Alumni/Alumnae
Graduate Students
- Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Parameter Estimation and Adaptive Modeling Studies in Ocean Mixing.
2006-2008
Graduate Student, MIT - Completed Doctoral Degree
Ph.D. Thesis: Adaptitve Rapid Environmental Assessment
2007-2009
Principal Analyst/Modeler
Brand.net - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Statistical Field Estimation and Scale Estimation for Complex Coastal Regions and Archipelagos.
2007-2009
Senior Quantitative Researcher, WorldQuant (Mumbai) - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Modeling Coupled Physics and Biology in Ocean Straits with Application to the San Bernadino Strait in the Philippine Archipelago
2007-2009
Graduate Student
MIT
- Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: Dynamically Orthogonal Field Equations for Stochastic Fluid Flows and Particle Dynamics
2006-2011
Assistant Professor
MechE - MIT - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Path Planning Methods for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
2009-2011
Underwater Projects Officer; Mechanical Engineer (M.Sc)
Golcuk Naval Shipyard - Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: Stochastic Dynamically Orthogonal Modeling and Bayesian Learning for Underwater Acoustic Propagation
2016-2023
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories - Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: High-order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods and Deep Reinforcement Learning with Application to Multiscale Ocean Modeling
2023
- Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: Scientific Machine Learning for Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications to Fluid Flow and Ocean Ecosystem Modeling
2017-2022
Sanofi - Completed Master of Science Degree in Computational Science & Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
MS Thesis: Harvest-Time Optimal Path Planning in Dynamic Flows
2019-2021
Autonomy Engineer, Boeing - Completed Doctoral Degree PhD Thesis: Dynamical Reduced-Order Models for High-Dimensional Systems
2023 - Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: High Dimensional Optimal Path Planning and Generalized Lagrangian Data Assimilation in Stochastic Dynamical Ocean Environments
2018-2024
- 2023-2024
Graduate Student, MIT - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Time-Optimal Path Planning in the Portugal-Azores-Madeira Ocean Region
2020-2022
US Navy - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Neural Closure Models for Chaotic Dynamical Systems
2023 - 2019
Graduate Student
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
- 1st year Grad. Student
- 2022-2024
- Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Adaptive Stochastic Reduced-Order Modeling for Autonomous Ocean Platforms
2020-2023 - Completed Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering
MS Thesis: Stochastic Ocean Forecasting with the Dynamically Orthogonal Primitive Equations
2018-2021
Production Planning Engineer
ELVAL (Hellenic Aluminium Industry)
- Completed Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, MIT-WHOI Joint Program
MS Thesis:Reduced Order Modeling for Stochastic Prediction and Data Assimilation Onboard Autonomous Platforms At Sea
2019-2021
Lieutenant Commander, USN - Completed Master of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering, MIT-WHOI Joint Program
MS Thesis:Stochastic Acoustic Ray Tracing with Dynamically Orthogonal Equations
2018-2020
Lieutenant Commander, USN - Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: Prediction, Analysis, and Learning of Advective Transport in Dynamic Fluid Flows
2015-2020
Quantitative Researcher
Two-Sigma - Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: Bayesian Learning for High-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamical Systems: Methodologies, Numerics and Applications to Fluid Flows
2012-2020
Singapore
- Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Data Assimilation with Gaussian Mixture Models using the Dynamically Orthogonal Field Equations
2009-2011
R&D engineer
G.R.A.S. Sound and Vibration - Completed Masters Degree
M.S. Thesis: Bayesian Inference of Stochastic Dynamical Models
2011-2012
MATLAB Application Support Engineer - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis:Uncertainty
Quantification and Prediction for Non-autonomous Linear and Nonlinear Systems
2011-2013
McKinsey & Company - New York - Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: High Order Hybrid Discontinuous Galerkin Regional Ocean Modeling
2007-2013
Research Engineer
Creare - New Hampshire
- Completed MIT-WHOI Master of Science Degree
MS Thesis: Coastal Ocean Variability off the Coast of Taiwan in Response to Typhoon Morakot: River Forcing, Atmospheric Forcing and Cold Dome Dynamics
2012-2014
LCDR USN - Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: Path Planning and Adaptive Sampling in the Coastal Ocean
2010-2015
Senior Research Engineer,
Data and Physics based Models,
Computational Sciences Function,
ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company - Texas - Completed MIT-USN Master of Science Degree
MS Thesis: Ocean Acoustic Uncertainty for Submarine Applications
2014-2016
USN - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: An Iterative Pressure-Correction Method for the Unsteady Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equation
2013-2016
Japan
- Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Internal Tides Near Steep Topographies
2013-2016
Graduate Student, MIT - Graduate Student MITEmail: arkopal at mit dot edu
- Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Riemannian Geometry of Matrix Manifolds for Lagrangian Uncertainty Quantification of Stochastic Fluid Flows
2015-2016
Graduate Student, France - Completed Masters Degree
MS Thesis: Modeling Flow Encountering Abrupt Topography using Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Projection Methods
2015-2017
Sandia National Laboratory
- Lieutenant, USN. Completed MS Thesis: "Time Optimal Multi Waypoint Mission Planning in Dynamic Flow Fields"
- Completed Doctoral Degree
PhD Thesis: Probabilistic Regional Ocean Predictions: Stochastic Fields and Optimal Planning.
2012-2018
Assistant Professor, Department of Computational and Data Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, INDIA - Completed Mechanical Engineers Degree
M.Eng Thesis: Design of Interactive Maps for Ocean Dynamics Data
2018 - Grad. Student, SeagrantEmail: yiouwang at mit dot edu
Undergraduate Students
- Completed Bachelor of Science
BS Thesis: Upwelling Dynamics off Monterey Bay: Heat Flux and Temperature Variability and their Sensitivities
UROP 2009-2010
Graduate Student
Univ. of Rhode Island - Completed Bachelor of Science
BS Thesis: Stochastic Modeling of Flows behind a Square Cylinder with uncertain Reynolds numbers
UROP 2011-2012
Investment Banking Analyst (Financial Institutions Group)
Morgan Stanley - Completed Bachelor of Science
BS Thesis: Technological Review of Deep Ocean Manned Submersibles
2012 - UROP 2011-2012Email: guyomard at mit dot edu
- UROP 2012Email: shavi at mit dot edu
- UROP 2012Email: m_m at mit dot edu
- UROP and SuperUROP
2018-2021
Oxford University, Rhodes Scholar
2017-2021
Grad Student, MIT MechE
- 1st year MIT Student
- 1st year MIT Student
- Completed Bachelor of Science
2020-2021 - UROP with MSEAS
2019-2020
3rd year MIT studentEmail: alanyzhu at mit dot edu
- Email: weiyz@mit.edu
- Completed Bachelor of Science
BS Thesis: Generation of High Quality 2D Meshes for Given Bathymetry
UROP 2012-2014Email: jorgec at mit dot edu - Completed Bachelor of Science
BS Thesis: Time-optimal Path Planning for Sea-surface Vehicles Under the Effects of Strong Currents and Winds
UROP 2013-2014Email: bdhessels at gmail dot com - Completed Bachelor of Science
BS Thesis: Missiles & Misconceptions: Why We Know More About the Dark Side of the Moon than the Depths of the Ocean
2014Email: gcyoung at mit dot edu
- UROP 2013-2014Email: quantum dot wei at gmail dot com
- UROP 2015Room: 5-428Phone: 617-253-7799Email: alisina at mit dot edu
- Completed UROP as Senior '18
- SuperUROP, Senior '16Phone: 617-319-4865Email: lamprost at mit dot edu
- UROP 2016-2017, Senior '18Email: nagai at mit dot edu
- UROP, Jan, 2019Email: ejkiley at mit dot edu
- UROP, Jan, 2019Email: shossain at mit dot edu
Former Post-docs
- 2007-2010
Financial Software Developer
Bloomberg L.P.
New York, NY USA - 2007-2010
Research Scientist
Department of Fisheries & Oceans
St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada - 2012-2013
Assistant Professor
Large Lakes Observatory
University of Minnesota Duluth
2205 E. 5th St.,
Research Laboratory Building 213
Duluth, MN 55812 - 2016-2018 Assistant Professor, Adamas University, West Bengal, India
- 2016-2017
Assistant Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE), University of Michigan
Former Researchers
- 2007-2013
- 2010-2011
Visiting Professors
- Assistant Professor
Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy
Summer 2014
Visitors and Collaborating Students
- Collaborator on Visualization
2007Email: ygg at csail.mit dot edu - Phys. Oc. MIT-WHOI Joint Program
2007-2008Email: hhornick at whoi dot edu - Email: nwoods at whoi dot edu
- Visiting Undergrad. Student
MIT-France
Fall 2008
- Visiting Grad. Student
U. Bologna, Italy
Fall 2008 - Grad. Student
Naval Engineering
LT., US Navy - RSI Scholar 2019
- 2019
Graduate Student
MIT/WHOI Joint Program
- 1st year Grad. Student
- Visiting Student
Spring 2024
ISAE-SUPAERO and ENACEmail: schnitz at mit dot edu - Visiting Student
Spring/Summer 2024
École des MinesEmail: marcoul dot robin at etu dot minesparis dot psl dot eu - Visiting Undergrad. Student
Sweetbriar College
Summer 2021
- RSI Scholar 2019
- Visiting Scholar 2019Email: francesco dot trotta 4 at unibo dot it
- RSI Scholar 2019
- Visiting Graduate Student
MIT-France
Summer 2010Email: touvet at mit dot edu
- Phys. Oc. MIT-WHOI Joint Program
2011Email: kaogden at mit dot edu - Visiting Student, MIT Portugal
- MechE Grad. Student
2012-2013Email: djjang11 at mit dot edu - Room: 5-428Phone: 617-253-7799Email: gabhinav at iitk dot ac dot in
- RSI Scholar 2014
Visiting High School StudentRoom: 5-428Phone: 617-253-7799Email: jordbenj at mit dot edu - RSI Scholar Summer 2015
Visiting Junior High School StudentEmail: ajayjain at mit dot edu - RSI Scholar Summer 2015
Visiting Junior High School StudentEmail: cktang at mit dot edu - RSI Scholar Summer 2016
Visiting Junior High School StudentEmail: kanem at mit dot edu
- Visiting High School Student St. Paul's School Engineering Honors Program 2017
- RSI Scholar Summer 2018
Visiting High School Student - RSI Scholar Summer 2018
Visiting High School Student - RSI Scholar Summer 2018
Visiting High School Student
- Visiting Student, Univ. of PisaEmail: sdeluca at mit dot edu
- Visiting Undergrad. Student (Spring 2018)
Senior, Mines Paristech, FranceEmail: jadec at mit dot edu
Consultants
- IT consultantEmail: baker at deslab.mit dot edu
- IT consultantEmail: aculich at gmail dot com
Former Administrative Assistants
- Administrative Assistant II