Ethan Whitman is currently a Ph.D. student at Duke University studying the relationship between brain function, mental illness, and aging. He participated in the MSEF fair in 2012 and 2013 with two research projects in organic chemistry. He studied psychology at Tufts University, where he studied brain function in combat veterans with PTSD. Ethan worked as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health studying youth with sex-chromosome disorders. Currently, his work focuses on brain features at midlife that may predispose people to subsequent aging-related disease

MSEF alum, Bethlehem Solomon is currently at Imperial College London as a Teaching Fellow in Public Health and PhD student (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics). Her PhD focuses on measuring housing quality through a public health lens at the small-area level in London and estimate its associations with health. Beth remembers quite vividly what it meant to participate in MSEF and how her perspective and interests have involved as she has pursued a STEM career.

José Zepeda grew up living between Cambridge Massachusetts and San Luis Río Colorado in Sonora, México. José graduated from Chelsea High School and participated in MSEF in 2014 in physics and engineering on a project studying double pendulums to model chaotic systems. He attended University of Massachusetts Boston where he obtained a bachelor’s in biochemistry. José is now a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student in neuropharmacology at Vanderbilt University where he studies mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, the brain's ability to make and break neural connections, within the reward circuitry of the brain.

Vivek Gopalakrishnan is a 2016 and 2017 MSEF Alum, 2017 ISEF Alum and a semi-finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search. Vivek is currently a PhD student in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics at the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. His research interests lie in the development of machine learning methods for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and neurovascular disease. Vivek also volunteered his time this school year to mentor an MSEF High School student.

Thomas Washington is a MIT aeronautical engineer and test pilot at Lincoln Laboratory's Flight Test Facility in Bedford, MA. He consults with researchers to develop new communication and radar equipment, imaging sensors, and other aviation tools. He completed his undergraduate and graduate degrees at MIT before joining the US Air Force where he attended the US Air Force Test Pilot School. After returning to Aurora Flight Services where he previously interned, he worked as a test pilot for a decade. He is now once again at MIT where he continues to fly. He is an active member of Lincoln Employee's African American Network (LEAN) where he mentors underrepresented students in STEM fields

Ethan Whitman is currently a Ph.D. student at Duke University studying the relationship between brain function, mental illness, and aging. He participated in the MSEF fair in 2012 and 2013 with two research projects in organic chemistry. He studied psychology at Tufts University, where he studied brain function in combat veterans with PTSD. Ethan worked as a research fellow at the National Institutes of Health studying youth with sex-chromosome disorders. Currently, his work focuses on brain features at midlife that may predispose people to subsequent aging-related disease.

MSEF alum, Bethlehem Solomon is currently at Imperial College London as a Teaching Fellow in Public Health and PhD student (Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics). Her PhD focuses on measuring housing quality through a public health lens at the small-area level in London and estimate its associations with health. Beth remembers quite vividly what it meant to participate in MSEF and how her perspective and interests have involved as she has pursued a STEM career.

Shaun O'Loughlin is an educator and communication professional in the seafood industry. Having worked in classrooms, aquariums, and research labs, he brings his unique experiences and passion for science and sustainability to his daily work, educating consumers and seafood industry professionals through his podcast and multimedia platforms at the Global Seafood Alliance. A graduate of University of Rhode Island with a focus on Aquaculture, he recently completed a Masters at SNHU with a focus on communications. He is also the creator and host of a podcast about music called 'You're Not Listening.'

Chris Haynes has a background in New Product Development in the Medical Device industry, working for companies such as Medtronic, Teleflex, and Analog Devices. His current role for Analog Devices is on the Digital Healthcare team that develops solutions for chronic disease monitoring. He has experience working with software, data analysis, manufacturing automation, and cutting edge medical technologies like surgical robotics and biodegradable implants. Chris is a graduate of the University of Connecticut for both undergraduate and masters program in Biomedical Engineering.

José Zepeda grew up living between Cambridge Massachusetts and San Luis Río Colorado in Sonora, México. José graduated from Chelsea High School and participated in MSEF in 2014 in physics and engineering on a project studying double pendulums to model chaotic systems. He attended University of Massachusetts Boston where he obtained a bachelor’s in biochemistry. José is now a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and PhD student in neuropharmacology at Vanderbilt University where he studies mechanisms of synaptic plasticity, the brain's ability to make and break neural connections, within the reward circuitry of the brain.

Dr Laura Seaman is the Group Leader for the Machine Intelligence Group at Draper where she applies machine learning and computer vision algorithms to a variety of applications. Dr Seaman has lead ML and data science projects in a fields including biology, finance, computer vision for autonomous underwater vehicles, and. Dr. Seaman has a B.S in Biological Engineering from MIT, an M.A. in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from the University of Michigan.

William Hedgcock is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management. His teaching and research focuses on consumer behavior and the neuroscience of choice. Professor Hedgcock’s research utilizes a range of techniques from simple paper and pencil preference questionnaires to physiological measures and functional brain imaging. His primary research stream involves identifying cognitive declines that affect financial decisions in seniors and the physiological and neural correlates of these declines and has been has published in journals such as the Journal of Marketing Research, Neuropsychology, Management Science, Psychological Science, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.