Author: Catherine Zheng Mentors: Joshua Cho, Matthew Anderson Editor: Jadelynn Dao Abstract This project’s overarching goal is to build a scaled-down version of an Autonomous Flying Ambulance  (AFA), an emergency vehicle designed to carry patients and medics to nearby healthcare facilities. In the current 4th iteration of the AFA, researchers are developing a new fault-control algorithm that…

Interviewer: Arushi Gupta Trivia Could you give an overview of the research you and your lab work on, and its real-world applications? My research focuses on wall-bounded turbulence, which refers to the chaotic and disorganized movement of fluids such as air, water, or oil when influenced by the presence of a solid surface. I employ…

Interviewer: Sarah Liaw Trivia Could you give an overview of your research and its potential applications? My research has evolved since I arrived at Caltech. Before coming to Caltech, my Ph.D. was in PDE theory and analysis, focusing particularly on long-time asymptotics. This involves predicting the patterns and behaviors observed in various systems, such as…

High Altitude Balloons (HABs) have long been used to perform atmospheric measurements and Earth observations. With the growing availability of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware and open-source software, HABs have been increasing in popularity to rapidly prototype and test concepts in near-space conditions. In this case, near-space conditions refer to the conditions seen at the lowest…

Interviewer: Maggie Sui Trivia Can you provide an overview of your research? I am a sensory physiologist. My lab studies the synaptic and circuit mechanisms of how the brain makes internal representations of the world around us, and we investigate this in the context of chemical information in insects, mostly in the fruit fly. Chemical…