Darius Carter
2021-22 Cohort
2022-23 Cohort
Darius Carter hails from Richmond, Virginia, and is currently a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Institute of Technology. He has a Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Virginia (UVA). He graduated from Highland Springs High school in Henrico County, Virginia in 2013. He then enrolled at UVA, where he graduated with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Minor in Material Science in 2017. As a Ph.D. student, his research focuses on unmanned aerial vehicles and their safety when flying near boundaries. With his Postdoc he will be focusing on aerodynamic coupling between propellers and airfoils. He was the Co-President of Black Graduate and Professional Student Organization, Recruitment Chair for the Mechanical & Aerospace Graduate Student Board, Co-Chair for UVA’s Graduate Recruitment Initiative Team, Member of the search committee for the Dean of Engineering, and Academic Mentor with UVA Athletics. Outside of school and research, he is a dedicated member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and the National Society of Black Engineers. He enjoys hanging out with friends, adventuring, traveling, and watching and playing sports, especially basketball. He desires to inspire the next generation of black engineering students.
Naomi Deneke
2022-23 Cohort
Naomi Deneke is a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Materials Science and Engineering. She completed a B.S. in Chemical Engineering at Prairie View A&M University in 2017 followed by a Ph.D. in Materials Engineering at Purdue University in 2022 as a George Washington Carver Fellow. Naomi’s graduate school research focused on designing new adhesive systems via physical surface modifications that can be used for pick-and-place material handling as well as understanding the surface properties of highly deformed silicones. Her research interests revolve around designing functional soft materials through physical and mechanical manipulation. Her postdoctoral studies will focus on designing sustainable adhesives for packaging materials.
Samuel Fagbemi
2022-23 Cohort
Samuel Fagbemi is a postdoctoral fellow in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering. His current research focuses on enhancing the barrier properties of porous materials using biodegradable, nontoxic, and ecofriendly polymer thin films. Dr. Fagbemi obtained his B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and his M.Sc. in Petroleum Engineering-Smart Oilfield Technologies (SOFT) from the University of Southern California. During the course of his Ph.D., which he completed in Petroleum Engineering at the University of Wyoming, he was the recipient of the Harry Hill Excellence Award in 2019 for the best graduate student. Immediately after concluding his Ph.D., he worked as a senior research scientist at the Center of Innovation for Flow through Porous Media (COIFPM) for two years where he developed highly-parallelized numerical platforms for advancing pore-scale multiphase flow simulation efforts in core-sized sedimentary rocks using reliable and robust multi-scale image analysis and artificial intelligence techniques.
Katherine Graham
2021-22 Cohort
2022-23 Cohort
Katherine Graham is a postdoctoral fellow studying pathogens in the environment and how to track microbes in sewage to inform public health decision making. She earned her BSE in Chemical Engineering from the University of Michigan and MS and PhD in Environmental Science and Engineering at Stanford University. Her graduate studies focused on investigating sources of viruses in urban waters and the performance of nature-based infrastructure in improving water quality. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is focusing on developing methods and applying ‘omics tools to detect viruses in the environment to improve public health.
Eugene Ndiaye
2021-22 Cohort
2022-23 Cohort
Eugene Ndiaye is a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Industrial Systems Engineering (ISyE). He obtained his PhD in applied mathematics from Telecom ParisTech. His research interests focus on the interplay between machine learning and optimization, mainly to understand how a statistical learning algorithm can select particular information from data and how this selection bias affects its prediction abilities. Among other long-term objectives, it aims to provide quantifiable and implementable guarantees on the performance and limits of artificial intelligence methods as well as their impacts when they are deployed in society.
Anuja Tripathi
2022-23 Cohort
Anuja Tripathi is a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She graduated with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2022. Her research interest lies in understanding nanostructured materials for monitoring health conditions, food spoilage detection, and energy storage devices. Anuja’s research contributes to understanding nanostructured materials to mimic the properties of natural enzymes for biosensing applications. As a postdoctoral fellow, she is focusing on point-of-care devices and batteries. Anuja was born and raised in India. She finished her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from Banasthali University and Indian Institute of Technology, Dhanbad, respectively. Anuja is an active member of various communities such as UofA Nano; Women in Science, Education, and Research; and organizations that supports mentoring. She looks forward to continuing her outreach in the Georgia Tech community.
Jingyan Wang
2021-22 Cohort
2022-23 Cohort
Jingyan Wang is a Ronald J. and Carol T. Beerman President’s postdoctoral fellow in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research interests lie in understanding and mitigating biases in decision making problems such as peer grading and peer review, using tools from statistics and machine learning. She is the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at AAMAS 2019. She received her Ph.D. in the School of Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2021, advised by Nihar Shah. She received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences with a minor in Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2015.
Previous Fellows
Martin Zubeldia
2021-22 Cohort
Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Minnesota
Martin Zubeldia is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he received a B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering (2012) and a M.Sc. degree in Engineering (2014) from the Universidad ORT Uruguay, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (2019) from MIT. Before joining Georgia Tech, he was a postdoc at the Eindhoven University of Technology, and at the University of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. His research primarily focuses on the modeling, analysis, and control of large-scale stochastic decision systems, inspired by applications in computer networks and other service systems. He is particularly interested in the fundamental tradeoffs between performance and efficiency in such systems, with an emphasis on the role that information plays in these tradeoffs.