Graduate Fellows
The
Provost's Fellows program is intended to recognize and
recruit the very best incoming doctoral students by providing a
supplemental stipend for the first two years of the student's
program of study. The goal of the award is to augment the student's
aid package so that financial considerations do not stand in their
way of choosing to pursue their degrees at Tufts.
2010 FELLOWSHIPS
Provost's Fellows
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Jeff Walker, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Surface water quality modeling and data analysis
with applications to watershed management and aquatic ecosystem restoration.
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Dean's Fellows
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Enjin Fu, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Integrated and board level circuit design for RF and optical wireless applications. |
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Ariel Horowitz, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: Development of novel materials and techniques for
electrical or electrochemical devices for use in sustainable energy applications.
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Bradford Larsen, Computer Science
Research interests: Development of new programming languages, verification tools,
and compiler techniques in order to improve software quality and facilitate reasoning about programs
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Anjuliee Mittelman, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests: Investigating the fate and transport of nanomaterials in the
subsurface and potential applications of nanomaterials in soil and groundwater remediation
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Megan Strait, Computer Science
Research interests:
Application of brain-computer interaction to adaptive user interfaces and UI design |
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Tiening Wang, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Analysis of mechanical and electromagnetic characterization of superconducting materials; finite element analysis
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2009 FELLOWSHIPS
Provost's Fellows
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James Sims, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: Development of a 3D cell culture system for adipocytes and
endothelial cells to mimic the in vivo environment and provide a better
model of adipose tissue for metabolism studies. |
Dean's Fellows
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Frank Saunders, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: soft robotics; controls and simulation of robotic platforms using
rigid link dynamic simulation utilities; genetic algorithms and concurrent
evolution of morphology and controls |
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Andrew Winslow, Computer Science
Research interests: Geometry and geometric algorithms
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Peng Wu, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: Heterogeneous catalysis, direct methanol fuel cells |
2008 FELLOWSHIPS
Provost's Fellows
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Lisa Bartlett, Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Three-dimensional microscopy of the tumor microenvironment
in vivo using optical frequency domain imaging |
Dean's Fellows
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Evan Peck, Computer Science
Research interests: Brain-computer interaction using
fNIR spectroscopy and EEG in realtime interfaces |
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Oguz Semerci, Electrical Engineering
Research interests: Physics-based processing and inverse methods
applied to imaging problems |
2007 FELLOWSHIPS
Provost's Fellows
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Charles Banos, Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Developmental biology as a guide for developing novel
tissue regeneration strategies for tendons and ligaments |
Dean's Fellows
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Brian Ricks, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: Catalysis for clean energy, fuel production from biomass
and microbial waste products |
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Juan Zeng, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: high-performance integrated circuits design for broadband
wireless applications |
2006 FELLOWSHIPS
Provost's Fellows
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Vinay Agarwal, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research interests: Digital and Analog VLSI Design and microfabrication |
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Eleanor Pritchard, Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Scaffolds for slow release drug delivery and tissue
engineering/organ replacement |
Dean's Fellows
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Jennifer Hogan, Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Silk-resilin block co-polymers as part of a
soft-body robot design |
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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 |
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Eugene Morgan, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests: Spatial variability of submarine landslides |
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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
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Ricardo Fernandes, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: Catalysts for the conversion of NOx gases to N2 |
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Caprice Gray, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Acquisition and analysis of fluorescence images of thin
slurry films used for planarizing microelectronic device materials |
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Sarah Sundelacruz, Biomedical Engineering
Research interests: Development of biomaterials for tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine |
Dean's Fellows
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Ali Akanda, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests: Use of remote-sensing data and seasonal climate forecast
to improve water resource management |
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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 |
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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 |
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Xiangye Li, Computer Science
Research interests: Bioinformatics, databases, and image processing |
Dean's PhD Summer Fellows
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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 |
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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 |
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Hai Shi, Chemical and Biological Engineering
Research interests: Mechanism of action of antidiabetic drugs in adipose tissue |
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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 |
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Rakesh Venkatesh, Mechanical Engineering
Research interests: Electrophoretic deposition for the production of
microstructured monoliths |
2004 FELLOWSHIPS
Dean's Fellow
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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
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Jim Limbrunner, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Research interests: Coupled natural system and economic models for watershed
scale pollution control and resource management decision support |
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Julie Weber, Computer Science
Research interests: Artificial intelligence, specifically constraint
satisfaction and planning, and design of assistive technology for the
cognitively impaired |
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