2025 Trailblazers Symposium
October 7, 2025
Reception 11:30 am
Symposium 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Annenberg 105
Manuel Ayala, Ph.D. candidate, Johns Hopkins University
Qianying Cao, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Brown University
Camille Hankel, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
Eugene (Jane) Park, Ph.D. candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Pickard, Postdoctoral Researcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chengshuai Shi, Postdoctoral Fellow, Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI)
Yapeng Su, Postdoctoral Fellow, Fred Hutch
October 8, 2025
10:00 am – 11:00 am
Mechanical and Civil Engineering: Trailblazer Seminar
Gates-Thomas 135
"Bridging Air and Sea: Physics-Inspired Models for Wind-Wave Interactions"
Manuel Ayala, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
EE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Moore B270
Intelligent Decision-Making: Towards Higher Efficiency and Broader Applicability
Chengshuai Shi, Electrical Engineering, Princeton Language and Intelligence (PLI)
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Aerospace Department - EAS Trailblazers Seminar
Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall)
Understanding Thermo-Chemo-Mechanical Failure in Hypersonic Flight through Large-Scale Simulation
Daniel Pickard, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
APhMS: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Noyes 147 (J. Holmes Sturdivant Lecture Hall)
Seeing and Shaping Quantum Matter at the Atomic Scale
Jane Park, PhD candidate, Materials Science and Engineering, MIT
MedE: EAS Trailblazers Department Seminar
Moore B270
Systems Immunoengineering of Living Therapeutics for Solid Tumors: From Biomanufacturing to Tumor Microenvironment Adaptation
Yapeng Su, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
CMS Trailblazer Symposium - Qianying Cao
Annenberg 105
Research Seminar Characterization and Inverse Design of Stochastic Mechanical Metamaterials Using Neural Operators
Qianying Cao, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Applied Mathematics, Brown University
ESE Trailblazer Symposium
South Mudd 365
Sensitivity of the ocean circulation to the rate of atmospheric CO2 increase
Camille Hankel, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington