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Meet Our Scholars Who are Redefining Limits

Kristen Ahner
University of Colorado, Boulder | AeroAstro | PhD

William Babincsak
WPI | Robotics Engineering | PhD

Aaron Baumgart
Brown University | Physics | PhD

Morgan Blevins
MIT | EECS | PhD

Ireland Brown
MIT | AeroAstro | PhD

Timothy Cheng
Tufts University | Mechanical Engineering | PhD

Adam Eckstein
Purdue | AeroAstro | MS

Elijah Dabkowski
Harvard University | Data Science | MS

Eric Joseph Elias
MIT | AeroAstro | MS

Derek Gess
MIT | Materials Science and Engineering | MS

Ava Giorgianni
NEU | EECS | MS

Daniel Gochenaur
MIT | AeroAstro | PhD

Timothy Goulet
Purdue University | AeroAstro | MS

Dylan Green
Brown | CS | MS

Laurel Hilger
GA Tech | Materials Design & Development | PhD

Peter Hsi
Tufts University | Biomedical Engineering | PhD

Jacob Huckelberry
Harvard University | Data Science | MS

Rebecca Jiang
MIT | AeroAstro | PhD

Jeffrey Johnston
Northeastern University | Data Analytics | MS

Julie Johnston
MIT | Mechanical Engineering | MS

Tzofi Klinghoffer
MIT | Media Arts & Sciences | PhD

Sarah Leary
Bioastronautics at CU Boulder | PhD

Jiho Lee
University of Colorado, Boulder | Aerospace Engineering Sciences | MS

Emmett Lepp
Tufts University | Mechanical Engineering | MS

Zihan Lin
MIT | Materials Science (DMSE) | PhD

Eric Liu
MIT | EECS | MS

Angelina LoCricchio
MIT | AeroAstro | MS

Andrew Malnicof
WPI | Electrical and Computer Engineering | MS

Alex Markoski
Brown | Bioengineering/Biomedical Engineering | PhD

Alexander Montes McNeil
Northeastern University | EECS | PhD

Ryan Menges
University of Colorado, Boulder | Aerospace Engineering Sciences | PhD

Alex Meredith
MIT | AeroAstro | PhD

Brian Mills
MIT | Materials Science | PhD

Mitchell Miller
Harvard University | Data Science | MS

Kyle Mitard
WPI | Electrical and Computer Engineering | PhD

William Mo
University of Colorado, Boulder | Biomedical Engineering | PhD

Alexander Moody
University of Colorado, Boulder | AeroAstro | MS

Michelle Anh Nguyen
Boston University | BioMolecular Pharmacology | PhD

Erik Pryal
MIT | Mechanical Engineering | MS

Gregg Puttkammer
Purdue University | Statistics | MS

Oliver Rayner
MIT | EECS | MS

Augustus Richter
GA Tech | Electrical and Computer Engineering | PhD

Jillian Ross
Purdue University | AeroAstro | MS

Ben Rossano
MIT | AeroAstro | PhD

Dominic Rudakevych
University of Colorado, Boulder | Applied Mathematics | MS

Haripriya Sakthivel
Purdue | Biomedical Engineering | PhD

Nathan Schatz
MIT | AeroAstro | MS

Hannah Shafferman
MIT | AeroAstro | MS

Kian Shakerin
University of Colorado, Boulder | AeroAstro | PhD

Anja Sheppard
MICH | Robotics | PhD

Kieran Smith
University of Colorado, Boulder | AeroAstro | PhD

Timothy Smith
MIT | AeroAstro | MS

Kyle Sonandres
MIT | AeroAstro | MS

Aneesa Sonawalla
MIT | AeroAstro | PhD

Melania St. Cyr
MIT | EECS | PhD

Chloe Stults
Brown | Electrical and Computer Engineering | PhD

Jessica Sun
MIT | Biological Engineering | PhD

Sucheta Tamragouri
WPI | Biomedical Engineering | PhD

Edward Tang
Harvard University | Data Science | MS

Christopher Tommila
MIT | AeroAstro | PhD

Michael Topper
University of Colorado, Boulder | Physics | PhD

Joseph Urban
BU | Biomedical Engineering | PhD

Giselle Ventura
Tufts | Data Science | MS

Charles Wade
University of Colorado, Boulder | Computer Science | PhD

Eric Wendel
Boston University | Systems Engineering | PhD

Finnian Westenfelder
MIT | TPP | MS

Graham Williams
University of Colorado, Boulder | Mechanical Engineering | PhD

Katrina Winkler
UFL | Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering | PhD

Kevin Zhang
GA Tech | AeroAstro | MS