Below are details on recent Fellowship recipients, including names, class year at time of Fellowship award, and proposal titles.

Fellowship Recipient List

2024 Recipients:

• Etash Bhat ’27 + Mayu Nakano ‘ 27: Harnessing Glucose-Conjugated Lipid Nanoparticles and Rab 11 Enhancement for Targeted Therapy in Huntington’s Disease
• Gosha Geogdzhayev ’24: Using Generative Artificial Intelligence to Improve the Representation of Climate Extremes in an Emulator Model
• Kyle Guerre ’25: Development of High-Altitude Balloon Autonomous Navigation System (HABANS)
• Tae Wook (Terry) Kim ’25: Inequality in Coffee Supply Chain
• Cindy Xie ’24: The Poetics of Place in Asian Diasporic Storytelling

• Ryan Yang ’24: A Study in Ink: The Intersection of Calligraphy and Street Art in East Asia

2023 Recipients:

• Lily Chen ’24: Evaluating Gender Bias in Large Language Model (LLM) Machine Translation
• Amelia Dogan ’23: Native Land Dispossession from Harvard’s Participation in the 1787 Massachusetts Land Lottery
• Rihn Hong ’23: Characterizing and Sharing a New Paradigm of Fire + Flow Spinning Fans
• Shicheng Hu ’24: Electrophilic Cyanation of Carbon- and Nitrogen-Based Nucleophiles by PIII/PV=O Catalyzed Deoxygenation of Cyanate Anions
• Sabrina Liu ’24, Abigail Schipper ’24 + Charles Sloane ’25: The LifeSaveHer Project: Tackling Gender Disparities in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes
• Thao Nguyen ’23: Rapid Immunoisolation of Cis- AND Trans- Golgi Subcompartments to Understand Golgi Composition + Trafficking

2022 Recipients:

• Joseph Bonavia ’22:  A Device for the Acceleration and Imaging of Soft Projectiles at Moderate Speeds 
• Amelia Dogan ’23: Understanding Implications of Indigenous Data Sovereignty for Environmental Data
• Dana Haig ’22 + Karenna Groff ’22: Iron Deficiency Anemia (IDeA) Diagnostic: Maternal Mortality Intervention
• Robert Koirala ’22: Metalsmithing in Nepal
• Zoe Levitt ’22: Healing Through Song
• Gabrielle Kaili-May Liu ’23: A Robot Rights Curriculum Informed by Western and Eastern Principles

2021 Recipients:

• Caroline Bao ’23: A Robust and Reliable Deep Learning-based Mouse Behavioral Analysis Pipeline
• Savva Morozov ’22: Iterative Model Learning and Generalization
• Vaishnavi Phadnis ’22: Defining the Mechanistic Contributions of MMD to Ferroptosis Sensitivity

2020 Recipients:

• Nicholas Bonaker ’21: Nomon: A Single Switch Interface for Assistive Technology
• Fiona Chen ’21: A Study of Loneliness and its Effects on Academic Performance
• Caleb Amanfu ’21, Jacqueline Chen ’21, DongNyung Lee ’21, John Rao ’21 and, Yi Yang ’21: Architectural Prescriptions for Fast Adaption During a Pandemic
• Anthony Cheng ’20: From the lab to impact: analyzing the past, present, and future of hard-tech in decarbonizing the Industrial Sector
• Emmanuel Havugimana ’20: Miniaturization of tractors for low-income farmers
• Amy Jin ’21: Simple and precise at-home visual field tests for tracking eye disease progression
• Seung-Hyun (Brianna) Ko ’21: Cross-Species Translational Modelling of Tuberculosis to Predict Vaccine Potency in Humans
• Grace Kuffner ’20: Determining Best Practice Recommendations for Boston-Area Medical Professionals Treating LGBTQ+ Youth of Color
• Audace Nakeshimana ’20: Analysis and Mitigation of Machine Learning Bias in Global Health – A Case Study of Medical Imaging Diagnostics in Rwanda
• Zachary Pitcher ’20 and Catherine Zeng ’20: 3D Volumetric Display: Helical Swept-Volume Display
• Sam Seaman ’21: Living Structures: Developing a Methodology for Evaluating Structural Performance in Living Wood
• Natasha Stamler ’22: Earth Observation Applications for Resiliency: Geospatial Modeling of Urban Climate Vulnerability

2019 Recipients:

• Julius Baldauf-Lenschen ’19: On the Moduli Space of Pseudoholomorphic Curves in Twistor Space
• Meghan Davis ’21: Cardiovascular Disparities in Urban Black Women: A Comparative Analysis of Neighborhood Needs 
• Desmond Edwards ’22: Developing an Inducible Promoter System for use in Rickettsia parkeri
• Codrin Oneci ’21: Creating a Physical AI Ecosystem for UAV Applications
• William “Bill” Pinney ’20: Engineering Camelid-derived Single Domain Antibody Fragments to Fight Malaria 
• Jiajing “Judy” Wang ’19: Open Sesame: Redesigning the Vaginal Speculum 

2018 Recipients:

• Abigail Anderson ’18: Helping Hands and HUD: The Effectiveness of Housing Assistance programs in the Construction Process
• Isaiah Borne ’18: Impact of New Orleans Police Force Demographics on Mass Incarceration and Public Trust of Police
• Anna Heidt ’19: Class of 1982 Sequentiary: Bringing 7^th Century Chant to the Modern Music World
• Jesse Hinricher ’19: Thermogalvanic Flow Cell: Prototype Development and Optimization 
• Synthia Odu ’18: Habeas Corpus (Present the Body)
• Ankita Reddy ’19: From Bench to Bedside: Bridging the Divide in Implementing Rapid Diagnostic Devices in India

2017 Recipients:

• Emma Costa ’18: Nanoscale­level Reconstruction of Entire Zebrafish Connectome
• Margaret Manto ’19: Will terrestrial microbial communities resort to dormancy in response to climate change?
• Jihyun Gia Min ’18 & So Yeon Min ’18: Deep Learning Based Mobile Application for Personalized Prevention of Food and Alcohol Overconsumption
• Paige Omura ’17: Matrix Effects on the Molecular and Global Scales: The Historical Narrative of Ethnobotany and its Role in Modern Medicine
• Ian Reynolds ’17: Hatching Robin: a wearable device enabling human echolocation as a mobility aid for blind people
• Steven Troung ’20: Genetic-Based Risk Assessment of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Vietnamese Populations

2016 Recipients:

• Alexandra (Sasha) Churikova ’16: Chilean Physicists Tournament 2016: Developing a new era of STEM outreach in Chile
• Michelle Suh ’16: Querying my Korean Heritage: the Sillok Project
• Nicole Zatorski ’18: Improving red blood cell storage practices for use in emergency medicine

2015 Recipients:

• Elliot Akama-Garren ’15: Adoptive T cell therapy for cancer using CRISPR/Cas 9 
• Taibo Li ’15: Modelling patient status in intensive care units using real-time hidden Markov model
• Whitney Loo ’15: Nanoparticle based conformal coating for islet encapsulation
• Mei Zuo ’16: Does it get better?: Imposter syndrome

2014 Recipients:

• Abubakar Abid ’15: Low-cost Airflow Sensor for Tracheostomy Tubes 
• Rachel Dias Carlson ’14: Establishing Quantitative Parameters for the Correlation between Skin Temperature and Physiological Status in the Equine Leg
• Craig Cheney ’14: Designing a Rapid Printed Circuit Board (PCB) Prototyping Machine to Facilitate a Continuous and Efficient Workflow
• Monica Neugebauer ’14: Ascorbate Peroxidase for the Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide Signaling in Neurons
• Catherine Yunis ’16: Using Clothing to Teach Neuroscience: Neural Fashion

2013 Recipients:

• Meme Tran ’13: Improving Health Care Referral Systems in Thai Binh Province in Vietnam
• Daniel Zhang ’15: Developing a High-Throughput Diagnostic for Prostate Cancer Using Mobile Zinc as a Biomarker

2012 Recipients:

• Mark Kalinich ’13: Knocking Down Paralysis: Using siRNA Therapeutics to Transiently Downregulate PTEN and SOCS3 for Neural Regrowth
• Michele Pratusevich ’13: DJDancer: Bringing Gestures to Live Music Composition and Performance
• John Romanishin ’12: Dynamically Reconfigurable Flywheel Acuated Magnetic Cube Robotics
• Graham Van Schaik ’12: Science Captivates Minds: Science for South Carolina’s Students
• Sheila Xu ’14: An Interpretivistic Approach to the Deaf Economy

2011 Recipients:

• Archit Bhise ’13: AidSource: Establishing a Basic Architecture for Disaster Triage 
• Alorah Harman ’11: Science and the Soul of Siberia: Characterizing International Collaboration through a Metagenomic Analysis Project at Lake Baikal
• Ian McKay ’12: Oscillation-Based Balloon Anemometer for Wind Prospecting
• John J. Wang ’14: CEO Value & Compensation: Are Executives Overpaid?
• Sajith Wickramasekara ’13: A Plug and Play Architecture for Highly Distributed Scientific Computation

2010 Recipients:

• Matthew Lord ’10: Walt Whitman in Nineteenth-Century Cultural History
• M. Paul Medlock-Walton ’10: Clutter: Connecting Scratch Projects to Teach Software Engineering
• Hiroshi Mendoza ’10: Flexible Plastic Luminescent Solar Concentrator
• Peter Reinhardt ’12: Online, Collaborative Latex Environment: Modernizing Technical Documentation
• Yang Yang ’11: Dancing to Your Own Music

2009 Recipients:

• Dhaval Adjodah ’11: Creating Environmental Indices from Population Models of Ecosystems using Methods from Nonlinear Dynamics & Chaos Theory for Improved Environmental Conservation & Policy Making
• Katie Everett ’12: A Sexual-Network-Based Model Evaluating the Effect of Human Papillomavirus Vaccination on Infection Prevalence in an Adolescent Population
• Raqeebul I. Ketan ’11: iSchool for a Better Learning Experience
• S. Cory Li ’12: Automated Directed Evolution: A New Tool for Rapid Optimization of Genetic Circuitry
• Harrison O’Hanley ’11: Designing a Thermoelectric Generator to Provide Light to Developing World Residences
• Tina Srivastava ’09: Multi-Media Report, Revealing the Link between the East and the West

2008 Recipients:

• Shane W. Colton ’08: Realization of a Scale Electric Vehicle with Capacitive Regeneration and Launch Assist
• Emilienne Repak ’09: The Pied Piper of the Peripheral Nervous System: Comparing Guidance Cues for Directing Neuronal Growth
• David Reshef ’08: Computational and Visual Approach to Understanding the Vibrio Cholera Epidemic
• Alec Resnick ’08 & Sarah Ackley ’08: Design and Construction of a Low-Cost, Educational NMR Kit
• Jessica Schirmer ’08: ‘The Words to Say It’: Narratives of Class Transition
• Lynne Tye ’10: The Role of Dopamine in the Formation of Emotional Memories

2007 Recipients:

• Raffaela Wakeman ’08: Democratization in the Arab World: Jordan as a Case Study
• Richard Lin ’09: Establishment of a Mobile Clinic in Tanzania
• Anna Konotchick ’07: Documenting Communal Spaces in the Shantytowns of Buenos Aires: A Tool for Better Public Housing
• Manuel Rivas ’08: Integrating Genomic Data to Interpret Human Traits
• Serenus Hua ’07: Traditional Chinese Treatments for Diabetes From a Modern Medical Perspective

2006 Recipients:

• Mikel Graham ’08: Survey of Ice Thickness Using an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
• Minyoung Jang ’08: Health Care Reform in Bolivia
• Uta Maeda ’07: Toward More Customized Special Education Programs: Identifying Neural Corrrelates of Mathematical Learning Disabilities in Elementary School Children
• Nadezhda Belova ’06: Cultural Consequences of the Last Russian-Jewish Diaspora

2005 Recipients:

• Devanie DuFour ’08: Utilizing a Robotic Arm to teach Autistic Children the Movements Associated with Social Interactions
• Peter Lai ’08: Clear Plane Holographic Projection using PDLC Technology
• Nancy Hua ’07: When a Girl is Born in China
• Anna Bruchez ’06: Hepatitis B Virus: Polymerase Point Mutants to Study the Interplay Between Replication Efficiency and Viral Persistence
• Masha Kamenetska ’05: Behind the Splash of Color: the Underlying Causes of the Orange Revolution in Ukraine

2004 Recipients:

• Prachi Jain ’05: Relationship Between Kathak and Flamenco Dancing
• Morgan Sonderegger ’04: On ne parle que notre lange’: The Rise of French as the Lingua Franca of Early Modern Europe
• Monique Johnson ’04: Campus Planning: Connecting Cambridge and Cambridge
• Carl Engel ’07: The Application and Study of the Magnus Effect on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

2003 Recipients:

• Bob Yin ’04: Growing Up in the Shadows of the Cultural Revolution: Short Fiction Inspired By Personal Histories
• Maia Mahoney ’05: A Biological Register: The Application of Site-Specific Recombination for the Construction of Biological Memory
• Debora Lui ’03: Examining the Cycle of Influence Between Architucture & Performance in the Twentieth Century Theater
• Noramay J. Cadena ’03: Through their Eyes Only: Unveiling the Person behind the Stigma
• Anna Bershteyn ’06 and Kaia Dekker ’06: Traditional Life and Technological Change: Learning from Dine Voices Across Generations
• Monami Chakrabarti ’03: Getting the Boss to Behave: A Comparative Study of Trade Unions and Corporate Governance Reform in the US and UK
• Rabi Upadhyay ’03: Redefining Medicine: Modern Healthcare in the Third World

2002 Recipients:

• Shien Jin Ong ’04: Interactive and Zero Knowledge Proofs
• Lianne Habinek ’02 and Joyce Lee ’02: Shakespeare’s ‘Open Work’: The Circulation of Text and Performance Through Film
• Frederick Choi ’02: Inheriting the Legacy of Stephen Sondheim: Redefining the Musical in the 21st Century
• Jesse Barnes ’02: Worth More than Gold: Ensuring Adequate Amounts of Safe Drinking Water in Honduras
• Naveen Goela ’03: The Rhythm of the Tabla: Indian Classical Percussion with Vocals, Sarod, Sitar, Jazz and Dance
• Wendy Ham ’03: Brainy Art, Artsy Brain: Using Art to Investigate the Relationship between the Artistic and Motor Centers of the Brain’s Right Hemisphere
• Oleg Shamovsky ’05: Anomalies of the Electrolytic Oxidation of Aluminum

2001 Recipients:

• Martin Jonikas ’04: Design and Flight Test of a Novel Vertical Takeoff Aircraft Concept
• Landi Parish ’01: Ender’s Game@mit.edu: The Literature of Isolation and MIT
• Christine Southworth ’01: Me and Colin McPhee: Composing New Music in Bali. For more details please see Christine’s website at http://www.kotekan.com 
• Jovonne Bickerstaff ’02 and Melissa Amah Edoh ’02​: Challenges of Racial Integration in Paris, France: Perspectives of the Black Experience in Literature, Film and Reality
• Kevin Choi ’01: I Know My Father Was Not A Viet Cong 
• Sean Leonard ’04: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Video Game Music
• Vis Taraz ’01: body/language

2000 Recipients:

• Helen Lee ’00: Glass
• Margarita Marinova ’03: Understanding Mars’ Climate though Studies of Mass Wasting in the Arctic
• John McBean ’01: Fusing Art and Engineering: Design and Construction of an Aqua-Kinetic Sculpture
• Laurel P. Smith ’00: Fusing two Contrasting Musical Worlds: Bringing Classical and Techno Music Together

1999 Recipients:

• Paul Anthony McGreggor Crowley ’00: De Commentitiis Jeunis
• Eto Otitigbe ’99: Printmaking and Installation Apprenticeship with Valerie Maynard
• Anna Dirks ’99: Cheap Moral Fabric: Macquiladora Dreams

1998 Recipients:

• Elenita Ashminova ’98: Things That Bulge
• Kevin Simmons ’98: Finding My Spleen Telling Stories of Human Experience
• Arielle Sumits ’99: Origins
• Kudzaishe Gordon Takavarasha ’98: The Preservation of the Oral Heritage of Karanga People of Southern Zimbabwe.

1997 Recipients:

• Joaquin S. Terrones ’97: Vivid Brightness: Rediscovering Richard Bruce Nugent
• Kamel Addo ’97: The Musical and Cultural Significance of Chordophones in the Lives of the Dagomba People of Northern Ghana
• Salman Khan ’98: Neurofeedback-based Educational Software
• Ashu P. Atwal ’97: Information Technology in India: An Indian Perspective