Sentences with phrase «by engineering graduate student»

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«Veil was motivated by all this research that was done previously in the security community that said, «Private - browsing modes are leaky — Here are 10 different ways that they leak,»» says Frank Wang, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on the paper.

Founded in the Fall of 2011 by a group of concerned graduate students, the goal of Stand With Science is simple: give graduate and professional students in science and engineering, young researchers, and anyone passionate about supporting science and engineering research the knowledge, tools, and inspiration they need to become advocates for society's investment in the innovations Ð and innovators Ð of tomorrow.

This year, Summit's list of long - term visitors includes Brandon Strellis, an environmental engineering graduate student from the Georgia Institute of Technology studying how aerosols influence how much energy is reflected and absorbed by Greenland's ice — and where those particles are coming from.

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

A 2014 study led by Dr. Wenwei Xu, AgriLife Research corn breeder in Lubbock, and Thomas Marek, AgriLife Research irrigation engineer in Amarillo, and contributed to by Texas Tech University graduate students Karl Brauer and Traci Bland, showed the biggest factor in corn silage quality was water.

A report by the U.S. Power and Energy Engineering Workforce Collaborative estimates (pdf) that almost 1,000 college students graduate each year with an interest in electric - power engineering jobs, and an additional 1,000 students enroll in graduate - level power engineering programs.

In 2002, latest data and the first since 9/11, the number of foreign students enrolled in U.S. science and engineering graduate programs increased by 8 % to a new, all - time high.

In addition to Chiang, the Power Sources paper was co-authored by graduate student Brandon Hopkins, mechanical engineering professor Alexander Slocum, and Kyle Smith of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.

The new analysis, led by former UW civil and environmental engineering graduate student Jordan Toy, compares carbon dioxide emissions and vehicle miles traveled from drone and truck deliveries in 10 different, real - world scenarios in Los Angeles.

Between 42 % and 48 % of University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D. students in science and engineering are depressed, according to data from a report released by the university's Graduate Assembly.

The material — developed by Anette Hosoi, a professor of mechanical engineering and applied mathematics at MIT, and her former graduate student Nadia Cheng, alongside researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self - Organization and Stony Brook University — could be used to build deformable surgical robots.

The number of international scholars working in the United States is sizable: Temporary visa holders accounted for 31 % of graduate students and 54 % of postdocs in U.S. science and engineering programs in 2012, according to figures published in May by the National Science Foundation.

A graduate student and a Twitter software engineer team up to write an article showing that on average, elite labs run by men are not women - friendly

The competition calls for graduate students studying science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to submit proposals describing how they would improve graduate education, whether by overhauling student and faculty training policies, modifying funding structure, bridging connections to professional societies, or changing the culture of graduate school.

De Montjoye is joined on the paper by his thesis advisor, Alex «Sandy» Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Erez Shmueli, a postdoc in Pentland's group; and Samuel Wang, a software engineer at Foursquare who was a graduate student in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science when the research was done.

Like engineering and computer science programs across the nation, Auburn has been hurt by the loss of foreign graduate students — especially Chinese and Indian nationals.

The share of graduate students in computer science and engineering with temporary visas has risen by 66 % in the past half - dozen years, notes the same report, with foreign - born students now making up almost half the graduate population in those fields.

Timbuktu Academy - Mentoring Future Scientists by C. Parks, 6 May 2005 The mentoring methods provided by faculty at the Timbuktu Academy at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana provides science and engineering students, primarily underrepresented minorities, with the support they need to be successful in graduate school.

By contrast, Moitra and his coauthors — Gautam Kamath and Jerry Li, both MIT graduate students in electrical engineering and computer science; Ilias Diakonikolas and Alistair Stewart of USC; and Daniel Kane of USCD — found an algorithm whose running time increases with the number of data dimensions at a much more reasonable rate (or, polynomially, in computer science jargon).

That mystery was subsequently solved by UCSB chemical engineering professor Scott Shell and his graduate student Jacob Monroe, whose computer simulations revealed the relative arrangement of silanol and siloxane groups on the surface also had an influence on water adhesion.

In a Nature Photonics article whose lead author is Stanford graduate student Alexander Piggott, Vuckovic, a professor of electrical engineering, and her team explain a process that could revolutionize computing by making it practical to use light instead of electricity to carry data inside computers.

The new findings are reported in the journal Physical Review Letters in a paper by Ruben Juanes, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, graduate student Amir Pahlavan, research associate Luis Cueto - Felgueroso, and mechanical engineering professor Gareth McKinley.

Colin Palmer, a graduate student at the University of Bristol, arrived at this conclusion by employing his expertise as a turbine engineer to carry out first - of - a kind tests on models of pterosaur wings in a wind tunnel.

By applying an innovative theoretical analysis to observations from a first - of - its - kind experimental setup, LANP graduate student Bob Zheng and postdoctoral research associate Alejandro Manjavacas created a methodology that solar engineers can use to determine the electricity - producing potential for any arrangement of metallic nanoparticles.

Illinois electrical and computer engineering professor Viktor Gruev, right, and graduate student Missael Garcia have developed a camera capable of sensing both color and polarization by mimicking the eye of the mantis shrimp that may improve early cancer detection and provide new understanding of underwater phenomena.

The research was led by Aydogan Ozcan, an associate director of the UCLA California NanoSystems Institute and the Chancellor's Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science; and by postdoctoral scholar Yair Rivenson and graduate student Yibo Zhang, both of UCLA's electrical and computer engineering department.

She's joined by Merav Parter, a postdoc in her group, and Cameron Musco, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science.

«By investigating these limits and characterizing them, you can gain quite a bit of insight about the performance of these schemes and how you can leverage tools from other fields, like coding theory and so forth, for designing and understanding security systems,» says Flavio du Pin Calmon, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science and first author on all three Allerton papers.

Now a team of researchers led by Yinzhi Cao, assistant professor computer science and engineering at Lehigh University (Bethlehem, PA)-- and including graduate student Song Li, also of Lehigh University and Erik Wijmans of Washington University in St. Lous — has developed the first cross-browser fingerprinting technique to use machine - level features to identify users.

The work was co-authored by Stanford biology Professors Gretchen Daily, Paul Ehrlich and Elizabeth Hadly; biology graduate student Chase Mendenhall; Nicolas Chaumont, a software engineer at the Natural Capital Project; and Randi Figueroa Sandi, a field assistant in Copal de Agua Buena in Costa Rica.

The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications by graduate students Chun - Teh Chen and Chern Chuang, professor of civil and environmental engineering Markus Buehler, and three others.

He's joined on the paper by several other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.

The findings are described in a report appearing this week in the journal Nature Materials, by Jessica Swallow, an MIT graduate student; Krystyn Van Vliet, the Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Professor of Materials Science and Engineering; Harry Tuller, professor of materials science and engineering; and five others.

In the new research, his team used «protein engineering» to attach 12 copies of a small protein to a cube - shaped molecular cage, which was designed by a former graduate student of Yeates».

Class participants were organized into competing teams, each of which was mentored and led by a graduate student who provided guidance on how to best approach an engineering design project.

Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»

Doctoral candidate Dara Fisher — an engineer by training — found her calling in education when, as a graduate student studying technology and policy, she was invited to help create the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), a new institution established in 2012 in collaboration with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Over a thousand high school, undergraduate and graduate students are served each year by the Center's programs, which include Upward Bound, Upward Bound Math / Science, two College Prep Centers located in the Rochester City School District, the Ronald E. McNair Post-baccalaureate Achievement Program and the Xerox Scholars program for engineering students.

After ten years at IBM Corporation, Liz went to North Carolina State University's College of Engineering and for the past fifteen years at the College has led a number of projects funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Education aimed at increasing the engineering and technological literacy of students from prekindergarten through graduate school.

The method has been devised by an engineering professor along with two post graduate students at Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University and have stated they are already in discussion with a few manufacturers.

Ascent Independent, engineered by Goal Structured Solutions, Inc. (GS2), is a non-cosigned loan that gives domestic undergraduate and graduate students at eligible schools more opportunities to qualify for a loan, in their own name.

It will also provide an important educational environment for raising the next generation of renewable energy scientists, he adds, by including graduate students and postdoctoral fellows from a wide range of science and engineering fields.

The Graduate STEM Fellows in K - 12 Education (GK - 12) Program, managed by NSF's Division of Graduate Education (DGE), provides funding to graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to acquire additional skills that will broadly prepare them for professional and scientific careers in the 21st Graduate STEM Fellows in K - 12 Education (GK - 12) Program, managed by NSF's Division of Graduate Education (DGE), provides funding to graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to acquire additional skills that will broadly prepare them for professional and scientific careers in the 21st Graduate Education (DGE), provides funding to graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to acquire additional skills that will broadly prepare them for professional and scientific careers in the 21st graduate students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to acquire additional skills that will broadly prepare them for professional and scientific careers in the 21st century.

Climeworks was started by Gebald and Jan Wurzbacher, both engineers, who got the idea back in 2008 as graduate student when they first observed a greenhouse farm actually ordering tanks of CO2 to be trucked in and used for agricultural production.

Business, engineering, and technology graduate students are also recruited heavily by consulting firms on campuses.

Can be used by graduating college students, teachers, software engineers, and many more.

There are also student programmes launched by the IPA; for example, AdMission provides a ten week paid placement for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) and BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) graduates and final year students.

Teacher — Duties & Responsibilities Teach college and graduate level mathematics from introductory courses to advanced Ph.D. level courses Design and implement dynamic, engaging materials to challenge and inspire students Implement multiple teaching techniques to reach audiences of varying learning styles and abilities Responsible for one on one instruction and lecture - based learning for classes as large as 50 students Experienced in both youth and adult education instruction techniques Serve as academic and Ph.D. advisor offering personal and professional guidance to students Coordinate student schedules, activities, and departmental course offerings Build and strengthen professional relationships with faculty, staff, and industry leaders Represent the university with poise, integrity, and positivity Author and publish multiple text books and papers in applied mathematics Research finite element analysis in mathematical problems in engineering and applied sciences, actuarial and financial mathematics, computer simulations of engineering problems, and other specialized mathematics Speak at multiple colleges, universities, and industry gatherings (list available upon request) Serve as advisor and editor of papers authored by students and fellow professors Dedicated to the development of students and continued professional growth