Initiative in Innovative Computing (IIC) Harvard University

Michelle graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in Astronomy & Astrophysics and Physics in 2006. She wrote her undergraduate junior and senior theses on the application of medical imaging programs to astronomical data under the supervision of Alyssa Goodman and Michael Halle. She continued this work as part of the Astronomical Medicine project at the IIC for the next two years. She worked with the developers of visualization tools including 3D Slicer to improve their effectiveness in multiple scientific domains (including astronomy). She also collaborated with the COMPLETE Team at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) on star formation research. Her interests included studying outflows from young stars and working on segmentation algorithms.

Michelle is now a graduate student at the Harvard School for Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) pursuing a Ph.D. in Applied Physics as a member of the Kaxiras Research Group. She is now working on the Multiscale Hemodynamics Project, an IIC project, focusing on the 3D visualization and analysis of hemodynamic simulation data in conjunction with real medical imaging data.