
Graduate Student Fellowships 2024 - 2025
The O'Donnell Institute Graduate Student Fellowships support doctoral students pursuing research in advanced AI/ML technologies, digital twins, and quantum information sciences. The research projects for the 2024 - 2025 academic year were:
- Algorithms for Reduced-Order Modeling and Data Assimilation with Applications to Digital Twins of Complex Flow System.
Student: Mark de Vernon (Mathematics), Advisor: Tom Hagstrom.
- Toward World Model-Based Learning: A New Paradigm for Generalized Artificial Intelligence.
Student: Eli Laird (Computer Science and Guildhall), Advisor: Corey Clark.
- A Self-Supervised Deep Learning Approach for Radar Interferometry Denoising.
Student: Kang Liang (Earth Sciences), Advisor: Zhong Lu.
- Quantum Reinforcement Learning in Power Distribution System Operations.
Student: Ding Lin (Electrical and Computer Engineering), Advisor: Jianhui Wang. - Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Discovering Aging Biomarkers in Human Skeletal Muscles.
Student: Yinglu Tang (Biology), Advisor: Zhihao Wu.