
Summer Research Begins
10 weeks of summer research! We have returning FICUS lab members who will be continuing their work on air quality modelling and data analysis as well as two new students joining the FICUS-WHISK collaboration!

Senior Thesis Presentation Day
Ali Talib Saifee will be presenting on his senior chemistry thesis - we’ll learn all about his work with cellular automata and urban grime chemistry!

Ali Talib and Olivia Russell at ACS
Ali Talib and Olivia are at the American Chemical Society meeting in Indianapolis this week. Ali Talib is the presenting author on a poster based on his thesis work called Simulating urban grime with cellular automata.

Spring Semester (More Research)
Another semester of research is ahead! We’ve got a big group of returning students and exciting results to come!

Fall Semester Wrap Up Presentations
All the CHEM150 machine learning students presented their semester wrap up presentations!



Dr. Kavassalis presenting in the HMC Summer Seminar Series
Dr. Kavassalis is presenting on some of the exciting work that has happened this summer in a talk called: Can we predict and understand air pollution using machine learning?

Summer-of-CS Open House and Poster Session
The FICUS Lab students are presenting some research highlights to the Harvey Mudd community in the CS Open House Poster Showcase.
Students Present Chemistry Intro. Talks
Sarah C., Olivia, Nic, Ali Talib, and Emily presented introductory talks to the chemistry community highlighting their plans for summer research.

Summer Research Begins!
Summer research at Harvey Mudd begins! Olivia Russell (HMC ’23) and Sarah Covey (HMC ’24) are continuing with their machine learning project from the Spring with new group member Nic Tekieli (HMC ’24). Ali Talib Saifee (HMC ’23) is starting a new project using cellular automata to model heterogeneous reactions relevant for air quality. Emily Lee (CMC ’24) is joining in a collaboration with Prof. Wloka to look at how we can use computer vision and visual saliency to improve scientific figures for climate communication.