering.
	Jennifer Lenz, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research interests: Assessment of seismic risk by studying the effect of the variability of soil on the probability of earthquake-induced soil liquefaction.
	Xiangye Li, Computer Science Research interests: Bioinformatics, databases, and image processing

Dean's PhD Summer Fellows

	Rachel Lomasky, Computer Science Research interests: Machine learning, trying to identify whether an electronic account is being used by its legitimate owner or has been compromised and is being used by an attacker.
	Michael Lovett, Biomedical Engineering Research interests: Determine the biochemical signaling pathways critical in the "mechanotransduction" of extracellular mechanical forces into differentiation outcomes in human mesenchymal stem cells, ultimately using this knowledge to improve tissue engineering outcomes in vitro and in vivo.
	Hai Shi, Chemical and Biological Engineering Research interests: Mechanism of action of antidiabetic drugs in adipose tissue.
	Eric Thompson, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research interests: Improve numerical simulations of earthquake ground motions by incorporating a more detailed and accurate physical model of the near surface sedimentary layers.
	Rakesh Venkatesh, Mechanical Engineering Research interests: Electrophoretic deposition for the production of microstructured monoliths

2004 FELLOWSHIPS

Dean's Fellow

Michael Lovett, Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Determine the biochemical signaling pathways critical in the "mechanotransduction" of extracellular mechanical forces into differentiation outcomes in human mesenchymal stem cells, ultimately using this knowledge to improve tissue engineering outcomes in vitro and in vivo.

2003 FELLOWSHIPS

Dean's Fellows

	Jim Limbrunner, Civil and Environmental Engineering Research interests: Coupled natural system and economic models for watershed scale pollution control and resource management decision support.
	Julie Weber, Computer Science Research interests: Artificial intelligence, specifically constraint satisfaction and planning, and design of assistive technology for the cognitively impaired.