52 Graduate Students Advance to GRIE Finals

On February 12, more than 160 Master’s and PhD candidates shared their innovative and purposeful research with the WPI community at the 2020 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE). It was an exciting event that had the Rubin Campus Center Odeum buzzing with activity and engaged conversation. The following students will advance to the GRIE finals in April 7 to compete for prizes:

Mathematical and Physical Sciences

Teagan Bate, Physics

Yang Liu, Mathematical Sciences

Elisa Negrini, Mathematical Sciences

Guillermo Carlo Nunez Ponasso, Mathematical Sciences

Anusuya Pal, Physics

 

Data Science, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science

Marissa Bennett, Computer Science

Walter Gerych, Data Science

Julian Lanson, Computer Science

Yu Liu, Computer Science

Menghai Pan, Computer Science

Ethan Prihar, Data Science

Jidapa Thadajarassiri, Data Science

Monica Tlachac, Data Science

Thanh Tran, Data Science

Jean-Baptiste Truong, Computer Science

Ashvini Varatharaj, Computer Science

Matthew Weiss, Data Science

 

Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences

Cameron Armstrong, Chemical Engineering

Lily Gaudreau, Chemical Engineering

Heather LeClerc, Chemical Engineering

Patryck Michalik, Chemical Engineering

Mahya Shahabi, Materials Science & Engineering

Bryer Sousa, Materials Science & Engineering

Panawan Vanaphuti, Materials Science & Engineering

Ziqi Wei, Chemical Engineering

 

Business and Social Science

Avery Harrison, Learning Sciences & Technologies

Alicia Howell-Munson, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Stephen Frimpong-Manso, Information Technology

Haadi Mombini, Business Administration

 

Life Sciences and Bioengineering

Megan Mancuso, Biomedical Engineering

Gian Marco Paci, Biomedical Engineering

Melissa Wojnowski, Biomedical Engineering

Dayna Mercadante, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology

Elizabeth van Zyl, Biomedical Engineering

Diego Vargas Blanco, Biology & Biotechnology

Ying Zhou, Biology & Biotechnology

 

Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Ian Costanzo, Electrical & Computer Engineering

Alex Chiluisa, Robotics Engineering

Katie Gandomi, Robotics Engineering

Shang Gao, Robotics Engineering

Akshay Iyer, Robotics Engineering

Jakub Tomasz Kaminski, Robotics Engineering

Tsung-Chi Lin, Robotics Engineering

Karim Tarabein, Robotics Engineering

He Wang, Electrical & Computer Engineering

 

Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fire-Protection Engineering

Li Chang, Fire Protection Engineering

Nicholas DiReda, Aerospace Engineering

Jihan El Ouaragli, Civil Engineering

Milad Farzad, Mechanical Engineering

Binod Giri, Mechanical Engineering

Zahra Noori, Mechanical Engineering

Mengqiao Yang, Mechanical Engineering

 

People’s Choice Winners

Morning:

• Zahra Noori, Mechanical Engineering

Afternoon:

• Yu Liu, Computer Science

 

Please join our team in thanking all who helped organize and support the event including Rory Flinn, Deborah Baron, Rachel Roy, Donna Zuidema, Camille Bouchard-Chhoeuk, Fred Looft, Neil Heffernan and 100+ judges including lead judges, Christopher Larson, Eric Young, Andrew Teixeira, Nikhil Karanjgaokar, Randy Paffenroth, Elke Rundensteiner, Albert Simeoni, Jagan Srinivasan, Lyubov Titova, Craig Wills, Michael Demetriou, Aaron Deskins, Jie Fu, Zhi (Jane) Li, Mingjiang Tao, Bengisu Tulu, Catherine Whittington, Jin Xiao, Yihao Zheng.

 

Thanks also to all judges:

Amnon	Aliphas
Hugh	Allen
John	Biagioni
Crystal	Brown
Michele	Burnat
Emrah	Cakir
Berk	Calli
Terri	Camesano
Joy Xiaohui	Chen
Heather	Cirka
Rick	Cleary
Jeannine	Coburn
Aliki	Collins
Paul	Cotnoir
Kevin	Crowthers
Feiyun	Cui
Brian	Curran
Phil	Cyr
John	Czazasty
George	Dainis
Dan	Dougherty
Tim	Dow
Melissa	Durfee
Howard	Eglowstein
Mohamed	Eltabakh
Fatemeh	Emdad
Stuart	Emerson
Brenton	Faber
Natalie	Farny
Soroush	Farzin
Joseph	Fehribach
Ellen	Ferraro
Tony	Fontes
Bill	Gasko
Michael	Gennert
Ari	Giaya
Jeffrey	Goldmeer
Joshua	Green
Neil	Heffernan
Michael	Henry
Lauren	Jansen
Jagannath	Jayachandran
George	Kaminski
Hektor	Kashuri
Nikolaos	Kazantzis
Xiangnan	Kong
Nima	Kordzadeh
Joyce	Kraley
Alex	Krowitz
Todd	Lauer
Kyumin	Lee
Ying	Lei
Stephen	Lichwala
Elizabeth	Long Lingo
Fred	Looft
Rajib	Mallick
Oren	Mangoubi
Wayne	Moore
Sneha Prabha	Narra
Rodica	Neamtu
Blake	Nelson
Ben	Nephew
Sarah	Olson
Robert	O'Shea
Lori	Ostapowicz-Critz
Erin	Ottmar
Pavel	Ozhogin
Dessislava	Pachamanova
Sundarapandiyan	Palanivelu
Michael	Pereira
Adam	Powell
Sundari	Ramabhotla
Charles	Recchia
Marsha	Rolle
Liz	Ryder
Ahmet Can	Sabuncu
Jennifer	Sage
Aaron	Sakulich
Ali	Salifu
Christopher	Scarpino
Mike	Scaviola
Albert	Shahnarian
Scarlet	Shell
Craig	Shue
Therese	Smith
Carl	Soderhjelm
Victor	Sordillo
Joe	Stabile
Sarah	Stanlick
Zachary	Taillefer
Charles	Theurer
Kyle	Tsaknopoulos
Harold	Walker
Gu	Wang
Ryan	Ward
Jacob	Whitehill
Kun-Ta	Wu
Seyed A.	Zekavat
Haichong (Kai)	Zhang
Yu	Zhong
Kuibin	Zhou
John	Zicko
Jian	Zou