Congratulations to Dr. Bastien Schnitzler on his graduation! Bastien, a visiting student at MSEAS during spring/summer 2024, successfully defended and received his PhD from the National School of Aeronautics and Space (ISAE) and University of Toulouse for his research on “Trajectory Optimization for Long-Range Light Vehicles in Unsteady Flow Fields with Obstacles, Diffuse Hazard and Uncertainty.” We wish all the best to Bastien on plotting his future, hazard-free path!

Congratulations to Dr. Manan Doshi on his graduation! Manan successfully defended and received his PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “High Dimensional Optimal Path Planning and Generalized Lagrangian Data Assimilation in Stochastic Dynamical Ocean Environments” with our MSEAS group at MIT. We wish all the best to Manan on plotting his future path!

MSEAS is well represented at Commencement 2023. Congratulations to Aaron Charous, Abhinav Gupta, Aman Jalan, Aditya Saravanakumar, and Tony Ryu!!

Congratulations to Aditya Saravanakumar on his graduation! Aditya received an SM from Computational Science and Engineering for his research on “Towards Coupled Nonhydrostatic-Hydrostatic Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Method” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Dr. Aaron Charous on his graduation! Aaron successfully defended and received his PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Dynamical Reduced-Order Models for High-Dimensional Systems” with our MSEAS group at MIT. We wish all the best to Aaron for his next steps!

Below are some pictures from graduation:

MSEAS was also introduced to Jeppson’s Malört.

Congratulations to Aman Jalan on his graduation! Aman received an SM from Computational Science and Engineering for his research on “Neural Closure Models for Chaotic Dynamical Systems” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Tony Ruy on his graduation! Tony received an SM from Computational Science and Engineering for his research on “Adaptive Stochastic Reduced-Order Modeling for Autonomous Ocean Platforms” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Abhinav Gupta on his graduation! Abhinav successfully defended and received his PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Scientific Machine Learning for Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications to Fluid Flow and Ocean Ecosystem Modeling” with our MSEAS group at MIT. We wish all the best to Abhinav for his next steps!

Congratulations to Akis Gkirgkis on his graduation! Akis received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Stochastic Ocean Forecasting with the Dynamically Orthogonal Primitive Equations” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Chinmay Kulkarni on his graduation! Chinmay succesfully defended and received his PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Prediction, Analysis, and Learning of Advective Transport in Dynamic Fluid Flows” with our MSEAS group at MIT. We wish all the best to Chinmay for his next steps!

Congratulations to Jing Lin on his graduation! Jing succesfully defended and received his PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Bayesian Learning for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Methodologies, Numerics and Applications to Fluid Flows” with our MSEAS group at MIT. We wish all the best to Jing for his next steps!

Congratulations to Michael Humara on his graduation! Mike received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Stochastic Acoustic Ray Tracing with Dynamically Orthogonal Equations” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Jing Lin on his graduation! Jing received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Minimum-Correction Second-Moment Matching: Theory, Algorithms and Applications” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Corbin Foucart on his graduation! Corbin received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Efficient Matrix-Free Implementation and Automated Verification of Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Wael Hajj Ali on his graduation! Wael received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Dynamically Orthogonal Equations for Stochastic Underwater Sound Propagation” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to David Ferris on his graduation! Dave received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Time-Optimal Multi-Waypoint Mission Planning in Dynamic Flow Fields” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Deepak Subramani on his graduation! Deepak received a PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Probabilistic Regional Ocean Predictions: Stochastic Fields and Optimal Planning” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Arkopal Dutt on his graduation! Arkopal received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “High Order Stochastic Transport and Lagrangian Data Assimilation” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Johnathan Hiep Vo on his graduation! Johnathan received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Modeling Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography using Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Projection Methods” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Chinmay Sameer Kulkarni completed all requirements and submitted a thesis to receive Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering from School of Engineering at MIT. Congratulations to Chinmay and all the best for his Ph.D journey!

Congratulations to Florian Feppon on his graduation! Florian received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Riemannian Geometry of Matrix Manifolds for Lagrangian Uncertainty Quantification of Stochastic Fluid Flows” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Sydney Sroka on her recent graduation! Sydney received an SM from Mechanical Engineering for her research on “Internal Tides Near Steep Topographies” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Morgan Kane for successfully completing her RSI 2016 summer research with our MSEAS group at MIT. She completed a report and presentation on “Go with the flow: The Effect of Geophysical Flows on Transports”. She is from Mt. Hope High School, Bristol, RI.

Congratulations to John Aoussou on his recent graduation! John received an SM from Mechanical Engineering and CDO program for his research on “An Iterative Pressure-Correction Method for the Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Matt Swezey on his recent graduation! Matt received Master of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering and a Master of Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Ocean Acoustic Uncertainty for Submarine Applications”.

Congratulations to Tapovan Lolla on his successful PhD defense and graduation! Tapovan received a PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his comprehensive research on “Path Planning and Adaptive Sampling in the Coastal Ocean”.

Congratulations to Ajay Jain and Chuang Tang for successfully completing their RSI 2015 summer research with our MSEAS group at MIT. They completed a report and presentation on “Time-Optimal Robotic Path Planning in Dynamic Ocean Flows: Efficiency and Sensitivity Studies” and “Time-Optimal Path Planning in Dynamic Flow Fields with Ship Wakes”, respectively. Ajay Jain was a visiting junior high-school student from Cupertino, CA, and Chuang Tang from Little Rock, AR.

Congratulations to Deepak Subramani on his recent graduation! Deepak received a SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Energy Optimal Path Planning using Stochastic Dynamically Orthogonal Level Set Equations” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Jen Landry, LCDR USN, on her recent graduation! Jen received a SM from the MIT-WHOI Joint Program for her research on “Coastal Ocean Variability off the Coast of Taiwan in Response to Typhoon Morakot: River Forcing, Atmospheric Forcing and Cold Dome Dynamics” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Abhinav Gupta from IIT Kanpur for completing his S. N. Bose Scholars Program with us this summer 2014. Abhinav completed original research on “Deterministic and Stochastic Modeling of Coupled Ocean Biological-Physical Dynamics” with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Jordan Benjamin for completing his RSI report and presentation on “Effects of Typhoon Morakot river discharges on the coastal Taiwan ocean system.” As a visiting high-school student from Atlanta, Jordan successfully completed his 2014 summer research with our MSEAS group at MIT.

Congratulations to Matt Ueckermann on his successful PhD defense and graduation! Matt received a PhD from Mechanical Engineering for his comprehensive research on “High Order Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Regional Ocean Modeling”.

Congratulations to Akash Phadnis on his recent graduation! Akash received a SM from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Uncertainty Quantification and Prediction for Non-autonomous Linear and Nonlinear Systems”.

Congratulations to Konuralp Yigit and Thomas Sondergaard on their recent graduations. Konur received a MS from Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering for his research on “Path Planning Methods for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles”. Thomas received a MS from Mechanical Engineering for his research on “Data Assimilation with Gaussian Mixture Models using the Dynamically Orthogonal Field Equations”.