CURJ

  • Interview with Professor Eric Mazumdar

    Interviewer: Hannah X. Chen Could you start by sharing a brief overview of your research and its applications? I work at the intersection of machine learning and economics, and the motivation is really thinking about how we use machine learning algorithms in the real world, and what happens when we actually use them. In the…

  • Interview with Professor Frances Arnold

    Interviewer: Maggie Sui Biography Professor Frances Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry at Caltech and a 2018 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Her research focuses on using directed evolution to create new enzyme function. Prof. Arnold received a B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and received a…

  • Evolution of Major Element Chemistry in Protoplanetary Disks and Its Connection to Planetesimal Growth

    Predicting the habitability of planets is closely tied to the amount of water, but understanding how water was delivered to the Earth is not well understood. Currently, we know there is a connection between the bulk composition of Earth, essentially the Earth’s major composing elements, and the total water content. A key component in explaining…

  • Dimensionality Reduction as Evidence of a New Regime of Galaxies

    Currently, researchers believe that there are only two regimes of galaxies, delineated by whether they produce stars or not. However, using a novel machine learning technique to estimate the temperatures of galaxies, we find evidence of a distinct third regime of galaxy evolution. To demonstrate this, we studied roughly 650,000 galaxies in the publicly available…

  • Analysis of Composite Columns: Granular Material In-Fill Inside a Confining Annulus

    Affordable housing is becoming a rapidly growing problem in all the major residential hubs worldwide. This problem has three major contributing factors: high population growth, limited supply of raw materials, and high transportation costs. This has led to housing becoming a luxury rather than a basic human need. Our study aims to analyse structural columns…