Announcing GRIE Winners

Announcing GRIE Winners

On April 24, more than 230 Master’s, PhD candidates, and Post-Doctoral Fellows shared their innovative and purposeful research with the WPI community at the 2018 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 were awarded prizes (the number of prizes was determined based on the number of students presenting in each category):

Mathematical and Physical Sciences

• 1st Place: Tyler Reese, Mathematical Sciences
• 2nd Place: Steven Vandal, Physics

Data Science, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science

• 1st Place: Suhas Srinivasan, Data Science
• 1st Place: Susmitha Wunnava, Data Science
• 2nd Place: Arkar Min Aung, Computer Science
• 2nd Place: Berk Gulmezoglu, Electrical & Computer Engineering
• 3rd Place: Zhitao Li, Data Science
• 3rd Place: Nguyen Vo, Data Science

Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences

• 1st Place: Mark Strauss, Materials Science & Engineering
• 2nd Place: Junbo Chen, Chemical Engineering
• 3rd Place: Joel Kearns, Materials Science & Engineering

Business and Social Science

• 1st Place: Taylyn Hulse, Learning Sciences & Technologies
• 2nd Place: Chris Chagnon, Information Technology

Life Sciences and Bioengineering

• 1st Place: Toni Delorey, Biology & Biotechnology
• 2nd Place: Ying Zhou, Biology & Biotechnology
• 3rd Place: Diego Vargas Blanco, Biology & Biotechnology

Robotics, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• 1st Place: Katie Gandomi, Robotics Engineering
• 2nd Place: Michael Moukarzel, Electrical & Computer Engineering
• 3rd Place: Marek Wartenberg, Robotics Engineering

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

• 1st Place: Nadia Mofidi, Fire Protection Engineering
• 2nd Place: Milad Farzad, Mechanical Engineering
• 3rd Place: Sharada Bhavanam, Aerospace Engineering

Graduate Qualifying Project – Data Science Program

• 1st Place: Jun Da, Huimin Ren, and Meng Wang, Data Science
• 2nd Place: Abhishek Easwarn, Praneeth Nooli, Karan Somaiah, Naveen Pothayath
• 3rd Place: Youqiao Ma, Deepan Sanghavi, Dharal Dholakia, Chao Xu

Post-Doctoral Fellows

• 1st Place: Lucia Carichino, Mathematical Sciences

People’s Choice

• Morning (tie for first place):
  • Erin Teeple, Data Science
  • Arkar Min Aung, Computer Science
  • Emily Webber, Suchithra Balakrishnan, Yousef Fadila, Data Science
• Afternoon:
  • Giulia Galotto, Biology & Biotechnology

Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who helped organize and support the event including Terri Camesano, Rory Flinn, Deborah Baron, Donna Zuidema, Camille Bouchard-Chhoeuk, and lead judges: Ivon Arroyo, Danielle Cote, Michael Demetriou, Aaron Deskins, Fatemeh Emdad, Xinming Huang, Kwonmoo Lee, Sarah Olson, Cagdas Onal, Randy Paffenroth, Carolina Ruiz, Elke Rundensteiner, Albert Simeoni, Jagan Srinivasan, Lyubov Titova, Craig Wills, and Joe Zhu. Thanks also to all judges: