4 current MIT alumni — Udochukwu Eze ’22, William Rodriguez ’18, Yotaro Sueoka ’20, and Sreya Vangara ’22 — and Harvard-MIT Well being Sciences and Know-how doctoral scholar Jacob White have been chosen for the inaugural class of the Quad Fellowship. The brand new fellowship is a joint initiative of the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and america, and is run by Schmidt Futures.
The Quad Fellowship goals to construct the subsequent technology of STEM leaders by recognizing distinctive people who intend to pursue STEM graduate research in america. Twenty-five fellows from every of the 4 nations had been chosen. The 100 fellows will every obtain a $50,000 award for educational bills plus alternatives for cross-cultural alternate, cohort-wide journeys, mentorship, and interdisciplinary engagement. This system promotes the usage of science and expertise for social good.
The Quad Fellowship is the primary multinational scholarship and academic program particularly supporting college students in STEM. College students excited by studying extra concerning the Quad Fellowship ought to contact Affiliate Dean Kim Benard within the Distinguished Fellowships Workplace in Profession Advising and Skilled Growth.
Udochukwu “Udo” Eze ’22 (United States)
Udochukwu “Udo” Eze is a supplies scientist who works on the intersection of energy technology, sustainability, and power entry. Since graduating from MIT in Could 2022 with a BS in supplies science and engineering and a minor in physics, he has been working as an electrochemical supplies researcher at Argonne Nationwide Laboratory, designing solid-state electrolytes for improved interfaces in solid-state batteries. Since highschool, Eze has labored on a number of renewable power applied sciences together with perovskite photo voltaic cells, plasma-facing parts in fusion reactors, and carbon components for fast-charging batteries. He has many hobbies, together with guitar, fight sports activities (primarily kickboxing and jiu-jitsu), and programming. Eze is initially from Georgia and can pursue his PhD in supplies science and engineering at Georgia Tech in fall 2023.
William Rodriguez Jimenez ’18, MEng ’19 (United States)
William Rodriguez Jimenez graduated from MIT in June 2018 with a BS in laptop science and a minor in economics. He acquired his grasp of engineering diploma in electrical engineering and laptop science in June 2019. Rodriguez Jimenez grew to become enthusiastic about power after witnessing blackouts in his native Puerto Rico following Hurricane María. He has introduced his analysis on electrical car sensible charging as a panelist for the 2021 European Power Analysis convention and has labored at Tesla, the United Nations, and Apple. He has lived in america, Spain, and Brazil and speaks English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. Rodriguez Jimenez will apply his graduate faculty work towards the electrification of transportation and improvement of resilient microgrids.
Yotaro Sueoka ’20 (Japan)
Hailing from Japan, Yotaro Sueoka graduated from MIT in Could 2020 with double majors in organic engineering and mind and cognitive sciences together with minors in physics and laptop science. Throughout his research at MIT, Sueoka investigated the mechanism of language comprehension within the mind. He’s at present a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Johns Hopkins College. Enthralled by the intricacy of cognition, he combines electrophysiology and digital actuality to grasp how the hippocampus varieties episodic reminiscence and directs spatial navigation. He additionally serves as a director for XPLANE, a nonprofit normal integrated affiliation that aids college students who hope to pursue graduate research outdoors of Japan.
Sreya Vangara ’22 (United States)
Sreya Vangara graduated from MIT in Could 2022 with a double main in mechanical engineering and in electrical engineering and laptop science. She is at present pursuing a grasp’s in world affairs as a Schwarzman Scholar in China. Vangara is enthusiastic about low-carbon power and worldwide expertise governance. Impressed by her Indian grandmother’s lack of electrical energy, Vangara hopes to develop lower-cost nuclear fusion units for constant and clear energy in rising nations. Initially from Maryland, she shall be pursuing her PhD in mechanical engineering at Stanford College. Exterior of teachers, Vangara is a nationally ranked collegiate shooter, an advocate for collegiate incapacity rights, and a crime-drama fanatic.
Jacob White (Australia)
Jacob White is a biomedical engineer and neuroscientist enthusiastic about growing engineering-level fashions of advanced neural programs. After graduating from the College of Queensland in Australia with a bachelor of engineering (honors), he moved to Boston to pursue a PhD in medical engineering and medical physics as a part of the Harvard-MIT Program in Well being Sciences and Know-how. He at present research how songbirds grasp songs as a mannequin for the way the mind learns and executes advanced behaviors. White hopes to use these insights to achieve a greater understanding of how these programs fail in illnesses like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s.
