MIT Materials Research Laboratory announces 11 recipients of Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) internships.
Maria E. Aglietti | Materials Research Laboratory
June 29, 2021
The MIT Materials Research Laboratory [MRL] has selected 11 top-ranking undergraduates to conduct graduate-level research. They were chosen from among 173 applicants. This years program will be held remotely from June 9 to Aug. 13, 2021. The interns have selected their own projects from MIT faculty presentations given during the first few days of the program.
This year’s Summer Scholars, their home institutions and the projects they will be working on are:
| Summer Intern | Home Institution | Faculty/Advisor | Project |
| Grace Anderson |
Florida Gulf Coast University |
Markus Buehler | Predicting mechanical stress and deformation in irregular architected materials using graph neural networks |
| Tao Cai | University of Michigan | Karl Berggren, Tony Zhou | Magnetic field activated superconducting electronics |
| Nicholas Casetti |
Purdue University |
Rodrigo Freitas | Atomistic simulations of materials properties: high-entropy alloys |
| Joshua Chen |
University of Pennsylvania |
Juejun Hu | On-chip spectrometers for space applications |
| Jonathan Lee |
University of Michigan |
Fikile Brushett | Engineering membranes for next-generation redox flow batteries |
| Karina Martinez-Reyes |
Interamerican University of Puerto Rico – Bayamon |
Anu Agarwal | VR simulation for new technology: optoelectronic tool training via an edX course |
| Matthew Moy |
University of California, Berkeley |
James LeBeau | Directly quantifying the migration of ions through battery materials |
| Baylie Phillips |
Montana Technological University |
Zachary Cordero | Additive manufacturing of net-shaped single crystal turbine blades |
| Mariela Rodriguez-Otero |
University of Puerto Rico |
Ariel Furst | Self-assembling nanomaterials for protection of biotherapeutics |
| Saeed Saifaee |
Pennsylvania State University |
Brian Wardle | Next-Generation Artificial Intelligence (AI) Feature Segmentation of Nanoengineered Hierarchical Aerospace Structural Composites |
| Madalyn Scherwinski |
University of Mary |
Michael Short | Picosecond, ultrasonic, thermo-elastic inference of hydride moderator material properties for micro-nuclear reactors |
Summer Scholars are supported in part by the National Science Foundation’s Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program, which is administered by the MIT Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
The program, started in 1983, has brought hundreds of the best science and engineering undergraduates in the country to MIT for graduate-level materials research.