NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Recipients – Daniel ’22 and Madelyn ’22
June 1, 2022
Daniel Yang ‘22 and Madelyn Andersen ’22 – and six recent graduates- have been granted the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRF) this year.
The NSF GRF program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited United States institutions. Program participants are expected to become experts who contribute significantly to research, education, and innovation in the STEM fields.
Originally from Pleasanton, CA, Daniel is a CS + Math major with a music concentration. At Mudd, Daniel participated in various research projects. For 3 years, Daniel was part of the Music Information Retrieval (MIR) Lab with Professor TJ Tsai. This project resulted in 9 total publications to international conferences. Some of the projects in this lab included retrieving the composer and piece name from a cell phone image of piano sheet music and using deep learning to model music as a language. Check out some of his work.
In his freshman year, Daniel helped create MuddSub with Seth Issacson (HMC ’21) and Ginger Schmidt (HMC ’21). They created a robotic submarine. MuddSub is still going strong. Check out the Twitter page.
Daniel’s favorite thing about Mudd is the close friendships made. His advice for prospective students: “Look for places with plenty of people who will push you to become your best self.”
Next year, Daniel will be pursuing a Ph.D. program at University of Southern California, studying multimodal artificial intelligence for human-centric tasks.
Madelyn’ 22 is a Mathematics Major with a Dance Concentration. She is originally from Lexington, Massachusetts and conducted her thesis research in commutative algebra. After graduation, Madelyn will start her graduate studies in machine learning and statistics at MIT.
Madelyn’s favorite thing about Mudd is the faculty! She appreciated the multitude of strong female mentors she found. Her advice for prospective students: “when considering such a small school, think about the other students who may make up your class!”
Congrats Madelyn and Daniel!