National Renewable Energy Laboratory


Adaptive computing: macroscale surrogate modeling with on-the-fly training from microscale simulations
Daniel Abdulah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Kevin Griffin, Postdoctoral Researcher, Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Distribution Grid Incentive Design with Unknown Agent Behavior
Adam Lechowicz, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Joshua Comden, Researcher III-Electrical Engineering, Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Wind Profile Reconstruction in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer with Conditional Diffusion Models
Storm Mata, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Eliot Quon, Researcher IV-Mechanical Engineering, Wind Research, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Controlling activity, selectivity, and stability of (photo)electrocatalysts via tuning of the fermi-level by mechanical strain and applied potential
Joshua Melendez-Rivera, Texas A&M University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Taylor Aubry, Researcher II, Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Extending Fluid-Structure Interaction Codes for Floating Photovoltaic Arrays
Melissa Rasmussen, Stony Brook University
Practicum Year: 2024
Practicum Supervisor: Ethan Young, Researcher IV - Computational Science, High Performance Algorithms and Complex Fluids, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Bottom-up Construction of Kinetic Monte Carlo Model for Perovskite Growth
Grace Wei, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Ross E. Larsen, Dr., Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Mechanisms of low level jet formation in the US Mid-Atlantic
Emily de Jong, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Eliot Quon, Researcher III - Mechanical Engineering, National Wind Technology Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Equipping Neural Network Surrogates with Uncertainty for Propagation in Physical Systems
Graham Pash, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Malik Hassanaly, Staff Scientist, Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
2D Stall-/Vortex-Induced Vibration Modeling
Justin Porter, Rice University
Practicum Year: 2023
Practicum Supervisor: Ganesh Vijayakumar, Researcher - Mechanical Engineering, Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Recursive Butterfly Transforms for Accelerated ILDL
Vivek Bharadwaj, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Jonathan Maack, , Applied Mathematics / Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Improving Communication and Workload Management in BerkeleyGW
Gabrielle Jones, University of Michigan
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Derek Vigil-Fowler, Dr., High Performance Computing, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Decomposition methods for long duration energy storage
Caleb Ju, Georgia Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Bethany Frew, Researcher IV-Model Engineering, Economics and Forecasting Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Hydrogen combustion leading points and flame curvature.
Madeleine Kerr, University of California, San Diego
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Kristi Potter, Dr., Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Co-Optimized Machine-Learned Manifolds for Combustion Applications
Kiran Eiden, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Marc Day, Group Manager, HPACF Group, Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Algae Orthology Inference Pipeline
Mary LaPorte, University of California, Davis
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Ambarish Nag, Researcher IV, Data Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Toward Uncertainty Propagation for Data-Driven Closure Models
Graham Pash, University of Texas at Austin
Practicum Year: 2022
Practicum Supervisor: Shashank Yellapantula, Staff Scientist , Computational Science Center (CSC), National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Model Predictive Control with Q-learning for Building Control
Christiane Adcock, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Dave Biagioni, Dr., Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Understanding Low Level Jets in the US Mid-Atlantic Offshore and their Impacts on Turbines
Emily de Jong, California Institute of Technology
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Shashank Yellapantula, , High Performance Algorithms and Complex Fluids, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Improving the Thermostability of MHETase Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Michael Toriyama, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 2021
Practicum Supervisor: Heather Mayes, Researcher - Computational Science, Bioenergy Science and Technology Directorate, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
"Developing a State-by-State Understanding of Polarizability with the GW Approximation"
Olivia Hull, Kansas State University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Derek Vigil-Fowler, Research Scientist: High Performance Computing, Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Machine Learning to Enable Chemically Informative Atomistic Simulation in Complex Environments
K. Grace Johnson, Stanford University
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Ross Larsen, Senior Scientist, Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Visualizing Dallas/Fort Worth Airport models and simulations
Melissa Queen, University of Washington
Practicum Year: 2019
Practicum Supervisor: Kristi Potter, , Data Visualization, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Matrix Completion for Low-Observability Voltage Estimation
Priya Donti, Carnegie Mellon University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Andrey Bernstein, Senior Engineer, Power Systems Engineering Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
PREDICTING CRYSTAL BAND GAPS USING MESSAGE PASSING NEURAL NETWORKS
Harshil Kamdar, Harvard University
Practicum Year: 2018
Practicum Supervisor: Caleb Phillips, Data Scientist, Computational Science Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Distributed Algorithms to Avoid Tragedies of the Commons in Smart Meter Collectives
Richard Barnes, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Wesley Jones, Group Manager/Senior Scientist, Modeling & Simulation Group, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Power Prediction and Scheduling
Hilary Egan, University of Colorado Boulder
Practicum Year: 2016
Practicum Supervisor: Caleb Phillips, Data Scientist, Computational Sciences, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Simulating Heliostat Degradation for Concentrated Solar Power
Chelsea Harris, University of California, Berkeley
Practicum Year: 2015
Practicum Supervisor: Ross Larsen, Senior Scientist, Computational Science, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Radical Understanding of Lignin Biosynthesis
Heather Mayes, Northwestern University
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Mark Nimlos, Principal Scientist, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Studies of Oxidized Cellulose Decrystalization and Binding Affinity
Joshua Vermaas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Practicum Year: 2012
Practicum Supervisor: Gregg Beckham, Senior Engineer, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory