Magnet Alumni News: Spring 2024

Several alumni won prominent fellowships and scholarships:

• Wilma Bainbridge '05 was named a Sloan Research Fellow. (uchicago.edu)

• Joshua Park '18 was named a Gates Cambridge Scholar.

• Yash Anand ‘21 and Malcolm Maas ‘22 won Goldwater Scholarships (umd.edu)

Notable alumni news:

• Easha Anand '04, a Stanford Law Professor, has argued three Supreme Court cases this term.

• Anuj Shah '01 is joining Princeton’s Department of Psychology and School of Public and International Affairs.

• Jason Rubenstein '00 was appointed Executive Director of Harvard Hillel.

• Amir Caspi '96 was featured in Scientific American for his research focused on the April 2024 Solar Eclipse.

Medical Research:

• P.M. Acevedo et al., and Sophia Lin '91, Point-of-Care Ultrasound of a Nasal Septal Abscess (Pediatric Emergency Care)

• Hormuzd Katki '92 et al., Increasing power in screening trials by testing control-arm specimens: Application to multicancer detection screening (Journal of the National Cancer Institute)

• K. Melamud et al., and Nicole Hindman '93, Imaging of Antepartum and Postpartum Hemorrhage (Radiographics)

• Atish Choudhury '95 et al., Randomized Phase II Study Evaluating the Addition of Pembrolizumab to Radium-223 in Metastatic Castration-resistant Prostate Cancer (Cancer Immunology Research)

• A.A. Dixit and Eric Sun '96, Improving patient care and enhancing surgical efficiency: strategies to reduce same-day surgical cancellations (Anaesthesia)

• E. Kaza and Christopher Williams '01, Receive coil quality assurance procedure and automated analysis for ViewRay MRIdian MR-Linac (Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics)

• Jennifer Caswell-Jin '02 et al., Analysis of Breast Cancer Mortality in the US—1975 to 2019 (Journal of the American Medical Association)

• N. Klangkalya et al., and Dimana Dimitrova ‘02, IKAROS gain of function disease: Allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation experience and expanded clinical phenotypes (Clinical Immunology)

• Byron Drumheller '02 et al., Use of resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta (REBOA) and ultrasound-guided left stellate ganglion block to rescue out of hospital cardiac arrest due to refractory ventricular fibrillation: A case report (Resuscitation Plus)

• Ximena Levander '02 et al., The Role of Human-Centered Design in Healthcare Innovation: a Digital Health Equity Case Study (Journal of General Internal Medicine)

• P.J. Shim et al., and Melodi Javid Whitley '03, A Report on the Safety of Acitretin Use in Renal Failure Patients on Hemodialysis (Clinical and Experimental Dermatology)

• F. Wong et al., incl. Melis Anahtar '04, Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning (Nature)

• Alexander Berger '04 et al., Longitudinal Reoperation Risk After Apical Prolapse Procedures in Women Aged 65 Years and Older (Obstetrics & Gynecology)

• M. Rocafort, David Gootenberg '07, et al., HIV-associated gut microbial alterations are dependent on host and geographic context (Nature Communications)

• A. Corrado, Savannah Cheo '11, and R. Walczak, Vulvar Ulcers in a Non–Sexually Active Adolescent (Pediatrics in Review)

• Richard Chen '13 et al., Towards a general-purpose foundation model for computational pathology (Nature Medicine)

• Daniel Schäffer ‘19 et al., Microbial gene expression analysis of healthy and cancerous esophagus uncovers bacterial biomarkers of clinical outcomes (ISME Communications)

Biology:

• Mark Lundquist '99 and Samie Jaffrey '89, Gas6-Axl Signaling Induces SRF/MRTF-A Gene Transcription via MICAL2 (Genes)

• C. Cammarota et al., and Dan Bergstralh '93,  The mechanical influence of densification on epithelial architecture (PLOS Computational Biology)

• S.J. Beckett et al., and Joshua Weitz '93, Disentangling top-down drivers of mortality underlying diel population dynamics of Prochlorococcus in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre (Nature Communications)

• S. Pandit et al., and Yegveny Brudno '00, A biomaterial platform for T cell-specific gene delivery (Acta Biomaterialia)

• A.M. Hotopp et al., and Kristina Cammen '03, Plumage microorganism communities of tidal marsh sparrows (iScience)

• A. Peterson et al., and Anthony Burnetti '07, Transforming yeast into a facultative photoheterotroph via expression of vacuolar rhodopsin (Current Biology)

• K. Clifton et al., and Jean Fan '09, STalign: Alignment of spatial transcriptomics data using diffeomorphic metric mapping (Nature Communications)

• L. Villiger et al., and Jonathan Gootenberg '09, CRISPR technologies for genome, epigenome and transcriptome editing (Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology)

• S.W. Nordstrom et al., incl. Lily Durkee '14, How density dependence, genetic erosion and the extinction vortex impact evolutionary rescue (Royal Society B)

Psychology and Neuroscience:

• Z. Zhang, Robert Pless '90, et al., SG×P : A Sorghum Genotype × Phenotype Prediction Dataset and Benchmark (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)

• C.I. Jahn et al., and Timothy Buschman '97, Learning attentional templates for value-based decision-making (Cell)

• X. Yuan, P. Savarese, and Michael Maire '99, Accelerated Training via Incrementally Growing Neural Networks using Variance Transfer and Learning Rate Adaptation (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)

• A. Tarkhan and Noah Simon '04, An online framework for survival analysis: reframing Cox proportional hazards model for large data sets and neural networks (Biostatistics)

• X. Guo and Wilma Bainbridge '05, Children develop adult-like visual sensitivity to image memorability by the age of 4 (Journal of Experimental Psychology)

• R. Dannenfelser et al., and Vicky Yao '07, Into the Single Cell Multiverse: an End-to-End Dataset for Procedural Knowledge Extraction in Biomedical Texts (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)

• R.M.M. Santiago et al., incl. Emily Aery Jones '10, Waveform-based classification of dentate spikes (Scientific Reports)

Mathematics and Computer Science:

• Samit Dasgupta '95, Ranks of matrices of logarithms of algebraic numbers, I: The theorems of Baker and Waldschmidt–Masser (Essential Number Theory)

• Andrew Snowden '00, The spectrum of a twisted commutative algebra (Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society)

• J. Kelner, Frederic Koehler '12, et al., Feature Adaptation for Sparse Linear Regression (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)

• A. Miltner et al., incl. Arnold Mong '16, Saggitarius: A DSL for Specifying Grammatical Domains (Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages)

Physics and Engineering:

• A. Anferov, KH Lee, F. Zhao, Jonathan Simon '00, and D.I. Schuster, Improved coherence in optically defined niobium trilayer-junction qubits (Physical Review Applied)

• Ning Bao '04 and G. Süer, Holographic entanglement distillation from the surface state correspondence (Journal of High Energy Physics)

• S.A. Moses et al., incl. William Cody Burton '08, A Race-Track Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor (Physical Review X)

• H. Yi et al., incl. Purnima Balakrishnan ‘09, Interface-induced superconductivity in magnetic topological insulators (Science)

• H.D. Budinoff, S McMains, and Sara Shonkwiler '14, Exploring the impact of design tool usage on design for additive manufacturing processes and outcomes (Design Science)

• B. Swinger and Mike Winer '15, Bosonic model of quantum holography (Physical Review B)

• S. Leanza, Juliana Lu-Yang '17, et al., Elephant Trunk Inspired Multimodal Deformations and Movements of Soft Robotic Arms (Advanced Functional Materials)

Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Science:

• Caleb Fassett '98 et al., Improved Orthorectification and Empirical Reduction of Topographic Effects in Monostatic Mini-RF S-band Observations of the Moon (The Planetary Science Journal)

• S. Eriksson et al., and Marc Pulupa '99, Parker Solar Probe Observations of Magnetic Reconnection Exhausts in Quiescent Plasmas near the Sun (The Astrophysical Journal)

• A. Mittelholz et al., incl. Abigail Fraeman '05, Exploring Martian Magnetic Fields with a Helicopter (The Planetary Science Journal)

• K. Blount, G. Pignotti, and Jordyn Wolfand '07, ET cool home: innovative educational activities on evapotranspiration and urban heat (Hydrology and Earth System Sciences)

• Eva Albaghiti ‘13 and B.R. Ellis, Hydrodynamic Limitations on Biomineralization-Induced Permeability Reduction (ACS Earth Space Chemistry)

Social Science and Public Policy:

• Lorrie Cranor '89 et al., Internet of Things Security and Privacy Labels Should Empower Consumers (Communications of the ACM)

• Alenda Chang '94, Where the Model Ends (Configurations)

• J.K. Petersen, R.L. Winkler, and Miranda Mockrin '95, Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID-19 Pandemic (Rural Sociology)

• Nicholas Goedert '97 et al., Black representation and district compactness in Southern congressional districts (Politics, Groups, and Identities)

• G. Packard, Y. Li, and Jonah Berger '98, When Language Matters (Journal of Consumer Research)

• Christine Dobridge '98 et al., The TCJA and Domestic Corporate Tax Rates (FEDS)

• M. Watson, Y. Xiao, and Jennifer Helgeson '02, Using Disaster Surveys to Model Business Interruption (Natural Hazards Review)

• M. Hertz et al., and Hao Ye '02, A Problem Shared Is a Community Created: Recommendations for Cross-Institutional Collaborations (Journal of eScience Librarianship)

• Greg Howard '06, A Check for Rational Inattention (Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics)

• Y. Shyrokonis, Sarah Peitzmeier '06, et al., Help-Seeking and Service Utilization Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence in Michigan During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Violence Against Women)

• Y.A. Gonczarowski, Gregory Kehne '12, et al., The Distortion of Binomial Voting Defies Expectation (Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems)

Alumni news and views:

• Aaron Klein '94 wrote in The New York Times: What the Fight Over the Capital One-Discover Merger Misses About Our Terrible Credit Card System

• Gautam Mukunda '97 wrote in Forbes: Boeing’s Next CEO Needs To Fly High

• Niels Hoven '99 wrote in Pirate Wires: How a Hater Accelerated My Startup’s Timeline By a Year, Overnight

• Jon Cariba Phoenix  '07 wrote in Army Sustainment: Artificial General Intelligence in 5 Not-So-Easy Steps

• Jonathan Gootenberg '09 and his research partner Omar Abudayyeh were the subject of a Boston Globe profile: A Jewish American and a Palestinian American are tackling science’s toughest challenges

• Prayag Gordy '20 wrote a column marking the end of his term as Editor-in-Chief of the Rice Thresher: I’m proud to call the Thresher home

• Khushboo Rathore '20 is among the student researchers who contributed to UMD's Maryland Local News Ecosystem Study.

• An article in Silver Chips Online highlighted the work of STEMChests (@stemchests), a non-profit founded by alumni Aditya Das '23, NuAmen Audena '23, Annie Gao '23, and Anika Rai '23: Opening up opportunity with STEMChests