Department(s):
Graduate & Professional StudiesAnnouncing GRIE Finalists
From February 9-15, more than 140 Master’s and PhD candidates Fellows shared their innovative and purposeful research with the WPI community at the 2022 Graduate Research Innovation Exchange (GRIE). The following students will advance to the finals on April 5, 2022. Click here for details on the GRIE finals.
Data Science, Cybersecurity, and Computer Science
Walter Gerych
Kevin Hickey
Hamid Mansoor
Shruti Mahajan
Geri Dimas
Trusting Inekwe
Wafaa Almuhammadi
Christopher Micek
Abhishek Shivdeo
Ethan Prihar
Jidapa Thadajarassiri
Wen Ge
Chemical Engineering and Material Sciences
Fatou Diop
Jack Grubbs
David Kenney
Alexander McMahon
Patryck Michalik
Sydney Packard
Yi Jie Wu
Life Sciences and Bioengineering
Christina Campagna
Andre Figueroa Milla
Shang Gao
Logan Gaudette
Athenia Jones
Caroline Muirhead
Julia Ryan
Huaming Sun
Robotics Engineering, Cyberphysical Systems, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joshua Bloom
Ravi Kirschner
Xihan Ma
Tess Meier
Yichuan Tang
Tuna Tufan
He Wang
Aerospace Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Fire-Protection Engineering
Munevver Elif Asar Sarikaya
Alexander Castaneda
Jihan El Ouaragli
Meenakshi Kodali
Theresa Larson
Zahra Noori
Nathaniel O'Connor
Abhinandan Singh
Luqing Zhu
Jonathan Zimak
Due to the smaller number of students competing in the Mathematical, Physical, and Chemical Sciences and the Business and Social Sciences categories, the following graduate students were selected for awards in lieu of competing in the GRIE Finals:
Business and Social Science
1st Place ($500) Vy Ngo
2nd Place ($200) Luis Kleinknecht
Mathematical, Chemical, and Physical Sciences
1st Place ($500) Elisa Negrini
2nd Place ($200) Teagan Bate
2nd Place ($200) Debanik Das
Additionally, we would like to congratulate the following People’s Choice Winners
Zahra Noori
Nathaniel O'Connor
Ashley Lockwood
Guillermo Carlo Nunez
Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all who helped organize and support the event including Rory Flinn, Deborah Baron, Rachel Roy, and 100+ judges including lead judges, Bengisu Tulu, Christopher Larson, Danielle Cote, Aaron Deskins, Catherine Whittington, Jie Fu, Zhi Li, Jing Xiao, Eric Young, Andrew Teixeira, Nikhil Karanjgaokar, Yihao Zheng, Randy Paffenroth, Elke Rundensteiner, Albert Simeoni, Jagan Srinivasan, Craig Wills, and Mike Demetriou.
Thank you to all judges:
Terri Camesano
Lin Cheng
Danielle Cote
Aaron Deskins
Michael Gennert
Hektor Kashuri
Theodore Lynch
Zhu Mao
Randy Paffenroth
Michelle Scerbin
Alexander Wyglinski
Yihao Zheng
Rui Wang
Laila Abu-Lail
Navneet Anand
Taimoor Afzal
Engin Ayturk
Christina Bailey-Hytholt
Adam Barowy
Deepthi Bathina
Mehul Bhatia
Kristen Billiar
Avery Brown
Nancy Burnham
Allen Caswell
Victor Champagne
Kenneth Chenis
Rick Cleary
Jeannine Coburn
Aliki Collins
Paul Cotnoir
Phil Cyr
George Dainis
John-Michael Davis
Joseph Duffy
Alireza Ebadi
Howard Eglowstein
Carol Egner
Mohamed Eltabakh
Fatemeh Emdad
Natalie Farny
Siavash Farzan
Soroush Farzin
Bill Gasko
Torumoy Ghoshal
Paul Giammalvo
Ari Giaya
Aswin Gnanaskandan
Jeffrey Goldmeer
Tian Guo
Wan Kyun Ham
Anthony Hamins
April Hammond-Berkol
Mike Horan
Neil Heffernan
Kevin Heins
Michael Henry
Elizabeth Hirst
Jagannath Jayachandran
Sharon Johnson
Snehalata Kadam
George Kaminski
Hektor Kashuri
Nikolaos Kazantzis
Monica Kolb
Willem Kools
Kyumin Lee
Yanhua Li
Elizabeth Lingo
Xiaozhong Liu
Zijian Ma
Zachary Magnone
Jim Makuc
Oren Mangoubi
Francis McConville
Solomon Mensah
Brajendra Mishra
Wayne Moore
Steven Munevar
Krishna Narayan
Inna Nechipurenko
Ben Nephew
Carissa Olsen
John Orr
Lori Ostapowicz-Critz
Pavel Ozhogin
Dessislava Pachamanova
Buddika Peiris
Doug Petkie
Baijie Qiao
Charles Recchia
Farnoush Reshadi
Lou Roberts
Marsha Rolle
Jessica Rosewitz
Carolina Ruiz
Jim Ryan
Sara Saberi
Brigitte Servatius
Syed Shazli
Scarlet Shell
Bhawna Shiwani
Craig Shue
Scott Shurr
David Sirag
Richard Sisson
Gbetonmasse Somasse
Joe Stabile
Kathleen Swana
Shubbhi Taneja
Earl Taylor
Charles Theurer
Walter Towner
Karen Troy
Michael Twardowski
James Urban
John Vestri
Caitlin Walde
Robert Warburton
Qi Wen
Michael White
Jacob Whitehill
Vance Wilson
Kris Wobbe
Kun-Ta Wu
Reza Zekavat
Yu Zhong
Umair Zia
Frank Zou
Devashish Mund