Spotlights
Adrienne Propp
PhD candidate
I never planned to become a mathematician. I liked math growing up because it made sense to me – …
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Sherrie Wang
PhD ’21
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I grew up assuming engineering was something I could do largely because of my grandmother …
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Christopher Hoyt
PhD
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I was born in Salinas, and in those first few weeks I had episodes when I stopped breathing …
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Julia Olivieri
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I never used to think of myself as someone who’d study computer science, and I didn’t think of …
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Christiane Adcock
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I became an engineer to fight climate change …
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Abeynaya Gnanasekaran
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I find my PhD work in linear algebra exciting because many problems in many different fields boil …
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Alexander Ioannidis
MS ’18, Management Science & Engineering, PhD ’18
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering, Management Science and Engineering
I’ve always been interested in human health as an engineering problem …
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Madeleine Udell
Assistant Professor, Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University
PhD ’15
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I’ve always been interested in how you can use mathematics to model and solve real-world problems …
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Julia Gillespie
Director of Finance & Operations
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I’m the Director of Finance and Operations (DFO) for the Institute for Computational & …
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Kathryn Hymes
MS ’13, MA ’21 Linguistics
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
#IAmAnEngineer: I’ve always had an appetite for both math and language, but for years I struggled …
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Dangna Li
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I hope to share my experience with younger students through mentoring this year. I just joined a …
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Danielle Maddix
4th-year PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I want to share my love of mathematics with others. Math is at the core of engineering and doesn’t …
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AJ Friend
7th year PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I am teaching the basics of mathematical optimization. Optimization is useful in the real world any …
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Lan Huong Nguyen
3rd-year PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
You don’t have to have any programming experience to take this class. The goal is to familiarize …
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Eileen Martin
PhD Candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
A lot of the work I do is motivated by geoscience examples …
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Gabriel Maher
PhD Candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I am working with the Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Lab …
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